Hey folks, Harry here... To me, the only way that KILL BILL could be cooler than it apparently already is, is if JIM KELLY were in it. Jim Kelly is... for any lover of American Seventies Martial Arts and Blaxploitation filmmaking... He's the mutherfucking BOMB of cool.
"BULLSHIT, MR HAN-MAN!"
Once upon a time, there was no greater film geek cult film than ENTER THE DRAGON. There is something magical about ENTER THE DRAGON, something that you can never really touch. I'm not sure if it's the Lalo Schifrin score... The widescreen asskicking cinematography... Bruce Lee's astonishing fight with the guards... OR - Just how fucking cool JIM KELLY is. Jim, for me, has always been the cherry on top of the cinematic sundae that is ENTER THE DRAGON...
"MAAAN, YOU COME RIGHT OUT OF A COMIC BOOK!"
True, true, actually I come right out of a comic book shop, the one my Dad owned in the 70's. Beginning at the age of 3 I sold stills of JIM KELLY at conventions, right alongside Bruce Lee, Kirk, Spock, LOGAN, HAL, The Demon from CURSE OF THE DEMON, and on and on and on. I collected Martial Arts movie posters and 16mm trailers - which I still own today. You watch Jim Kelly kick the shit out of bad guys in film with his distinctive howl as his fist meets their tonsils and I dare ya not to go... "COOOOOOL".
"I'LL BE TOO BUSY LOOKING GOOD!"
Jim Kelly is a figure of legend, alongside John Saxon and Bruce Lee - he figured prominently into one of the coolest flat out amazing films of all time. His chiseled features and just utter badassness just leap from the screen, and the idea that he'll be there... at the Alamo Drafthouse Lakecreek along with ENTER THE DRAGON is unreal! You see... for almost 20 years Jim Kelly disappeared... Many assumed he was off having adventures... whupping the ass of bad guys everywhere... Kicking "The Man's Ass" wherever it was showing up to keep the righteous down. JIM KELLY... He's gonna be here in Austin this Sunday and I'm just jazzed as can be!
"BATMAN, MUTHERFUCKA!"
Now, I don't want to seem like the only worthwhile film he did was ENTER THE DRAGON.... God no. I've got videos in my collection of BLACK SAMURAI, BLACK BELT JONES, THREE THE HARD WAY, GOLDEN NEEDLES and TAKE A HARD RIDE! And I enjoy them all.
