Here’s something I made a few years ago, and thought I’d post it up here and share…
I’m a huge, huge fan of BLONDIE, been one ever since hearing “Heart Of Glass” all those many years ago, and from that point on, I had to get all their earlier albums, including the eclectic PLASTIC LETTERS as well as their debut album, simply entited BLONDIE!
Their first album had a decidedly 1950’s sound to it, indeed, just looking at the back of the album and you saw a group that actually LOOKED like they were from the 50’s, and the music certainly supported this look: with songs like “A Shark In Jet’s Clothing”, “In the Flesh” and the ode to those 50’s science fiction double features, “The Attack Of The Giant Ants”, this album was chock FULL of those greaser days of yore!
One of the songs that never failed to raise my tension level and get me all amped up was the totally kick-ass ode to Chinese Kung-Fu Movies, the rocking KUNG-FU GIRL!
Every time I would listen to the song, I’d imagine some Chinese Girl totally going off and whupping her opponents, and I’d always think, MAN, someone should make a movie short with this as the theme song!
Years later when the incredible CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON came out and I was ALL in the Zhang-Ziyi love, I happened to dig out my Blondie album, and man, when it came to Debbie Harry growling out “Kung Fu Girls”, it totally HIT me…I’d make my OWN Short Movie out of clips from Crouching Tiger!
Thus began a labor of love, and I have to say that without any kind of video editing machinery at my disposal, this was a long, intricate and sometimes frustrating task, but in the end, I had the Blondie Kung Fu Girls Movie Clip I’d always wanted!!! Silly? Yep!
FUN? HELL YEAH! So check it out, enjoy the work of a crazy Blondie /Zhang Ziyi fan!
