What is your favourite genre? Is it mostly action and martial arts? I kinda want to do that more before seeking out real action on the films I love. I thought it was important for people to see more of me so that’s what I’ve been doing for the past year. I was away doing theatre and fight choreography but I needed to show my face more, you know? So I started doing some of these comic conventions last year and here we are going to the 30 th anniversary of The Last Dragon. I’m working on getting another producer for it but I got caught up a little bit focussing more on getting back out there. You’ve been writing and directing your directorial debut ‘I’ve Seen Things’ about a martial artist master who’s also a detective how’s that coming along?
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There are more films being made because of that and there are more platforms to show things on like On Demand, Cable, etc. They don’t need much money at all to make a trailer or a short film but other than that I can’t really say about any major differences. It isn’t where it was 30 years ago so in that way things have changed a lot and I think people are able to make films much easier and show what they can do. When I was younger things weren’t digital and there was no such thing as a digital camera (laughs), at least on films nobody was using that. Well I kinda came out and then went away and now I’m just coming back. How do you think the industry changed since The Last Dragon? Do you think it’s easier to get a film made today or harder? To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the movie The Action Elite chats with the star about the movie, his career and how the genre has changed. In 1985 he would star as “Bruce” Leroy Green in Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon. Take out the gangsters, pump up the Shogun role, give Taimak and Vanity a little more screen time, and you'd have a great entertainment instead of simply a great near-miss.Taimak was born on Jin Los Angeles, California, USA as Taimak Guarriello. My guess is that "The Last Dragon" will be a big box-office hit, maybe on the order of " Flashdance," which also had a great rapport between its drama and its music. They're tired old clichés getting in the way of the natural energy of Taimak, Vanity and the Shogun character. They've been borrowed for a hundred other movies, they say things that have been said a hundred other times, and they walk around draining the movie of its vitality. This is an expensive, high-tech production.īut then there's that whole business of the gangsters. The movie is backed by Berry Gordy's Motown Records, which has supplied it with a digital sound track and the scenes in the disco make much use of back-projected music videos and scenes from old Bruce Lee movies. "The Last Dragon" surrounds this simple plot with a lot of technology. There are also some nice scenes involving Taimak's father, who proudly runs New York's best black pizza parlor, and his little brother, who is a lot more street-smart than the otherworldly karate master. That sets up the movie's basic situation: Taimak must defeat both the Shogun and the gangster - and fall in love with the girl, of course. Vanity refuses, and she is rescued from the gangster's thugs not once but twice by the brave Taimak, who barehandedly demolishes the hitmen. Meanwhile, Vanity is working as a video disc jockey at a private club, and a gangster ( Chris Murney) decrees that she should play a video he has produced, starring his girlfriend (Faith Prince, no relation). Taimak is in the front row, so loyal to the Bruce Lee mystique that he's eating his popcorn with chopsticks, and after he has a showdown with the Shogun, it becomes inevitable that they will have to endure a fight to the finish.
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Carry III, who describes himself as the Shogun of Harlem, and who presides over a hilarious early scene where he marches into a movie theater full of Bruce Lee fans and threatens to fight everyone in the house. There's another engaging actor in the movie, a man named Julius J.
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In less than 12 months, Prince has introduced two electrifying actresses, Appolonia Kotero from "Purple Rain" and now Vanity. Of Vanity, let it be said that she has the sort of rapport with the camera that makes us like her instantly she has a sunny smile, and what can only be described as a sort of inner happiness, and in the middle of this plot about gangsters and night clubs and bloody fights, she floats serenely, a joy to behold. The hero is played by Taimak, a 20-year-old karate student who has not acted before, but who has a natural screen presence, and the heroine is Vanity, the rock singer discovered by Prince and used as a warm-up act at some of his concerts prior to the current tour.
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"The Last, Dragon" stars two remarkably attractive and likable actors, who have one name apiece.