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The Way of the Dragon Tang Lung. Fist of Fury Chen Zhen. Enter the Dragon Lee. The Big Boss Cheng Chao-an. Show all Hide all Show by Hide Show Actor 32 credits. Li Tsung. Karate Instructor. Leon Soo. Show all 26 episodes. Kato uncredited. Hide Show Writer 7 credits. At times, I felt that this film was a collage of fights with a sprinkling of dialogue to build up to them. The best fight scenes of this film are when Lee storms to take on the dojo and has to fight the sensei, the head instructor, and their guest.
Lee takes charge of this film set in Rome as the director and actor. Instead, this film sees some elements of humor play a role as audiences get a glimpse of culture shock. It can be seen as the genesis of the kung-fu comedy that Jackie Chan would popularise over the next three decades. They are having trouble with the local mafia, who are keen on usurping their property and are driving away business. The Way of the Dragon has the usual shtick of the one man being more than a match for anyone else in his path.
Lung treats fans to exquisite martial arts displays with his speed, his unique way to counters guns, the nunchakus. He brands martial arts as a way one can express themselves. Filmed at the Colosseum, it is a symbolic location for a gladiatorial battle that is about to unfold. Martial arts come to the fore as fans get an enthralling minutes of fighting of the highest order.
This battle is symbolic of martial arts, as despite being from opposing factions, there is respect among the duo who let each warm-up for a fight to the death. Furthermore, there are no underhanded tactics, and as a final act of respect, the deceased is treated with reverence. In this iconic fight scene, the actor gave rise to a technique known as the oblique kick which is one of the most dangerous offensive moves in mixed martial arts tournaments. Many cinephiles take the name of this movie when asked to name a film that embodies martial arts.
However, it transformed into a posthumous vehicle. Being a Bruce Lee film, it has an abundance of martial arts and this forms the crux. However, its presentation can be likened to the Sean Connery James Bond films of the s.
Hence, one could label this as a spy-martial arts film. In Enter the Dragon, Lee features as Lee, a Shaolin disciple who is invited to an isolated island for a karate tournament.
However, he receives another mission from an intelligence agent. Initially, Lee treats it as a task. But, he gets another reason to make this journey.
This second reason could be what gave rise to the non-tournament combat scenes. Well, why else would he put so much on the line for a mere mission?
Enter the Dragon also touches a chord with audiences as it showcases the city of Hong Kong in a manner that would appeal to the west. His mother was flustered to see her delicate child so transfigured for the camera.
In another close-up, a warmly wrapped baby Lee cries inconsolably, eyes squeezed shut, mouth agape, arms flapping, chubby cheeks and double chin reverberating as the sound echoes through San Francisco. In what amounts to a PSA against harsh Confucian parenting, Lee plays a poor kid who, yes, runs away to become a street urchin and petty thief. In real life, Lee and his classmates had formed an actual gang that would roam back alleys looking for fights.
That lived experience led to a sharp performance in an otherwise tedious film. In , Lee joined a socialist collective of filmmakers and actors called Union Films, leading him to appear in a string of socially conscious, message-driven movies.
In this particularly earnest melodrama, a poor mother and father give away their infant daughter to a childless middle-class couple, only to regret their decision. This social-realist satire contrasts the family life of a rich businessman with a poor car mechanic who makes an honest living, finding comfort in his family. Fun fact: Lee was once the cha-cha champion of Hong Kong.
Also fun: His real-life dance partner, Margaret Leung, co-stars as a spoiled rich girl in this lighthearted rom-com. Want to see Bruce Lee as a fashionable, sweater-vest-wearing toff as he cha-chas in a nightclub? This is the movie for you. It may be the only known instance of Lee running away from a fight. Lee plays her son — a dance tutor.
More Bruce Lee dance trivia: Later, as a college student in America, he taught dance classes to help pay the bills.
Smartly dressed in modern clothing, charming but a little smug, this performance gives the best glimpse into what Lee was actually like as a Westernized teenager in colonial Hong Kong. A cutup in class, it seemed natural for Lee to try his hand at comedy at some point. He did just that in this age-reversal slapstick farce, playing a doltish teenager who finds himself caught in increasingly absurd romantic situations.
Yet the real humor comes from watching the King of Kung Fu stammering and twitching like a fool. This classic film weaves together the stories of the many impoverished families all living in one teeming, soon-to-be-demolished tenement building, with Lee playing the sincere son of one of the poorest tenants. In less than five minutes of screen time, he manages to deliver a standout, touching performance in a movie filled with them.
Here Lee gets to play a happy orphan, albeit briefly: His idyllic country life gets disrupted by an escaped criminal who turns out to be his biological father. In yet another message-driven melodrama, a foster child gets adopted by a doctor and his wife, who run an orphanage for blind girls.
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