Enter the Dragon (1973) | Movie Reaction | First Time Watching | Bruce Lee is Legendary!
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*The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.*
-Bruce Lee
RIP, Bruce Lee, 1940-1973. His legacy lives on through martial arts movies that changed the way we look at cinema.
Almost all the cast has pass away.RIP to all of them
Very true.
@@tonysaourn9220 The entire leading cast has passed away , only Bolo Yeung [ the BIG henchman ] is still alive .
Many of the stunt doubles in this went on to become fight directors and of course a then young Jackie Chan was also in this as the guard who gets his neck snapped !
RIP to the whole cast and the great
Bruce Lee !
@@tonysaourn9220 Well, it's a movie that is 50 years old by now! Even Chuck Norris is 84 years old right now!
He's also responsible for the likes of Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat ... even though he died 11 years before the first 1v1 fighter, "Karate Champ", in 1984 - the contestants looked like Bruce Lee and even sounded like him using voice samples
While everyone points out Jackie, the very first fight Bruce has is with Sammo Hung, A legendary actor too.
I loved to see him again in the movies " Ip Man 2 " and " Ip Man Zero " !🥊🥋
@@mikemenelik8193 I love his older works. I remember Dragons Forever, Winners and Sinners, Wheels on Meals with Jackie too.
@@mastery7901 👍Yes, it was the time I started my interesting in Martial Arts - before I saw J.C. van Damme and the other guys of the 90s. I saw the movies of Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Bruce Lee, not to forget Benny "the Jet" Urquidez..... !🌿
Sammo is the biggest of the brothers! He also does the best bruce Lee! Jus watch enter the fat dragon, skinny tiger fatty dragon and millionaires express!! Sammo is a legend in his own right.
Not to mention the guy that Roper first fights. He is in The Big Boss, and I believe was first cast for the lead until Bruce entered the frame. He's quite the flamboyant martial artist with good looks. I understand that, at the time, The Big Boss was the highest grossing film of all time in Hong Kong.
Bruce Lee was an international superstar. Ethnicity, color, didn't matter. He was truly one-of-a-kind.
It did matter because Hollywood was racist to him and stole his TV idea called Kung-fu who they gave to David Caridean. Racevalways matters which is why he had to leave to China to make his first movie
That's right Bruce Lee broke down traditional racial barriers and taught anyone willing to learn from him.
Ethnicity and color don't matter now, either, except to racists and race-baiters.
Facts. Think about it. When Bruce Lee moved to America Jim Crow laws were alive and well. And who does he become friends with? A black American.
No man, he wasn't.
When he died he died a total nobody, sadly. He was not known at all in China, was a nobody in Asia, a total nobody in the west, a nobody to the world. It was only a small island known as Hong Kong that knew him for a 1.5 year. When Enter The Dragon was released nobody knew who the star was. Not Asia, not America, nobody.
Bolo Yeung, the Chinese atlas is 82 still acting, and a practicing martial artist, he's thin, lean, fast and looks about middle aged. Met him at a convention, very nice man and KNOWLEDGEABLE about the arts.
A 19 yr old Jackie Chan got his neck snapped in the cave fight scene 😅
he was in this like 3 times that cave fight being one. 1-2 times chasing the sister of bruce lees character wearing like a blue karate outfit. 1 of the times where he like hugs her on a bridge and she like kicks punches him.
He didn't get his neck snapped; he was just hit harder than expected and he was so stunned that Bruce felt he had to ask him if he was alright. The curious thing about Jackie Chan's role in this movie is that even though so young he was already a known stuntman and fight choreographer, and yet here he was totally anonymous. If you didn't know, you wouldn't know that it was him.
@@artursandwich1974 oh so that wasn’t him that got his hair pulled back hard?
@@SoloArt8250 nope.he was hit with a quarterstaff, or a staff. One of those guys who staggered backwards after a hit.
@@SoloArt8250 Yes that's him.
An all-time classic. This one never gets old. Bruce was THE man back in the day.
I was also a big fan of Jim Kelly as well!🙏
@@seanswinton6242 Jim was awesome. I liked him too.
Many bodybuilders around that time, have said that Bruce Lee was their inspiration for getting into the gym and working out, because of his intense training routine.
And that is facts 😮
I think we all know that John Saxon would have *_DEMOLISHED_* Freddy Krueger with those moves.
Ahah it is funny that in the beginning of the movie some guys went and say that he’s owing some money to a guy call Fred. Looks like Krueger was always a nightmare for John Saxon 😂
💐💐🙏🏻🙏🏻 RIP Bruce Lee (born Lee Jun-fan) (November 27, 1940 - July 20, 1973) (aged 32), and Brandon Bruce Lee (February 1, 1965 - March 31, 1993) (aged 28) you will truly both be missed and my prayers go out to you both and your family. 💐💐🙏🏻🙏🏻
In the original 1973 version of this film, before the 1993 re-release, the sound design was slightly different as in the fight between Roper and Bolo, after Roper kicked him in the nuts, the scene cuts to Han and you hear one more punch/kick sound effect from Roper hitting Bolo, suggesting THAT was the knock-out blow (though we don't know where it landed). In the 1993 re-release, that sound effect is now gone, leading to the confusion as to what ended Bolo.
It's an odd one for sure but given he hits Bolo below the belt I figured he passed out from the pain rather than died.
@donovanbradford8231 yeah I just always assumed he passed out.
In Asia, The Green Hornet is actually known as The Kato Show. When Bruce lee was approached to star in this movie, he was already filming Game of Death. He knew this was his big chance to get into the Hollywood market, so he stops work on Game. Once work on Dragon was completed, he goes back to Hong Kong to resume his work on Game, but dies before the movie is finished. And BTW, the Missus did not flinch.
I've always loved the jazzy score and elements of spy movie in this one. Seeing Bruce Lee infiltrate the base in the dead of night fascinated me as a child.
Bruce Lee did pitch this to the studio as James Bond meets Kung fu. He really did bridge the Eastern and Western worlds like no one else before.
It’s sad knowing that this was Bruce Lee’s final completed movie before his death
So much potential wasted. He was just starting to scratch the surface of what he could've done.
that is only partially true, Game of Death came out later and although Bruce Lee died during the movie, it is still a Bruce Lee movie.
@@TheFireMonkey Yeah but he paused making Game of Death to make Enter the Dragon so this was the last movie he worked on. And lets be honest GOD isn't as good of a movie as EtD.
@@joemckim1183 Perhaps, if he had completed Game of Death rather than it being finished after his death, it's hard to say. In any case, my favorite Bruce Lee movie is Return of the Dragon [under whichever name you prefer]
@@TheFireMonkey Return of the Dragon, Way of the Dragon, whatever you call it was great just for the fact that the final fight scene was Bruce Lee vs. Chuck Norris.
-3:22 Legendary actor/director/producer Sammo Hung.....
-35:49 Jackie Chan....
Bruce Lee showed "ripped" vs. "buff." Someone who's buff looks kinda silly, like they got balloons in their arms. Someone who's ripped looks really dangerous, like their arms are made out of steel cables.
I studied Jeet Kun Do, which is the underlying philosophy Bruce wanted to explain and demonstrate in the movie. The whole "kick me" with "emotional content" but not with anger, is the key component to jeet Kun do. Bruce further explains this concept when he says, "when my opponent expands I contract and when he contracts I expand and when there is an opportunity, *I* do not hit... *it* hits all by itself." Instinct, is a good way to put it. Don't think about what you want to do and just let your body do what it was trained to do.
💦BE WATER MY FRIEND !!😉🥋
That sounds fascinating but really difficult to do in practice.
@BarryHart-xo1oy not really. For an example if you have a natural right hook you develop that hook. If you are a person that has trouble with submission, you still will learn it but it's not a thing you will perfect it. Just listen to your body, it will tell you and it will do everything on its own.
"Before I began, a punch was just a punch, a kick was just a kick."
"When I began a punch was no longer a punch, a kick was no longer a kick."
"And now after years, a punch is just a punch, a kick is just a kick."
great explanation.
41:40 Fun fact, Bruce Lee said the hardest kick he ever threw, was when some guy got into his backyard and scared his kids. Bruce put the guy in the hospital in one shot.
There has never been anyone quite like Bruce Lee.
The big body builder is Bolo Yueng, he was in a lot of movies over the years.
Recognize the mirrored room in John Wick? You answered that as I was typing. The yellow jumpsuit in Kill Bill 2 was from another Bruce Lee movie. Bruce was Kato in the Green Hornet, and was responsible for the old Kung Fu tv show.
Return of the dragon Bruce fights Chuck Norris probably the best fight ever made
Next to wheels on meals with benny the jet and jackie chan! Sammo hung choreographed.
[2:00] / [47:02] Bruce Lee's official cause of death was Cerebral Edema (swelling of the brain from an allergic reaction to headache meds.) The mysterious part comes where Bruce Lee, while at Taiwanese actress Betty Ting Pei's house to discuss film plans on his final unfinished film (Game of Death), he complained of a bad headache, she gave him an aspirin, he went to take a nap, and never woke up. The hospital confirmed Cerebral Edema possibly caused by a mix of heat stroke and over-exertion of his daily extreme physical exercises. Cannabis was also apparently found in his system which rose questions. Although one popular theory is the Chinese Mafia/Triads hated Bruce Lee for teaching Kung Fu to outsiders which was really not appreciated then. They paid Betty Ting to slip him something possibly untraceable. Another theory I've heard is a family curse (also kinda tying Brandon's death mystery to it). I've even read in another book some Chinese master he got into it with somehow managed to pull a technique similar to the 5-point heart death punch in Kill Bill where it had a delayed effect on Lee. Alot of it is rumor/innuendo, assumption of drug use/infidelity, and other things. But the official cause was ruled as Cerebral Edema/Death by Misadventure. Betty Ting Pei has remained pretty tight lipped about the whole thing.
As far as Bruce's other films, he did complete 3 other big films in China which were also gaining momentum in the US too including THE BIG BOSS, THE CHINESE CONNECTION, and WAY OF THE DRAGON (w/ that vs Chuck Norris fight) after he had that stint as Kato on the Green Hornet. While Enter the Dragon was filming, he was also making another Chinese film "THE GAME OF DEATH" in which he sports the yellow track suit which Uma Thurman pays homage to Bruce Lee in KILL BILL. He finished a majority of the final fight scenes but never got around to the first few fights, the middle and the beginning of the film as he passed. The director of Enter The Dragon here, Robert Clouse, took what he could of Lee's footage, and made another whole idea out of his idea, even tastelessly showed footage of Bruce's actual funeral, used a double look-a-like stunt guy for the other fights, and just slapped the name GAME OF DEATH on it in 1978. If you want to see the actual idea of what Bruce intended, watch the Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey Documentary and at the end, they'll show the 40 minute cut of the final battle.
[3:20] That's actually Sammo Hung who co-starred with Jackie Chan in many of his popular films.
[11:29] The thug here is actually Pat E. Johnson who was the referee between Daniel and Johnny in Karate Kid. Also was a fight coordinator for Mortal Kombat 95'.
[24:48] That would be Bolo Yeung who was the main antagonist to Jean Claude Van Dam in Bloodsport.
[30:34] That's more a nod to the James Bond villain Blofeld with the white cat.
[36:01] Jackie Chan cameo as a crony getting his neck snapped by Bruce Lee.
[38:55] / [48:50] Yes. Testicular Rupture could cause death if not treated fast enough.
[42:28] Apparently Yes. According to an article from Empire, John Wick director Chad Stahelski paid homage to Enter The Dragon with the mirrors scene.
Very nicely done. Finally, someone who might actually know more about Bruce Lee's life than I do. One minor correction I'd like to make, it wasn't over the counter Aspirin that Betty Ting Pei gave Bruce Lee for his headache. It was a prescription headache medication that she had for her own headaches (I might be remembering wrong, but I think that she suffered from migraines). The cause of the Cerebral Edema was the mixing of the prescription headache medication that Betty Ting Pei gave him, and the muscle relaxants that Bruce was on for the injuries he'd get performing the fight scenes in his movies. I'm not 100% sure, but I think that OTC Aspirin wouldn't have the same problems in being mixed as the two prescription drugs.
A great movie to watch for anyone who is interested in learning about Bruce Lee's background and history is Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. Some of the facts were altered to make for a more entertaining movie, but the majority of what took place in the movie took place in real life. I think that I remember Bruce Lee's widow saying that the movie is about 75% accurate.
I hope that Mr & Mrs Movies watch some more Bruce Lee films (the rest of his filmography, really) as well as Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. I think that they'll enjoy them. Especially Way Of The Dragon, and Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. The scene in The Big Boss where Bruce punches a guy right through a wall and leaves a man shaped hole, Looney Tunes style, was hilarious.
And speaking of hilarious, if Mr and Mrs Movies want to watch a couple of martial arts based comedies, I suggest that they watch They Call Me Bruce, and the sequel, They Still Call Me Bruce. I gotta admit, those movies always leave me in stitches.
Edit: I meant to say that the cause of the Cerebral Edema was the mixing of the Betty Ting Pei's prescription headache medication and Bruce's prescription muscle relaxants. Over the counter medications usually don't have lethal adverse effects when mixed, but there's a greater chance of that happening when you mix prescription medications. Which is what happened to Bruce Lee.
Betty Ting Pei was Bruce Lee's mistress
@@iaincowell9747 I know that. She was also a costar in some of his films (or at least she was going to costar in Game Of Death).
You did your homework lol. Someone might think you took part in the development of this movie 😊😅😂. I heard all those rumors & conspiracies as well, except for the slipping Bruce "the pill" part
That kick he gave Han when they both jumped back in the air was so hard, Han thought it was funny. 41:17
Bruce Lee had several Hong Kong films that were dubbed in English and played extensively in the U.S. These films are:
The Big Boss (aka Fists of Fury) 1971
Fist of Fury (aka The Chinese Connection) 1972
The Way of the Dragon (1972)
"The Way of the Dragon" is particularly good and is even better than "Enter the Dragon." In this film, the Bruce Lee goes up against Super Villain Chuck Norris mano-a-mano. All of these films deserve a reaction.
The Big Boss is my fave!
This henchman here (11:39) in the black, holding the gun, is famed martial artist, Pat E. Johnson (1939 - 2023), who was a 9th degree black belt in American Tang Soo Do, and was the president of the National Tang Soo Do Congress, which was originally created by Chuck Norris in 1973. Don't know if you remember, but Johnson was also the main referee at the tournaments fought by 'Daniel Larusso' in the movies, "The Karate Kid", and "The Karate Kid Part III".
Yes. Quite Ironic to see Pat Johnson get his but kicked in every movie he appeared in as a thug or henchman.
The best Bruce Lee film. It feels like a James Bond movie with martial arts and I love it. Not to mention it basically invented the idea of Mortal Kombat.
Bruce Lee did pitch it to the studio as James Bond meets Kung Fu. He bridged the Eastern and Western worlds like no one before him.
Angela Mao, the sister of Bruce Lee in the film, was one of the biggest female action stars in Hong Kong and a personal friend of Bruce. She lives in NYC and owns a 3 Chinese restaurants.
@TheStoryhasbeensold ,, she even made one film "Stoner" with one time James Bond star George Lazenby as did her dragon co-star Jim Kelly in "Death Dimension" he not only stared along side Ex Bond Lazenby but also ex Bond villain Harold (OddJob) Sakata..😃
Fun Fact:the American dude played Nancy’s dad in Nightmare on Elm Street
Twice. I believe he was in the original and in Nightmare on Elm Street, the Dream Warriors.
John Saxon. RIP.
And a robot in the six million dollar man.
John Saxon legend ❤
You are actually wrong about Sumo. I have followed it for 30 years, and the wrestlers are very agile and versatile. They can perform all sorts of judo throws, strong pushing, pulling, slaps, lifting, leg trips etc. The wrestlers vary much in weight with the heaviest today weighing about 180 kilograms, and the lightest about 110 kilograms. / Greetings from Erik in Sweden ❤
Always Loved that Duo Sammo Hung (guy Lee fights in opening) and Jackie Chan (guy who neck is snapped in cave) are given small role in here. Duo became quite thing in Hong Kong not long after this film. That Duo has some under appreciated gems. I love the fact they show how fast Bruce Lee is. Some of those kicks and hits are so fast, that camera barely can keep up and some times doesn't. And then using slow motion very effectively to balance that speed.
A true classic. Unfortunately the world will never know how far he would have gone in Hollywood after this. Then the tragedy of his son, Brandon, makes it worse. I always admired him & his son. But they both left a mark on the world for us to remember them for.
Bruce Lee's son Brandon Lee also died tragically during the making a film
The Crow (1994) - Brandon Lee died due to a fragment of a blank bullet projectile that was supposed to fall safely onto the floor bounced upward & lunged into Brandon's chest. Because of the proximity of how close he actually was to the gun and its handler, that accidental injury damage would lead to extensive blood loss & eventual heart failure. RIP 😢
The heavy guy sparring with Bruce Lee at the beginning was Sammo Hung who later became another famous martial artist from Hong Kong.
From wikipedia, "Yuen Wah was Lee's main stunt double for the film, responsible for the gymnastics stunts such as the cartwheels and jumping back flip in the opening fight. Sammo Hung also has an uncredited role in the opening fight scene against Lee at the start of the film."
Legend has it that when Bruce Lee was training by himself in a room you can hear nothing but wind.
"What does no one else live in this town?"
"Oh one less person."
LOL!! 🤣 Flawless timing!
Interesting facts about Enter the Dragon (1973) (1) Bruce Lee actually struck Jackie Chan in the face with one of his fighting sticks. He immediately apologized and insisted that Chan could work on all of his movies after that. Unfortunately, Lee died before he could keep his promise. (2) Bruce Lee hid a small piece of iron in his hand to break the mirrors. (3) An extra challenged Bruce Lee to a fight to see if he really was that good. Lee won the fight and sent the extra back to work. (4) The movie was made for $850,000 and took in over $90 million worldwide at the box office. (5) On the set, Bruce Lee offered one hundred dollars to anyone who could catch his hand before he jabbed them. It didn't cost him a penny. (6) Kien Shih, who played the main villain, Han, in real life was a close friend of Bruce Lee's father since they both worked in the Cantonese Opera business. Kien worked as a makeup artist and Bruce's father was an actor. Their relationship was so close that Bruce addressed Kien as "uncle" and Kien called Bruce "nephew". During a break when filming Enter the Dragon, Bruce got a premonition and said to Kien, "Uncle, I feel that you will live longer than me." Surprised to hear that, Kien then replied, "Nephew, don't force yourself too hard. You are overworking yourself." Bruce died one week before Enter the Dragon was released in Hong Kong.
Thank you for the sad yet heartwarming and fascinating information.
Was it Jackie Chan that Bruce Lee's sister kicked in the nutz?
@@dstripedape978 No. 35:50 (Bruce Lee snaps his neck) & 36:58 (hit with nunchaku over the railing and into the acid pit.) He also one of the guys in white watching Bruce Lee fight at 39:00
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story is worth a watch.
Especially for the uncut footage of his fights in there for the Game of Death truly some great stuff.
11:30 That guy on the right is Pat Johnson, the choreographer and real training sensei for the Karate Kid movie, and he also played the main referee at the tournament. For the Karate Kid he trained the Cobra Kai actors similar to how Kreese trains them in the film (more militaristic and focused on real combat) while with Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita he took a more Miyagi approach of spiritual discipline and defense. He also trained Pat and Ralph separately so they wouldn't think of each other as fellow students, focusing on making Pat feel like the master. Same for Kreese and the Cobra students.
William Zabka, who played Johnny Lawrence, was inspired to keep training in the Korean martial art Tang Soo Do (a fusion of several Korean martial arts with Karate and Kung-Fu), which was the basis for the Cobra Kai style. Tang Soo Do was the base art of the more well known Taekwondo (or Tae Kwon Do) which is more of a sport.
Fun fact, Jackie Chan is in this movie. He is one of the henchmen that Bruce actually smacked by accident. They were becoming friends before his death.
Fun fact the guard that Bruce Lee snapped his neck while in the dungeon was actually Jackie Chan. Jackie even credits Bruce Lee to starting him in the movie business
We all know that guy was a 19 yrs old young Jackie Chan.
It wasn't bruce Lee it was sammo that got him into the film since he was head stuntman for this movie under bruce Lee.
😮
22:15 Actually, Mrs.Movies was correct. Bruce is a Kung-fu practitioner but Jim Kelly & John Saxon are both Karateka.
This film inspired fighting games like Street Fighter and Karate Champ way before Mortal Kombat and Tekken.
I love how even the American actors seem badly dubbed into English. That takes a lot of talent.
This made me laugh, and I have seen many such movies over the decades. Good comment.
He actually had like five films. The Big Boss, Enter the Dragon, Chinese Connection, Fist of Fury, and the film he died in the production of was Game of Death. All of them are worth a watch.
Saw this at the drive-in theater . Was great. First time his voice wasn't dubbed over.
bruce lee= was the sexiest man EVER... his blindfold fighting and pushups with 2 fingers is insane to me
“That guy is nimble for a big guy.”
That big guy is Sammo Hung, one of the greatest kung fu stars of all time. The Greatest Of All Time in my personal opinion.
Also grew up more of a Jackie Chan fan myself, but undeniably, Bruce Lee is an icon, and the original template for martial arts "bad-assery". He also broke the barrier here by being the first Asian lead in an American produced film. BTW, a young stuntman named Jackie Chan is the henchman during the "neck snap" scene of this movie.
Know what you should react to? The 90's bio-pic, "Dragon: The Bruce Lee story".
I love this movie of Bruce lee one of my favorite of all time
Graat reaction of this martial arts classic you two.
One of collector guys (the one with the mustache) hassling Roper (John Saxon) on the golf course near the beginning of the film is Pat Johnson. He would later be the martial arts fight choreographer (and he had a small part as the referee) in all 3 of The Karate Kid films in the 80s.
Yuen Biao and Yuan Wah were also in the movie as uncredited fighter and stuntmen. Both were also part of the Chinese Opera troupe that Jackie and Sammo were raised from. Yuan Wah was Bruce's stunt double for all the major flip moves ie. at the end of the fight with Sammo in the beginning and the famous crescent backflip kick in the tournament, later featured in the Tekken game theory as one of the Law family special moves.
This was Bruce Lee's last completed film before he passed away. And it is an absolute F - - - ING blockbuster! Quick note: future stars Sammo Hung, Bolo Yeung, and Jackie Chan appear here!
My guess is Han did something really super dishonorable at the Shaolin Temple so the Master decided the way to punish him was to sever his hand and he got expelled and decided to follow his own teachings. That's my idea at least
@EmaSkyeLover42 ,, NO he lost his hand in an accident with a gun , thats why he wont allow guns anywhere on the Island ..
3:55 that actor is Roy Chiao, who is well known as Lao Che in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” as well as Senzo Tanaka in “Bloodsport”, the latter of which is another martial arts classic.
His style(s) were Jeet Kune Do. Meaning you do whatever whenever.
I'm having flashbacks to the "Kentucky Fried Movie" watching this! 🤣 Great parody!
I was looking for this comment. Yes, "Kentucky Fried Movie" should always be watched after "Enter The Dragon". 😁
"Take him to Detroit!"
Sammo Hung, the chubby fighter in the opening (who became a legendary Martial Arts actor, as I'm sure others have pointed out) made a tribute movie to Lee in 1978 called "Enter the Fat Dragon," where he showcased his great Lee impersonation. The movie is a parody of another Lee film, "Way of the Dragon" (aka Return of the Dragon), and has Sammo as a pig farmer who idolizes Lee. Donnie Yen made a film in 2020 with the same title and a similar idea of a fat guy imitating Lee, though the story is completely different (he's a cop who put on weight) and Yen is in a fat suit and prosthetics.
the "big guy" doing the back flips in the first fight was Sammo Hung
Right.
Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan trained and worked together as part of the Chinese Opera House Performance Troupe, 'The Lucky Seven'. Sammo went on to star in the TV series 'Martial Law' (alongside Arsenio Hall), after Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker made the similar, 'Rush Hour'.
As mentioned by several others, Jackie Chan is also in this movie as an extra in a couple scenes. Chan has said that he ran across Lee in Chinatown and Lee showed him around Hollywood and introduced him to some producers and other Hollywood Types, helping Chan get his foot in the door.
Mortal Kombat basically stole the plot of Enter the Dragon beat for beat, with Liu Kang as the Bruce Lee character.
The mirrors scene was probably an hommage to The Lady Of Shanghai (1947 Welles), a classic film noir with Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth.
‘Kentucky Fried Movie’ did the greatest spoof of this movie! 😂
We are building a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude! :-)
Bruce Lee LITERALLY fought for black students to have the right to learn martial arts. (Famous street fight against a dissenting Kung Fu Master, worth the effort of looking it up)
One of my favorite martial arts movies. Sadly, Bruce Lee died before this movie premiered, but the legacy he left behind will live forever. This is also one of the only times where you can hear his accent. Most of the others, he's overdubbed by someone who doesn't have one.
1:39 - NOT KARATE. NOT KUNG FU. Bruce Lee's 'style' was called 'Wing Chun'.
The big guy with all the muscles was BOLO YEUNG. He was in 2 movies with Jean Claude Van Damme. BLOODSPORT and DOUBLE IMPACT, where Jean Claude Van Damme plays identical twins.
I definitely recommend the Bruce Lee documentary film: “I am Bruce Lee”.
Glad you enjoyed this revolutionary film!
Thankfully, Bruce Lee was able to actually sneak in a few movies at the very last 1.5 year of his life. Prior to that...there are zero movies, he was simply a veteran at live combat.
In live situations he had fought; Black Belts, Pro Fighters, Ex military, Champions, 3rd degree Masters, Rival Martial Artists, and opponents that outweighed him by 100 pounds. His battle experience started in his teenhood as the leader of the Hong Kong gang known as the Tigers of Junction Street and the violence had lead all the way to adulthood.
The few movies he DID get to make were only at the last 1.5 years of his life which was a brief opportunity for him to report his life experiences and share to the world his insights into live combat. He only made 3 little movies plus One Hollywood film, a very short attempt at films but we're lucky he at least made them just before he died to show us his insights on his life of hard combat.
Beckett Media has ranked Bruce Lee in the Top 50 Greatest Athletes of All Time, as he was able to raise unbelievable weights that pro weight lifters could not.
I like the parody they do in The Kentucky Fried Movie called "A Fistful of Yen"
Bruce lee 🔥 he is the inspiration for many actors , directors and fighters❤
Bolo Young (BOLO) is a famous Chinese body builder and martial arts film star. He praised Bruce as being "as good as you see on camera" . No tricks, no wires, and striking so fast, in the 60s the cameras couldn't film fast enough to catch the action. This led to the invention of "slow motion" camera, and Bruce was told to slow it down so that people could see the kicks and punches on film.
Jackie Chan is one of the "guards" in the cave (he breaks his neck) fighting scene.
You made a "Oooohhhh" sound when Bruce (in close up) snaps Jackie's neck.
Bolo gets kicked in the FEMORAL artery, next to the groin, and Roper crushes it, causing Bolo's heart to fail within seconds.
In the underground cave where Williams was hanging, that wasn't water it was a tank full of acid and large spikes.
My high school drama teacher was an extra in this movie. Great reaction. Love y'all
37:10 - I always cracked up on that one too... "Extra - Ordinary". HAHAHA!
One of the most iconic lines in all of cinema that I've been wanting to use for the longest
Man you come right out of a comic book
The stern rowing position on the small boats is similar to a fish's tail. They change the angle to have forward propulsion on both strokes.
4:05 it's not Bruce Lee who does the flip over the guys arms, it's Yuen Biao
Your almost correct.the person doing the flips for Bruce is a classmate of YUEN BIAO.HIS NAME IS YUEN WAH.BRUCE CHOSE HIM PERSONALLY.
I saw this with my older brother when it first came out. It was the most awesome martial arts movie ever made. We already knew that Bruce Lee was a legend and that opening fight scene just set the stage.
I recently tossed some old holey undies in the trash and my 9yo daughter asked "Why are there some of your panties in the garbage can?" LMFAO
fun facts the man who played han did not speak any english he was dubbed by keye luke who plays mr wing in he gremlins and normaly roper would be the one who died but john saxons agent was against it and they changed the script
Bruce Lee was an incredibly - almost superhumanly - quick fighter. He starred in the early Batman and Robin TV series from the 1960s. The producers soon found fault with his moves as they were sometimes too quick to be satisfactorily captured on film. They had to make him tone down his speed a bit.
He didn't star in Batman and Robin he made an appearance on it. He was in The Green Hornet.
@@DavidClark-dkc Thanks for the correction. Memory can't always be trusted.
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Bruce kicks Mr Hand Man, Han so hard he fly's from that film frame into the next. True Kung Fu theater.
When Bruce has the numbchucks you can see Jackie as one of the guys who gets killed.
The rowing technique is called “sculling “ it is used because the crowded river doesn’t allow for everybody to stretch out.
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The funniest scene in the film 😂
White guy didn't know how many times he had to get dropped before the black guy would finally bet...the look on his face when bro turned down the bet is funny AF 😂😂😂
"Nimble for a big guy" that's the legendary martial arts actors Sammo Hung who is Jackie's senior. You may know him in the west in the series Martial Law as Sammo Law. He played the same character in the Walker Texas Ranger crossover. You should watch the movie SPL(Sha Po Lang)/ Kill Zone where Donnie Yen fights Sammo in the movie or Wheels on Meals where Sammo star alongside Jackie and Yuen Biao. Some of Sammo's best movies also includes Dragons Forever, Eastern Condors, Millionaire Express and Pedicab Driver.
❤Fun Fact...Nov 27 is both mine and Bruce Lee's Birthday 🎉
Thank you for sharing this reaction.! Loved it!!
This movie is great. Bruce Lee is one of my idol's and a big reason on why I got into martial arts.
That's Sammo Hung at the start. Jackie Chan is in one scene too-Bruce breaks his neck.
The kick on Han knocking him under the glass case was slowed down because the cameras of that time couldn’t keep up.
1 of my all time favorites since I was a kid taking Tae Kwon Do in the 2nd grade 1978.
A well know fact about this movie is that in the fight scene with Bruce & O'Hara, the original cerography towards the end with the broken bottles had Bruce block O'Hara's attack with his arm which was filmed but the props coordinator did not check that the bottles were prop bottles instead of glass. Bruce was cut on his arm & needed some 20+ stiches & Bruce blamed Bob Wall, who portrayed O'Hara.
The next day of reshoots, word got around that Bruce was pissed off at Bob & was gonna get some payback. Bruce, being the fight coordinator, set up the bottle scene but switched the arm block to a kick & when time came for the running flying kick he was really going to let Bob have it. Now Bob Wall wasn't just some random Hollywood actor, he was actually a multiple time world Tae Kwon Do champion, so he knew how to absorb full force attacks & he was alerted to the fact that Bruce was really going to kick him. So, in the film when O'Hara gets the shit kicked out of him, that was 100% real. Bruce's force on his kick was so powerful that the impact of Bob Wall's body flying backwards into 2 or 3 stand in actors that 1 of the stand ins had to go to the hospital because both his arms were broken by the impact. True story.
Also & I don't know if it has been mentioned yet but a young Jackie Chan played 1 of Han's warehouse\drug layer guards & had interaction with Bruce in w 2 scenes. The most noticeable 1 is Jackie runs up behind Bruce & bear hugs him, you get a clear shot of Jackie's face for about a second. The other scene you don't see Jackie but only the back off his head. Jackie has talked about that scene with Bruce because in that scene Bruce accidentally hits Jackie on the head with a staff. Jackie said he wasn't really hurt but when the director yelled cut, Bruce rushed over apologizing & cradled\held Jackie who was on the floor. Jackie said he played it off like he was really hurt so Bruce would fuss over him longer & Jackie got to hangout with Bruce later that night. Jackie tells the story better tho.
Great movie, I hope you react to more Bruce Lee movies. Bruce was the innovator of mixed martial arts among many other things outside of martial arts\action films. He is definitely a legend & an inspiration.
Yeah, Bruce was a goddamn legend. Also, Bruce told Jackie he'd get to work on all his films from now on. Can you only imagine...
@@JnEricsonx That would've been mind blowing💯
Jackie Chan was actually an extra in this movie and was one of the guards in the famous scene.
My martial arts teacher used to quote that: "Don't think, feel. It is like a finger pointing at the moon. Concentrate on the finger and you miss all that heavenly glory."
Lol, "Atilla" (the Hun) and "It's the Claw" were my two favorite quips from you two this evening... Also, Nutsackslaughter is real and carries a minimum of 10 years.
What a missed opportunity. Everybody wanted to see Bruce fight Bolo. Fun facts? This is the first of Bruce's movies to use his real speaking voice. Kung Fu superstar Jackie Chan was one of the guards that Bruce fought in Han's underground lair (it was his second appearance in one of Bruce's films, his first was in "Fist of Fury") and another kung fu star, Sammo Hung was the guy Bruce fought at the Shaolin temple.
The way of the dragon has Chuck Norris and Game of Death is when Bruce died in the middle of production
37:00 I believe it was supposed to be acid. I might be remembering this wrong- but it is how Han would dispose of dead bodies. Williams was to be lowered into it, and then raised out of it with only his skeletal remains.
Bruce Lee the guy that if he didn’t exist we wouldn’t have Matrix the way we know !! 😎
Angela Mao who played the sister is a Hapkido expert. She is a wonderful lady who runs two restaurants here in the New York City area
41:39 LMAO ! 🤣