Comments on: Enter the Dragon (1973)

By: hayley

hayley — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:20:07 +0000

they used Bruce’s image after his death for some energy drink commercial in Japan
http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/bruce-lee-tv-commercial-in-japan/

By: paco

paco — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

You should also check the fantastically hilarious spoof they made in Kentucky Fried Movie.

This is a classic, but time hasn’t been gentle to it. It secured the breakthrough for Lee in the States though.

Bolo Yeung is really cool; you rarely see such a big Chinese.

By: weefselkweekje

weefselkweekje — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Bolo’s cool indeed, but I couldn’t help and wonder whether having that much muscles actually helps when doing Karate…

By: suzero

suzero — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

And what is the year of your birth Weefsel?

By: paco

paco — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

From my personal martial arts experience: body-builders that get into karate (or other martial arts) tend to be sluggish. Martial artists that start creating muscles usually become more dangerous. You’d possibly hand in some speed but compensate that with power. Compare it with the muscles of gymnasts and sprinters; you can hardly call them slow or bulky-moving.

By: weefselkweekje

weefselkweekje — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

@suzero: I was born in 1973 (see review title) ?

@paco: Lee himself looks so incredibly fit in this movie. It’s like his sixpack has a sixpack He’s so fast the camera actually misses most of his moves altogether I did a little Aikido a while back, but there the point is to be fluent rather than fast.

By: reisneus

reisneus — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

There’s a very interesting documentary on Lee’s life. I forgot the name. It’s interesting to see the downside of Lee’s journey to fame.

By: weefselkweekje

weefselkweekje — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Do you mean “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story”? I saw that a while back and it’s indeed interesting…

By: damian

damian — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Do yourself a favour Weefselkweekje,

Go out and hire the uncut widescreen vwersion of this film on DVD. Enter the Dragon is a fantastic film and the cinematography improves no end in widescreen.

I can’t understand how you prefer the slow mo stuff of the recent stuff to the fast pacedfrentic style of the older stuff. I mean, Jet Li’s work in Kiss of the Dragon is far more entertainign than stuff like The One – simply because it’s done at full pace.

To be honest – I thought most of the fighting in the Matrix, while visually cool – gave the impression that the actors were going “1 – 2, low low, high, block, block, high low low, jump kick”. I found the martial arts to be quite average, without all the fancy camera work.

Compare the fighting in The One and the Matrix with Enter the Dragon, Game fo Death and Fists of Fury and I’m sorry, but Bruce Lee would win every time.

Even better, look at the carreer of Jackie Chan – his early work (In particular, Police Story Two, My Lucky Stars, Armour of God, Project A) kicks seven tons of shite out of his later American work (Rush Hour 1 + 2, Shanhai Noon etc etc). Ok Jackie’s getting old now, but the stunts and the energy just aren’;t on the same level. And for sheer fighting work and choreography, check out his REALLY early work, on Legend of Drunken master and things like that – you’ll swear they sped the film up.

By: weefselkweekje

weefselkweekje — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

@damian: You’re kinda making my point. Imagine what it would be like if Bruce Lee would have been in The Matrix (Jet Li was actually asked to be in Reloaded I think). This movie has the martial arts, but not the cinematography, while movies like the Matrix have the cinematography. I liked The One, as I could follow what Li was doing I might be a slow watcher…

Also, in Fist of Fury BL showed a lot more fancy fighting than in this movie. I can’t figure out why this one became such a classic, since FoF also has a far more interesting story…