Bruce Lee...The Master Of The Kung Fu!! (Enter The Dragon (DVD))

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Product:	Enter The Dragon (DVD)
Date:	21/08/01 (55 review reads)
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Bruce Lee……The Ultimate Dragon!!
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My favourite film by Bruce Lee is Enter The Dragon, It's his best film of the series of films he made. I want to discuss a bit about Bruce as well and I hope this doesn't make this in the wrong category, if it is I will get it moved...


It was between the years of 1974-75 that Bruce Lee became really big, it was the Kung Fu phase and everyone was watching it. It all started with the weekly Kung Fu series starring David Carradine, now if ever a guy needed to get a life it was the character that was “Grasshopper” in Kung Fu..

Anyway back to the master that was Bruce Lee, the guy that could stand straight while slowly lifting one leg until it was level with his stomach. I remember watching him doing this in “ Enter the Dragon” and thinking I could do that, needless to say I fell flat on my backside.

The fitness and physique of Lee were just something to be envied by a skinny teenager growing up in Belfast. My mates all loved the Bruce Lee films from “Big Boss” to “Return of the Dragon”. His films were all the same theme, your dog or sister gets bullied by the big bad wolf and everyone is afraid to do something. Except of course that one person who keeps himself to himself. That timid guy who doesn’t want to get involved in a fight unless he’s pushed into one. And of course there was always some fool that pushed the Lee character too far and the fool deserved to get his ass kicked.

The fight scenes in Bruce Lee films were first class. Was it the long cat noise he made, the contortion of his face or the raged look in his eyes that did it. Or was it the flex of the muscles, that famous swan like movement with his arms and then the action.

He was brilliant to watch, those fantastic scenes were he fights about six people, the scenes were he back fists them in the face o
r just puts his foot down on them, then twists it. The only thing I hated was the dubbed voices but it was a small price to pay to watch genius at work.

Poor Bruce died at 33 and to this day no one knows how he died, his son died at the same age making a film. During the making of “The Crow” someone put live bullets into the gun and Brandon was shot dead. Again the family curse had struck down another Lee at an early age.

Bruce Lee was a legend and even today you can find Bruce Lee posters in any big store like Woolworth’s or Virgin Megastore. He deserves to be remembered as he started a whole Kung Fu thing in the Seventies that even today many people still watch and admire. Many have tried to copy him but none have come close and in my opinion never will..

My favourite film was “ Enter the Dragon”, I really loved that film and the scenes with Lee using the Chinese sticks were out of this world. These are two hard short sticks joined by a metal chain. Get the film out on video and be amazed at the skill of this master of the Chinese art of Kung Fu. This is the film were he just raises his leg up whilst standing on the other leg. I will never forget that film as the fight scenes with Bruce Lee are so well done..Just awesome..

Of course there is a lady today that kicks well and is a master of Kung Fu, even has better legs than Bruce, let me think who is she now. A vampire killer I think and a red hot babe.…I forget her name but I might do an opinion on her after her new series starts on Thursday night..

Anyway I wanted to write this as a tribute to a guy who gave me great pleasure in watching him…Cheers Bruce…


So again thanks for the read, thanks for the kind comments yesterday, your friend online……


Art…21st August 2001.. Big thanks to grinchgirl…for your support!!

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