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"Dragon" is based on Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew, the autobiography of Linda Lee Cadwell, Lee's wife, played here by Lauren Holly. It traces his immigration to America, his early days as a karate instructor, his breakthrough in a short-lived TV series, and his eventual emergence as a movie star just as his life was nearing its end. Some old scores are settled: The hit series "Kung Fu" was Lee's original idea, we learn, but David Carradine starred in it because of the network's reluctance to cast an Asian. But mostly "Dragon" is a rags-to-riches story.
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
A one-sided remembrance of an iconic martial artist with several storytelling liberties taken along the way, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story has still clearly been made by those close to its subject. Lee is shown as heroic and noble throughout, overcoming the obstacles life throws at him with a mixture of martial arts prowess, righteousness, and good humor. Perhaps influenced by this, director Rob Cohen wastes no time dialing up a subplot involving a demon, along with "movie fight" sound effects and staging, so that every altercation becomes a set piece, occasionally echoing moments from Lee's short-lived but influential Hollywood career.
Families can talk about the violence in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. Do the violent scenes help tell the story in an effective way? Is it shocking or thrilling? Why? Does exposure to violent media desensitize kids to violence?
This film is a glimpse into the life, love and the unconquerable spirit of the legendary Bruce Lee. From a childhood of rigorous martial arts training, Lee realizes his dream of opening his own kung-fu school in America. Before long, he is discovered by a Hollywood producer and begins a meteoric rise to fame and an all too short reign as one the most charismatic action heroes in cinema history.
A broad account of the life story of Bruce Lee, Chinese-American martial arts master, founder of Jeet Kune Do, and movie star extraordinaire, who died under mysterious circumstances only 32 years old. It is based on a biographical novel by his wife, Linda Lee Cadwell.
The story concerns martial arts exponent Bruce Lee (Jason Scott Lee), who rose to fame while fighting discrimination plus his individual inner 'demon warrior'. The movie keeps track of his steps forward in the martial arts, through to his educating children in the 1960s.
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Taking the concept of having three fighting characters on screen at the same time leads to its logical conclusion. Aside from story mode there also is a battle mode which allows battles between up to three players at the same time (human or computer controlled). Again, everyone has to fight as Bruce Lee. You would believe that this limited character choice would at least promise some balanced combat. Sadly, this is not the case. To speed things up and allow earlier access to the other fighting stances, every once in a while a Yin Yang symbol pops up in battle mode, which when collected gives the chi bar a noticeable boost. These appear at random, so the player who gets to pick one up first get to reach the other stances earlier. Since these are way more powerful than the regular ones, and adding in the fact that the winner of one round keeps his chi meter while the loser loses some of his energy, this mechanic pretty much breaks the balance. Battles can still drag on for a very long time, though. A timer in battle mode would have helped greatly.
The movie opts for a slightly fantastical subplot of a demon haunting his family in their nightmares and their efforts to fight back. As expected, there are liberties taken with the actual history and timeline of Bruce Lee (his book on Jeet Kune Do was never published in his lifetime), but the film pays an honest tribute to how revolutionary a man he was and his influence in both the East and West.
A year later, it received a Licensed Game available for Sega's consoles, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and the Atari Jaguar. It contextualizes the story as a series of fights inspired by Bruce's films and personal life, as well as introducing a metaphysical villain known as the Phantom, representing Bruce's fear of death. Interestingly, it utilized three-person multiplayer, each player controlling a clone of Bruce.
The Bruce Lee Story is the true story of the now legendary teacher, martial artist and film-star Bruce Lee. The story involves the many struggles and hardships of the young man which often led to fights and new enemies. Bruce was pronounced dead on July 20th 1973, aged 32. The cause of his death is widely speculated but the story tells of a dark phantom that tortured his soul and dreams through his whole life.
The game is simply a fighting game that allows you to play as Bruce Lee and the story will take you through some of the cruel and somewhat bizarre fights that Bruce had to go through in his life. Having control of a great Kung Fu fighter like Bruce Lee you might think that a game like this would be a breeze, but that is far from the truth. This game is very hard and even punishing at times. Not only that, but it is also clear that the game has quite a few game breaking issues as well.
3. A good hair dayBruce Lee got his big break in Hollywood in 1964 when he was discovered by celebrity hair stylist, Jay Sebring, at the Long Beach Karate Championships. Sebring told one of his celebrity clients, the producer and actor William Dozier, about the young, talented martial artist, and Dozier immediately contacted Lee. The rest is history.
Hand-painted by famed production artist, Nikita Knatz (Batman Returns and Predator), these three beautifully articulated storyboards depict the character of Bruce Lee gathering on set with his production colleagues for a re-creation of the filming of Lee's magnum opus, 'Enter the Dragon'. Each of the storyboards have been rendered in mixed media (wonderfully detailed matt drawings on vellum or translucent stock mounted on 8 x 11" bond paper) and include production-notes outlining the intended shot-sequences, as follows: "BL YUP + Howdies with crew, extras, most of whom wear a potpourri (sic) of plastic covers against the leaks...", "BL + the director, etc..." and "Over BL's shoulder: Exterior construction of the mirror set...". The first storyboard is identified by the number '6' in the top right corner, the second by the number '7' in the same position and the third by the number '8'. All storyboards include the original punch holes from the art-department compilation-deck.
The conceptual sequence depicted in this trio of storyboards was not actually included in the final film. Instead, the finished sequence is introduced with a short montage of shots establishing the exterior of the Hong Kong film studios during a typhoon, along with the caption '32nd Day of Shooting - Enter the Dragon'. This is followed by a cut to Jason Scott Lee re-creating Bruce Lee's cat-like movements during the iconic 'Hall of Mirrors' sequence. Consequently, this beautiful storyboard collection provides a fascinating insight into the unseen development phase of this very popular film.
Although himself no relation, Jason Scott Lee makes a firm fist of his portrayal of the iconic kung fu demigod in this engaging biography-cum-glossy-drama that tells the rousing, tragic story of its eponymous inspiration.
Much of the story has obviously been tailored for slick entertainment purposes rather than fidelity to Lee's actual life, and a disclaimer in the final credits indicates that one of the movie's key episodes is pretty much a fiction dreamed up by the filmmakers. Still, the picture has important things to say about subjects as different as interracial romance and the importance of education, and it makes its statements with enough wit and energy to make "Dragon" an engaging diversion, if a hokey and predic table one.
The movie gets under way in Hong Kong, with a fight scene that's so stagey and gratuitous that I expected the rest of the picture to be a total loss. This episode paves the way for a much better portion of the story, however, in which Lee learns that he was born in the United States and that he'd better return there soon, since his life may now be in jeopardy. We follow him to California where he works as a dishwasher, realizes that college is the path to a better life, and sets up as a martial-arts inst ructor to pay his bills. 041b061a72