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Sunday, June 15, 2008
Bruce Lee-Enter the Dragon (English version) 1-10
Enter the Dragon (《龍爭虎鬥》) aka. The Deadly Three, originally titled Blood and Steel is a 1973 Warner Brothers martial arts film starring martial artist Bruce Lee, John Saxon and Jim Kelly. It is the last completed film Bruce Lee appeared in before his death. He died six days before the movie was first released.
It was the first Kung Fu film to have been made by a Hollywood studio. It has one of the most influential martial arts scenes ever made -- the Nunchaku scene[citation needed]. The film is largely set in Hong Kong (see Hong Kong in films).
Although they had acted in films and Peking opera decades before, the Seven Little Fortunes, including Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung, were stuntmen for the film. This was arguably instrumental in Jackie Chan's and Sammo Hung's further association with Golden Harvest studios, which later launched their career.
The finished version of the film was significantly different from the original drafts. Bruce Lee was ultimately successful in using the film as a vehicle for expressing what he saw as the beauty of his culture, rather than just another action movie
Sammo Hung appears as Bruce Lee's sparring opponent at the beginning of the movie.
Jackie Chan appears briefly in a couple of scenes, as one of the guards or henchmen with Oharra. The first is when he is kicked in the groin while coming onto Lee's sister. He is wearing the light blue clothing. He is also the only person to get any serious type of damage on Lee's sister. (Punches, a kick, and pushing her head into the wall) Later on, he gets his neck snapped by Bruce Lee during a battle with several guards, where Bruce Lee demonstrates his abilities with a number of weapons including the nunchakus.
The scene in which Lee's character states that his style was the style of "Fighting Without Fighting" and then lures Parsons into boarding a dinghy is based upon a famous anecdote involving the 16th century samurai Tsukahara Bokuden[2][3] .
According to Shannon Lee, who appeared on a Spike TV special, airing the film, she states there was a debate on deciding the title, as the film originally was supposed to be named "Blood and Steel" or "Han's Isle". The film was named "Enter the Dragon", as she states her father was known as "the dragon".
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