True fans of the Dragon know that Chinese Connection is his best movie. This is
just Bruce going off on everyone dumb enough to mess with him for two hours. I
love Enter the Dragon, but this is the real Bruce Lee experience. It's all
Bruce doing his thing, taking care of business. No Jim Kelly, no John Saxon.
Pure Bruce all the way as a one-man army.
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Oh, I'm not ragging on Jim Kelly. It was just cool to see Bruce having the
spotlight all to himself here. I think Kelly did a lot in Enter the Dragon, I
was pissed Mr. Hand Man killed him.
Definitely was nice seeing Bruce kick racism in the teeth. He paved the way for
so many martial arts film stars, imagine if he had lived and gotten to co-star
with Jet Li or had the fight with Bolo that was supposed to happen in ETD and
got scrapped. Endless possibilities.
I felt his message in this movie was meant for the Chinese audience, which was fine. But I would say Way of the Dragon has a much stronger message, meant for everyone. Plus, it's directed by himself, so it's very much his film.
shareI think Enter the Dragon showed Bruce at his peak but I agree, it needed more Bruce. The good thing about this movie is it has so many fight scenes and Bruce even gets to do a little comedy bit and romance.
shareEnter the Dragon is my favorite Bruce Lee movie all round because I enjoy watching John Saxon and Jim Kelly too.
But I agree that for pure 100% Bruce Lee nonstop action you can't do better than The Chinese Connection. It has to be his most violent and action-packed movie, and the revenge aspect works perfectly.
I also enjoyed his efforts at comedy here, with the different disguises and so on.
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i disagree the 40 minute cut of the original game of death blows all his films out of the water,the fact that only 40 mins of this film exists and is so impressing shows the talent lee had.fist is a great movie,but lees game of death is lee at his peak
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the gay interpreter is in Fist of Fury also, most of the same faces are evident across all of Lee's movies..
I've heard talk of this unseen fottage from the woeful Game Of Death but am yet so see it, seeing as it (i assume) actually fetaures Bruce and not a stand in/lookalike i expect it's worth seeing??
Is it the fight in a pyramid where he fights a different opponent from a different discipline on each floor? I herad Bolo Yeung was one of these foes. That true?
never mind i saw it now..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2OpfH8RZ4U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn7bEDC27fE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXn9xQOCevc
i'm sure i never saw the first 2 parts before, the Kareem fight i had seen. There's many versions of Game of Death but is there any more to those scenes? I thought it was 4 guys he fought in the temple??
One thing I don't see anyone discuss is the common trope in some of the older martial arts films that has a martial artist watch the brush strokes of a master calligrapher, then to "translate" them into movements, a fighting style.
The striking thing about Bruce Lee in this movie to some of his Chinese fans, in this movie especially, is how he did the opposite, smashing signs instead of reproducing them kinesthetically.
Like when the Japanese trash the Chinese martial arts school, they leave behind a stylishly written sign depicting the Chinese as the Sick Man of Asia. Lee takes the sign back to the Japanese dojo, defeats their fighters, and breaks not only this sign, but smashes all the signs on their trophy board. Later he's stopped by an Indian who points to a sign over a park's gate which reads: No dogs or Chinese allowed." Lee breaks the sign into pieces. In other words, the signs he leaves behind are anti-signs, acts of freedom from tradition and political oppression. After Lee kills Mr. Ho, he strings him up to a lamppost with a sign on his chest, marking him as an anti-warrior, returning him to the "sick man" culture Lee wants all Chinese to leave behind.