I just watched episode 49. On June 1973, just before he filmed the Game of Death, Bruce Lee bought a life insurance worth $ 1.35million. Did he predict his own death?
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From my perspective this series is very good. It's a biography tv series about Bruce Lee. It dates Bruce from about 16 until his death. 50 episodes in total. The fight scenes are quite good. It's said that the actor playing Bruce trained more than 1 year for the series. All are real fights, no special effects. The series tell Bruce in a positive tone. The affair he ever had is little presented. As to the back injury, I didn't find it in the series.
BTW, after the series is played here, it will be shown in Southeast Asia countries. I heard the DVD is available, but no English subtitles.
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In fact I knew little about Bruce Lee before I watched this series. And I must miss something important. I watched most episode but forget some now. Yes he won the american karate match. And I found he trained crazily. He ran 10 kilos every day (incredible). What impressed me most about his training is that he fought a human-like wooden frame every day. But once he saw a Japanese warrior fight a metal frame and decided to do so too. Sometimes he trained on the seaside. But the series showed many of his combats, including ones with japanese karate players, western boxers, and thailand boxers. I don't remember about his back injury. I must miss it.
I feel he trained too much, which is not good. The series attributes his death to fatigue. I think it's partly reasonable.
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Thanks for your post very much. Yes he ran 10 kilometers every day and did a hard training.
I don't remember his back injury. According to the series, he was really confined to wheelchair for a long time, but that's because his legs were paralysed. Seems to me the series didn't go to lengthes to deal with his introduction of Chinese philosophy into his martial arts. He was in Washionton University when he delved deeply into philosophy and the series told me he had a very good professor there. And he had half of his bed occupied by books.
As to his death, yes the series said about the cerebral edema swelling of the brain. But I still feel he trained too much. Bruce was a genius but he shouldn't shoulder everything.
Maybe for you people this series is a little lengthy but I think it's a good TV.
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Good you got the series and its Chinese is not very hard, but I am afraid you can't understand it much. And if you have any question, I am here.
50 episodes in total. The first 15 episodes Bruce in Hongkong, the next 27 Brude in the US and the last 7 his filming career. Wish you have a good time.
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LOL. It's just like me watching American movies while learning English in college. The first few episodes show Bruce combating with a British boxer named Blair and him fighting an underground organization. And he learned Yunchen boxing from his master in Hongkong, which lay a good foundation for his later career.
Maybe you can skip the Hongkong part and go directly to the US part. It's interesting to see him play kungfu in America.
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yes I live in China but I never saw any Bruce film, which may surprise you. In China, we didn't get access to Bruce films.
During the first few episodes, the competition between Bruce and the guy named Blair is the focus. There was a boxing match every year in Hongkong and the kungfu school bruce atteneded must pick a guy to fight the championship defender. Bruce and Blair are the major candidates. In the end Bruce got the better of Blair only because Blair suffered from a serious illness. Anyway they are friends last.
Sorry I don't remember his parents' problem with him now. Maybe I missed it.
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yes a serious disease---- if I don't remember wrong, it was aplastic anaemia(I looked up the dictionary for this word lol). So Bruce felt he didn't play fair to win. Blair left Hongkong after the fight but he will appear in the US to assist Bruce later.
All the players in the kungfu school supported Blair not Bruce. I feel Burce fought the whole school in order to develop his martial arts.
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LOL. I guess I didn't watch as closely as you and must miss something but I will try explaining.
yes Bruce attended 2 schools at the same time----- one was a modern school, where he was a registered student, and the other was a traditional school, where he learned kungfu from a renowned white-bearded instructor. I don't think he was fighting the whole school, he was just competing for the boxing championship there. And the traditional school did help him. They instructed him about the way he combatted Blair. You can't expect them to go out to fight for Bruce. Bruce can handle it himself.
The modern school he attended had a good principal and many good boys and girls, who were nice to Bruce. Those unfriendly to Bruce were only those in the boxing team. I guess they were just not accustomed to having an oriental there.
You can't miss the fight where Blare was ill. After the fight, Blair befriended Burce and took him home and gave him some books before flying to the US.
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Sorry I missed that part totally LOL. I just know the fight between Bruce and the gang was why Bruce left Hongkong for the US later.
Yip man is a very important person in Chinese martial arts history. Recently there was a biography film released about him in China.
You questions don't bother me. I enjoy answering them.
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Sorry I didn't watch the episodes just before Bruce left Hongkong and know nothing about that box.
BTW, do you think the actor resembles Bruce Lee?
I enjoy our conversation too. I am 38 and I am a Chinese. How about you?
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I feel the actor does resemble Bruce Lee a lot but is a little taller. Bruce is short in my mind.
I didn't expect you to be so young. I always think Bruce fans are mostly over 40. How did you get to know Bruce and his films.
I know little about martial arts but I do like Jet Lee. Do you know him?
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The letter said some things. One is Blair and Jones are looking for Bruce in the US and another is wo li chao has left Hongkong so nothing can stop Bruce from returning Hongkong now. I forget the others. Much time apart from I saw it.
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Good question. I do remember the detail of why he punched the chef. The chef said jokingly that if Bruce had the dishes he had cooked, no westerners would address him as a "Eastasia Sickman". Bruce hated this phrase very much and took it as an insult to Chinese by westerners. He didn't enjoy the joke.
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As time passes, I have forgotten more and more. LOL
I don't know whether Japanese taught karate to foreigners in 50s but I guess they do today. True orientals seem not like to teach their martial arts to blacks and whites and Bruce Lee is really great in this aspect. I guess his doings would cause many disputes among chinese then.
Yes the girl is beautiful but I don't know her. Among all the actors in the series I only know the one playing Uncle Shao.
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I am from mainland China but most actors of this series are from Hongkong and Hollywood so I don't know many. I only know Wang Luoyong playing Uncle Shao, who happens to come from my native city, and the actress playing Bruce's mother.
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As I know, only Bruce and his wife use real names in this series. Other characters have different names from real life. Sorry I can't spell their names in English because the Chinese pronunciation of their names are totally different from the English pronounciation.
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Yesterday I saw the first show of Ip Man starred by Donnie Yen on TV. Donnie Yen had an interview with the TV presenter. He said during the 8 months he played the character of Yip Man, the Wing Chun master, he took a human-like wooden frame wherever he went and did a lot of exercises on it. It's just like what Bruce Lee did. Very interesting.
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I also heard Bruce Lee never entered any competition and they made up the story. I just wish they could tell the story as it was.
Have you got to the part about Bruce's filming career?
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Your list of untruths is very interesting.
4. True. I think the series takes his identity of a Chinese too seriously. I don't think he would shout I am a Chinese in public.
9. This surprised me a lot. Didn't Bruce teach many foreigners? Your list of what Bruce was is right--- philosopher, fitness enthusiast...... But if he wanted to be well established in the US, he must open many gyms and no white students are impossible.
Sorry I have forgot much of the series. I don't remember his kicking Blair out of chair.
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You watched very closely. I didn't notice his hairs.
The argument between Bruce and the director goy amused me a lot. The guy seems a famous director in Hongkong and he produced many martial arts films. But I have to say many such Hongkong films in 60s were only rubbish. People here would say Bruce is a little bossy. But I guess he was right.
As to the fighting and learning between Bruce and other instructors, I am not so sure. I didn't read much about Bruce. I only know Bruce incorporated many other styles into his kung fu.
Those thaiboxers impressed me a lot. Wasn't the fight between Bruce and them filmed? What a pity!
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I guess you never saw any chinese TV series. Generally speaking, this series is made the Chinese way not the western way. Yes here we would not handle the film scenes the way you spoke of. We leave the film suquences aside but focus only on the fighting scenes. I agree a biographic tv series isn't supposed to be shot this way. But a real-life tv series would not have much audience here.
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LOL. Seems so to me. Very nice talking with you. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
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