Bruce Lee (1940 - 1973) is one of the most recognizable names in the world. Many people know Lee as an action movie star, who performed amazing Chinese Kung Fu in movies. Others recognize Lee for his great foresight and innovative contributions to martial arts. Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco and grew up in Kowloon, Hong Kong. In 1959 Lee went to America along, and enrolled in the University of Washington in 1961 to learn philosophy and drama (Little, 32). In 1966, Lee played Kato in The Green Hornet series, which is the beginning of his successful acting career. Unfortunately, after bringing many excellent action movies such as The Big Boss and The Way of the Dragon, Bruce Lee suffered a sudden death on July 20, 1973. Bruce Lee is laudable …show more content…
When Lee was a teenager living in Hong Kong, he was not interested in the school life, instead, he always went looking for fights. All he cared about was how to improve his moves to win the street fight. His father then sent him to Yip Man ‘s class to learn Wing Chun, which is a traditional concept-based Chinese martial art. The fluid style of Wing Chun seemed to suit him well, but he was not satisfied. The early experience of street fighting made Lee desire more flexible, more practical and more powerful fighting system. He then decided to build a new martial art system with the concept of “the style of no style”. He set Wing Chun as the core, and combined the advantage of boxing and western fencing to create the new system called Jeet Kune Do. “In Jeet Kune Do, all technique is to be forgotten and the unconscious is to be left alone to handle the situation. The technique will assert its wonders automatically or spontaneously. To float in totality, to have no technique, is to have all technique.” (Lee, 2012) Lee continued completing Jeet Kune Do with other culture, such as Taekwondo, karate, judo and Wrestling from many countries. The development of Jeet Kune Do can be unlimited and, today, it is still being expanded and completed by …show more content…
Lee’s father, Lee Hoi-chuen, was a famous Cantonese opera and film actor. With the influence of his father, Lee chose acting as his career. Lee tried to bring his love of Martial arts to the general public through his performance. “While others have also had objections to the wire-propelled, fantastic school of martial arts – Run Run Shaw told his directors to study Kurosawa and the Japanese action films for their realistic look, and even the old Wong Fei Hung movies opted to show only fighting moves that could be done without special effects – no other actor had ever moved and fought like Bruce Lee.” (Donovan, 89) His real fighting scene impressed people around the world, and made people change the idea of considering Chinese Kung Fu as a trick. It was not only the contribution of Lee’s great martial art skill, but also the reason of his acting expression. But Lee did not just show Kung Fu in the movie, he expressed his ideas through every role instead of trying to act as other person and tell stories. With his strange yell and fast punch, his acting style was admitted by the