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Themes In Bruce Lee's Enter The Dragon

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A film that was already destined to be memorable, due to its quality, the fact that it was Bruce Lee 's sole English-speaking role and that the director was completely deaf, reached the status of mythical, due to the death of its protagonist, prior to the ending of the shooting. A drug trafficking organization assassinates Lee 's sister, who swears to avenge her. In order to accomplish that, he cooperates with English intelligence and eventually manages to enter a tournament held organized by the crime ring, in a secluded island. Another film of the genre where the script, direction and acting appear solely to place a story behind the action scenes. However, with Bruce Lee in top form, "Enter the Dragon" need not do anything else, apart from letting him shine in the fighting scenes, chiefly of which is the legendary …show more content…

As Jet Li in "Once Upon a Time in China", he portrays the Chinese folk hero Wong Fei Hung; however the two films have little in common. Fei Hung is son to a famous kung fu teacher; nevertheless, he never stops getting into trouble due to fighting, constantly infuriating his father. When an incident involves his aunt and cousin, his father decides to send him to train with Su Hua Chi aka Beggar So, another common character of Cantonese martial folklore, who was famous for his drunken style of kung fu. The training is rigorous to a point of excruciating pain for Fei Hung, which leads in him escaping from the old man 's grasp. However, after a humiliating defeat from the notorious assassin Yim Tim Sam aka Thunderfoot, he decides to return to the beggar and continue his training in the secret style called "The Eight Drunken Immortals" Jackie Chan 's personal style, a combination of elaborate martial arts ' scenes and slapstick humor is evident here from beginning to end. The majority of the fights are similar to a comic sketch, differentiating from the usual style of the genre at the time that had become owlish and pretentious, chiefly due to their

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