Enter The Dragon

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Gage P.

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Watching this film again on Channel 5 and was just wondering how good Bruce Lee really was. I mean if he was around today and was part of the Ultimate Fight scene then how well would he do. Thoughts please:)
 
The old Enter the Dragon may be clunky - but ole Bruce still looks awesome.

Totally timelessly beautiful and efficient and Wow. I watched it an embarrassing number of times when I was young, and have seen all his films more than once. He was an absolute star and an inspiration and referenced in hundreRAB, or thousanRAB of movies and programmes.

He would stand up to anything.

Trained and excellent ballroom and latin dancer by the way, one of the reasons he is such an incredibly beautiful mover.
 
People forget that Bruce was a fighter before becoming an actor, at least a street fighter. He is also attributed by some to be the first martial artist the adopt a mixed martial arts approach (ref) (i.e. the "style" used by UFC).

I think that if he was here now in his mid 20's he would take the UFC circuit by storm and be showing the Gracie boys a thing or two!
 
Epic film, might watch it again tonight on DVD. I always feel that John Saxon never gets a mention. I thought he was great in this too.
 
Agree, John Saxon was great in this. I think Bruce Lee is under valued, he was a great philosopher and thinker, it wasn't all about the fighting.... though he did kick ass. Enter the Dragon is one of my favourite films. Lalo Schifrin's score is up there with the best, legendary, all of it.
 
Bruce Lee was 1958 Hong Kong Cha-Cha Champion.
He was fighting people on roof tops and his parents were afraid he might get killed. That's why they sent him to San Francisco.
 
In the film "Game Of Death",The character played by Kareem Abdul Jabbar is extremely sensitive to light. That's why he wore the sunglasses.
When Bruce fights him, his glasses get knocked off, so Jabbar cannot see. I think it's unfair to say Bruce "blinRAB him"!
 
As someone who has been doing Tae Kwon Do for 22 years I can tell you he was pretty good...pretty, pretty good.

Whilst on the subject of the Lee's; had he not passed away way before his time, I still think Bruce Lee's son Brandon would have made a much better Nero than Keanu Reeves in The Matrix. It would have made the movie 10 times better if Nero, who was supposedly given the skills of a martial arts expert, had actually been able to sparr at above green belt level.

By the way, I wouldnt really measure how good someone is by how well they'd do in the Ultimate Fight scene. :)
 
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