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The ultimate Bruce Lee: In 50 parts
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Bruce Lee is getting his due in China. The country’s state-run broadcaster plans to air a 50-part (yes, 50) prime time series on Bruce Lee, the late kung fu film star.
Lee’s popularity soared in the early 1970s with a number of films, but his influence was not felt immediately in mainland China, which had a closed society. His films did not do well in China until they began arriving on video in the 1980, according to AP.
The highly detailed megaseries was filmed over nine months in the U.S., Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macau and Italy. The character of Lee, who died in 1973 at age 32, will be played by Chan Kwok Kwan.
As a child, my brother loved Bruce Lee’s movies. He even made a pair of nunchucks for his play fights. Were you a Bruce Lee fan? What are your favorite Bruce Lee or martial arts movies?
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By BG
October 14, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this
This is nuts. Bruce Lee was awesome, but his body of work doesn’t justify a 50-PART SERIES.
By GeorgiaBoy
October 14, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this
Your brother was not the only kid to build homemade nunchuks after watching Bruce Lee movies. I too sir, was a builder of the nunchucks! Enter the dragon!
By Donna P.
October 14, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this
Growing up in the 1970’s in Virginia, my brothers and I watched Kung Fu Theater on Saturday mornings which came on after WWF wrestling (my brothers made me watch it). I fell in love with Bruce Lee and told my older brother that I was going to marry him when I grew up. He then shattered my dreams by telling me that he had died in 1973! I was so crushed. Bruce Lee was the first celebrity crush of my adolescence. His movies and documentaries bring back fond memories of my childhood in Virginia and now my husband teases me about my crush.
By ant banks
October 14, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this
what was your favorite bruce lee flix? mine was enter the dragon!!
By Csquared
October 14, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this
Bruce Lee was the bomb, but i remember watching all those other kung fu flicks (think really bad B movies) that had folks flying and jumping impossible spaces etc. (they got REAALLY ripped off by The Matirx folks). Yeah, we made our own nunchuks too. Bout didn’t recover from hitting a sensitive area with them too! This brings back memories. Maybe this will be one Import from China we really do want!
By Big Yank
October 14, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this
Bruce Lee was a true master and legend. It’s horrific that hollywood rejected him and accepted Carradine for the Kung Fu role. What a farce ! None of these so called “martial artists” could hold Bruce’s jock. The Game of Death was my favorite due to the fight scenes. Tragically, Bruce was working on this set, after completing Ente the Dragon, before his death. The rest of the movie was held together by tape, smoke & mirrors and an actor that didn’t even look like Bruce Li from a very low angle !I believe we broke a neighbors window practicing with our homemade nunchucks !
Speaking of Enter the Dragon, whatever happened to Bolo Yeung and the character Mr. Hahn?
By Scherica
October 14, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this
I LOVE BRUCE LEE…my mind goes back to the Chinese Connection..suit. My uncle and I use to watch Bruce Lee movies every Saturday morning!!! especially the fight with him and Chuck Norris.. Bruce Lee will always be my hero there is no one like him. I hope to visit Seattle one day to see his grave.
By Scherica
October 14, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this
I LOVE BRUCE LEE…my mind goes back to the Chinese Connection..suit. My uncle and I use to watch Bruce Lee movies every Saturday morning!!! especially the fight with him and Chuck Norris.. Bruce Lee will always be my hero there is no one like him. I hope to visit Seattle one day to see his grave.
By Puchi
October 14, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this
Bruce Lee was a megastar in the 70s and although I was a very young child I remember his movies. My favorites are: Fists of Fury, Enter the Dragon (1973) and Game of Death (1978). In the U.S. every young child wanted to be a martial arts expert. Bruce Lee brought martial arts to the US cinema and was a key figure of modern popular culture.
I always had a major crush on Brue Lee. To this day, no other martial arts expert can surpass Mr. Lee’s technical abilities, charisma and major talent.
By Brian Hunt
October 14, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this
Enter The Dragon has been played so much in my home, it’s a wonder it didn’t burn itself into the monitor. A 50 part series is a lot. That’s a two season show.
By Nun Chuks Forever
October 14, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this
To the idiot who says that Bruce Lee doesn’t deserve a 50 part series, know what the production is all about before you put you foot in your mouth the next time. The series is supposed to go all the way back to explore Bruce’s upbringing and how he left China for the US and eventually came to be who we all know him as. I read a detailed article on this last week and I think it’s awesome that he’s finally getting recognition. His untimely death is kind of like Tupac’s, where he was a controversial figure (as far as China was concerned) who was reaching his peak/prime when he died. Now he’s forever immortalized in the lives of many! I know I still have nun-chuks I made back in 1981 somewhere in the basement. And, I long for the Saturday afternoon Kung-Fu Theater to return (maybe on DirecTV)!!
By billy
October 14, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this
about time a master gets his due attention
By Texas Pete
October 14, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this
Wasn’t he working in the gay porn industry at the end of his career?
By delia
October 14, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this
I have never heard that. Are you just trolling, texas pete. If so, please go elsewhere.
By Texas Pete
October 14, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this
No No. I heard that he and John Holmes were doing movies together just before he got his last martial arts role.
By Mike D
October 14, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this
I thought his best work was Hong Kong Fuey. The crime fighting dog with a smart cat.
By Ryan T
October 14, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this
Texas Pete, that is what you secretly wish to see, you sicko. Don’t drag Lee’s name in dirt with your housewife rumors.
By Ryan T
October 14, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this
Texas Pete, that is what you secretly wish to see, you sicko. Don’t drag Lee’s name in dirt with your housewife rumors.
By EL
October 14, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this
As an Asian American, I am proud of Bruce Lee had done for us. Not just entertaining, but to opened the world of martial art, Asian American male figure, and our ability to reach whomever we image possible.
He was not just inspired us, but everyone regardless your background. He was fair and fought for justice through his film and fighting.
We share respect him the way people respect Martin Luther King for certain ethnic community. I think he was much more than MLK. So, we need to do more to memorize him for what he contributed to us.
By Jason Coffee
October 14, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this
People forget Bruce Lee was also Kato, the driver and sidekick in the old “Green Hornet” TV series. Hopefully, the new big budget film with Stephen Chow and Seth Rogen will do his legacy justice. Also, funniest Bruce Lee moment ever, seeing him fight Kareem Abdul-Jabar. Jabar just towers over him, and Lee still works him over. It’s comical.
By Dave loftus
October 15, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this
as a kid me and my friends would whatch enter the dragon and then walk around the house ready for action, i was inspired and wanted to learn a matial art, it wasnt until recently while i was 24 that i got the oppertunitie to train in wing chun a form in which bruce lee is highly regarded in, but i also agree with his formless aproach and his observations and now i want to train in many forms i think bruce lee’s story deserves as much attention for young audiences as some of the other icons of modern times and young people will greatly benefit from knowing how he lived just as people are inspired by the way bob marley lived his life too
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By Dave loftus
October 15, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this
as a kid me and my friends would whatch enter the dragon and then walk around the house ready for action, i was inspired and wanted to learn a matial art, it wasnt until recently while i was 24 that i got the oppertunitie to train in wing chun a form in which bruce lee is highly regarded in, but i also agree with his formless aproach and his observations and now i want to train in many forms i think bruce lee’s story deserves as much attention for young audiences as some of the other icons of modern times and young people will greatly benefit from knowing how he lived just as people are inspired by the way bob marley lived his life too
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