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Aaron's Sports History Highlights
Bruce Lee was born in 1940 (died in 1973), in the year and hour of the dragon, in San Francisco. About 18 years and 20 films later he returned to the States from Hong Kong. Here he studied, taught martial arts. When it became clear that racist prejudice prevented him from a successful Hollywood career he went to Hong Kong, and became a superstar. Ironically he finally attracted the kind of attention from Hollywood he couldn't while right under their noses. The result was the only Hollywood-backed film he was to star in, Enter the Dragon. After a much too short but extraordinarily energetic and driven life, he died.
With the aid of Warner Brothers the production values of Enter the Dragon were streets ahead of Bruce's other films, but it still has a derivative plot - which means that one has to look elsewhere for its continuing success. Bruce's presence comes off the screen, and the display of his physical skills still has the power to astound the viewer. He managed to infuse the script with some of his philosophy of martial arts and life - which was his ultimate goal in movie making. This was to be realized in Game of Death, which he never got to finish.
When one disregards the dazzling martial arts displays it is easy to dismiss his films as below par but that would be judging an extraordinary man on the few films he got to make before he died without taking into account the long struggle any actor/director/artist has before he gets to realize his vision onscreen. Bruce had just started to do this when his life ended. And the moments of brilliance and promise are there for those with eyes to see.
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