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On July 20, 1973, Bruce Lee suddenly died at the home of Hong Kong movie star Ding Pei, leaving behind an unfinished movie "Game of Death" with Jiahe.
In order to stop the loss, Jiahe Films found Hollywood director Robert Close to direct a supplementary film, and added Bruce Lee’s completed movie clips to produce a "Game of Death". The
movie was released in 1978, with a high box office of 3.44 million Hong Kong dollars, ranking 7th in the total box office list that year.
The movie Pico has been introduced before. In the film, Kim Tae-chung and Yuen Biao acted as Bruce Lee's action stand-ins, and the face close-up stand-ins were played by a Hong Kong businessman who looked exactly like Bruce Lee. His name was only in English. Transliterated, it is called "Chan Yiu Bo".
, because this man was not interested in acting, he disappeared after he appeared in the film. Later, Jiahe made "Tower of Death" and wanted him to continue acting as Bruce Lee's substitute, but he was no longer found.
In fact, in addition to the above three, there was also a celebrity who was recognized to be very similar to Bruce Lee in both his skill and appearance. Jiahe chose him as the first candidate at the beginning, but he flatly rejected it.
This very characterful star is He Zongdao, known as "Bruce Lee Second". The reason for his resignation is also very simple. He believes that acting as a stand-in for Bruce Lee in "Game of Death" is disrespectful to Bruce Lee.
However, He Zongdao, who debuted as early as 1972, has been imitating Bruce Lee since his death. He has launched products like "A Generation of Raptors", "Tangshan Jeet Kune Do", "The Last Jing Wu Men", "Je Kun Duo" Movies like Bruce Lee's copycat such as "Fate Cut" and "New Game of Death" also changed their English name to "Bruce Li".
However, among these movies, the highest quality is "Legend of Bruce Lee" in 1976.
"Legend of Bruce Lee" is written and directed by Wu Siyuan. In order to make this movie well, the film party took great pains. They not only invited Bruce Lee’s friends, Xiao Qilin and confidant Ding Pei, to play themselves, but also invited Ye Wen’s eldest son, Ye Zhun, to play. Ye Wen, Bruce Lee's master. The
movie starts from Bruce Lee's journey to the United States to study, and uses his fame experience as a clue to join a large-scale martial arts scene. In order to attract the audience, the script adds some wild history and anecdotes to it, making the story very lively and interesting.
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In April 1959, Bruce Lee was sent to the United States by his parents to study because of a major incident in Hong Kong.
Before leaving, he worshipped his master, Ye Wen. When
arrived in the United States, Bruce Lee was very popular among his classmates. Apart from studying, he made a living by doing odd jobs and teaching Chinese Kungfu to foreigners.
In the American martial arts world at that time, Japanese karate was the most popular.
Because Bruce Lee teaches Chinese Kung Fu, he often clashed with the local karate gym, and he had to fight every time.
At the same time, because the local martial arts circles opposed Bruce Lee teaching foreigners to learn Chinese Kungfu, they often had friction with Bruce Lee.
But Bruce Lee is always a soldier to stop him, and those who can use his fists are not nonsense.
Of course, this is also for the needs of the plot. As an action movie, there will be martial arts every once in a while.
Later, Bruce Lee received the attention of Hollywood companies for his performance in the "National Karate Open", which eventually led to his participation in dramas such as "The Green Hornet".
Originally, Bruce Lee had written a script with great ambition, and got Fox to try his luck.
Fox executives were very interested in the script, but they disagreed with Bruce Lee personally acting, because at that time no one would really risk letting a man of the yellow race lead a Hollywood movie.
So Bruce Lee decided to leave the United States and return to Hong Kong. After signing a contract with Jiahe, he quickly became popular throughout Asia with "Big Brother Tangshan" and "Jing Wu Men".
During the filming of "Big Brother Tangshan" in Thailand, Bruce Lee had another fight with a local boxer because he provoked a Thai dragon. The plot of
is of course a fictional movie, but many people still believe that Bruce Lee once fought against a Thai boxing champion.
Master Zhao Zhiling also plays a martial artist who competes with Bruce Lee in the film;
Mars plays a worker who admires Bruce Lee very much;
Feng Kean and Li Haisheng are beaten by Bruce Lee on the set of "Dragon Fight". The highlight of the film
is when Bruce Lee went to Rome, Italy, to film "The Raptors Crossing the River", and three mafia masters in the wheel battle. In
, He Zongdao showed his nunchaku kungfu and danced in a decent way, which shows that he has made a lot of hard work.
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Lin Zhengying, Chen Huiyi, Sammo Hung, Yuan Hua, Jackie Chan and others were supported by Bruce Lee at the time and were often invited to visit his house to get a glimpse of Bruce Lee's daily diet and training.
Those legends about Bruce Lee, such as eating raw beef and training muscles with a muscle concussion machine, are all passed from them. Pi Ge once saw Yuanhua mention these things in an interview program.
and these legends are restored in the movie, and they are more exaggerated-
, for example, is a situation in Bruce Lee's boxing practice. He plugs in a power source and uses a very strange machine to practice. It looks like In self-abuse.
In fact, Bruce Lee's boxing machine in the film is a machine called Muscle Vibrator made in Japan. It is an instrument used to repair muscles.
Bruce Lee used this machine for physical therapy because he was injured by excessive exercises. It was not for muscle strengthening at all, nor for boxing.
Not only that, the movie's joking about Bruce Lee continued until Bruce Lee's death.
Ding Pei appeared gorgeously, and Bruce Lee finally died in her bed.
and surrounding the cause of his death, several possibilities are mentioned in the film: like Ding Pei and died without knowing what he did; walking on the street and being hacked to death; and even more weird, saying that he believed in a fortune teller As for the guy, he lived in seclusion after suspended animation.
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"Legend of Bruce Lee" was introduced to our mainland very early, and it had a very extensive influence in the 70s and 80s. Many post-80s generations, including Pico, knew Bruce Lee mostly from this film.
At that time, many people mistakenly regarded He Zongdao as Bruce Lee himself. As for the exaggerated plots and the stories that make up at every turn in the movie, people still believe that it is true. This is why Bruce Lee has been misunderstood in our mainland. one.
He Zongdao's height is 178cm, obviously taller than Bruce Lee himself, and his handsome appearance, even if he does not imitate Bruce Lee, he is also a tangible action star.
But he has been living in the shadow of Bruce Lee. Although he is better than others, no matter how good he imitates others, he is not his own.
Therefore, after the rise of Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Liu Jialiang and others, these films of He Zongdao slowly lost the market. The wheels of the
era always move forward, stand still, and get farther and farther away from the audience.
It's a pity...
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: Blood and Heart
