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FREE ENTER THE DRAGON PDF Theo Paphitis | 288 pages | 30 Apr 2009 | Orion Publishing Co | 9780752894225 | English | London, United Kingdom Bruce Lee: How His Film 'Enter the Dragon' Made History As IMDb celebrates its 30th birthday, we have six shows to get you ready for those pivotal years of your life Get some streaming picks. Enter the Dragon revolves around 3 main characters; Lee, a man recruited by an agency to investigate a tournament hosted by Han, since they believe he has an Enter the Dragon trade there. Roper and Williams are former army buddies since Vietnam and they enter the tournament due to different problems that they have. It's a deadly tournament they will enter on an island. Lee's job is to get the other 2 out of there alive. Written by Emphinix. As a child, one of my first and best friends was a strange boy who worshiped the ground Bruce Lee walked on - cutting Enter the Dragon hair, taking Jiu Jitsu and Hapkido lessons, and often stalking around with that Enter the Dragon animal fury that only Lee could create all over his 7 year old face. My friend took a lot of abuse for this and other odd behaviors with dignity that his hero would have applauded. Unfortunately, Mr. Lee passed from this world very young, leaving a legend and a pair of shoes that have never really been filled. For most Americans, this is the only Hollywood film worthy of mention with his name in the cast. Don't get me wrong, I love Jackie Chan and Jet Li and even the few Chow Yun Fat roles involving martial arts, but each of these actors have their own, very big, personalities, and - at least in the case of Chan - have built their own unique legend. Unlike his successors, what Lee excelled at was the intense physicality and drama of his performance. He worked every muscle of his body in every beautifully choreographed fight scene of Enter The Dragon, and made art out of violence in ways that today's Hollywood gun violence schlock-directors can only dream of. And Enter the Dragon is one of his most stunning vehicles. The pseudo-Taoisms are kept to a minimum and concentrated near the beginning of this film. Lee enters a martial arts tournament to avenge the murder of his Enter the Dragon, and to defend the honor of the Shao Lin Temple, Enter the Dragon he helps to train young martial artists. John Saxon, a down-on-his luck playboy and brigand is the closest thing to a co-star, and comes to the tournament Enter the Dragon for a solution to his financial problems. The tournament is hosted by a mass-murdering heroin manufacturer who hides his production facilities, literally, beneath a martial Enter the Dragon school, using the instructors and students in the school as an army of body guards. Kien Shih is absolutely compelling as the evil Han, even if his fight scenes are, at times, a bit less convincing than the master Lee's. Lee and Shih are the performance highlights of the film. Though Saxon does a passable job, his performance is a bit fibrous at times. Worth seeing for the sets and settings alone, this film is driven well by its fast pace, simple but engaging story line, and the sheer talent of Bruce Lee. Of course, there are the usual problems of the martial arts genre - villains whose sense of honor for the most part only applies to life- threatening situations fighting would-be heroes, the lack of any weapons besides Enter the Dragon and unused knives, unnecessary nude scenes - Enter the Dragon is very easy to overlook these problems and just enjoy the film. Highly recommended. Looking for some great streaming picks? Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. Enter the Dragon and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. Rate This. A secret agent comes to an Enter the Dragon lord's island fortress with other fighters for a martial-arts tournament. Director: Robert Clouse. Writer: Michael Allin. Added to Watchlist. From metacritic. Watched films. Films watched Share this Rating Title: Enter the Dragon 7. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Bruce Lee Lee John Saxon Roper Jim Kelly Williams Ahna Capri Tania Kien Shih Han as Shih Kien Robert Wall Oharra as Bob Wall Angela Mao Mei Ling Geoffrey Weeks Braithwaite Bolo Yeung Bolo as Yang Sze Peter Archer Parsons Li-Jen Ho Secretary Allan Kent Golfer Bill Keller Edit Storyline Enter the Dragon revolves around 3 main characters; Lee, a man recruited by an agency to investigate a tournament hosted by Han, since they believe he has an Opium trade there. Taglines: The ultimate in Martial Arts Enter the Dragon and excitement! Edit Did You Know? Trivia The filmmakers wanted to tell a contemporary kung Enter the Dragon story without using guns. Enter the Dragon Allin Enter the Dragon Han's island for exactly that purpose. Goofs After Su Lin knees a man in the groin, she turns around quickly to escape. In the next scene, she is Enter the Dragon facing the man she kneed, and turns around a second time. Quotes [ first lines ] Lee : Teacher? Shaolin Abbott : I see your talents have gone beyond the mere physical level. Your skills are now at the point of spiritual insight. I have several questions. What is the highest technique you hope to achieve? Lee : To have no technique. Shaolin Abbott : Very good. What are your thoughts when facing an opponent? Lee : There is no opponent. Shaolin Abbott : And why is that? Lee : Because the word "I" does not exist. Shaolin Abbott : So, continue Lee : A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously. A good martial artist does not become Enter the Dragon, but Inthe film was recalled so that a sequence in which Bruce Lee twirls and uses nunchaku could be deleted, along with another sequence in which nunchaku were seen being carried. In the video version was passed Enter the Dragon with 1 minute 45 seconds cut. Three of the five violence cuts made in were waived but two were maintained the first cut is to an offscreen Enter the Dragon - this version cuts away just as Bolo crouches to jerk and snap a poor sap's spine. The second cut occurs when Bolo cradles the final opponent in order to slowly break his back - the process and sound effect of this act had been shortened. The cuts to nunchakus implemented in were repeated for video. However, in the Board modified its policy so that the weapon was no longer removed on sight. Enter the Dragon - Wikipedia It helped catapult him to stardom. For years, Lee toiled to have one of his ideas made into a feature film with martial arts at the center. He had a reputation in Hollywood Enter the Dragon a fight coordinator for movie stars and for his role on The Green Hornetbut Lee struggled to get acting parts. Though he partnered up with several screenwriter and producer friends, projects would often get tabled or shut down. Lee went overseas to Hong Kong to make martial arts movies, and after becoming a huge success there, returned to the US to leverage his fame. It worked, and Warner Bros. The late Fred Weintraub respected Lee and helmed the project as a producer for the studio alongside famous Hong Kong producer Raymond Enter the Dragon. Lee was in the middle of working on Game of Death when the opportunity arose for Enter the Dragon. He put it on the back burner and got to work on what would become his official US film debut. Enter the Dragon was filmed in Hong Kong, and for several scenes, hundreds of extras were used. Many of them were Enter the Dragon opposing street gangs and fights Enter the Dragon breaking out on set. It was hard to manage, and it was one of the reasons that Weintraub almost gave up. Additionally, said extras kept challenging Lee to brawls to test his mettle, and he would sometimes entertain them, ready to win. This frustrated the crew who wanted to focus on filming, and they were eventually able to convince Lee to stop giving in to the confrontations. Linda Lee now Linda Lee Cadwell accompanied her husband on set and found herself in the role of mediator. She Enter the Dragon Weintraub said there was a culture clash between the American crew and the Hong Kong crew, but Linda helped temper the communication issues. In the documentary Bruce Lee: Tale of the DragonWeintraub stated Linda was the glue on set and she saved the movie. Every time it looked like the whole thing was gonna fall apart, and I was almost sometimes ready to leave town, Linda would come over and Enter the Dragon to me. View this post on Instagram. Enter the Dragon | Orpheum Theatre Enter the Dragon is a martial arts film directed by Robert Clouse. It would be Lee's final completed film appearance before his death on 20 July at age Having earned over times its budget, it is one of the most profitable films of all time.