Bruce Lee expert Carl Fox examines the making of Fist of Fury, the actor’s longest running film that is ‘one of Lee’s best’.
Superstar Bruce Lee died in 1973 at the age of 32 in Hong Kong. The icon’s action films helped spark a global interest in martial arts.
Most people credit the US with inventing Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) but combat sports have long been an intrinsic part of Hong Kong’s culture.
The Way of the Dragon is the first, and last, film Bruce Lee directed. Set in Rome, it made US martial artist Chuck Norris a household name and – not that he sought it – launched his action movie career.
Bruce Lee started Game of Death as a philosophical martial arts film, but after his death completing it became a cynical way to cash in on his stardom.
African-Americans readily identified with the underdog themes of Hong Kong kung fu movies, which played into their hope for a better future and, later, were seen as a manifestation of rebellion.
Martial arts star Jackie Chan, in a previously unpublished 1997 Post interview, reveals how seeing himself in Bruce Lee film Fist of Fury made him realise ‘I wanted to be a star myself’.
Bruce Lee fans in 1970s Britain swapped information, poems, art and more through The KFM Bruce Lee Society, which sought to keep the actor’s memory alive after his death.
Bruce Lee’s beliefs and influences have been well documented. Over the years, Jackie Chan, Wong Kar-wai and others in the martial arts community have offered insights into the man behind the myth.
The American film industry had a history of racism. Lee thought he could change that, but studio bosses doubted US audiences would accept a non-American hero. The worldwide success of Enter the Dragon came too late.
Hong Kong martial arts superstar Bruce Lee imbued his fighting style jeet kune do with philosophical underpinnings. Here are 10 of his most notable philosophical ideas.
Forty-five years after he died, speculation persists that the martial arts superstar died because of a curse, with Lee’s home at 41 Cumberland Road, Kowloon Tong, long rumoured to have suffered from bad feng shui.
Ang Lee has revealed he cast his son Mason Lee in the title role of his biopic Bruce Lee. Directors from Clint Eastwood to Sammo Hung have also cast their children in movies.
