He suddenly steps, turns around and is accosted by a handful of attackers. There are also problems with the choreography, such as the dungeon scene when Bruce Lee is flexing his back while trying to open the elevator doors.
Although I respect John Saxon, he did not possess the martial savvy to fight convincingly against Bolo Yeung. It’s impossible to deny that Enter the Dragon is a great film, but the fights are very Hollywood. By 1973, Sammo Hung had fought in 42 kung fu films and had been the head martial arts instructor for 17 of them. And with 18 films under her hapkido black belt, Angela Mao Ying was attaining cult status as a kung fu heroine, so the fights she did in Enter the Dragon were a walk in the park for her and her Vietnamese karate champion co-star Bolo Yeung, a veteran of 28 kung fu films. Shih Kien had done more than 400 films, and most of them were martial arts movies that featured him as the villain. When the film came out, Westerners had no idea about the pedigree of the Hong Kong cast.
to appease the demographics and a tacit admission that an Asian lead still wasn’t plausible. However, having a black, a white and an Oriental (or by today’s PC terms, an African-American, a Caucasian and an Asian) hero working together was a way for Warner Bros. You could make an argument that the film was politically correct 20 years before it was politically correct to do so. The tournament winner would either become the emperor’s bodyguard or a martial arts instructor for the imperial army. The idea of the tournament is actually based on the ancient Chinese sport lei tai, which first appeared during the Song dynasty (960 to 1279). He’s sent by the British to break up a suspected drug ring organized by the inscrutable Han (Shih Kien), who uses martial arts tournaments to recruit bodyguards and lackeys.
In this $500,000-budgeted gasp of fresh air in Tinseltown, Bruce Lee plays secret agent Lee. The following review originally appeared in The Ultimate Guide to Martial Arts Movies of the 1970s.īruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon officially unites Hong Kong and Hollywood under the parasol of kung fu. editor’s note: Enter the Dragon is the third film in our Bruce Lee Movies List.
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