MovieChat Forums > America bangmungaeg (1976) Discussion > Bruce Lee fights back from the Grave???

Bruce Lee fights back from the Grave???


"Bruce Lee fights back from the Grave" ????

Who thinks up this dreck???


"When you want something you've never had, you've got to do something you've never done."

reply

Somebody who wants to cash in on him after his death, obviously. I just wish that the film actually had something to do with Bruce Lee besides that opening scene.

-----
Looks like you forgot to take your anti-retard pills again.

reply

I don't.
That would have done nothing more than demean his career even further

reply

"Bruceploitation" was a subgenre all its own (and evidently a very profitable one) during the mid-to-late seventies. A whole host of actors--Ho Tsung-tao('Bruce Li'), Huang Kin-lung('Bruce Le'), Leung Siu-lung('Bruce Liang'), and Vyachaslev Yaksysnyi('Dragon Lee'), among others--got their big break in the Hong Kong film industry thanks to the moviegoing public's preoccupation with seeing performers who vaguely resembled or fought like the Little Dragon. It really was a fascinating phenomenon that deserves serious study.
If you want to distinguish a real Bruce Lee film from the numerous exploitation quickies that popped up in the years after his death, here's a hard and fast rule: go by the titles. Bruce Lee completed only four films in his adult career(he had also been a child actor)--"The Big Boss" (U.S. title "Fists of Fury"), "Fist of Fury" (U.S. title "The Chinese Connection"), "Way of the Dragon" (U.S. title "Return of the Dragon"), and "Enter the Dragon"--so if it's not one of those, you're not going to see Bruce Lee.

reply

game of death?

... and out from the belly of a whale came a prophet amen!

reply

"Game of Death" was incomplete at the time of Bruce Lee's demise in July 1973. Yes, he's top-billed, but he's only in the movie for about fifteen minutes(the fights at the end). The remainder of the film, which bears absolutely no resemblance to his original concept for "Game of Death", was done in 1978. Director Robert Clouse used two doubles, Kim Tai-chung and Chen Yao-po, to play Lee's role in the finished film.

reply

That's 100% accurate. I never noticed when I first saw The Game of Death back in the mid 80's, but a friend who was big into Bruce Lee told me, and when watching the film, some scenes were just so poorly done. The worst being the floating head cutout when Bruce is supposed to be looking in the mirror. Then, you can actually see the cuts from other Bruce films thrown in. Usually extreme closeups. A lot of cuts of Bruce when he fights Carl in the locker room.
Any scene were Bruce has GIANT sunglasses on it is not Bruce.

reply

"Bruceploitation" - LOL! I like that. And I liked your commentary, too. Thanks!

reply

[deleted]

Awesome film. Hands down the best of the worst.

reply