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Is this supposed to be fact based?


Saw the preview and a lot of it looked dramatized. Is that supposed to be the case?

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this series is going to be a perversion of Lee's life. what a shame

"Free your mind" "Use the force" "Be like water" - Morpheus, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Bruce Lee

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I would say that it's 90% fiction. The fight scenes are very unrealistic too. Bruce would be so mad about this. He hated all the fantasy wire work stuff. He really wanted to show martial arts in a more realisic way. He never made those screams too in real life fighting. They were always dubbed on afterwards for dramatic effect.

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HISTORIC
It is fact based as far as the timeline in Bruce Lee's life is concerned.

HOMMAGE
And actually the battle cries in Bruce's films were his own recordings, which is what the screams are referring to.

AUTHENTIC
The Lee character will not be fighting on wires, etc. He will be using the JKD concepts Bruce Lee actually taught and fought with.

ENTERTAIMENT
That being said, Bruce Lee had many real life confrontations. The movie, obviously, exaggerates them for entertainment purposes.

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Hi Guerrillafilmpro. yes, I mean he did do the screams and dubbed them on after for the movie. In real life though for his JKD system he was silent.

So you really met Bruce and Brandon? So how did you know the family?

Scott

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dude, I'm super jealous right now.
curse this being born in 1975!

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It mixes fact and fantasy. That's why the title of this show is The LEGEND of Bruce Lee, not The TRUE STORY of Bruce Lee.

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