Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey
Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (Chinese: 李小龍：死亡遊戲之旅) is a 2000 documentary on the martial artist Bruce Lee and Jeet Kune Do. The documentary includes never-before-seen behind-the-scenes footage of Bruce Lee's life, as well as parts of the original footage of his incomplete film Game of Death, which had been left out of the film.[1]
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| Traditional Chinese | 李小龍：死亡遊戲之旅 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 李小龙：死亡游戏之旅 | ||||||||||
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| Directed by | John Little Bruce Lee (G.O.D. footage) | ||||||||||
| Written by | John Little Bruce Lee (material) Bey Logan (additional material) | ||||||||||
| Produced by | Chris Ennis Lee Taek-yong John Little Bruce Lee (co-producer of G.O.D. footage) | ||||||||||
| Starring | Bruce Lee Linda Lee Cadwell John Little Dan Inosanto Ted Hanulak | ||||||||||
| Edited by | Brad Kaup | ||||||||||
| Music by | Wayne Hawkins | ||||||||||
| Distributed by | Warner Home Video | ||||||||||
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Running time | 110 minutes | ||||||||||
| Countries | United States Hong Kong | ||||||||||
| Languages | English Cantonese | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 李小龍：勇士的旅程 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 李小龙：勇士的旅程 | ||||||||||||||
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Plot edit
The film has five parts, the first three of which present an overview of Bruce Lee's life, including interviews of his widow, Linda Lee Cadwell, Lee's best student Taky Kimura, Hapkido Grandmaster Ji Han-jae and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who co-stars in "Game of Death".[2] The last two parts include 23 minutes of the original footage of "Game of Death".[3][4]
Cast edit
- Bruce Lee (Posthumous appearance, used with archive footage)
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Dan Inosanto
- Ji Han-jae
- John Little
- Linda Lee Cadwell
- Taky Kimura
- Ted Hanulak
Production edit
Five years after Bruce Lee's death in 1973, Golden Harvest used about 11 minutes of Lee's uncompleted original footage intended by him to become the film "Game of Death", completing the rest of their 1978 film using Lee look-a-likes. Twenty-three more minutes of Lee's original footage were considered lost for 28 years, until they were discovered by Bey Logan in 1999. John Little assembled these parts according to Lee's script notes, reflecting more accurately Lee's intentions.[3][2][1]
Release edit
The documentary was released on VHS and DVD by Warner Home Video. It was also released as a bonus feature on the 2004 edition of Enter the Dragon on DVD.[5] It was released with Lee's original English and Cantonese dubbing as part of the documentary.[citation needed]
Legacy edit
The dialogue of the song Be Like Water has been sampled into various Hip hop and Electronic Dance tracks and has been mentioned in academic works.[6][7][8]
The Story edit
Bruce Lee's enacted storyline for The Game of Death, directed in Korea by John Little, distributed with the documentary in DVD as special features.
References edit
- ^ a b Ed Gross (2 September 2016). "Bruce Lee: new series, lost adventures". Empire. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
- ^ a b O'Hare, Kate (30 June 2002). "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar reveals the truth about Bruce Lee". Lawrence Journal-World. Lawrence, Kansas. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
- ^ a b Almar Haflidason (9 October 2001). "BBC - Films - Review - Bruce Lee A Warrior's Journey". BBC. Retrieved 6 January 2011.
- ^ "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". topdocumentaryfilms.com. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
- ^ Andy Patrizio (24 May 2004). "Enter The Dragon: Special Edition - IGN". IGN. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
- ^ "A Warrior's Journey - Be Like Water". www.whosampled.com. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
- ^ Kato, M. T. (2007). From Kung Fu to Hip Hop: Globalization, Revolution, and Popular Culture. New York: State University of New York Press, Albany. pp. 7, 178. ISBN 978-0-7914-6991-0.
- ^ Jump cutting: tracing parkour as invisible spectacle through the filmic city, page 10, O'Brien, S., University of Canterbury, 2011 thesis_fulltext.pdf (1.264Mb)
External links edit
- Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey at IMDb
- The Story on IMDb
- John R. Little's book Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey
- Film review at martialartsactionmovies.com
- Detailed plot synopsis review by David Fletcher at allreaders.com
- Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey DVD Review at frontrowreviews.co.uk
- Re-Enter the Dragon: a Bruce Lee retrospective at Asia Times
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