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Roper, Williams and Lee. The
Deadly Three penetrate the secret chambers of an

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evil island empire. When you know
abou Haa, he lives like a king

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on that island, totally so sufficient, a fortress without walls, protected by

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an invincible army that needs no ordinary
weapons. This is Enter the Dragon,

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the first martial arts film produced by
a major Hollywood studio. John Saxon is

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Roper. He was in it for
the money. US Karate champion Jim Kelly.

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As Williams, he was there because
he had no choice. Black Belt

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Hall of Fame, undisputed martial arts
champion and international film star Bruce Lee,

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his job was to get them out
alive. I'm hoping you'll join us,

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represent us in the United States.
You want me to join this Wilper,

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Williams and Lee. Just when they
think they've broken the secret of the island,

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they find there is no escape from
the inscrutable Han. Warner Brothers presents

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Enter the Dragon, where the world's
greatest martial arts athletes meet the ultimate challenge

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with the most patient and deadly of
weapons, the human body. Enter the

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Dragon from Warner Brothers Bruce Lee.
Even over fifty years after his death,

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his name hearkens to martial arts.
His contributions to worldwide cinema cannot be understated,

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and with one film, he brought
martial arts films to the popular consciousness

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of America, a country at once
shunned him. Sadly, he was never

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alive to see its enduring legacy that
lasts to this day. Released in nineteen

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seventy three and directed by Robert klaus
Enter, The Dragon gives us the tale

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of Lee played by Bruce Lee,
a martial arts master tasked with entering a

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martial arts tournament hosted by the deadly
Han, a renegade monk that has become

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a crime lord, and Lee is
tasked with uncovering his criminal empire. Joining

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Lee in the tournament is the gambling
addicted businessman Roper played by screen legend John

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saxon In Williams played by American martial
arts master Jim Kelly. Our first clip

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is Lee being presented with the mission. I chose this scene because it presents

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the dark and mysterious nature of Han, a man that lives in a fortress

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like men Chin, and it's only
opened up for this martial arts tournament.

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This is a trope regarding villains now
commonly seen in martial arts films that began

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with this very film. What do
you know about Hahn? He lives like

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a king on that island, totally
self sufficient. All of his efforts seemingly

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are directed towards supporting what he calls
his school of martial arts. Han's only

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contact with the outside world is this
tournament, which he holds every three years.

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This was a stewardess, Mary King
fun floating in the harbor. Nothing

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unusual about a body in the harbor, but this girl was last seen at

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a party aboard hans private junk.
They'd reported a lost at sea before the

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body was found. We believe he
selects attractive girls and methodically builds their dependence

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on drugs, then sells them to
an elite cleon tern around the world.

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What did the autopsy review as the
cause of death? She did not drown,

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She odeed. H Yes, cause
of death was a heroin overdose.

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I gather you still don't have enough
to bust up his operation. We know

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everything, we can prove nothing.
We want you to go in there as

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our agent, get us our evidence, and come out in one piece to

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give it to you. We'll give
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weapons, anything, drink? No
thanks, guns now, why doesn't somebody

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pull off forty five and bang settle
it? No? No guns. Look

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at this map here. As you
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a serious offense. Here. Han's
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If we were given the slightest reason
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arsenal, we'd move in on him. Besides, Hahn would never allow guns

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on the island anyway. He had
a bad experience with them once and he's

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fearful of assassination. Can't really blame
him. Any bloody fool can pull a

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trigger. I guess I won't need
anything. There's a radio on the island.

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We'll be monitoring it on the chance
that you can get to it,

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and then you come someone will.
We aren't an agency of enforcement. We

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function as gatherers of information evidence upon
which interested governments can act. I see

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if there's any trouble, you make
a phone call. Oh, by the

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way, two months ago we managed
to place a female operative on the island.

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Since then we've lost her. If
she's still there, she might have

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something names a Melee, Sure you
want to have one? No thanks.

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Martial arts films have a very distinct
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the difference between heroes and villains.
The heroes or good guys look at martial

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arts as a way of life,
a way of living that one should not

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fight, and use it unless provoked
as a means of defense. Villains look

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at it as a way of force, a way to intimidate and consolidate power.

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Our next two clips show this.
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we hear Han show off his treasures
to Roper that he has acquired through criminal

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activity. Then, in an early
clip from the film, we will hear

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Lee speak to his martial arts master. Of note here is the piece in

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ease that Lee's master carries compared to
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martial arts skills as being a part
of him and not a skill. Learn

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this is my museum. It is
difficult to associate these horrors with the proud

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civilizations that created them. Spata Rome, the Knights of Europe, the Samurai.

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They worship strength because it is strength
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Nothing survives without it. Who knows
what delicate wonders have died out of the

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world for want of the strength to
survive? What's this, oh, a

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souvenir, And now Lee and his
master. I see your talents have gone

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beyond the mere physical level. Your
skills are now at the point of spiritual

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insight. I have several questions.
What is the highest technique you hope to

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achieve? We have no technique?
Very good? What are your thoughts when

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facing an opponent? There is no
opponent? Then? Why is that?

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Because the word I does not exist? So continue? A good fight should

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be like a small play, but
played seriously. A good martial artist does

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not become tense but ready, not
thinking yet not dreaming, ready for whatever

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might come. When the opponent expand, I contract. When it contracts,

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I expand. And when there is
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It hits all by itself. No, you must remember the enemy has only

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images and illusions behind which he hides
his true motives. Destroy the image and

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he will break the enemy. The
hit that you refer to is a powerful

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weapon, easily misused by the martial
artists who deserts his thoughts. For centuries

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now, the covide of the Shanin
Temple has been preserved. Remember the honor

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of our brotherhood has been held true. Tell me now, I'm the sheld

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Income Endment number thirteen. Hey,
Mashwatis has to take responsibility for himself and

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accept the consequences of his own doing. Prior to the release of this film,

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Bruce Lee was known in America.
This was through his films from Golden

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Harvest over in Hong Kong that had
found their way to the States in his

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time playing Cato in the short lived
American television series The Green Hornet. But

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this film made him a global legend
that endears to this day. Our final

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clip will be Lee's daughter Shannon Saxon
and actor Bob Wall not just talking about

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Lee in this film, but his
long lasting, ever reaching legacy. Everywhere

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they know who my father is,
and they've been touched in some way,

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inspired in some way, or just
excited in some way, and it's such

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a blessing. I now work doing
things for the legacy through my foundation and

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through our licensing business and that sort
of thing. But I'm just so amazed

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and so inspired on a daily basis, and it's really why I want to

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do what I do. In keeping
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If you know, there hadn't been
that depth of philosophy behind it,

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if there hadn't been so much more
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then I don't know that i'd be
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had been doing things like judo and
Japanese karate and stuff like that, and

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eventually I began to be seeing other
kinds of things. Bruce obviously helped me

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a good bit, and I would
ask him, what do you think i'd

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try to do this kind of thing? He said, that's pretty good.

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Tried that, and we were working
like that all the time. You know,

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you know, it probably didn't mean
it. But when I got to

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Hong Kong, I was there with
my wife and my son, who was

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not yet two years old. And
the next day I went to see Bruce

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and he brought me into his house. He was waiting to see me,

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and then I saw he had a
gem and I looked at it and reminded

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me of what I had a little
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And we began to talk this and
that, and he was telling me

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things what he could do with kettlebells, and stuff and things that I had

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little contact with at that time.
And we kept going on and on and

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on, and then all of a
sudden he began to tell me, show

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me, show me how you do
your side kick. And I said,

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okay, But I had done a
scene at the park about two or three

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weeks or four weeks prior, where
I had sprained my ankle, and I

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said, oh, well, all
right, he's wanting to do this with

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me, I'll do it, you
know. So all of a sudden I

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threw a kick and then he said, let me show how I do mine,

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and he did. He moved around
with a chair and I didn't know

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what he was doing, you know, I was looking over his shoulder like

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that, and all of a sudden
he stood in front of me for about

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fifteen feet or something like that,
and he did a hot skip and a

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jump and hit had a bag,
you know, and he knocked me clear

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across on my heels like there's going
into a chair like that, and the

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chair fell down and broke, and
I got up Linn and I saw he

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was very kind of quiet and anxious
about this, and I said, listen,

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it's okay. I mean, I
didn't get hurt. I didn't get

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hurt. He says, I know, but that's my best chair. And

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it was the same chair that he
had everybody else do the same thing with

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me that I discovered later sit behind
the stand behind it, and then he'd

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kick and you'd go back and boom, you'd hit this chair. But I

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had broken it. I was the
only one that had broken it. Okay.

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I loved Bruce Lee and we were
really close friends for many, many

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many years, over ten and training
partners, and I got five hundred a

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week when I was making ten to
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My wife of forty four years now
said why are you doing this?

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And said, I just love Bruce. He's my first close Chinese friend.

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And I can take these hits and
everybody's afraid of them, and I've been

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training with him. I can take
the hits. And Bruce wanted to do

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everything real. He really Freddie and
Paul can tell you they Bruce got hurt

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a lot in this film. He
got bit by the snake, he got

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hurt by the windows, he got
cut with a glass scene with me,

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we're using real bottles. So my
pardon it was, I was really enjoying

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it. You don't see yourself as
a bad guy all, and my wife

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does. He thought it was type
casting. And I've had so many people

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over the years say I hated you, I wanted you dead. Even Freddy

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said I wanted him to kill you, and he did't even want to hire

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me for the part in the beginning. But I really enjoyed doing it.

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I loved Bruce and it was It's
like my partner for forty years is Chuck

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Norris, and they're both the saying
Chuck and Bruce. And people say,

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you've never missed a workout with either
one of them, and I said,

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no, why would you miss a
painting lesson from Picasso? In the world

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the cinema words groundbreaking, landmark,
in trend setting are used ad nauseum.

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I will admit I'm guilty of overusing
them, even on these reviews. If

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there ever was a film deserving of
those words, though, it is this

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film here. It is an understatement
to say this film brought martial arts films

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to America. It affected many other
film genres. This film led to blaxploitation

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films and other action films using martial
arts as a way of fighting and not

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just using guns, knives, and
explosives. This film has generated an American

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gross box office of one hundred and
twenty million dollars upon its release, and

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to this day it has generated two
billion dollars in worldwide box office gross through

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its original release and countless re release
pie. For Lee, it finally made

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his dream come true to have jee
Kundo his version of martial arts brought to

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the American mainstream. Sadly and tragically, he never had a chance to see

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it come to fruition. Lee suddenly
passed away July twentieth, nineteen seventy three,

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almost two months before the film's American
release. However, its influence carries

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on, and that is due to
Lee, who would have celebrated his eighty

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third birthday this past November twenty seventh. To know what American martial arts films

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are, one must see where they
began, and that is with this action

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masterpiece. I hope you join me
next week when we will look at the

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directorial dating of screen legend Robert de
Niro. Next week's film is a Bronx

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Tale starring de Niro in Chaz commentary
for W M n H and Matt Connorton

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unleashed. This has been a classic
film with Eric Pilcher