2023-07-20 04:00:00
Mahmoud Turk Thursday, July 20, 2023 07:00 AM
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the death of the star of action and martial arts cinema Bruce LeeHe played a prominent role in the growth and popularity of this type of film, as he passed away on July 20, 1973.
Bruce Lee made only 4 films, but he brought Hong Kong-flavored action to Hollywood and changed the face of Asian cinema forever.
Bruce Lee is one of those rare stars whose artistic and cinematic contribution is greater than the number of his productions. Although he left a small group of works numbering only 4, he practically left a great influence in Hollywood.
Bruce Lee’s frustration
Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco, then grew up in Hong Kong before returning to the United States, at the age of 18, and in that the stereotype of the Asian man in American cinema was no more than being a servant, evil, or clown, and he was not satisfied with his participation in 1967 in TV series The Green Hornet, in which he played the hero’s submissive friend, and the young man then realized that the United States was not ready to accept a leading Asian man.
Frustration befell Bruce Lee, following he was excluded from the starring role in the Kung Fu TV series issued in the seventies of the last century, and the role was taken instead by David Carradine, who had neither Chinese descent nor any knowledge of martial arts.
Bruce Lee movies
With a desire for remarkable success and a special challenge, Bruce Lee returned to Hong Kong in 1971, filmed 4 films within two years, and exploded into international stardom, changing the mental image of the Asian star, presenting the character of the hero who chases the bad guys and uses martial arts in a graceful and amazing way that achieved great success and became It has a wide audience all over the world.
As well as showcasing his dazzling physical skills, Bruce Lee’s films have been narratives of resistance, reports The Guardian, as he stands with downtrodden factory workers and once morest criminal corruption in The Big Boss, while in Fist of Fury he embarks on a one-man campaign once morest Colonial oppression in 1920s Shanghai, and in The Way of the Dragon, he saves the family restaurant and rips a bar off Chuck Norris in the Roman Colosseum.
Bruce Lee became a global icon of defiance, a man of color seeking to express himself with the tools at his disposal.
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