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A generation of martial arts master and world kung fu superstar Bruce Lee During his lifetime, he made four and a half movies.
The complete four are " Tangshan Big Brother ", " Raptors Crossing the River ", "Jingwumen" and " Dragons Fighting Tigers ", which were released from 1971 to 1973 respectively.
There is another movie that started filming before "Dragon and Tiger Fight", but it was finally failed to finish because of Bruce Lee's sudden death in 1973.
This unfinished last work is " Death Game " ("The game of death").
was not completed in the end, so Pi Ge counted it as "half" .
This is a movie written by Bruce Lee himself. "Game of Death" is also the title of by Bruce Lee . Unfortunately, after his death, only the original unedited action scenes of lasting more than two hours in were left, and it is also three action scenes in the climax part of the movie.
But careful movie fans will find that under the Douban Bruce Lee Shadowman entry, there is no "Game of Death", but instead it is an action film called " Death Game " , and it was released five years after Bruce Lee's death.
However, this movie in which Bruce Lee "starred" is not accepted by the majority of dragon fans, and was even "expelled" from the series of works of Bruce Lee, with a Douban score of only 7.7. Bruce Lee's widow even bluntly stated that "Game of Death" is an absolute "joke" .
0 The title is only one word different, why is the difference in popularity so big?
▌ Jiahe version of "Death Game"
After Bruce Lee suddenly passed away, the world was shocked, and dragon fans all over the world fell into grief.
But there is still a contract with Bruce Lee and Jiahe obviously doesn't want to "stop it."
Looking at the original scene of "Game of Death" in front of you for more than two hours, Jiahe had the idea of "finishing" this movie.
With Bruce Lee's influence at that time, he labeled 's "posture" . Once released, the box office will inevitably explode.
For this reason, Jiahe found American director Robert Gauros to rewrite the script and reshoot new shots based on the new story. The film was also renamed "Game of Death" ("Game of Death", "THE" was removed in the English title, and "Yes" was deleted in the Chinese title). The climax part of the fighting scenes in
is still selected from the original shot. After all, it was a real shot of Bruce Lee, and did not use the stand-in .
But in more than two hours, there were only more than ten minutes left. The scenes of Tian Jun and Jie Yuan were cut off, and the story was changed beyond recognition.
can be said that this Jiahe new version can be said to be very different from the original version designed by Bruce Lee .
Let’s first look at the general plot of this new version of "Death Game".
The film tells the story of an action movie star named Billy who was plotted on the set because he refused the invitation from the leader of the evil group Dr. Rand to join the international fighting competition.
Billy took the trick and released the news of his death to paralyze Rand. He secretly sneaked into the core building where Rand's gang was located, passed the levels and finally defeated Rand, the leader of the group.
The focus of the movie is not on the story, but on How to edit the footage from the movies shot by Bruce Lee into the movies , so that it still looks like Bruce Lee is starring.
But with the shooting level at that time, the more I hoped to "take fake and disguise the real", the more I had a lot of loopholes, so that it has become a masterpiece in the eyes of movie fans.
This is also why Bruce Lee's widow Linda Emery would say " that's a joke ".
But Pi Ge still has to say that Jiahe really "took great effort" to make this new film take shape back then.
To ensure that Bruce Lee is "involved" in the new story, the crew found three people to be Bruce Lee's stand-in.
1 is a taekwondo actor Kim Tae-joong found from South Korea. As soon as he arrived in Hong Kong, he changed his stage name to Tang Long. It is said that his name was not disclosed to the public until the movie was released, and he was treated as a stand-in. He is responsible for most of the literary and fighting scenes that only shoot backs.
What makes many people incredible is that He Jiaju, one of the "Four Evils", is also a substitute, and he is responsible for the front and close shot of the literary opera part. His face shape after wearing sunglasses is indeed somewhat similar to Bruce Lee.
movie also found Yuanbiao through auditions to be a stunt actor in action scenes, mainly responsible for the more difficult fighting scenes.
In that era without cutting and synthesis and AI face swaps, Jiahe was really "raiding his brains".
Bruce Lee learned that Jiahe had arranged a total of 3 substitutes for him, and I don’t know what he thought.
In addition, the editor had to find some close-ups of the faces from the movies that Bruce Lee had taken before and filled them into the movies, and even directly cut the news scenes at the memorial service of Bruce Lee into the movies.
What makes movie fans most exaggerate is that one of the close-up shots actually put a photo of Bruce Lee’s head on the mirror to take it.
At that time, there were only two movies left in the contract signed by Bruce Lee and Jiahe, so Jiahe would certainly not waste it.
After "Death Game", they used some shots cut by Bruce Lee during the filming of "Dragon and Tiger Fight" to create a " Death Tower ".
"The Tower of Death" is co-directed by Wu Siyuan , Sammo Hung and Yuan Kui . Bruce Lee "played" the role of Li Zhenqiang in the film, and received the bento not long after he appeared at the beginning of the movie.
, and Kim Tae is becoming the leading actor in the movie, playing Li Zhenqiang's younger brother Li Zhenhui .
"The Death Game" was released in 1978, winning a box office of HK$3.44 million, ranking 7th on the box office list that year. It has been 5 years since Bruce Lee's death.
"The Tower of Death" was released in 1981 and also won HK$1.95 million, which shows that Bruce Lee's influence is indeed worth it.
But no matter how high the box office of these two movies is, it is still a "fake" after all.
▌Bruce Lee's original "Game of Death"
After talking about "Game of Death", let's take a look at "Game of Death" originally planned by Bruce Lee.
Now we can see the richer real video materials in "The Game of Death". We need to thank an American documentary director: John Little.
The clips of the movies shot by Bruce Lee were always sealed in Jiahe's film warehouse, and were not discovered by John Little in 1994.
Little, at that time, found Bruce Lee's script and martial arts design manuscripts when he was planning to film "The Game of Death" in his former residence in Idaho. This discovery made him interested in finding the original clip of "The Game of Death". So he flew to Hong Kong, and after obtaining the consent of Jiahe's senior management, he found the discarded films from Jiahe's warehouse.
Based on these clips, Little interviewed relevant characters who participated in the film production that year and released the documentary "Bruce Lee: The Warriors' Journey" in 2000.
The clips shot by Bruce Lee were also edited into the 40-minute full-length "Game of Death" and included in the documentary together. This "unfinished movie" was also able to see the light of day again.
In the original story, Bruce Lee plays the retired kung fu master Li Haitian .
He originally took his family to South Korea for a trip. At the airport, they met a stranger who came over to pick up and ask for his signature.
Then Li Haitian was notified by the airport radio to answer a call, leaving his wife and children in the waiting hall, but his wife and children were kidnapped in a blink of an eye.
. The originally scheduled to play Li Haitian’s wife in the movie was the actress Ding Pei .
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It turned out that Li Haitian's wife and children were kidnapped by a gang, and they then picked Li Haitian away with a car.
Their destination is a villa. Li Haitian soon met his wife and children, and also contacted the leader of the gang. There were also a group of martial arts masters waiting for him to have a meeting.
It turns out that there is a treasure in the Fazhu Temple in South Korea. It is a priceless martial arts secret book, collected on the top floor of a five-story pagoda.
The South Korean government hopes to nationalize it, and there is only one way to get it, which is to use real kung fu to defeat the five masters who are defending the level.
The gang leader hoped to get the secret, so he gathered five masters including Li Haitian to pass the pagoda (the left of the picture below is Fazhu Temple, and the right of the draft was written by Bruce Lee).
50 masters selected by Fazhu Temple guarded the pagoda, and Li Haitian and the five others passed smoothly without much effort.
The two photos selected by Pi Ge are not selected at will. The one on the left was Yuanhua, and the one on the right was kicked by Taoist priest Lin Zhengying .
After breaking through the outer defense line of the pagoda, the five masters began to "pass the level" layer by layer.
The first floor of the pagoda is called "Eagle Palace" . It is guarded by a Taekwondo master who is good at leg skills. He is played by Huang Renzhi, who once played a Japanese karate samurai in "The Dragon Crossing the River".
One of the five people entering the tower on this floor received the bento, and the other four people arrived at the next floor together after defeating Huang Renzhi.
The second layer is called "Leopard Palace" , guarded by a master of national martial arts played by Bruce Lee's Japanese apprentice Takeno Kimura . The champion of this layer is good at Mantis Fist and Wing Chun Fist.
Another person received the bento on this floor. When Li Haitian and Takeji Kimura fought, they were hit by the corner of their right eye, while Tian Jun and Chen Yuan took the opportunity to sneak up to the third floor.
guards the third layer "Tiger Palace" is the stick king from the Philippines, played by Bruce Lee's first disciple Danny Inoshandu .
Ino Shandu first beat Jie Yuan to doubt his life with empty hands, and then beat Tian Jun with a short stick to no avail.
Li Haitian took the battle. He used a long, thin and strong gourd bamboo, which had the advantage in both offense and defense.
Soon, the stick king couldn't stand it and replaced it with nunchaku . Li Haitian also changed to a nunchaku, staged a dazzling nunchuck duel.
Because Li Haitian's stick method is more casual and more relaxed, he quickly gained the advantage until he finally put the stick king K.O.
won this level, and the three of them went to the fourth level of "Dragon Palace" .
guards the "Dragon Palace" is a Aikido master, played by Bruce Lee's friend, Aikido coach of the US military and the Korean Aikido Jin Bing Master Chi Hanzai . Chi Hanzai is also Huang In-zhi's master.
Jie Yuan and Tian Jun still stepped forward to fight Chi Hanzai first. Chi Hanzai was not confused at all with one against two, and used the Aikido method to throw them all over and fall apart.
The two men fought and Li Haitian took the fight. Instead of falling into Chi Hanzai's trap, he followed his own style of playing and used dense jabs to destroy Chi Hanzai's rhythm.
But Chi Hanzai is a master after all. Although Li Haitian is very careful, he was caught by the other party many times, and he fell to his back.
Finally, Li Haitian used poison to fight the poison, and took advantage of the trick to hurt Chi Hanzai's waist before he passed the level thrillingly.
, and Jie Yuan and Tian Jun secretly went to the fifth floor of "No Nameless Palace" . When Li Haitian climbed upstairs, both of them had already received the bento.
guards the "No Name Hall" with a tall black giant played by Bruce Lee's NBA star apprentice Kareem Jabbar.
Let Jabbar, who is 2.18 meters tall, play the role of this last master not only because of his tallness, but also related to Buddhist legends.
It is said that when Master Xuanzang traveled west to seek Buddhist scriptures, he passed by a quicksand zone located more than 800 miles west of Dunhuang. He fell into a coma in the desert due to lack of water. In his coma, he dreamed that a god several feet tall shouted at him angrily.
Xuanzang continued to rush forward after being awakened, but fortunately he still found the source of water to avoid dying in the desert.
This great god is the prototype of Sha Wujing later. In Buddhism, he is called the Deep Sha God. He is a demon miasma that Buddhist disciples must go through after they have reached a certain level of practice.
The giant played by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is this magic miasma. His boxing skills are the same as Li Haitian, both Jeet Kune Do .
Li Haitian fought with him for dozens of times, and finally knocked him down by finding out his shortcomings.
One of the interesting plots is that Li Haitian accidentally broke a paper window, and the sunlight outside shone in, and Li Haitian discovered that this giant was afraid of light. He used the weakness of the giant to defeat him.
In the movie, Li Haisheng wore yellow one-piece sportswear , rather than the traditional martial arts uniform, because Bruce Lee has always emphasized that his Jeet Kune Do is not a sect, but a fighting idea that combines different martial arts and uses flexibly, so he chose to wear sportswear without any sects, and yellow means that he is a yellow person.
The shoes he wore were Japanese brand Onitsuka Tiger, and this classic model is still selling well today.
This color outfit has also been imitated by many big-name fans at home and abroad to pay tribute to the works.
According to the original script, Li Haitian finally got down the tower alone, and the martial arts secret book he found at the top level actually only wrote one sentence:
"People are born in a process of waiting for death."
This is a very Zen sentence, and it is also Bruce Lee's deepest understanding of life.
It’s a pity that this movie was not completed by Bruce Lee himself.
After filming "The Dragon and the Tiger Fight" in June 1973, Bruce Lee, who was ambitious to make great achievements, returned to Hong Kong to plan to continue filming "The Game of Death", but things didn't go as expected. On July 20, Bruce Lee suddenly died of drug allergies in Hong Kong at the age of 33.
Pi Ge sometimes has a lot of ideas, especially after watching " Martial Arts Dream " produced by Li Jin, he thought that he might use the current CG technology and find Chen Guokun as a stunt to reshoot the movie.
I think this is also the common wish of the dragon fans all over the world!
Although Bruce Lee's life was short, it made the whole world remember his image.
Because he does not hide anything, he treats the world with a sincere heart, and always focuses on his ideals and pursuits, and lives his true self.
Just as Bruce Lee understood life and death, people are destined to die in their lifetime, right and wrong, gain and loss are not important. What we need to care about is what can bring to this world .
These are the places worth learning from. No matter from what perspective, Bruce Lee is an idol worthy of imitation for our whole life.
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