Bruce Lee & I (aka His Last Days, His Last Nights) (1976)

[Phantom Dreamer]

In that 2.5yr window when he took HK by storm, that man had more poon tang than North Korea has missles. Stirling Siliphant spoke about Lee when he visited HK with his newly wed wife in early '73. Lee told him they were set for the afternoon with "two of the most beautiful Chinese women I'd ever seen!" Stirling backed out mentioning his wife and met up with Lee a day later. "Boy what you missed!", was Lee's remark to him after spending the afternoon with the women by himself.

Doesn't get any clearer than that.

:l

Thanks for this and I hope that day is included in the new biopic.

[The Dragon]

Thanks for this and I hope that day is included in the new biopic.

With Shannon's involvement??

[Phantom Dreamer]

With Shannon's involvement??

Yes, it will show us, the human side, if you will.

[Cognoscente]

From the December '75 issue of Shaw's Movie News...

[dionbrother]

In the decade since this thread began, I've realized BRUCE LEE AND I is likely the truest of Bruce Lee biopics.  Not 100% true but closer than the others.

[Cognoscente]

That's how I feel about Albert Goldman's infamous Penthouse articles.

[Killer Meteor]

I feel the first one, BRUCE LEE A DRAGON STORY is the closest. It manages to depict Bruce, Linda, Betty, Raymond Chow, Run Run Shaw, Mr and Mrs Lo Wei, even original Big Boss director Wu Chia-hsiung, in the most unpleasant and frank manner possible! Kareem Abdul-Jabbar comes out of it ok, though...

[Cognoscente]

[Cognoscente]

Danny looks like Andy Lau in the first pic.

[Cognoscente]

From #14 of Kung Fu Monthly.

[ShawAngela]

2 hours ago, Cognoscente said:

From #14 of Kung Fu Monthly.

What is this small picture on the bottom right of the page ?! I don't remember to have seen this image in the movie, and it reminds me of Nancy Yen in the Black Panther, though none of the actors wore this kind of clothes in it !

[Cognoscente]

It's from The New Game of Death.

[DrNgor]

Tonight I watched Super Infra Man with Danny Lee. One of the supporting roles went to Huang Kin Lung, a year before he adopted the Bruce Le moniker. Interesting enough, his name in the film was Xiao Lung (i.e. Little Dragon) and you could already see the seeds of his imitating Bruce Lee in his fights. It makes me wonder if the Shaws had considered casting him in Bruce Lee, His Last Days & Nights instead of Danny Lee at any point.

[TibetanWhiteCrane]

18 minutes ago, DrNgor said:

Tonight I watched Super Infra Man with Danny Lee. One of the supporting roles went to Huang Kin Lung, a year before he adopted the Bruce Le moniker. Interesting enough, his name in the film was Xiao Lung (i.e. Little Dragon) and you could already see the seeds of his imitating Bruce Lee in his fights. It makes me wonder if the Shaws had considered casting him in Bruce Lee, His Last Days & Nights instead of Danny Lee at any point.

The year before he was a hot-head, nunchaku wielding waiter in The Tea House and you could already see who he was aping. He was also rocking the BL style shades in Gossip Street that year. Guess he just lost in the mix of Shaw bit players.

[Cognoscente]

7 hours ago, DrNgor said:

It makes me wonder if the Shaws had considered casting him in Bruce Lee, His Last Days & Nights instead of Danny Lee at any point.

It's a pity that it didn't happen because starring in a Shaw movie would have increased his market value.

[DrNgor]

5 hours ago, Cognoscente said:

It's a pity that it didn't happen because starring in a Shaw movie would have increased his market value.

I was wondering about that last night. Had he done it (and had it been successful), would Shaw Brothers gotten more into the business of Brucesploitation? Would Bruce Le have ended up working with Lau Kar-Leung or Chang Cheh at some point? 

Edited August 26, 2021 by DrNgor

[Killer Meteor]

On 8/26/2021 at 1:52 PM, DrNgor said:

I was wondering about that last night. Had he done it (and had it been successful), would Shaw Brothers gotten more into the business of Brucesploitation? Would Bruce Le have ended up working with Lau Kar-Leung or Chang Cheh at some point? 

 

Bruce and Lau did both work on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III.

[Cognoscente]

In the October 1975 issue of Shaw's Hong Kong Movie News, the movie was originally known as The Superstar, and with Bruce's name being referred to as Golden Tiger.

From the August 1975 issue...

[dionbrother]

Wild guess: I think Bruce Le's Burmese heritage might have kept him from being a leading man at Shaw Brothers.

[Cognoscente]

Shaw Brothers were awfully slow to greenlight this movie. They should have filmed the Betty biopic in 1974 at the latest.

The below pages are from 1975 issues of Shaw's Southern Screen.

August




October

 

 

November

December

[ShawAngela]

3 hours ago, Cognoscente said:

Did this coproduction Shaws-Toei called Tang Prostitution ever see the light of the day, and is fo, under which title ? 

Their only co-production with Japan I'm aware of are Princess Yang Kuei Fei and Madame White Snake, but they were both filmed before 1975, if I'm not mistaken.