Director Brian Trenchard-Smith on the Life and Legacy of Bruce Lee

[OpiumKungFuCracker]

Brian Trenchard-Smith (The Man From Hong Kong) Talks His Ill-Fated Trip to Meet Bruce Lee, and the Legacy of the Dragon

 

http://thetalkhouse.com/film/talks/brian-trenchard-smith-the-man-from-hong-kong-talks-his-ill-fated-trip-to-meet-bruce-lee-and-the-legacy-of-the-dragon/

[makone]

Great read, Thanks for posting

[DragonClaws]

Interesting article OKFC.

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[DragonClaws]

Source- https://www.umbrellaent.com.au/on-demand/3539-kung-fu-killers-on-demand.html

 

Kung Fu Killers - By Brian Trenchard-Smith

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My one hour documentary World Of Kung Fu (1973) was a ratings success for the Seven Network, so I quickly sold a sequel concept to Channel Nine, this time 75 minutes for a 90 minute slot. The film would follow Australian stuntman Grant Page going to Hong Kong to learn more about kung fu, and to find who would succeed the late great Bruce Lee as Asia's top martial arts star.

Link- https://2015.acmi.net.au/acmi-channel/2008/film-essay-kung-fu-killers/

 

 

Australia’s Role in the Global Kung Fu Trend: The Man from Hong Kong

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The Man from Hong Kong (1975) shares a certain generic experience with Michael Powell’s They’re a Weird Mob (1966), both films having been restored by ScreenSound Australia: National Screen and Sound Archive and recently unwound in film festivals

Link- http://sensesofcinema.com/2001/cteq/man_hk/

 

Edited March 26, 2019 by DragonClaws

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[reason108]

On 10/13/2015 at 9:36 AM, OpiumKungFuCracker said:

Brian Trenchard-Smith (The Man From Hong Kong) Talks His Ill-Fated Trip to Meet Bruce Lee, and the Legacy of the Dragon

 

http://thetalkhouse.com/film/talks/brian-trenchard-smith-the-man-from-hong-kong-talks-his-ill-fated-trip-to-meet-bruce-lee-and-the-legacy-of-the-dragon/

I wonder if he’s really correct about the saw-in-the-head scene really being in TBB? He might know where a theatrical print might reside. 

[DragonClaws]

13 hours ago, reason108 said:

I wonder if he’s really correct about the saw-in-the-head scene really being in TBB? He might know where a theatrical print might reside. 

 

He's clearly seen it, but wether or not he owns/knows someone who owns a copy, is another question?. Brian Trenchard-Smith, is much more open about seeing it, than some people are. When the rare madnerin version comes up, its either a fabricated VHS related story. Where some fan meets a friend, who had a cousin, who's oler brothers owned a copy. Or its long term fans, talking about their experiences back in the 70's. Quite posible, the prints sent to Australia in the 70's, varied from other international versions?. It wouldnt surpise me if prints circulated round, in higher up collectors circles. Where people have a bigger budget to spend on a 35mm version of a rare film print.

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Oddly, this edition of Brian Trenchard Smiths Traier From Hell, about WOTD. Has now been removed from YouTube?. Unlike the other videos he created for this series, including the one for ETD.

 

 

Trailers from Hell: Brian Trenchard-Smith on Bruce Lee Classic 'Way of the Dragon'

Link- https://www.indiewire.com/2012/11/trailers-from-hell-brian-trenchard-smith-on-bruce-lee-classic-way-of-the-dragon-200801/

 

Australian cinema Bill.

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Edited June 17, 2021 by DragonClaws

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Lee only signed one film as director but he is as much auteur of his films as a great comedy team is of theirs. You can see his mark in the staging of action, the casting and even in aesthetic decisions made for non-action scenes. It is easy to pick out which scenes in his early films were not directed by Lee because of their lack of dynamism and reliance on cheap corner-cutting techniques. As he grew older he would probably have become primarily a director, and we are all the worse for not having decades of Bruce Lee films to enjoy. - Brian Trenchard-Smith

 

 

Edited September 7, 2019 by DragonClaws

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Does anyone know if director Brian Trenchard Smith interviewed anyone on the subject of Bruce Lee?, while he was filming his Kung Fu Killer's documentary?.

[Cognoscente]

I seem to recall Brian interviewing Andre Morgan.

Brian once had a magazine called The World of Kung Fu.

[DragonClaws]

On 6/20/2021 at 2:35 PM, Cognoscente said:

I seem to recall Brian interviewing Andre Morgan.

Brian once had a magazine called The World of Kung Fu.

 

Thanks @Cognoscente, do you know how many issues the magazine ran for?.

[Cognoscente]

There were two editions.

[Cognoscente]

About the below magazine, Brian's visit to the Shaw studio had to have been before October '73 because that month marked the publication of a Hong Kong Movie News issue featuring photos of Supermen Against the Orient. As for the reference to the pre-production of The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires, that was filmed between October and December (according to Chris Fellner's The Encyclopedia of Hammer Films).