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On 2/13/2020 at 12:25 AM, Killer Meteor said:

Kind of a shame this never happened.

 

Agreed, did all the Bruceploitation style movie-bios over saturated the market?. 

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32 minutes ago, DragonClaws said:

 

Agreed, did all the Bruceploitation style movie-bios over saturated the market?. 

That's the reason the film never happened.  - they got to cinemas BEFORE the official one.

 

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32 minutes ago, shukocarl1441996347 said:

That's the reason the film never happened.  - they got to cinemas BEFORE the official one.

 

There must have been a new bio film coming out each month, during the peaks year's of the craze?.

 

Of the 1970's Asian movie-bio's, which one is favourite?. 

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11 hours ago, DragonClaws said:

 

 

There must have been a new bio film coming out each month, during the peaks year's of the craze?.

 

Of the 1970's Asian movie-bio's, which one is favourite?. 

I would say BRUCE LEE - TRUE STORY (The Man, The Myth) is arguably the fan's favourite. Yes, it's riddled with mistakes but it stands out as better than what came before and after,

 

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Bruce Lee: A Dragon Story is quite interesting as a tabloid expose, ripping into Bruce, Linda, Betty Ting Pei, Raymond Chow, Run Run Shaw, Mr and Mrs Lo Wei...it attracted several lawsuits. Pity the fights are seriously lame.

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2 hours ago, Killer Meteor said:

Bruce Lee: A Dragon Story is quite interesting as a tabloid expose, ripping into Bruce, Linda, Betty Ting Pei, Raymond Chow, Run Run Shaw, Mr and Mrs Lo Wei...it attracted several lawsuits. Pity the fights are seriously lame.

Yes, I like the "soap opera" elements but how can you have a film on Bruce Lee with sub-par action scenes?!

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On 8/10/2020 at 3:24 AM, Killer Meteor said:

Bruce Lee: A Dragon Story is quite interesting as a tabloid expose, ripping into Bruce, Linda, Betty Ting Pei, Raymond Chow, Run Run Shaw, Mr and Mrs Lo Wei...it attracted several lawsuits. Pity the fights are seriously lame.

 

Do you know if the lawsuits effected the final cut of the film?, and how some characters were portrayed?.

 

On 8/10/2020 at 5:43 AM, shukocarl1441996347 said:

Yes, I like the "soap opera" elements but how can you have a film on Bruce Lee with sub-par action scenes?!

 

Which Bruce Lee bio movie features the best fight scenes?.

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3 hours ago, DragonClaws said:

 

Do you know if the lawsuits effected the final cut of the film?, and how some characters were portrayed?.

I think Linda Lee tried to sue the distributors when it got released - or maybe that was another film, I forget now.

 

 

Which Bruce Lee bio movie features the best fight scenes?.

It's got to be Bruce Lee-True Story (aka The Man the Myth) I think they really tried to capture the "essence" of his Gung fu. Obviously there are some "theatrical" additions but put them down to cinematic licence>

 

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On 10/31/2020 at 8:13 AM, shukocarl1441996347 said:

It's got to be Bruce Lee-True Story (aka The Man the Myth) I think they really tried to capture the "essence" of his Gung fu. Obviously there are some "theatrical" additions but put them down to cinematic licence>

 

It's funny how this movie remains the strongest bio-picture to date, even without the Hollywood budget. We can only guess how the Alex Kwon version would have turned out?. Suprised Golden Harvest never produced their own version of events. I guess The Man & The Legend(1973) documentary pretty much covered this area.

 

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17 hours ago, Cognoscente said:

May 1975 - Martial Magazine (#51).

 

On 6/14/2021 at 1:21 PM, Cognoscente said:

More info on Alex...

 

Thanks for sharing these links @Cognoscente, where did you hear about Tino Wong being considered for the production?.

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The following vintage French docuemtnary features a few stills from the un-made 70's Bio-Movie auditions.

 

 

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 3, 1975.

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The Journal. May 29, 1975.

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Reading Eagle - "Auditions for Hero Going On" - May 29, 1975.
Same article but with extra paragraphs.

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On 8/15/2022 at 5:36 PM, Cognoscente said:

From the summer '77 issue of Fighting Stars.

 

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He reminds me of Huang Kaisen in the above photo.

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Interesting info there on the film that would become BRUCE LEE FIGHTS BACK FROM THE GRAVE!.

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