The Cutting Room Floor: Lost, Censored & Deleted Bruce Lee Movie Scenes (Article)

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1970'S U.K lobby card, minus the extra Maria Yi picture, was this shot set up for the stills camera?, did Cheng have a rumble with the local tough guy's?.

 

Edited November 6, 2018 by DragonClaws

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Slight variation, of the image above, with Nora Miao's character handing the cold drink to BL's character. The two stuntmen, to the far right, are now looking towards the camera, rather than the ice stand. Are they looking/waiting for their cue?.

 

Edited November 10, 2018 by DragonClaws

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Make up application, between takes, during the filming of the now infamous missing burning cart sequence.

Was this sequence filmed in Pak Chong, or at Golden Harvest studios?.

Edited November 12, 2018 by DragonClaws

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Apologies for the quality/size of these images, but  I find them online, and this how they looked.

It's a long shot, but does anyone own these Big Boss game cards?, the image on the bottom left hand card, is from one of the missing Big Boss scenes. It's a still of James Tien talking to his family about escaping the burning cart. Never seen this photo in colour before, it must be a rare set?.

 

Edited November 23, 2018 by DragonClaws

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The saw in the head sequence, you can just see BL's hand holding the weapon.

Was this shot, taken from the print of the film?, or was it a stills photogrpah?, either way, this shot, doesnt appear in the current versions.

Edited November 23, 2018 by DragonClaws

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For the record, THE BIG BOSS was supposed to be released in the U.S. as THE CHINESE CONNECTION because of its drug theme and FIST OF FURY was set to be released as FISTS OF FURY, but the U.S. distributor got the labels mixed up and they made a mistake which has persisted to this day. I should also add that both of these movies had played in Chinatown theaters, in Mandarin with English subtitles, months before the English-dubbed versions were released.

Source- https://briandanacamp.wordpress.com/2018/09/28/kung-fu-on-42nd-street/

 

Those Chinatown prints of the film, must have featured the longer version?.

The Big Boss payed in U.K Chinatowns, in subtitled form too, long before the toend down, cut English dubbed prints were finally released.

 

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Outtake/deleted scene?, or is it, just a cropped/colourized photo, from the TBB?.

 

Edited December 2, 2018 by DragonClaws

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No fans, got any thoughts/opinions to share, on the picture posted above?.

Just re-watched the knife fight, from the finale of TBB, after reading a message sent to me by @Fist of the Heavenly Sky, and I cant see the picture I posted, fitting into the footage at all.

At first, I thought it might be a shot, taken, just before Cheng sends the 2nd to last thug, into the large pond. Only that shot starts with Cheng already facing away from the camera. Might just be an image from rehearsals?.

Edited December 2, 2018 by DragonClaws

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The shot below, might just be from a rehearsal?, but it doesnt appear in the finished print of the film. If you watch the sequence, where Tang Lung, goes back into the apartment, after confronting the gunman. He draws out a wooden dart, then uses the phone, before running out of the flat. He never actually goes into the centre of the apartment, armed with the dart. Or it might simply be a dicarded sequence, never intended to be in the final print?.

 

Edited December 2, 2018 by DragonClaws

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Cheng Chiu-On(Bruce Lee) and cousin Hsu Chien(James Tien), confront the gambling dens thugs, in a Pak Chong alleyway.

 

Edited December 15, 2018 by DragonClaws

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“The way I look at that is that it was a suggestion of the director, and I accept it in such a way and that is, him being a very simple man, when all of a sudden he made up his mind that he is going to go and either die or kill or be killed, right?” said Lee. “So he walks past and it’s kind of a sudden thing, of human beings, that a thought just occurs – well, doggone it, man… such is the basic need of a human being… I might as well enjoy it, man, before I kick the bucket!”

 

 

Bruce Lee’s Infamous Censored Scene

Source- https://www.bjjee.com/articles/bruce-lees-infamous-censored-scene/

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@Fist of the Heavenly Sky, do you think the below image, is taken from a rehearsal?, look like they filmed the alley way sequence, at night?. BL might have just removed his top, due to the heat coming from the stage lights?. As mentioned before, knowone's confirmed if it was filmed in Hong Kong or Thailand?.

 

 

15 hours ago, DragonClaws said:

Cheng Chiu-On(Bruce Lee) and cousin Hsu Chien(James Tien), confront the gambling dens thugs, in a Pak Chong alleyway. 

 

 

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Roy Chiao and the Little Dragon, in a scene, which was inserted into the 1998 re-issue of Enter The Dragon. Some fans still think, this scene should have remained on the cutting room floor?.

The footage also appears in the 1981 Bruceploitation classic, Game of Death 2.

Edited December 18, 2018 by DragonClaws

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James Tien and BL's screen character's, react to the thugs setting the cart alight?.

 

Edited December 26, 2018 by DragonClaws

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A slightly different version, of an image posted earlier in this thread, this one includes the lighting rig, suggesting it was filmed inside, on a sound stage?. Or maybe they just rigged up, the lights, to some generator's?, for a night shoot?.

 

 

 

Edited December 27, 2018 by DragonClaws

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Below is a still of Chiao Mei(Maria Yi), watching Cheng taking his Uncle to the ferry, after having a farwell drink. A sequence still missing from public versions/prints of the film.

 

Edited January 1, 2019 by DragonClaws

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Anyone here have other pictures from the scene mentioned in the post above?.

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A still taken from a missing Enter The Dragon scene, when Mr Lee talks to Mei Ling(Betty Chung), in an extended version of one of their few scenes together.

Before he puts on the dark blue jumpsuit, for some nocturnal snooping.

 

Edited January 13, 2019 by DragonClaws

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You can view the footage of the missing BL/Betty Chung scenes, in these ETD outtake video.

 

 

 

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A cropped image, from one of Betty Chung/Bruce Lee's ETD scene's, Lee is talking to the actress, who is sat to thr left of him.

Was this just a behind the scenes stil?, or was taken from one of their extended scenes together?.

 

Edited January 13, 2019 by DragonClaws

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A slightly different cropped version, of the above KFM cover-picture, it looks like BL is talking to someone, sat next to Betty Chung?, Robert Clouse maybe?.

Or is a still, from some of their extended scenes footage?, that was removed for the theatrical release?.

 

 

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Edited January 17, 2019 by DragonClaws

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On 1/14/2019 at 5:44 PM, DragonClaws said:

 

A slightly different cropped version, of the above KFM cover-picture, it looks like BL is talking to someone, sat next to Betty Chung?, Robert Clouse maybe?.

Or is a still, from some of their extended scenes footage?, that was removed for the theatrical release?.

 



 

 

This image was just taken from one of the rehearsal's, you can see director Robert Clouse, standing in the background of the following un-cropped version.