Guest tigerstyles Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 never seen these shots of this fight.. i heard of it but thought it was madeup! what other films did she make? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Markgway Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 Cool. I've never heard of Betty Chung doing any action in ETD before. Now we have evidence. She did a few Shaw Bros films but the only martial art one is 'All Men Are Brothers'. Her Mandarin name is Chung Ling-Ling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fabhui Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 Very nice and super rare pics!! Would have been interesting to see how she held up under Bruce's direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Markgway Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 I'd rather have that footage put back than the bo-ring monk scene. :rolleyes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Squid Lips Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 Yeah, this scene was originally shot and discarded. It was to show how she went down to get the "old drunks that no longer care" and release them to join the big brawl on the field. Too bad this and scenes like Bruce talking to Bob Wall while he is beating the crap out of him, never made it into an Enter The Dragon special edition. Well, maybe for the 50th anniversary.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chen lung Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 I'd rather have that footage put back than the bo-ring monk scene. I'd rather have that John Little scene anyday than a wuss punch >D . I wonder why Warner didn't put Lee's dialogue (and whoever did Roy Chiao if it was ever done - probably Roy himself!) back in that scene, he did dub it and it exists (I've got a copy of it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Markgway Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 What those cocks at Warners need to do is remaster the original theatrical version on disc 1 and then put every deleted scene (monk included) they can find on disc 2. Then I'll be a happy bunny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WalkOn Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 Wow! Great pic! Thanks for sharing! I've never seen or heard of her fighting in the film nor about Bruce talking to Bob Wall during their fight. One can only imagine what footage was filmed and actually exists. I also wondered what happened to Han's "most personal guards", his daughters. Any word on if they actually fought at the end? I guess we're to assume the prisoners got to them...:eek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stormybman Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 Man, just seeing those photos really lets us know how they're pulling our chains! >: I heard there's more of the Anna Capri 8 milli. footage as well as the once believed to be destroyed behind the scenes footage Henry Wong shot complete with Bruce's dust up with the extra. I never felt that was the case being for one the first international co-production between a HK company and the U.S., and, with Lee having a real fight recorded on cam... Even if the Warner's version was destroyed, the HK version would be kept for a ransom, surely. They are probably waiting like Squid said, for the 50th Ann. Ed. when we're too f@#$%&$ old to remember why we wanted to see the footage in the fist place!!! " Now you listen to me, i'll only say it once, we are Not sick men!!! " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest killer meteor Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 What annoyed me with the current 2-disc set is that there was plenty of room for the theatrical version - but they stuck A Warrior's Journey on it instead! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Squid Lips Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 There is more of the Ahna footage, maybe a few minutes. But it is in that sequence that she filmed where we see the Lee /Wall dialogue. I have the original script to the film and that was originally in there (he is spouting more ass kickin philosophy during their fight) and on Ahna's film you see Bruce talking to Wall after just kicking him. I know that much of that was cut because Warner thought Bruce was too "cocky" and not very monk-like in the scene. Even if there was no sound, it would have been cool to see him doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Markgway Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 I'd rather have that John Little scene anyday than a wuss punch That's part of the problem. It's become a John Little scene. No original soundtrack. Just an impersonator like from some dodgy clone job. Besides it's a scene that doesn't belong in Enter the Dragon. Maybe the original Game of Death? But not Enter and the filmmakers knew that which is why it was cut in the first place. It stops the film dead before it starts. The original theatrical cut was perfect (as much as any film is) and that's the version legions of fans fell in love with. Yet after 25 years some bell-end made the decision to retire it in favour of an inferior edit with re-scored music and no mono. WTF?? I'm not saying they should put the Betty Chung fight back in - it would be better served as an extra if it still exists - just that if they had to add something I'd rather than the frankly boring monk scene (no disrespect to the late Roy Chiao). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Squid Lips Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 Though you are right on those accounts Mark, the whole "Bruce" experience is less about improving the movie and more about just seeing all the existing film shot on the man (or in this case, a film relating to him). I love the original cut but would be fun to have a version with everything they could find (even the Tower Of Death clips). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest the dirty tiger Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 I agree, original cinema print and 'directors cut' would be kick ass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WalkOn Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 Yep, I too agree, the original is the best version. The extra stuff can be put together as a bonus but give us the version we fell in love with! I can't get over the silence when Roper is being escorted before the Bolo fight or the cat being put in the guillotine. Where's the music?! ARRGGHH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Markgway Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 I love the original cut but would be fun to have a version with everything they could find (even the Tower Of Death clips). Not in place of the original though... that's the crux of my argument. I would be happy if those lost scenes were included as extras on a 2nd disc and I suspect most fans feel the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member The Dragon Posted February 8, 2008 Member Share Posted February 8, 2008 I agree, original cinema print and 'directors cut' would be kick ass They're probably saving it for a 40TH Anniversary Edition, or the likes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member David Rees Posted February 8, 2008 Member Share Posted February 8, 2008 The 6 hours of behind the scenes footage Henry Wong shot on the set are still in the vaults at Warners, now if someone could only find that!! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/drees5761/Etd001.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Righteous Master Posted February 9, 2008 Member Share Posted February 9, 2008 What those cocks at Warners need to do is remaster the original theatrical version on disc 1 and then put every deleted scene (monk included) they can find on disc 2. Then I'll be a happy bunny. How about a remastered and restored version on disc 1 and disc 2 but with all of the deleted stuff put back in on the second disc. And just for the heck of it how about a third disc with lots and lots of NEW extras. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member The Dragon Posted February 10, 2008 Member Share Posted February 10, 2008 ... How about actually searching for that behind the scenes footage that was supposedly destroyed, remastering that, and delivering it, in a nice deluxe edition with the versions of the film you've mentioned above, and life would be great! I'm certain that footage exists... Someone probably swiped it, soon as they heard Lee had died. Remember, the film was to open sooner, but was delayed when he died, about two weeks. I don't believe Warners would destroy Behind the scenes footage of a film they just finished editing, and yet released! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member David Rees Posted February 10, 2008 Member Share Posted February 10, 2008 Henry Wong said that after the shoot he sent it all to Warners so i think it is still there, just buried away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest enter the dragon 1973 Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 I read in the book "the making of enter the dragon", that 70 hours of footage that maily featured Lee had been sent to WB to be destoyed. It would be nice to know if someone just said the heck with it and hung on to it! You'd have to imagine also that while looking at the pics, and I see all the other home movie like cameras in the background filming, somebody else has got to have something! Besides the outtake footage that WB has relased has got to be part of something more, i mean where did they get it to begin with?, and how did they know they were gonna use those outtakes and behind for release, being that just about all of it had been destroyed. Oh and you can bet that Golden Harvet has a tone of it from his other films also! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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