Born: November 27, 1940
Where: San Francisco, California
Raised: Hong Kong
Died: July 20, 1973
After Bruce Lee's untimely death is 1973 hundreds of want to be Bruce Lees suddenly emerged in countless martial arts films. Claims that they had been taught or were close personal friends of Mr.Lee were numerous. Everyone wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. They tried to fight, talk, act and walk like him. They even used modified versions of his name and movie titles. Maybe you've heard of some of them: Bruce Le, Bruce Li, Bruce Leigh, Dragon Lee, etc. Some straight out used his name, others claimed that they were possessed by the spirit of Bruce Lee.
Don't be confused by these imposters. Bruce Lee only starred in 5 films: Enter the Dragon, Return of the Dragon (aka Way of the Dragon), Chinese Connection, (aka Fists of Fury) Fists of Fury (aka The Big Boss) and Game of Death.
Also be warned he is barely in Game of
Death since the movie wasn't completed until after his death.
A small
amount of footage was shot before his death sometime around 1972 or 73 but
the entire movie was never filmed nor was the script (written by Bruce
Lee) completed. The shots with Bruce Lee are exceptional and worth
watching just to see the
legendary fight between the 5'7" Lee and the 7'2" Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
(who was actually a student of Lee's) The rest of the movie was made with
a replacement actor (very easy to spot) and clips from other movies made
by Lee when he was alive.
Many far fecthed rumours surround the death of Bruce Lee. Who really knows what happened, but officially the cause of his death was a cereberal edma which occured shortly after the completion of the filming ofEnter the Dragon. This edma was caused by a hyper sensitive reaction to some sort of headache medicine.
Out of respect the to Legend I believe this report and feel it is not important to speculate and stir up misconceptions any further. Although I do admit there are some strange circumstances surrounding his death. One of them being the strange similarities in circumstances surrounding the tragic death of his son Bradon Lee.
Brandon was killed while filming the movie The Crow. He was accindentally shot by a prop gun that was not actually a prop. This movie was going to be Brandon's biggest film so far in his promising carear much as Enter the Dragon was going to be for Bruce. Both were about release the movie that would turn them into huge stars, but neither lived to enjoy their success.
Another erie fact is that in the movie Game of Death Bruce's character is in an actor. While filming a scene in a movie within the real movie, prop guns are replaced with real guns and Bruce's character is shot and seemingly killed.
This scene was shot in 1983 almost 10 years before a very similar accident killed Brandon Lee. Was this very strange similarity a coincidence, some sort of curse or was Brandon's death really an "accident"... I'm not one to spread rumours so you didn't hear anything from me...