You’ll see biting, groin strikes, hair pulling, throat chops, everything outside of the traditional styles, mixed in with thew conventional moves (blocks kicks and punches).
Further into the movie he expressed his Jeet Kune Do philosophies through action quite well. In Bruce’s fights you see a lot of hand to hand combat, using a lot of stop-hits (or the way of the intercepting fist!), especially in the first fight against Sammo Hung. Throughout the movie each fight scene is different. The Martial Arts and Philosophy of the MovieĪs you can expect from a Bruce Lee movie, the fights scenes are choreographed excellently with each fight being exciting and fast showcasing an astonishing level of mastery. Whether it was intended to represent a message in the film or not. I find it interesting that Bruce originally intended for Roper to die and for Williams to survive to the end of the film, until John Saxon and his agent insisted that John’s character Roper live to the end of the film (can you say spoiled brat?). The idea of having a Caucasian, and African American and Chinese as the lead characters in a Hollywood film is something I feel Bruce included in Enter the Dragon for a reason.Īs Bruce Lee was known for helping to bridge the gap between East and West, using these 3 culturally different characters together represents an equality amongst all races.Īs Hollywood wasn’t known for having lead characters played by non-Caucasian actors, putting this trio together could have been an attempt to put this idea into the spot light a little more and help stop this racist way of thinking. Roper, Williams and Lee – a comment on Race He’s heavily in debt to a criminal organisation and leaves the country to enter the Tournament. The other, Roper (John Saxon), is a Caucasian man who has a bit of gambling addiction. Williams then stands up for his rights and fends off the policemen before snatching the cop car and heading off. Disgusted that a ‘Jig’ (as they called him) would be passing through Hawaii, they attempt to arrest him. When Williams is pulled up by a couple of Caucasian police men, they discover he’s going to Hong kong via Hawaii. His back story shows us that his neighbourhood deals with a level of racial oppression.
Williams (Jim Kelly) is an African American who practices at a karate school populated and run mostly by other African American martial artists. However, these two guys come from two completely different places. Mr Roper and Williams, two Vietnam vets who are highly trained martial artists, run into each other while heading over to the island. He goes to island and gets down to business, fighting in the tournament whilst also secretly investigating (and of course fighting) behind the scenes. Mr Braithewaite approaches Lee for a job, to help bring down an international criminal named Mr Han (Shih Kien), who owns an nearby island.Īfter discovering dead bodies of women who were last seen alive on Han’s Island, they request that Lee uses his invitation to Han’s Martial Arts tournament as cover to investigate and collect enough evidence to put Han away.įrom there Lee agrees. After this display of superior martial arts ability, he is approached by man named Mr Braithewaite. …and you’re introduced to Bruce’s character Mr Lee, as he completely out classes another Martial Artist (Sammo Hung) in a sparring match.
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