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He is known worldwide as the king of martial arts films after having only made one Hollywood film.

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He died young, just 32 years old.

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And went on to become the biggest movie star in history.

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And he influenced pop culture more than anyone else, before and since.

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Bruce totally inspired me and made me dream,

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It made me realize that I wanted to be a filmmaker.

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He definitely inspired me to want to do more with my life.

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I know Bruce Lee is the best.

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Bruce Lee changed the world.

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It resonated not only from Asia,

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but in resonance with the black community, the white community.

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He was a hero to an entire culture that had no heroes.

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Bruce Lee is the father of mixed martial arts.

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Bruce Lee is not just a fighter, he is a thinker.

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Bruce has marketed his book to guidelines that are transferable to anything in life.

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He is smart enough to create this very simple icon image

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that it was possible to produce eternally.

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He is everywhere.

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We need emotional content.

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Don't think, feel.

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That.

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Bruce Lee, actor, icon and specialized in martial arts.

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A man capable of performing superhuman feats that have yet to be equaled,

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such as the "two-finger push-up" and a lethal punch called the "one-inch punch".

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Just as he is also a skilled martial artist, Bruce Lee was a writer, philosopher and filmmaker.

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He was the first person to use his phenomenal Kung-fu skills on screen

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without the help of special effects.

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Bruce Lee completely revolutionized the way...

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in the combat that would be presented on the screen.

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But he would not live to see its global impact.

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He died suddenly in Hong Kong at just 32 years old and has only starred in 4 Kung-fu films.

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His biggest film, "Enter the Dragon" was released on August 19, 1973, 4 weeks after his death.

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It was immediately,

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creating a superstar whose influence would change the world forever.

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"Secret chambers of Han's evil empire..."

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For many people, "Enter the Dragon" was their first impression of this new Asian superstar.

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The film left a deep and lasting impression,

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influencing and inspiring people around the world,

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like rapper and actor LL Cool J.

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The first time I saw him on the screen,

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You know, I just thought he was electrified.

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He had a lot of charisma.

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He was magnetic, so fluid.

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And his movement was like that of a cat.

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It was just really, really exciting for you.

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Much prayer he did through movement,

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through posture, through looks and glances.

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I mean there were certain scenes he did where he didn't even have to say anything.

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LL Cool J is the first rap singer to rack up 10 consecutive platinum albums.

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He moved on to his thriving acting career,

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with over 30 films under his belt.

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Bruce Lee influenced me because Bruce Lee made me want to do cinema.

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He was a powerful human being and, you know, with that resonant power.

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He jumped off the screen and touched you personally.

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It's not just actors that Bruce Lee inspired.

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Its influence can be felt in people from all walks of life.

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All people have entered the world of martial arts films,

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whether they met him or not, Bruce Lee was the main influence.

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The most interesting thing is the way people from other areas of pop culture.

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Rappers, musicians, filmmakers,

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directors, cinema photographers,

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they were all influenced by Bruce Lee.

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Hollywood film director Brett Ratner says Bruce Lee is his biggest influence.

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He has directed 8 films that have accumulated over one and a half billion dollars.

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And he is best known for the "Rush Hour" trilogy

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starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker.

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First Bruce Lee's film was "Enter the Dragon"

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and I became obsessed with them.

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I think I watched it more than any other movie

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I've been watching it my whole life.

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That just throws me off completely.

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Yeah, such a unique person, such unique style and individuality

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which he created by entertaining wrestlers.

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He made it fun.

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He made it dramatic.

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He made it emotional.

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Bruce Lee actor Eddie Griffin's first experience

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was watching his second film "The Dragon's Fury" known as "Chinese Connection".

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It was released in 1973 in Cantonese and adapted into English.

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Why did you kill my master? Why, why, why, why...

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So we were in a theater directing Kansas, Missouri.

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It's one of those movie theaters where we have 2 screens, one above here and the person stays there.

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And we were watching "Dragon's Rage."

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And there was one showing porn on the other.

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They said how good Bruce Lee was, no one was watching the porn.

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Will we fight alone or all together?

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Everyone just let me show you.

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Blown away then we left the place.

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And almost everyone thinks he's imitating Bruce.

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Give that kick, such younger brothers you know and the older brothers, you know, ah.

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And yeah, it's been hooked on the young man ever since.

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Fellow comedian and actress Margaret Cho

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first saw Bruce Lee when she was 8 years old,

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watching his movie with her family.

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He was like a handsome man

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but also something that was not human.

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I think his influence on me personally was really huge

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and watching him like a child

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It made me see or gave me the notion that I could do anything I wanted.

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I don't know how I got the idea that I could be a comedian

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and it's in the movies and it's on TV,

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I just didn't know yet.

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But I realize it was because of Bruce Lee.

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So I feel like you're forever in debt

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that I can fight, in any way.

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Many did just that.

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Going and becoming champions in their own fields.

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Sugar Ray Leonard is widely considered one of the best fighters of his generation,

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winning an impressive 6 world championships, starting in 5 weight classes.

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I told people all over the world that Bruce Lee was one of my idols.

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Mainly because of his mental stability, because of his fighting spirit

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because it was more mental than just physical.

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What's most interesting is meeting people you wouldn't imagine like Carlos Santana

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that you wouldn't think he was a Bruce Lee fanatic.

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And he came to Hong Kong, the first thing he said was

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"Where is the Bruce Lee Memorial?

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I want to go and pay respect to the spirit of Bruce Lee."

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It's like this everywhere and I have told it several times throughout my world.

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Athletes, actors, artists and musicians

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everyone said Bruce Lee is an influence.

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Just like he made a skinny kid named Li Xiao Long climb up from a street behind Hong Kong

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to become the global icon known as Bruce Lee?

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And why, 35 years after his death,

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Are your popularity and influence stronger than ever?

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Water can flow, creep, drip or destroy.

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Be water, my friend.

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Bruce Lee's philosophy found an unusual following across European cities.

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This is free running.

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The art of expressing yourself physically and moving through urban spaces.

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Free running is an offshoot discipline that first emerged in France, known as Parkour.

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This led Bruce Lee's philosophy to develop an instinctive movement

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and applied to how a body can move through an urban space

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as freely and directly as possible.

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The ultimate goal of free running is to be fluid and be in flow.

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Bruce Lee said that you have to move like water to flow and adapt to any given situation,

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so you never stop at obstacles.

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Just keep moving and find a way around them.

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Bruce Lee was a huge influence in the field of Parkour.

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Because of their philosophy, these arts also have philosophy.

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This is not just simple movement.

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There is actually a method through this.

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As there are ways to intercept obstacles by calculating and evaluating the environment

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and ultimately altering your consciousness.

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This way you get to be more yourself in your environment.

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It is a philosophy that can be adapted to many disciplines and situations.

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Bruce Lee is not just a fighter, he is a thinker

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And Bruce created his book and guidelines

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this is transferable to anything in life and especially anything that involves using your body.

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And you think fighting is a punch? A kick?

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Until you can combo to hit without even thinking,

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and you learn to keep it moving and to bear it,

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You have to listen.

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Bruce Lee's philosophy is absolutely

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as fresh as the time it was lit in 1970.

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Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless,

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and create what is specifically yours, which you can apply to anything.

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I could do it as a filmmaker.

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You could do it as a documentary director.

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Another person could do it as a musician, sculptor, dancer or any other person.

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Everyone can adapt that philosophy to their areas through skills.

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Bruce Lee's introduction to philosophy began early at age 13

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when he began studying Kung-fu under the guidance of legendary master Yip Man.

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He taught Bruce Lee that martial arts involved much more than just the physical.

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When he came to the US at age 18, Bruce Lee specialized in philosophy,

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studying all types, eastern, western, ancient and modern.

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So he could combine physical and philosophical in his martial art of Jeet Kune Do.

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He summarized his philosophy of being flexible, fluid

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and not adhering to a particular style in a 1971 television interview.

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Empty your mind.

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Be amorphous, shapeless, like water.

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Now you put the water in a glass.

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It becomes a cup.

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You put the water in a bottle.

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She becomes the bottle.

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Now you put it in a kettle.

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She becomes the kettle.

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Now the water can flow or it can destroy.

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Be water, my friend.

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Pierre Berton's interview was one of the few that Bruce Lee did in English.

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And it allowed him to communicate his thoughts to an audience outside of Hong Kong.

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So in this interview he was able to communicate all these thoughts.

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And he did this in such a way that it was not only physical but also philosophical,

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and a way to manage one's life.

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This is why I think this interview is more significant

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than many of the others that only focus on Bruce's physical ability.

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His philosophy, his moral work, his cultural background,

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to interpret that in a kind of cinematic world where it's believable.

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You have an actor who truly believes in his way of life.

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He was a real thing.

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He compares Kung-fu to water, which Kung-fu has continuity of movement.

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Where, you know, it's constantly moving.

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The water, you can't grab it, right?

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And water can pass through the solid, you know, it can pass through the stone.

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Philosophical but at the same time simplistic.

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And this could be understood by a young child or a master.

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Bruce Lee's philosophy, recounted in his book the "Tao of Jeet Kune Do",

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been apparent in some of his previous TV appearances

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where he would include his teachings in the manuscript.

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You have to free your ambitious mind

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and learn the art of dying.

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He quoted from "Hagakure", the Japanese way of the warrior,

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to learn to lose, learn to die.

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That was released from there.

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I think that's amazing to think about how to get that kind of information,

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that kind of philosophy on a main stream TV show.

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Bruce Lee changed the philosophy by modernizing it and making it mainstream.

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It embraces the idea of ​​high-help years before it became popular

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and shows how philosophy could be part of everyday life.

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Bruce Lee had his own philosophy.

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And that philosophy, in my opinion, was knowing yourself ultimately

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expressing themselves truly and not wearing any pretensions.

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Being able to be who you are, it's a difficult thing if you don't put it into practice.

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So his goal was simply happening.

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Bruce Lee's philosophy is still being followed and taught by people around the world.

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Shi Fu Shi Yan Ming is a 34th generation Shaolin monk who fled China to the US in 1992.

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and opened a Shaolin Temple in Manhattan.

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He also teaches the Chan Philosophy known as action meditation.

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You talk about Bruce's philosophy.

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His philosophy was fantastic, just like...

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I am teaching Chan Buddhism, Chan C-H-A-N, Buddhism, the knowledge of philosophy.

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Nothing can be everything. Everything can be nothing.

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Sifu Shi Yang Ming believes that Bruce Lee has been the main influence in his life

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and believes he should be recognized as one of the world's great philosophers.

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Bruce was a bona fide martial artist, he was also a philosopher.

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If he wasn't a great martial artist,

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He will be the greatest philosopher without a doubt.

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I read the Bible and the Quran once.

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He mentioned that there are main prophets and there are secondary prophets.

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We all know the main prophets... Jesus, Moses, Abraham, Muhammad

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I believe Bruce Lee was a minor prophet, you know the guy.

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Because what he brought to martial arts, what he brought to American society.

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What he brought to Asian culture in American society to be accepted by all people.

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It's something that prophets do.

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Bruce Lee's philosophy has been adopted by people in numerous fields.

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His conviction that success fluid from dedication and self-knowledge

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helped prepare him to become the first Asian superstar

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and the way Asians were viewed in the West was forever changed.

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Bruce Lee exploded onto American cinema screens in August 1973 in "Enter the Dragon".

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For many Americans and Asians, it was a revolution,

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the first Asian hero they had ever seen on screen.

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Typically you will be seeing white actors playing Asian roles,

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as Mickey Rooney in "Tiffany's Breakfast."

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So Bruce Lee's appearance was quite revolutionary

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because people of the current race were interpreting that race...

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he brought Asian faces to American cinema.

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For many Asians around the world, Bruce Lee became an immediate role model.

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We connected to him because he was the first one who came and said

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"Look, I'm Chinese, I have yellow skin. You know, I can do everything else that everyone else can."

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For me coming up to America, I can totally relate to him.

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You know, coming to America as an immigrant, being a minority in a dominant white world.

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And the things he wanted to achieve in life.

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I believe this is why other minority races,

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they can relate to this, especially urban minorities.

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They can feel the same passion that Bruce Lee wanted to bring to his own race.

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Before Bruce Lee, most Asian characters in Western films were limited to

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being the bad master like for example Fu Manchu, menial jobs or comic jester.

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Bruce Lee really changed the way Asian actors were viewed in the West.

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I think that's something you've given a lot of credit for.

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For Chinese around the world and also for minorities around the world living anywhere

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where they are kind of oppressed, who are beaten, who have boring work.

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This was huge, this was someone with non-white skin,

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who wasn't Asian, this someone got up and picked it up for them.

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And it wasn't just Asians who connected with this new non-white hero.

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He was a hero to an entire culture that had no heroes.

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Bruce came as Kato

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it was the first time you saw an Asian guy in control.

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Everything on the table where we can see all of this.

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In "The African American" that was the first time I saw someone

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which looks darker to me doing something like this.

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An individual I had never seen before.

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He was the first hero I ever saw who wasn't a white person.

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Before making his four Kung-fu films,

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Bruce Lee was cast as crime-fighting chauffeur Kato

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in the 1966 series "The Green Hornet".

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...protect the rights and lives of citizens uplifting the Green Beetle

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He got the role after being seen at a Karate tournament in California

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It was this film test that led to his first television role in the USA.

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My last name is Lee, Bruce Lee.

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It was also Bruce Lee's first chance to demonstrate his formidable kung-fu skills on screen.

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...going directly or arising

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Or if I can be a little supportive, walk backwards and then come back.

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- Right.
- He's a little worried.

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In playing Kato, Bruce Lee experienced first hand

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the attitudes that consigned Asian actors to cliché or supporting roles.

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He was filming "The Green Hornet"

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and he was still in his Kato uniform and the producer came and said "Boy".

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He said "where's your car?"

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He said, "You need to pick Soders the actor right now."

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He said "Excuse me, boy?" And so Soders, who is this actress, says..."

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"Do you know who he is?"

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He said "This is Bruce Lee. He's playing Kato in 'The Green Hornet'."

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And they just brush it off like it's not a big deal.

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So this was the mentality at that time.

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An Asian in a chauffeur's uniform, that only fits him.

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You know, Bruce Lee told Soders Brant the next

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kind of dictate the way his whole philosophy was.

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She said "Did you let it bother you?"

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And He said "Did I let this bother me?"

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He said "If I let this bother me, I wouldn't be Bruce Lee."

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But Bruce Lee was,

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and after having made a handful of on-screen appearances,

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he changed the way Asians were always treated on screen.

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One man, not a whole group of people,

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but one guy turned the imagination of a Chinese individual

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of a little boy with gem teeth and glasses tired who is in the content

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to imagine the philosopher fighter, a peaceful warrior.

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The film that prepared this struggling philosopher from the public to consciousness was "Enter the Dragon".

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It was the fourth and last film Bruce Lee made

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and the first co-production between Hollywood and an Asian film company.

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"Enter the Dragon" is perhaps the preparation for Bruce Lee in the world stage.

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And the reason for this is because it is purely in English.

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Many people saw Bruce Lee's film, otherwise it wouldn't have been like this.

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But you look at the film as a whole,

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and the performances, the script, the scenography

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and everything is great related to "Enter the Dragon" and Bruce Lee who is in the great film.

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This wasn't just a half-played movie with Bruce Lee lifting him up,

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But many credits were wrong related to "Enter the Dragon",

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This has constantly been repeated.

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It's an extraordinary film and what it is.

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"Enter the Dragon" was also the first martial arts film with pin body mass.

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Culturally exposed to the whole world, you know,

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you have Jim Kelly there, representing people of African descent,

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John Saxon representing Europeans and Bruce representing Asians.

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So culturally I mean it was rounded reality.

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But in the English language, a martial arts film has never been made.

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So Bruce Lee and his Hollywood associates had no idea whether anyone in the West would care.

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It was unique and very risky.

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It was an immensely stressful time for Bruce

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because he wanted so badly for this to be a fabulous, wonderful entry for him into the American film market.

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He was very much a perfectionist when it came to how he wanted the script to be

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and who he wanted to be in this and choreograph the fight scenes and all that.

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So he was involved in every aspect of this film.

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Actor John Saxon had no idea of ​​the film's impact until the premiere.

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I was in the back of a limo and looked out the window, and I saw a line of people.

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And the car was moving, and I kept seeing that the line was long and long and long,

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and finally, passing the block, I saw that it was down the street,

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and I said, "What the hell are going there?"

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They said "That's your movie."

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I said "My movie?" and it hit me.

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The film was a phenomenal success, grossing $3 million in its first seven weeks.

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Costing less than US$1 million and generating US$200 million,

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Bruce Lee's breakthrough film became one of the biggest commercially successful films.

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"Enter the Dragon" was not just a financial success.

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It has also become a cultural phenomenon.

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When it debuted in 1973, it began a craze for a new form of martial arts known as Gung-fu in Cantonese but Kung-fu to the world.

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After "Enter the Dragon", everyone wanted to be Bruce Lee,

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and you had a martial arts studio that opened on almost every corner.

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On the East Coast, on the West Coast, around the world, everyone wanted to be Bruce Lee.

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They were looking for that.

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They wanted to be that.

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My wife's brother was opening a martial arts gym in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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So I went there to talk.

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There were mothers, five year olds and so on leading these five... girls too... towards me.

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"This is Mr. Saxon."

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And I said, "Yes, that's right. That's right."

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"Did your mother make you come here?"

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"What made you come here and do this?"

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I saw "Enter the Dragon."

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Hi ya!

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Soon everyone was a Kung-fu fighter across the globe,

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and pop stars from Donnie Osmond to the King of Rock and Roll were showing off their Kung-fu kicks.

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Without Bruce Lee and "Enter the Dragon," it could have been years and years and years

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and perhaps those martial arts would not have become available as a genre.

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Bruce intellectualized the art form,

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and his personality in films brought this to the world.

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He brought... he brought martial arts to the world.

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I brought Kung-fu to the world.

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But it also brought Asian cinema to the world.

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As he also introduced the world to Kung-fu,

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Bruce Lee also introduced another new word to the West:

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the name of a little-known Asian weapon called Nunchaku.

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Your use of weaponry and your skill with weaponry,

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I mean, you can see the guy didn't play any tricks.

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This wasn't, right, camera tricks.

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He probably spent hundreds and thousands of hours practicing with the Nunchaku,

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you know, and... and he just blinked.

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I mean, he was an above average and above master of his craft.

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It looked like it was almost Breakdancing with the Nunchaku and rolling around on the floor,

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hitting everyone's ankles with the Nunchaku.

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Bruce Lee really was ahead of his time

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in terms of understanding how to create a unique icon

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emblems or things that would be exclusively Bruce Lee's.

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What he did was, choose as his signature weapon, number one, the Nunchaku.

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The signature you see is what you see... that gun, you think of Bruce Lee.

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The Kung-fu that Bruce Lee demonstrated on screen was completely realistic,

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much like his own creation known as Jeet Kune Do.

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It was a revolutionary approach to fighting

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it would change the world of martial arts forever.

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Bruce Lee not only introduced the world to martial arts,

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but also reinvented, creating his own, called Jeet Kune Do,

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being practiced here in Hong Kong.

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It is the precursor of the mixed martial arts scene in the UFC.

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Its fundamental principles: simplicity, economy, and being direct as possible.

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Jeet Kune Do is called "The Way of the Intercepting Fist".

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In fact, Bruce Lee has an explanation: his Jeet Kune Do is like the art of fighting without fighting.

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So that we do not allow our opponent to start the fight,

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then there will be no fighter,

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and this is the highest technique and the definitive aim.

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In a fight situation, Bruce Lee's ultimate aim was to take his opponent out.

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before he has a chance to attack, using any means necessary.

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In Jeet Kune Do, we can summarize this in three important words:

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simple, direct, and non-classical.

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Simple means the techniques we use for simplicity.

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It is not adding but discarding.

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The less technique you have, the better you are.

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Directly, you don't go here and there but straight to the point.

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Non-classical, this means you don't follow the old ways of doing things.

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It's a simple concept, but the theory behind it took Bruce Lee many years to develop.

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Hong Kong in the 1950s was a difficult place to grow up.

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Thousands of Chinese had submerged in the city to escape the communist regime on the mainland,

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leading to overcrowding and unemployment.

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Young people would organize themselves into gangs to protect themselves and their territory,

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and young Bruce Lee was no exception.

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Despite coming from a relatively wealthy family,

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As a teenager, Bruce Lee was involved in gang fights.

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You have a clan against another clan.

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You have the Wing Chun clan against the Choi Lei Fut clan.

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And there were many battles in the streets.

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And Bruce was very sure of himself and knew he could control himself,

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so the Gongsau matches, which are the fighting matches on the roof, happened a lot,

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and Bruce Lee was part of that.

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After being beaten once,

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Bruce Lee decided to learn a martial art that could be used in real-life situations.

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He started learning Wing Chun,

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and until he arrived in Seattle in 1959, he was a competent teacher.

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Taky Kimura was one of Bruce Lee's first students and closest friends.

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This young man at 18 was a holy terror, and athletic.

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I mean he was the Champion Chá-cha-cha dancer of Hong Kong.

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His brother was the Hong Kong Fencing Champion, so he became a voracious fencer and of course he did a lot of street boxing, you know, in fights and things like that.

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He had a pretty good tenure in boxing, and so this guy, when he came in, he was an athlete by all accounts.

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Taky Kimura was one of the followers of a small but dedicated group that Bruce Lee began teaching in Seattle.

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Another of his first students was his future wife, Linda.

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You would only go through one entrance here, and go down the basement steps,

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and it was just a bright room with concrete walls, and a flickering bulb light,

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and he had, oh, maybe 10 or 12 students at most one time in the class.

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In 1966, the couple moved to Los Angeles so Bruce could begin working on Green Hornet.

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He opened a gym in Oakland and also began teaching private students, including actors such as Steve McQueen and James Coburn.

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It was during this period that he began mixing different fighting styles to develop his own martial arts of Jeet Kune Do.

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He was frustrated with the limits of traditional martial arts.

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So if you did Karate, you wouldn't do ground fighting, or you wouldn't do throws.

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If you did Judo, you wouldn't throw punches or kicks.

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You see, if you did Kung-fu, you would have to stand a certain way and strike a certain way and do fixed combinations and movements,

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and he thought about all this, you were just getting into style and you were being impractical.

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You have to be adaptable, because fighting can be anywhere.

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The fight was not contained by rules.

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If someone is going to attack you, who would know what they would do?

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So you would have to be ready for anything.

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So that this is a truly revolutionary way of thinking.

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Since he created Jeet Kune Do, Bruce Lee's martial art has spread to areas like Scotland.

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This is Glasgow, one of the violent cities in Europe.

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More people die from attacks here than any other European city.

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Tommy Carruthers was a club doorman who joined Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do to protect himself from violent attacks.

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I would say the weapon of choice in Glasgow would be the knife.

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There's more stabbing here than anything else.

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Since entering Jeet Kune Do, he has become one of the best practitioners and one of the few people in the world qualified to teach it.

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He uses his Jeet Kune Do to train people in self-defense so that they can use it if attacked on the street.

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We're really trying to take the materials and apply them to real-life situations, 'the reason is that the guys are here, really, to know how to fight.

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Tommy Carruthers reveals the key to Jeet Kune Do:

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it's simplicity and economy, making it useful in a real attack.

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In some martial arts, an arm grab requires a series of complicated movements, but not in Jeet Kune Do.

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Traditional martial arts look like a tiring task that goes from point A to point B,

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there are many ways we can show you to give you an example.

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If you look at Bruce's idea,

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It's really just based on who will be closest and where your hands and feet are in relation to the opponent.

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I just feel, in this situation here

468
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because my leg is close to his knee but his groin feels like an easy target.

469
00:34:07,881 --> 00:34:10,926
So if I was grabbed, I feel like a groin attack would be easier.

470
00:34:10,926 --> 00:34:15,264
This would be a better way... a better move just doing this.

471
00:34:15,264 --> 00:34:17,349
And again, we could punch.

472
00:34:18,475 --> 00:34:23,397
Bruce Lee's revolutionary way of fighting was adopted across the world and in sports

473
00:34:23,397 --> 00:34:32,114
like the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Violent, competitive combat using mixed martial arts.

474
00:34:35,409 --> 00:34:37,286
He was always trying to understand the science of fighting,

475
00:34:37,286 --> 00:34:42,291
and the reality is, you have to have a little bit of everything to be a complete fighter

476
00:34:42,291 --> 00:34:47,796
This is what makes mixed martial arts and Bruce Lee is the father of mixed martial arts.

477
00:34:50,174 --> 00:34:55,554
Bruce Lee's daughter, Shannon, came to Las Vegas to see her father's influence on the action.

478
00:34:55,554 --> 00:34:57,556
He talked about Kenny Florian.

479
00:35:00,058 --> 00:35:02,603
My dad would have really enjoyed the UFC.

480
00:35:02,603 --> 00:35:07,399
I think he was, even from real combat.

481
00:35:07,399 --> 00:35:14,990
Your art is all about being a complete fighter and being able to control any situation you find yourself in.

482
00:35:14,990 --> 00:35:18,994
And so this really is the easiest way to achieve this.

483
00:35:20,037 --> 00:35:24,208
Mixed martial arts is now one of the fastest growing sports in the world.

484
00:35:24,374 --> 00:35:29,087
This UFC heavyweight title fight where the famous Randy Couture lost his crown to Brock Lesnar

485
00:35:29,087 --> 00:35:33,091
it was one of the biggest pay TV events of the year.

486
00:35:33,091 --> 00:35:38,722
It attracted more than a million viewers and generated more than 50 million dollars in sales.

487
00:35:38,931 --> 00:35:43,143
Bruce Lee's influence on the sport is recognized by many fighters.

488
00:35:43,143 --> 00:35:49,650
I have been watching his films, studying his martial art and philosophy since I was 8 to 10 years old.

489
00:35:49,650 --> 00:35:52,736
And it totally changed the way I fight.

490
00:35:54,321 --> 00:36:01,620
Once again it is Bruce Lee's focus on economy, simplicity, and being direct that resonates with UFC fighters.

491
00:36:02,412 --> 00:36:04,957
What Bruce Lee did was work in circular motion.

492
00:36:04,957 --> 00:36:10,587
So if that jab came, he would work on things like that, so he's opening up goals here.

493
00:36:10,587 --> 00:36:18,637
In Kickboxing nowadays, or MMA, we are doing the same type of movement, but we are just limiting it here so that our body is still exposed.

494
00:36:18,637 --> 00:36:23,934
So I can do things like knock people down, or I can avoid that punch to do a kick.

495
00:36:23,934 --> 00:36:28,522
But it's the same basic principle of redirecting movement.

496
00:36:28,605 --> 00:36:31,567
He said if you can't do something live, it's unwise.

497
00:36:31,567 --> 00:36:34,736
So what I need to do is take these tactics and these techniques,

498
00:36:34,736 --> 00:36:38,740
remove them, and put them in a live, fighting training scenario.

499
00:36:38,740 --> 00:36:42,536
And you have to learn what will work in these different scenarios,

500
00:36:42,536 --> 00:36:46,623
and can employ this immediately, without thinking, muscle memory.

501
00:36:47,249 --> 00:36:52,254
In "Enter the Dragon", in the first scene of the film, they have mixed martial arts gloves.

502
00:36:52,254 --> 00:36:56,049
These are almost exactly the same type of gloves we fight in today.

503
00:36:56,049 --> 00:36:59,511
So the gear he used before is the same gear we use today.

504
00:37:00,345 --> 00:37:03,765
And you see Bruce Lee hit it's takedown and go for an armbar,

505
00:37:03,765 --> 00:37:07,144
in which, before the UFC, the general public didn't know what an armbar was.

506
00:37:07,144 --> 00:37:14,568
But looking back now, 30, 40 years ago, we'll actually see before anyone knew what it was that he was employing these tactics.

507
00:37:16,612 --> 00:37:20,240
And while Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do revolutionized the world of martial arts,

508
00:37:20,240 --> 00:37:28,207
His approach to health and fitness would change the way other athletes and sports people train their bodies forever.

509
00:37:36,507 --> 00:37:42,971
Martial artists and sportsmen admired him for his physical prowess, strength and speed.

510
00:37:43,096 --> 00:37:48,227
Philosophers respect him for crossing the philosophical divide between east and west.

511
00:37:48,352 --> 00:37:51,396
But here at Gold's Gym in Venice Beach, California,

512
00:37:51,396 --> 00:38:00,405
is another group of people who have Bruce Lee as an inspiration for their community: bodybuilders.

513
00:38:12,459 --> 00:38:15,587
Gold's Gym is a bodybuilding Mecca.

514
00:38:15,921 --> 00:38:23,595
This is where Arnold Schwarzenegger trained, and where many world champion bodybuilders come to hone their physiques.

515
00:38:23,637 --> 00:38:27,558
Flex Wheeler was one of the most successful bodybuilders of his generation,

516
00:38:27,558 --> 00:38:31,311
winning numerous titles before retiring in 2002.

517
00:38:31,311 --> 00:38:35,691
Probably two of the biggest things Bruce Lee was known for were his physical attributes,

518
00:38:35,691 --> 00:38:40,696
one would be his sides, because he has incredible sides, and then also his abs.

519
00:38:40,696 --> 00:38:42,906
Another thing would also be from the back, your back.

520
00:38:42,906 --> 00:38:45,409
In bodybuilding, we call this a Christmas tree.

521
00:38:45,409 --> 00:38:51,915
So for a person, you know, having a Christmas tree back in that area is deeply unknown.

522
00:38:51,915 --> 00:38:58,797
Other bodybuilders such as Lou Ferrigno, Lee Haney, Dorian Yates, as well as Mr. Schwarzenegger

523
00:38:58,797 --> 00:39:03,802
everyone has expressed the enormous impacts of the physiques that Bruce Lee was using.

524
00:39:04,344 --> 00:39:11,602
There are a surprising number of professional bodybuilders who were fans of Bruce Lee, and indeed, it comes from Bruce Lee's abs.

525
00:39:11,602 --> 00:39:16,732
He's got a legendary set of abs, deep cuts, incredible saws of muscle.

526
00:39:16,732 --> 00:39:18,609
And I think bodybuilders admire that.

527
00:39:18,609 --> 00:39:23,697
In the bodybuilding world, I think Bruce Lee was really one of the first proponents of definitions rather than just size,

528
00:39:23,697 --> 00:39:28,702
because if you look at the bodybuilding champions of that era, they were all bulky. They were just huge.

529
00:39:28,702 --> 00:39:34,541
And he was actually the one who came in and said symmetry, definition, you know, having a cut was the big thing.

530
00:39:34,541 --> 00:39:38,754
But that was the first time... it was really with Bruce Lee that it became something to be inspired by.

531
00:39:39,671 --> 00:39:45,636
As an inspiring bodybuilder, Bruce Lee was also quick to use his techniques in his own work-outs.

532
00:39:45,636 --> 00:39:49,890
He was a good pioneer in a lot of different things, whether it was just diet or extra training.

533
00:39:49,890 --> 00:39:59,191
But he was one of the first that I knew of that actually incorporated, you know, bodybuilding and bodybuilding type of movements into his regimen as a martial artist.

534
00:39:59,191 --> 00:40:02,611
Back then, even today, they felt it training and lifting weights,

535
00:40:02,611 --> 00:40:06,615
it will restrict your punching ability, your speed, make you slow and heavy

536
00:40:06,615 --> 00:40:08,617
where I think he took it to a different level,

537
00:40:08,617 --> 00:40:14,623
and he created more sport specific movements into his current movements that he did in the gym.

538
00:40:14,623 --> 00:40:17,876
They were indeed to increase his skill as a fighter.

539
00:40:20,462 --> 00:40:26,802
The spur for Bruce Lee to begin weight training previously came in a fight in San Francisco in 1965.

540
00:40:26,802 --> 00:40:29,221
He had just started teaching Kung-fu.

541
00:40:29,221 --> 00:40:35,394
When a traditional practitioner of the art heard that Bruce Lee was teaching Westerners, he challenged him to a fight.

542
00:40:35,394 --> 00:40:38,647
A pregnant Linda Lee was there to witness this.

543
00:40:39,189 --> 00:40:41,441
It lasted approximately 3 minutes.

544
00:40:41,441 --> 00:40:45,487
Bruce took his opponent to the ground and said exactly, "Do you surrender? Do you surrender?"

545
00:40:45,487 --> 00:40:47,573
And he said "I surrender."

546
00:40:47,573 --> 00:40:50,492
Then they returned to San Francisco.

547
00:40:50,492 --> 00:40:58,417
However, this upset the powerful Bruce because he didn't dispatch that man before 3 minutes.

548
00:40:59,543 --> 00:41:06,675
It was then that he began to question his physical fitness and martial arts style.

549
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:11,513
Bruce Lee decided to re-examine both his fighting and training methods

550
00:41:11,513 --> 00:41:14,433
and began an intensive fitness program.

551
00:41:15,976 --> 00:41:18,979
He got a program for a single day.

552
00:41:18,979 --> 00:41:21,356
So he did aerobic exercise stuff.

553
00:41:21,356 --> 00:41:23,984
He rode his bike, he rode an exercise bike.

554
00:41:23,984 --> 00:41:25,194
He ran.

555
00:41:25,194 --> 00:41:26,695
He jumped rope.

556
00:41:26,695 --> 00:41:29,823
All those kinds of things for aerobic fitness.

557
00:41:29,823 --> 00:41:35,329
And then he always did push-ups, he did sit-ups with the wonderful washing board.

558
00:41:35,329 --> 00:41:39,458
And he strengthened by exercising with weights all the time.

559
00:41:39,458 --> 00:41:47,174
And he was very specific. He read kinesiology books so he would know how to develop his body.

560
00:41:47,341 --> 00:41:55,349
As he studied the science of human movement, Bruce Lee also designed his weight equipment built by a close friend.

561
00:41:56,475 --> 00:42:02,731
George Lee did a couple of things for him that was specifically to develop Bruce's grip strength and forearm size.

562
00:42:02,731 --> 00:42:06,109
Bruce found it led to an increase in punching power.

563
00:42:06,109 --> 00:42:13,158
But one was a device that you squeeze your fist and open and close to work the muscles in your forearm.

564
00:42:13,158 --> 00:42:16,954
This material that you see today in sporting goods stores is actually in many places.

565
00:42:17,621 --> 00:42:23,502
Bruce Lee is training the regiment that helped him achieve a high level of strength, speed and agility.

566
00:42:23,585 --> 00:42:26,630
Allowed him to perform feats of superhuman strength

567
00:42:26,630 --> 00:42:33,637
like two-finger push-ups seen here in rare footage of a 1967 Karate tournament.

568
00:42:37,266 --> 00:42:42,855
He has also perfected a super fast and powerful punch known as the one-inch punch.

569
00:42:43,647 --> 00:42:47,568
This guy was probably the fastest person I've ever seen,

570
00:42:47,568 --> 00:42:52,573
and he had that strength that, I mean, the one-inch punch, for example.

571
00:42:52,573 --> 00:42:54,700
He knocks you to the other side of the room.

572
00:42:54,700 --> 00:42:56,743
Lee's speed was legendary.

573
00:42:56,743 --> 00:43:02,040
Even when he's slowed down to 1/4 speed, his swing is still difficult to capture on camera.

574
00:43:02,541 --> 00:43:08,589
He could be standing 5 feet away from you, he could jump out of there, hit you in the face and he could get back into position.

575
00:43:08,589 --> 00:43:11,800
before you can move, before you can intercept it.

576
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:15,721
And every time, they would say, "Well, wait a minute. I wasn't ready."

577
00:43:15,721 --> 00:43:22,561
And he would do it about two more times, and they would say, "Oh, hell!" You know, "I can't take this," you know.

578
00:43:24,646 --> 00:43:29,484
I really think that the speed and timing that Bruce Lee had was,

579
00:43:29,484 --> 00:43:33,405
of conditioning and strength and the way he worked his body.

580
00:43:33,405 --> 00:43:37,159
He was really, really worried about his fast-twitch muscles.

581
00:43:37,159 --> 00:43:42,372
The one-inch punch he developed, one of the fastest and most used punches still used today.

582
00:43:42,372 --> 00:43:46,376
And this obviously transfers to the Boxing side.

583
00:43:46,376 --> 00:43:51,131
This ability to pack a punch has been recognized by some of the best boxers in the world.

584
00:43:51,131 --> 00:43:52,966
That was the most surprising thing about Bruce, was the fact

585
00:43:52,966 --> 00:43:56,970
him being able to generate speed and so much speed in his punches,

586
00:43:56,970 --> 00:44:04,978
short punches that he used his body and his type of influence he could gain

587
00:44:04,978 --> 00:44:10,984
because he knew... he understood the mechanics of the body.

588
00:44:10,984 --> 00:44:14,780
Bruce Lee didn't just limit himself to exercising his muscles.

589
00:44:14,905 --> 00:44:18,408
He also worried about the fuel he was putting into his body.

590
00:44:18,408 --> 00:44:21,370
He started experimenting with high-protein drinks

591
00:44:21,370 --> 00:44:27,376
which he mixed and supplemented with ginseng, royal jelly, and voluminous doses of vitamins.

592
00:44:27,376 --> 00:44:30,295
He was very well known for taking vitamins and minerals and filling it up like that,

593
00:44:30,295 --> 00:44:33,090
and he had to find these diverse differences and bring them together,

594
00:44:33,090 --> 00:44:37,386
where now we can go into any store and buy certain supplements like that.

595
00:44:37,386 --> 00:44:42,641
So a lot of the things he was doing previously as an athlete are things that we incorporate into bodybuilding now.

596
00:44:42,933 --> 00:44:50,065
Bruce Lee's approach to high-protein drinks was revolutionary and shocked some of his colleagues when he returned to Hong Kong.

597
00:44:52,192 --> 00:44:56,738
At that time, when we weren't making movies, we went to his house.

598
00:44:56,738 --> 00:45:00,576
He showed us how he ate beef, raw beef from the USA,

599
00:45:00,576 --> 00:45:06,164
He put the raw beef in the blender and added milk, seven eggs, and then... wow.

600
00:45:06,206 --> 00:45:07,708
But I think yours was,

601
00:45:07,875 --> 00:45:09,001
We were terrified.

602
00:45:09,001 --> 00:45:11,503
This was surprising.

603
00:45:19,720 --> 00:45:23,932
And it wasn't just her high-protein smoothies that shocked her friends.

604
00:45:28,061 --> 00:45:30,480
Sometimes he used electric current.

605
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:35,277
He was really furious, as he voluntarily gave himself electric shocks.

606
00:45:35,277 --> 00:45:37,446
He was struggling with the electricity.

607
00:45:37,863 --> 00:45:39,823
Of course, we couldn't do this.

608
00:45:39,907 --> 00:45:42,618
I don't know how many volts the electricity was,

609
00:45:42,618 --> 00:45:45,245
but he was defying electricity.

610
00:45:45,245 --> 00:45:47,289
You know, it's really funny that nowadays if you go

611
00:45:47,289 --> 00:45:51,418
at any professional sports game, thopedist or physical therapist place,

612
00:45:51,418 --> 00:45:55,005
you go in there and you see them using the electronic stimulation machines

613
00:45:55,005 --> 00:45:57,341
to rebuild muscles to help damaged areas.

614
00:45:57,341 --> 00:46:00,385
But a way before that was used in every doctor's room,

615
00:46:00,385 --> 00:46:03,722
you saw Bruce Lee doing this in his own home.

616
00:46:03,722 --> 00:46:07,392
He was just a true pioneer and way ahead of his time.

617
00:46:08,101 --> 00:46:11,271
Attitudes revolutionizing health and physical fitness

618
00:46:11,271 --> 00:46:15,192
It's just one of the many ways Bruce Lee changed the world.

619
00:46:15,651 --> 00:46:19,154
But while the West was quick to recognize his achievements,

620
00:46:19,154 --> 00:46:21,990
it was only recently that China and Hong Kong

621
00:46:21,990 --> 00:46:25,786
began hugging his best-known son.

622
00:46:33,210 --> 00:46:34,503
Already over 35 years old

623
00:46:34,503 --> 00:46:38,507
since the man was universally hailed as the king of martial arts films

624
00:46:38,507 --> 00:46:42,594
dead after making just four Kung-fu films.

625
00:46:43,136 --> 00:46:44,304
Since his death,

626
00:46:44,304 --> 00:46:46,974
Bruce Lee has been recognized as a visionary

627
00:46:46,974 --> 00:46:49,935
that not only action films and martial arts have changed

628
00:46:49,935 --> 00:46:54,022
but also philosophy, music, and pop culture.

629
00:46:59,361 --> 00:47:04,575
Almost 50 years after Bruce Lee arrived in Hong Kong to make his first Kung-fu film,

630
00:47:04,575 --> 00:47:07,119
his daughter, Shannon, is returning.

631
00:47:07,119 --> 00:47:09,580
She's here to meet her father's old friends

632
00:47:09,580 --> 00:47:13,709
and to promote the Bruce Lee Foundation that she now runs.

633
00:47:15,002 --> 00:47:19,423
Film producer Raymond Chow was Bruce Lee's friend and business partner.

634
00:47:19,423 --> 00:47:21,800
As director of Golden Harvest studios,

635
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,678
he was the biggest film producer in Hong Kong.

636
00:47:24,678 --> 00:47:27,890
Now aged 80, he stopped doing interviews a while ago

637
00:47:27,890 --> 00:47:31,185
but decided to make an exception for Shannon, the daughter,

638
00:47:31,185 --> 00:47:36,356
of a man he first saw almost 40 years ago on a TV talk show.

639
00:47:36,356 --> 00:47:38,609
It was a fatal night that I watched,

640
00:47:38,609 --> 00:47:42,821
so I decided to call him first in the morning.

641
00:47:42,821 --> 00:47:50,120
And I would say that was the beginning of something important in the film industry.

642
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:55,417
Bruce Lee changed the way actors were treated by studios negotiating his own contract

643
00:47:55,417 --> 00:48:01,298
and taking a creative role in the script, production, direction, and choreography of his films.

644
00:48:01,298 --> 00:48:05,594
You and my father had an interesting and

645
00:48:05,594 --> 00:48:09,681
a revolutionary relationship for the Hong Kong film industry, right?

646
00:48:09,681 --> 00:48:10,224
Yes.

647
00:48:10,224 --> 00:48:12,851
I think this is the only way to do it,

648
00:48:12,851 --> 00:48:20,692
and avoids a lot of problems when negotiating things,

649
00:48:20,692 --> 00:48:25,781
and Bruce and I had such an intimate relationship.

650
00:48:25,781 --> 00:48:27,908
He didn't want to have that.

651
00:48:27,908 --> 00:48:29,785
I didn't want to have that.

652
00:48:31,370 --> 00:48:35,123
The first film Bruce Lee made with Raymond Chow was "The Chinese Dragon",

653
00:48:35,123 --> 00:48:39,461
about the struggle of the Chinese community in Bangkok.

654
00:48:39,461 --> 00:48:40,879
Remember your promise.

655
00:48:40,879 --> 00:48:42,422
You are on your own from now on.

656
00:48:42,422 --> 00:48:46,510
You know, boy, a woman can be a blessing or a bane to a man.

657
00:48:46,510 --> 00:48:52,391
"The Chinese Dragon" was a classic example of the way a Hong Kong film went at that time,

658
00:48:52,391 --> 00:48:56,436
which was quick, cheap, and a little out of control.

659
00:48:57,104 --> 00:49:01,859
Having let America make a name for itself in the East, it was an important film for Lee.

660
00:49:01,859 --> 00:49:03,193
The budget was made with almost no capital,

661
00:49:03,277 --> 00:49:09,199
and he struggled to turn an incomplete script into a coherent, captivating story.

662
00:49:11,326 --> 00:49:13,871
Knowing the film could be made or it could break,

663
00:49:13,871 --> 00:49:17,499
Bruce Lee sat nervously with his wife, Linda, at the premiere.

664
00:49:17,499 --> 00:49:21,753
When the movie ended, it was perfectly calm.

665
00:49:21,753 --> 00:49:24,798
You could hear a pin drop in that theater,

666
00:49:24,798 --> 00:49:25,883
and Bruce was like,

667
00:49:25,883 --> 00:49:29,553
"oh my god, did I excel or not"

668
00:49:29,553 --> 00:49:34,474
and then suddenly, the applause began to clap.

669
00:49:34,474 --> 00:49:35,642
They loved it.

670
00:49:35,642 --> 00:49:38,687
They were emotional, and so was Bruce.

671
00:49:38,687 --> 00:49:39,605
It was wonderful.

672
00:49:39,605 --> 00:49:41,148
They escorted him outside.

673
00:49:41,148 --> 00:49:42,691
They lifted him on their shoulders,

674
00:49:42,691 --> 00:49:46,111
and he was from then on their hero.

675
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:49,823
There was also a 24-year-old assistant director at the hearing

676
00:49:49,823 --> 00:49:52,409
to make the first film at his discretion.

677
00:49:52,409 --> 00:49:54,036
John Woo would become

678
00:49:54,036 --> 00:49:57,039
one of the most influential action film directors of his generation,

679
00:49:57,122 --> 00:50:04,004
responsible for films such as The Last Threat, The Other Face and Mission: Impossible II.

680
00:50:04,087 --> 00:50:06,006
When people watched the movie,

681
00:50:06,006 --> 00:50:07,841
they didn't know how to react,

682
00:50:07,841 --> 00:50:09,510
because, you know, it's so new.

683
00:50:09,510 --> 00:50:11,345
It's so different.

684
00:50:11,345 --> 00:50:15,224
It's so different from other martial arts films.

685
00:50:15,224 --> 00:50:21,104
You know Bruce's performance is very powerful.

686
00:50:21,104 --> 00:50:22,940
And then after the end credits,

687
00:50:22,940 --> 00:50:24,483
they were all very happy,

688
00:50:24,483 --> 00:50:27,194
and everyone was happy and clapping, you know.

689
00:50:27,194 --> 00:50:29,863
I think at that moment... I mean,

690
00:50:29,863 --> 00:50:34,451
that night, we found our true hero.

691
00:50:34,952 --> 00:50:38,247
And that night, Bruce Lee became a legend.

692
00:50:38,956 --> 00:50:41,875
Despite costing less than US$100,000,

693
00:50:41,875 --> 00:50:45,295
"The Chinese Dragon" broke all box office records.

694
00:50:45,295 --> 00:50:47,130
But even before the premiere,

695
00:50:47,130 --> 00:50:51,677
Bruce Lee had already started working on his next film, "Rage of the Dragon",

696
00:50:51,677 --> 00:50:56,181
a film that would help create a sense of patriotism in Hong Kong.

697
00:50:56,473 --> 00:50:57,641
At the beginning of the film,

698
00:50:57,641 --> 00:51:02,020
the sign said "Dong Ya Bing Fu", "Sick Man of Asia" and he comes back,
there's this whole thing where they give it to him

699
00:51:02,062 --> 00:51:03,981
and he says, "People of Hong Kong"...

700
00:51:03,981 --> 00:51:05,607
The Chinese people are not sick men of Asia,

701
00:51:05,607 --> 00:51:09,570
and I think that the people of Hong Kong are not sick men,

702
00:51:09,570 --> 00:51:10,988
they carried the message...

703
00:51:10,988 --> 00:51:14,074
they took that message to heart, and they rejoiced.

704
00:51:14,074 --> 00:51:16,743
He was truly like the prodigal son who returns

705
00:51:16,743 --> 00:51:20,747
to be embraced by Hong Kong as a community.

706
00:51:20,747 --> 00:51:22,457
But I think your place was,

707
00:51:22,457 --> 00:51:27,171
he was part of a movement to create an indigenous identity

708
00:51:27,171 --> 00:51:30,174
for the people of Hong Kong, and I think that identity continues to this day.

709
00:51:30,174 --> 00:51:33,552
In the 1970s, China achieved the Cultural Revolution,

710
00:51:33,552 --> 00:51:37,890
which was a bloody and horrific interval in modern Chinese history

711
00:51:37,890 --> 00:51:40,350
where hundreds of thousands of people died.

712
00:51:40,350 --> 00:51:41,977
Children returned to their parents.

713
00:51:41,977 --> 00:51:43,270
It was terrible.

714
00:51:43,270 --> 00:51:45,147
And you saw people running outside of China,

715
00:51:45,147 --> 00:51:48,817
fleeing to Hong Kong and saying, "our country is drowning in blood"

716
00:51:48,817 --> 00:51:51,069
people were not proud of that China.

717
00:51:51,069 --> 00:51:53,447
So instead of them being proud of this mythological China,

718
00:51:53,447 --> 00:51:57,242
and the place that mythological China came from in films.

719
00:51:57,242 --> 00:52:00,037
It was like buying a movie ticket

720
00:52:00,037 --> 00:52:04,625
it was like acquiring a passport where you knew that in your heart was the real China.

721
00:52:04,625 --> 00:52:08,378
And that was one of the things that Bruce Lee saw.

722
00:52:08,378 --> 00:52:11,215
For many Chinese, the strong character

723
00:52:11,215 --> 00:52:15,385
represented by Bruce Lee was revolutionary and inspiring.

724
00:52:15,385 --> 00:52:20,432
We were so weak, and had been put down by so many.

725
00:52:20,432 --> 00:52:22,392
So after "Dragon's Rage",

726
00:52:22,392 --> 00:52:24,811
they feel that they are not sick anymore,

727
00:52:24,811 --> 00:52:28,649
and they become strong, and all because of Bruce Lee.

728
00:52:31,902 --> 00:52:33,737
We are not sick men.

729
00:52:36,740 --> 00:52:40,577
As in "The Chinese Dragon", Bruce Lee represented a nationalist hero.

730
00:52:40,577 --> 00:52:43,455
The character struck a chord with Chinese audiences,

731
00:52:43,455 --> 00:52:46,166
then with his third film "The Flight of the Dragon",

732
00:52:46,166 --> 00:52:48,752
he acted on the same themes.

733
00:52:48,752 --> 00:52:53,048
This fight scene with karate champion Chuck Norris in Rome's coliseum

734
00:52:53,048 --> 00:52:56,844
is celebrated by martial arts fans as the greatest classic of all time.

735
00:53:13,235 --> 00:53:17,614
Once again, Lee acts with his head held high and softens the Chinese character

736
00:53:17,614 --> 00:53:20,158
who defeats his non-Chinese enemy.

737
00:53:21,201 --> 00:53:29,209
It had also influenced me to make my own film with the true Chinese spirit.

738
00:53:29,334 --> 00:53:31,837
You know, that's how I was influenced.

739
00:53:31,837 --> 00:53:37,467
And it also makes me believe that if you work hard,

740
00:53:38,260 --> 00:53:43,182
you are successful, you see, like Bruce Lee.

741
00:53:43,182 --> 00:53:47,227
Today, decades after becoming an unparalleled star in Hong Kong,

742
00:53:47,227 --> 00:53:51,023
Bruce Lee is now embraced as an icon for everyone in China.

743
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:54,568
In recognition of his contribution to Chinese culture,

744
00:53:54,568 --> 00:53:58,530
authorities there are opening a $25 million theme park

745
00:53:58,530 --> 00:54:01,909
close to Bruce Lee's ancestral home of Shunde.

746
00:54:02,743 --> 00:54:04,620
You know, it's my family's ancestral home,

747
00:54:04,620 --> 00:54:07,122
So I always wanted to go and...

748
00:54:07,122 --> 00:54:09,625
and just see it from a historical point of view.

749
00:54:09,625 --> 00:54:11,877
And it's a very interesting journey for me,

750
00:54:11,877 --> 00:54:16,089
because I have never actually crossed the border from Hong Kong into China.

751
00:54:16,089 --> 00:54:18,342
So this will be the first time I go there,

752
00:54:18,342 --> 00:54:21,970
traveling by bus, and I'm really excited to see this.

753
00:54:21,970 --> 00:54:25,349
Also see what they have of my father there, you know.

754
00:54:26,266 --> 00:54:28,602
Before Shannon's visits to the theme park,

755
00:54:28,602 --> 00:54:31,271
she was invited to see her grandfather's house

756
00:54:31,271 --> 00:54:35,108
to be part of a traditional incense burning ceremony.

757
00:54:46,078 --> 00:54:49,998
Word spreads about Shannon's visit, and the entire town shows up to welcome her.

758
00:54:49,998 --> 00:54:51,708
Thank you very much.

759
00:54:52,584 --> 00:54:56,338
It concluded with a similar to Bruce Lee spinning nunchaku.

760
00:54:59,716 --> 00:55:03,846
The park spans more than 1.9 million square meters.

761
00:55:03,846 --> 00:55:09,643
As well as a museum, it will eventually host a 60-foot tall statue of Bruce Lee.

762
00:55:10,018 --> 00:55:13,689
For decades, the Chinese government banned Bruce Lee's films.

763
00:55:13,689 --> 00:55:17,776
But as attitudes toward free enterprise and individualism softened,

764
00:55:17,776 --> 00:55:22,739
they realized that Bruce Lee is an ideal icon for the new China.

765
00:55:24,950 --> 00:55:28,245
Your spirit is the same as that of the Chinese people,

766
00:55:28,245 --> 00:55:34,626
which is never say die, never be inflexible, and keep striving,

767
00:55:34,626 --> 00:55:37,629
values that are promoted today in China.

768
00:55:39,798 --> 00:55:43,427
The museum in China seems set to be followed before anyone in Hong Kong,

769
00:55:43,427 --> 00:55:47,848
where they intend to turn Bruce Lee's former home into a museum.

770
00:55:48,015 --> 00:55:50,893
Bruce moved into this house in 1971

771
00:55:50,893 --> 00:55:53,896
and lived there until his death in 1973.

772
00:55:53,896 --> 00:55:57,441
This is the first time Shannon has been back there since.

773
00:55:57,441 --> 00:56:00,068
I lived here from two to four years old.

774
00:56:00,068 --> 00:56:02,571
You know, this... looks a lot different than it did before.

775
00:56:02,571 --> 00:56:03,780
It was much more than a house.

776
00:56:03,780 --> 00:56:05,949
There was grass, and so it's a little different.

777
00:56:05,949 --> 00:56:09,494
But it's very pleasant, very reminiscent for me to be back here.

778
00:56:12,164 --> 00:56:15,709
Yu Panglin is a billionaire property and hotel owner

779
00:56:15,709 --> 00:56:18,754
and one of China's greatest generous philanthropists.

780
00:56:18,754 --> 00:56:21,048
He agreed to donate the house to the government

781
00:56:21,048 --> 00:56:26,470
as soon as they let him expand the building to include a cinema, shops, and a library.

782
00:56:26,470 --> 00:56:28,514
I think this is a good compromise.

783
00:56:28,514 --> 00:56:31,517
I think my father, although he was born in the USA,

784
00:56:31,517 --> 00:56:32,643
he grew up here.

785
00:56:32,643 --> 00:56:34,853
His family lived here.

786
00:56:34,853 --> 00:56:38,148
Shunde is very close to here,

787
00:56:38,148 --> 00:56:41,026
so it seems really good for there, to be a museum here.

788
00:56:41,026 --> 00:56:44,738
But, you know, Hong Kong is a busy, busy, variable place.

789
00:56:44,738 --> 00:56:48,534
It's difficult to find a space dedicated to things like this.

790
00:56:48,534 --> 00:56:57,042
And so, you know, now that he's willing to donate, this seems like a good idea,

791
00:56:57,042 --> 00:56:59,795
So I think it makes sense for everyone.

792
00:56:59,920 --> 00:57:05,467
News from this museum coincides with another sign from the Chinese government that it is relaxing its stance

793
00:57:05,467 --> 00:57:07,845
with the broadcast of a 50-episode TV series

794
00:57:07,845 --> 00:57:12,057
on the CCTV channel called the Legend of Bruce Lee.

795
00:57:12,558 --> 00:57:14,059
Wah!

796
00:57:14,059 --> 00:57:14,977
Hoo! Wah!

797
00:57:14,977 --> 00:57:17,104
Yah!

798
00:57:17,104 --> 00:57:19,273
Hoo!

799
00:57:19,273 --> 00:57:23,569
It's not available on Hong Kong TV, so tonight will be the first time

800
00:57:23,569 --> 00:57:27,030
many Bruce Lee fans here will be able to see this.

801
00:57:27,573 --> 00:57:29,658
That was amazing,

802
00:57:29,658 --> 00:57:34,204
and this guy gives you a new understanding of how cool he is like...

803
00:57:34,288 --> 00:57:39,168
you know, as a martial artist, as a family man, and, you know, as a professional.

804
00:57:39,168 --> 00:57:44,464
I think it's really incredible that China wanted to embrace my father like this.

805
00:57:44,464 --> 00:57:48,886
You know, I think they look at my father as someone who influenced the world.

806
00:57:48,886 --> 00:57:54,224
He ordered to cross the gap, as you will, between East and West, and he did it 35 years ago.

807
00:57:54,224 --> 00:57:57,477
And now here is China going out into the world,

808
00:57:57,477 --> 00:57:59,563
having an essentially outgoing coming to the world,

809
00:57:59,563 --> 00:58:03,525
and so I think they see it in some ways as a metaphor

810
00:58:03,525 --> 00:58:06,486
for them, and they're really embracing it.

811
00:58:06,486 --> 00:58:10,782
It took more than 35 years for China to embrace its most famous son.

812
00:58:10,782 --> 00:58:15,454
The huge series became the most watched TV dramas in the channel's history,

813
00:58:15,454 --> 00:58:19,458
and unbelievably, the techniques used in filming and fighting scenes

814
00:58:19,583 --> 00:58:23,670
these were guided more than 35 years ago by Bruce Lee,

815
00:58:23,670 --> 00:58:27,966
when he changed the way action movies had always been done.

816
00:58:36,058 --> 00:58:40,395
Hong Kong was for many years the action film capital of the world.

817
00:58:40,395 --> 00:58:44,775
Bruce Lee returned here in 1970 to make his four Kung-fu films

818
00:58:44,775 --> 00:58:48,612
and revolutionized the way movie fight scenes were filmed.

819
00:58:49,154 --> 00:58:50,656
Do you want to fight?

820
00:58:51,823 --> 00:58:53,659
I fight with you.

821
00:58:53,825 --> 00:58:56,453
Cut!

822
00:58:56,453 --> 00:58:59,540
Stunt coordinator Thomas Sinn is a Kung-fu master

823
00:58:59,540 --> 00:59:03,043
who chose martial arts after seeing Bruce Lee.

824
00:59:03,460 --> 00:59:07,589
He's thinking, he's fighting, and the images in his films are still innovative today.

825
00:59:07,589 --> 00:59:10,884
He was advanced dozens of years ahead of us.

826
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:16,932
Today he is practicing with the steel cable,

827
00:59:16,932 --> 00:59:21,228
where a stuntman is attached to steel cables to imitate the way of flying.

828
00:59:24,022 --> 00:59:26,859
It is a technique that is used in Hong Kong film production

829
00:59:26,859 --> 00:59:32,573
for almost 50 years and the best known film of this type is "The Tiger and the Dragon".

830
00:59:39,413 --> 00:59:42,499
Despite having carte blanche to use special effects,

831
00:59:42,499 --> 00:59:44,793
it was something Bruce Lee avoided.

832
00:59:44,793 --> 00:59:47,546
For Lee, realism was everything.

833
00:59:47,546 --> 00:59:52,259
The portrayal of his martial arts had to be as close to real life as possible.

834
00:59:54,011 --> 00:59:55,888
When you look at the guys who came before him,

835
00:59:55,888 --> 00:59:58,682
especially in Hong Kong cinema, these films contained

836
00:59:58,682 --> 01:00:01,268
with very few authentic martial arts.

837
01:00:01,268 --> 01:00:07,107
Mainly due to many trampolines and steel cables.

838
01:00:07,107 --> 01:00:09,651
Look at the Chinese boxer, the fight scenes are terrible.

839
01:00:09,651 --> 01:00:12,154
He swings his arms a lot and people fall for it

840
01:00:12,154 --> 01:00:14,156
and then some very obvious and clumsy uses of steel cable

841
01:00:14,156 --> 01:00:18,160
when people throw themselves straight into the air or jump off trampolines.

842
01:00:19,077 --> 01:00:22,789
Donnie Yen is one of the biggest names in Hong Kong cinema.

843
01:00:22,831 --> 01:00:27,044
He has appeared in more than 30 action films in Hong Kong and Hollywood,

844
01:00:27,044 --> 01:00:31,089
including "Hit or Run" with Jackie Chan and "Hero".

845
01:00:31,590 --> 01:00:35,427
Bruce Lee believed he had authentic martial arts,

846
01:00:35,427 --> 01:00:36,762
being an authentic martial artist

847
01:00:36,762 --> 01:00:40,974
being a martial arts actor who was the first to come out and say:

848
01:00:40,974 --> 01:00:42,809
"Look, you have to be realistic."

849
01:00:42,809 --> 01:00:45,812
"When you kick, when you punch you have to be real."

850
01:00:48,315 --> 01:00:50,984
Bruce Lee was renowned for doing his own stunts

851
01:00:50,984 --> 01:00:53,987
but he would fight stuntmen in his films.

852
01:00:53,987 --> 01:00:59,159
Jackie Chan began his film career as a stuntman in "Rage of the Dragon" and "Enter the Dragon."

853
01:00:59,159 --> 01:01:03,372
He felt that Lee's quest for realism came with a price.

854
01:01:03,956 --> 01:01:07,501
He threw a bat straight at my head.

855
01:01:09,044 --> 01:01:13,924
I just... Aah, I do the reaction, I don't do anything and bang, I fall,

856
01:01:13,924 --> 01:01:20,889
but he just bang, did everything he liked to do, finished, get out and then cut.

857
01:01:21,139 --> 01:01:26,103
Bruce Lee was demanding in his attempts to make realistic fight scenes.

858
01:01:26,103 --> 01:01:28,772
But he was nice to the stuntmen.

859
01:01:30,107 --> 01:01:38,031
I only hear "Oh my God!" and probably some dirty words from some astonished people, you know.

860
01:01:38,031 --> 01:01:42,536
Dropped the bat, ran to me and picked me up "I'm terribly sorry."

861
01:01:42,536 --> 01:01:44,037
I said "I'm fine, I'm fine".

862
01:01:44,037 --> 01:01:45,163
You know, "I'm fine."

863
01:01:45,163 --> 01:01:48,000
I'm a stuntman, never say it hurts.

864
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:49,376
I'm fine, no, no, no.

865
01:01:49,376 --> 01:01:55,966
And he touches me, kisses my face, you know he does all this but I'm really in pain.

866
01:01:57,593 --> 01:01:59,970
Lee's use of realistic martial arts

867
01:01:59,970 --> 01:02:03,974
combined with the speed and director's eye it was ground-breaking.

868
01:02:04,683 --> 01:02:08,395
Bruce Lee completely revolutionized the way...

869
01:02:08,395 --> 01:02:11,398
unarmed combat that would be presented on screen or Bruce Lee would have done

870
01:02:11,398 --> 01:02:14,401
because he worked in Hollywood with so many qualified film directors.

871
01:02:14,401 --> 01:02:16,737
He came and learned which lens to use,

872
01:02:16,737 --> 01:02:20,073
how to move the camera, where to edit.

873
01:02:20,073 --> 01:02:22,910
These are... the ones who make their struggle so remarkable,

874
01:02:22,910 --> 01:02:24,912
the technique was sometimes really basic.

875
01:02:24,912 --> 01:02:28,165
The way he filmed was revolutionary.

876
01:02:28,373 --> 01:02:31,502
Yes, your action is a kind of new path of action.

877
01:02:31,502 --> 01:02:35,339
You know, he changed the whole thing.

878
01:02:35,339 --> 01:02:40,177
You know, because we've never seen anyone fight like that.

879
01:02:42,387 --> 01:02:48,060
All that, so fast and slow, he did it with tension and then release.

880
01:02:49,770 --> 01:02:53,065
The scenes would move then stop, then move again.

881
01:02:53,065 --> 01:02:55,234
Bruce Lee really did it stylized,

882
01:02:55,234 --> 01:02:58,111
really built this and turned it into something that...

883
01:02:58,111 --> 01:03:00,572
I think this is the influence for Western films.

884
01:03:02,157 --> 01:03:04,701
He did it by entertaining fighters.

885
01:03:04,701 --> 01:03:05,994
He made it fun.

886
01:03:05,994 --> 01:03:07,204
He made it dramatic.

887
01:03:07,204 --> 01:03:08,705
He made it emotional.

888
01:03:08,705 --> 01:03:12,835
And he really brought martial arts to the rest of the world.

889
01:03:15,337 --> 01:03:21,093
But Bruce Lee almost disappeared, as quickly as he emerged on July 20, 1973,

890
01:03:21,093 --> 01:03:26,098
dying of cerebral edema just weeks before the premiere of "Enter the Dragon."

891
01:03:26,098 --> 01:03:30,853
The cause was posted as an allergic reaction to a painkiller.

892
01:03:31,645 --> 01:03:34,273
His death sent shockwaves around the world,

893
01:03:34,273 --> 01:03:38,277
holding the largest public gathering in Hong Kong history.

894
01:03:38,443 --> 01:03:39,862
He was laid to rest in Seattle

895
01:03:39,862 --> 01:03:45,909
with former students Steve McQueen and James Coburn as pallbearers.

896
01:03:46,910 --> 01:03:50,706
I had decided to send Bruce's body back to Seattle.

897
01:03:51,331 --> 01:03:56,336
It was not a popular opinion in Hong Kong because,

898
01:03:56,378 --> 01:04:06,388
They thought Bruce was their son in Hong Kong, but that's what I decided.

899
01:04:10,893 --> 01:04:13,312
Bruce Lee's sudden death left empty

900
01:04:13,312 --> 01:04:17,316
as the world clamored to see more of this new Asian superstar.

901
01:04:17,316 --> 01:04:21,236
An explosion of film-based Bruce Lee imitators emerged,

902
01:04:21,236 --> 01:04:26,241
completely inspiring a genre of film, known as Bruceploitation.

903
01:04:27,951 --> 01:04:32,164
The whole Bruceploitation genre actually happened after his death in the 70s

904
01:04:32,164 --> 01:04:34,166
how film producers in Hong Kong were desperate to find,

905
01:04:34,166 --> 01:04:37,169
You know, someone to make some money off.

906
01:04:37,169 --> 01:04:40,631
And right after he died it was Bruce Lao, this Bruce,

907
01:04:40,631 --> 01:04:42,633
Bruce jumps on top of the fruit, Bruce Jackson from Compton,

908
01:04:42,633 --> 01:04:45,636
you know, it was all these Bruce.

909
01:04:45,928 --> 01:04:47,262
There is only one.

910
01:04:47,262 --> 01:04:50,307
They managed to have over fifty to one hundred film titles,

911
01:04:50,307 --> 01:04:55,312
where Bruce's name was on this, that they didn't have Bruce Lee.

912
01:04:55,354 --> 01:04:59,733
They had been at least dozens or more Asian actors

913
01:04:59,733 --> 01:05:05,739
who were called Bruce Lee by advertisers.

914
01:05:05,739 --> 01:05:06,406
They don't even know about it

915
01:05:06,406 --> 01:05:10,327
because these films were made in Hong Kong and then went out into the world.

916
01:05:10,786 --> 01:05:16,792
Bruce Lee was working on his fifth film when he died, called "Game of Death".

917
01:05:16,792 --> 01:05:21,797
He had filmed what would amount to 11 minutes and seven seconds of edited footage

918
01:05:21,797 --> 01:05:25,801
how he fought three types of martial arts on his way to a pagoda.

919
01:05:25,801 --> 01:05:32,266
What Bruce was trying to convey in "Game of Death" was how to deal with different forms.

920
01:05:32,266 --> 01:05:37,062
Aah. A martial artist going against people who use different fighting styles,

921
01:05:37,062 --> 01:05:40,107
and has surpassed each of them.

922
01:05:40,107 --> 01:05:43,569
Therefore, in order to do this, you have to be versatile.

923
01:05:43,569 --> 01:05:47,781
You can't just take the same approach to deal with different problems.

924
01:05:47,781 --> 01:05:51,243
But the footage presented in the studio had a major problem.

925
01:05:51,243 --> 01:05:54,371
How to finish the movie without Bruce Lee.

926
01:05:54,371 --> 01:06:00,627
Over the years, Bruce passed away and then the Hong Kong film studio Golden Harvest

927
01:06:00,627 --> 01:06:04,631
I wanted to do something with the existing "Game of Death" film.

928
01:06:04,631 --> 01:06:07,384
And I believe they made two movies,

929
01:06:07,384 --> 01:06:15,350
and spliced parts of Bruce and parts of this other actor into another actor.

930
01:06:15,350 --> 01:06:17,978
And it looks spliced.

931
01:06:19,354 --> 01:06:20,606
It seems like a joke.

932
01:06:20,606 --> 01:06:22,858
It looks like a fun

933
01:06:22,858 --> 01:06:25,861
because of the attempts to make him look like Bruce in the first part of the film.

934
01:06:25,861 --> 01:06:30,490
I felt ridiculous. There was a scene where the body double's face

935
01:06:30,490 --> 01:06:34,494
is obscured by tacking a photo of Bruce to a mirror.

936
01:06:38,248 --> 01:06:41,502
Among the many imitators of Bruce Lee who appeared after his death,

937
01:06:41,502 --> 01:06:45,506
few actors who emerged began to establish themselves

938
01:06:45,506 --> 01:06:47,508
with unique talents in their own rights.

939
01:06:47,508 --> 01:06:50,511
Two of the most successful were former stuntmen

940
01:06:50,511 --> 01:06:55,516
and members of the Peking Opera school: Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan.

941
01:06:55,933 --> 01:06:58,727
Really the guy who was smart about this was Jackie Chan

942
01:06:58,727 --> 01:07:01,772
when he finally got around to having some luck, let's say, in the direction of his career,

943
01:07:01,772 --> 01:07:03,774
stopped trying to imitate Bruce,

944
01:07:03,774 --> 01:07:09,780
and you know that Bruce's spirit found its part, making Kung-fu comedies.

945
01:07:09,780 --> 01:07:14,576
After Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan is the biggest name in Kung-fu and action films.

946
01:07:14,576 --> 01:07:17,371
Nowadays to be found in Beijing more than Hollywood,

947
01:07:17,371 --> 01:07:22,376
he has long struggled with being hailed as the next Bruce Lee.

948
01:07:22,376 --> 01:07:23,752
No one can be a Bruce Lee.

949
01:07:23,752 --> 01:07:25,045
There is only one Bruce Lee.

950
01:07:25,045 --> 01:07:28,090
But every martial arts director

951
01:07:28,090 --> 01:07:32,094
I want every actor to become a second Bruce Lee.

952
01:07:32,094 --> 01:07:35,806
The way you aim, the way you fight.

953
01:07:35,806 --> 01:07:37,474
Nobody can do it for them.

954
01:07:37,474 --> 01:07:42,479
But the public knows he is the best.

955
01:07:43,230 --> 01:07:44,898
Bruce Lee is the best.

956
01:07:45,399 --> 01:07:47,276
Jackie has appeared in over a hundred films,

957
01:07:47,276 --> 01:07:53,282
but is best known in the West for his appearance alongside Chris Tucker in the "Rush Hour" trilogy,

958
01:07:53,282 --> 01:07:56,285
playing a very different role to Bruce Lee.

959
01:07:56,285 --> 01:08:01,290
Bruce Lee is very strong, he is like an iron guy.

960
01:08:01,290 --> 01:08:02,958
Nobody can beat him.

961
01:08:03,750 --> 01:08:07,504
I want to be a loser, everyone can beat me.

962
01:08:07,629 --> 01:08:12,843
and when Bruce Lee punches me like that, after punches, aah, hurt.

963
01:08:12,843 --> 01:08:17,347
I want to be a real human being.
- "Aah, she's broken."

964
01:08:17,347 --> 01:08:21,059
Just as he opens the door for action stars like Jackie Chan,

965
01:08:21,059 --> 01:08:24,021
Bruce Lee was also the inspiration for many others.

966
01:08:24,021 --> 01:08:25,939
I made a movie called "Mindhunters",

967
01:08:25,939 --> 01:08:28,942
and there was a scene where I had to carry a gun through this...

968
01:08:28,942 --> 01:08:31,945
It's, like, an obscure military unit.

969
01:08:31,945 --> 01:08:32,863
I really thought about Bruce Lee,

970
01:08:32,863 --> 01:08:35,866
really thought about the way he approached things

971
01:08:35,866 --> 01:08:39,870
when I was going through that scene and only my movements that...

972
01:08:39,870 --> 01:08:42,873
And when played back on tape they sound so fluid,

973
01:08:42,873 --> 01:08:45,334
'Cause I really thought, you know the way he approached things

974
01:08:45,334 --> 01:08:49,296
so he definitely has a lot of influence.

975
01:08:49,296 --> 01:08:50,506
Like L Cool J,

976
01:08:50,506 --> 01:08:54,927
Eddie Griffin says Bruce Lee inspired him professionally

977
01:08:54,927 --> 01:08:56,929
and made him want to take up martial arts.

978
01:08:56,929 --> 01:09:00,015
I made this film called "With Color and Courage",

979
01:09:00,015 --> 01:09:03,018
and you know it's about the brother who instead of using a gun,

980
01:09:03,018 --> 01:09:05,020
disguised as a brother to solve it with his hands.

981
01:09:05,020 --> 01:09:06,939
He is a Bruce Lee fanatic.

982
01:09:06,939 --> 01:09:09,525
From the time I could remember, I loved Bruce Lee.

983
01:09:09,525 --> 01:09:12,528
He is the reason I got into art.

984
01:09:13,028 --> 01:09:17,699
Just like the plethora of actors inspired by Bruce Lee who emerged after his death,

985
01:09:17,699 --> 01:09:19,660
many filmmakers sought to pay tribute to him

986
01:09:19,660 --> 01:09:22,663
referencing him in his films.

987
01:09:22,663 --> 01:09:25,082
Brett Ratner is one of those directors

988
01:09:25,082 --> 01:09:28,085
duplicating the "Game of Death" fights

989
01:09:28,085 --> 01:09:31,088
as well as footage of the opening of "Enter the Dragon."

990
01:09:33,298 --> 01:09:35,175
I found the exact location he filmed.

991
01:09:35,175 --> 01:09:37,177
I had someone take me there who worked on the film.

992
01:09:37,177 --> 01:09:40,222
and that's where I filmed the opening of "Rush Hour."

993
01:09:40,222 --> 01:09:43,225
in "Rush Hour 3" I did a kind of inverse.

994
01:09:43,225 --> 01:09:46,311
You had a Chinese guy, Bruce Lee who was actually fighting Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,

995
01:09:46,311 --> 01:09:50,315
but we reversed it and I had a black guy fight a Chinese giant.

996
01:09:50,315 --> 01:09:53,110
You know, I told my producer "find me the greatest Chinese man"

997
01:09:53,110 --> 01:09:56,113
And it happened to have the second biggest man in the world,

998
01:09:56,113 --> 01:09:58,115
which is Sun Ming Ming who is 7'9".

999
01:09:58,115 --> 01:10:05,497
So yes, these Bruce Lee films had a tremendous influence on my choice.

1000
01:10:05,497 --> 01:10:08,083
I'm sorry! I'm so sorry, man!

1001
01:10:08,458 --> 01:10:15,424
Bruce Lee will be an eternal reference in Hong Kong films, Chinese films, Japanese films, even Canadian films.

1002
01:10:15,424 --> 01:10:17,426
But he has also been an eternal reference in Hollywood films.

1003
01:10:17,426 --> 01:10:20,888
Aah... You have him in the yellow jumpsuit from "Game of Death".

1004
01:10:20,888 --> 01:10:22,848
You have it right there in "Kill Bill",

1005
01:10:22,848 --> 01:10:24,850
Quentin Tarantino's film with Uma Thurman.

1006
01:10:24,850 --> 01:10:29,646
In "Rush Hour" you have uses for your screams, and your screams are only up there.

1007
01:10:29,646 --> 01:10:33,525
Anytime someone screams in a Western film, it's a Bruce Lee thing.

1008
01:10:33,525 --> 01:10:35,527
Whoo! Running for their lives.

1009
01:10:36,737 --> 01:10:39,656
Filmmakers and actors across the globe mention Bruce Lee

1010
01:10:39,656 --> 01:10:42,659
as his influence guiding them to want to make films.

1011
01:10:42,659 --> 01:10:48,457
And despite having only made four action films, his influence has been felt to this day.

1012
01:10:48,957 --> 01:10:50,792
This is your profound legacy

1013
01:10:50,792 --> 01:10:56,798
He created Asian action cinema on the world stage.

1014
01:10:56,798 --> 01:11:01,762
And after that, you have the success of "The Tiger and the Dragon"

1015
01:11:01,762 --> 01:11:06,767
and "The Matrix" and Jackie Chan movies and Jet Li movies and you have all that.

1016
01:11:06,767 --> 01:11:09,853
And you wouldn't have it without Bruce Lee.

1017
01:11:10,562 --> 01:11:15,776
Bruce Lee changed the worlds of film, philosophy, martial arts and physical fitness,

1018
01:11:15,776 --> 01:11:18,779
but it also has a profound effect on the creative arts,

1019
01:11:18,779 --> 01:11:23,825
influencing music and musicians around the world.

1020
01:11:30,123 --> 01:11:32,000
So what we're doing right now, we're in the studio with Rza.

1021
01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:33,001
Having my team here,

1022
01:11:33,001 --> 01:11:38,966
and we are working on a project called "Afro Samurai" starring Sam Jackson and Lucy Liu.

1023
01:11:38,966 --> 01:11:40,968
It's called "You Already Know."

1024
01:11:40,968 --> 01:11:42,678
Confirm.

1025
01:11:42,678 --> 01:11:47,599
Robert F. Diggs A.k.a Rza is working on his latest film record.

1026
01:11:47,641 --> 01:11:51,478
He is a prestigious music producer, rapper and sometimes actor.

1027
01:11:51,478 --> 01:11:55,732
He is also the dominant intelligence of the hip-hop band Wu-Tang Clan.

1028
01:11:55,732 --> 01:11:58,360
And a dedicated Bruce Lee fan.

1029
01:11:58,902 --> 01:12:02,948
You know, when I think about, you know, Bruce Lee and martial arts and things and his influence on me,

1030
01:12:03,240 --> 01:12:04,867
This has been a strong influence on me.

1031
01:12:04,950 --> 01:12:06,702
Look at my first album.

1032
01:12:06,702 --> 01:12:10,038
It's called Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers.

1033
01:12:10,038 --> 01:12:13,041
This is basically taking the title of "Enter the Dragon",

1034
01:12:13,041 --> 01:12:17,045
you know, I mean, and putting this... and applying this to ourselves.

1035
01:12:17,129 --> 01:12:21,675
The group's Enter The Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers debut in 1993

1036
01:12:21,675 --> 01:12:24,678
it was the first album to mix rhythms with dialogues

1037
01:12:24,678 --> 01:12:27,681
proven for Hong Kong clandestine films.

1038
01:12:27,681 --> 01:12:29,683
The band had sold nearly 6 million albums

1039
01:12:29,683 --> 01:12:35,689
all featuring scraps from producer Raz's personal collection of action imports.

1040
01:12:36,148 --> 01:12:39,151
One, two, three...

1041
01:12:44,198 --> 01:12:45,991
Add the pianos.

1042
01:12:51,205 --> 01:12:53,540
Make the four piano strings.

1043
01:12:53,540 --> 01:12:57,211
Just as he was influenced by Bruce Lee and Kung-fu films,

1044
01:12:57,211 --> 01:13:03,258
Raz says there is a relationship and comparison between the improvisational nature of rap and martial arts.

1045
01:13:03,926 --> 01:13:07,095
I come from the hip-hop era where people would battle each other

1046
01:13:07,095 --> 01:13:12,100
in subways, in school bathrooms, on street corners,

1047
01:13:12,100 --> 01:13:15,479
and it's almost like a martial art fight, you know what I mean?

1048
01:13:15,479 --> 01:13:16,605
It's like a martial art fight indeed

1049
01:13:16,605 --> 01:13:17,606
because you are flowing.

1050
01:13:17,606 --> 01:13:21,610
You're bringing out your best weapons which are your lyrical weapons

1051
01:13:21,610 --> 01:13:25,239
and you're trying to defeat this guy by saying the most ingenious thing.

1052
01:13:25,239 --> 01:13:29,076
Bruce Lee is being a tremendous influence... on culture, like, hip-hop,

1053
01:13:29,076 --> 01:13:32,079
because you're just... really taking an ethnic icon

1054
01:13:32,079 --> 01:13:39,086
reappropriating this ethnic icon for their own ethnicity and their own kind of foreigner culture.

1055
01:13:39,628 --> 01:13:42,172
Bruce in the world of martial arts is a... you know, a virtuoso.

1056
01:13:42,172 --> 01:13:45,342
He's constantly improvising.

1057
01:13:45,425 --> 01:13:47,594
Like Miles Davis with his hands and feet.

1058
01:13:47,594 --> 01:13:49,930
And that's what you do in hip-hop, you improvise.

1059
01:13:49,930 --> 01:13:52,057
You freestyle on the microphone.

1060
01:13:54,059 --> 01:13:59,481
Improvisation in Jeet Kune Do can be reflected through the broken rhythm,

1061
01:14:02,484 --> 01:14:08,490
and this is also reflected in rap, jazz, all types of music, rock.

1062
01:14:08,657 --> 01:14:11,994
Improvisation lives the essence of Break Dance,

1063
01:14:11,994 --> 01:14:14,621
where dancers are continually adapting their movements.

1064
01:14:15,205 --> 01:14:19,501
This was founded in Brooklyn, New York, a dance group that specializes in a dance form called Uprocking,

1065
01:14:19,501 --> 01:14:23,505
which mixes Salsa, the Hustle, and action moves,

1066
01:14:23,505 --> 01:14:26,508
which were added to imitate a fight against an opposing dancer.

1067
01:14:26,508 --> 01:14:32,723
The team's leader is Ralph Casanova, also known as the Uprock King.

1068
01:14:32,723 --> 01:14:35,726
He says Bruce Lee was a big influence on his dancing style.

1069
01:14:35,726 --> 01:14:41,231
Rocking started in Brooklyn where a lot of guys were gang members,

1070
01:14:41,231 --> 01:14:44,026
and B-boying was very popular in the Bronx,

1071
01:14:44,026 --> 01:14:47,237
where they were doing more of the backspins and things like that, acrobatic moves.

1072
01:14:47,237 --> 01:14:50,199
See, everyone was watching Bruce Lee and...

1073
01:14:50,199 --> 01:14:52,201
learning different dances that took something from him

1074
01:14:52,201 --> 01:14:55,204
and added to the flavor of the dance they were doing.

1075
01:14:55,204 --> 01:14:58,248
After the release of "Enter the Dragon" in the 70s,

1076
01:14:58,540 --> 01:15:01,835
Dancers were quick to replicate Bruce Lee's kung-fu moves

1077
01:15:01,835 --> 01:15:04,129
and incorporate them into your dances.

1078
01:15:04,129 --> 01:15:07,799
Across America, countless different dance styles emerged

1079
01:15:07,799 --> 01:15:11,178
known by most today simply as Break Dance.

1080
01:15:11,178 --> 01:15:13,472
And a lot of Karate moves, like windmills and,

1081
01:15:13,472 --> 01:15:15,349
you know, backspins, which... they don't call that

1082
01:15:15,349 --> 01:15:18,060
but we just watched all these moves just to catch everything we saw

1083
01:15:18,060 --> 01:15:21,480
and add Break, Rock and other dances.

1084
01:15:25,943 --> 01:15:28,570
The man responsible for creating the music for the film

1085
01:15:28,570 --> 01:15:33,325
who first inspired these dancers is the composer Lalo Schifrin.

1086
01:15:33,325 --> 01:15:34,993
Just like "Enter the Dragon",

1087
01:15:34,993 --> 01:15:38,247
he received six Oscar nominations for classics

1088
01:15:38,247 --> 01:15:43,043
such as "Mission Impossible", "Indomitable Rebellion", "Bullitt" and "Relentless Stalker".

1089
01:15:43,043 --> 01:15:46,588
He believes there are similarities between the way he approaches composing

1090
01:15:46,588 --> 01:15:49,341
and how Bruce Lee approached his own martial art.

1091
01:15:49,341 --> 01:15:56,473
He told me, "Martial arts started in India 5,000 years ago,

1092
01:15:57,099 --> 01:16:01,270
and there were traditions, so I broke the traditions."

1093
01:16:01,353 --> 01:16:02,646
And I said, "You want to know something?

1094
01:16:02,646 --> 01:16:04,356
We have something in common,

1095
01:16:04,481 --> 01:16:10,529
because 2,000 years of European classical music tradition, I learned this.

1096
01:16:10,529 --> 01:16:11,989
I studied too.

1097
01:16:12,489 --> 01:16:14,741
And I broke the rules.

1098
01:16:14,741 --> 01:16:15,659
I broke traditions.

1099
01:16:15,659 --> 01:16:17,077
We have something in common."

1100
01:16:17,077 --> 01:16:18,912
and he was very happy.

1101
01:16:19,621 --> 01:16:23,292
The "Enter the Dragon" soundtrack sold more than half a million copies,

1102
01:16:23,292 --> 01:16:25,961
Lalo Schifrin won a gold record.

1103
01:16:26,295 --> 01:16:29,756
He also went on to inspire Hollywood director Brett Ratner,

1104
01:16:29,756 --> 01:16:34,511
who promised to use Lalo for his first film after hearing the soundtrack.

1105
01:16:35,179 --> 01:16:38,724
I had the idea to work with Lalo because of the theme of "Enter the Dragon",

1106
01:16:38,724 --> 01:16:41,685
the way he placed Bruce's voice and his screams.

1107
01:16:41,685 --> 01:16:46,857
The mix between Chinese instrumentations and cool urban grooves,

1108
01:16:46,857 --> 01:16:48,317
that if you think about it,

1109
01:16:48,317 --> 01:16:54,364
it's like Asian music and a kind of black urban music combined to make this theme,

1110
01:16:54,364 --> 01:16:57,284
and that's actually what gave me the idea for "Rush Hour."

1111
01:16:57,910 --> 01:17:02,748
Like Brett Ratner, Quentin Tarantino was another high-profile Hollywood director

1112
01:17:02,748 --> 01:17:05,042
which was inspired by Bruce Lee.

1113
01:17:05,209 --> 01:17:08,962
When he wanted someone to do the soundtrack for the movie Kill Bill,

1114
01:17:08,962 --> 01:17:13,258
he approached RZA to take advantage of his extensive knowledge of Bruce Lee films.

1115
01:17:13,258 --> 01:17:16,595
Making music for Kill Bill was a huge opportunity for me.

1116
01:17:16,595 --> 01:17:18,639
I'm a hip-hop producer,

1117
01:17:18,639 --> 01:17:21,058
and Tarantino was a fan of Wu-Tang Clan,

1118
01:17:21,058 --> 01:17:24,394
asked me to become the first composer he ever hired.

1119
01:17:24,394 --> 01:17:29,107
And we actually found two guys throwing away baseball cards, naming Kung-fu movies,

1120
01:17:29,107 --> 01:17:31,235
who knew most of the films, and we became friends.

1121
01:17:33,779 --> 01:17:37,574
As well as RZA, Damon Albarn from the British band Gorillaz

1122
01:17:37,574 --> 01:17:40,661
saw Bruce Lee at an early age and was enchanted.

1123
01:17:40,661 --> 01:17:45,332
His band has sold more than 15 million albums, and his latest project,

1124
01:17:45,332 --> 01:17:50,754
a circus opera called "Monkey's Journey to the West" was performed around the world.

1125
01:17:52,881 --> 01:17:55,050
When creating the music for the opera,

1126
01:17:55,050 --> 01:17:58,804
Damon Albarn provided the soundtrack for "Enter the Dragon".

1127
01:17:59,888 --> 01:18:04,226
I definitely thought that when I was making the music for...

1128
01:18:04,226 --> 01:18:07,062
for Monkey's opera, the strong use of the orchestra,

1129
01:18:07,062 --> 01:18:08,480
and it's really very exciting.

1130
01:18:08,480 --> 01:18:10,566
He was never upset, you know?

1131
01:18:12,192 --> 01:18:15,529
Bruce Lee's influence has been evident in much of Gorillaz's work

1132
01:18:15,529 --> 01:18:19,950
since launching in 1998 as the world's first virtual band.

1133
01:18:19,950 --> 01:18:21,410
You always say that too.

1134
01:18:21,410 --> 01:18:24,121
They created their own "Game of Death" animation

1135
01:18:24,121 --> 01:18:27,958
and Monkey dressed in Bruce Lee's signature yellow jumpsuit.

1136
01:18:27,958 --> 01:18:29,793
You put me in a Bruce Lee jumpsuit...

1137
01:18:29,793 --> 01:18:32,212
Yes, well, exactly, Monkey has a Bruce Lee jumpsuit.

1138
01:18:32,212 --> 01:18:36,091
Yeah, you really can't... it's so iconic.

1139
01:18:36,091 --> 01:18:40,429
Gorillaz aren't the only artists to capitalize on Bruce Lee's image.

1140
01:18:40,429 --> 01:18:43,307
The international brand identity and strong appeal is

1141
01:18:43,307 --> 01:18:46,977
some advertisers and marketers have also strived to explore,

1142
01:18:46,977 --> 01:18:50,731
creating a wave of commercials inspired by Bruce Lee, comics,

1143
01:18:50,731 --> 01:18:53,901
and video games around the world.

1144
01:19:00,115 --> 01:19:03,410
When Bruce Lee emerged in the early 70s,

1145
01:19:03,410 --> 01:19:05,704
He appeared and performed like no one else before

1146
01:19:05,704 --> 01:19:10,334
A larger than life superhero that could never be beat.

1147
01:19:10,334 --> 01:19:13,795
Stan Lee is the creative force behind Marvel Comics

1148
01:19:13,795 --> 01:19:16,673
and is responsible for creating hundreds of superheroes,

1149
01:19:16,673 --> 01:19:21,261
including Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk and the X-Men.

1150
01:19:21,345 --> 01:19:25,224
He immediately saw the potential of comics in Bruce Lee.

1151
01:19:26,558 --> 01:19:30,354
You could say he was a superhero without a costume,

1152
01:19:30,854 --> 01:19:35,317
and his super power was actually his agility

1153
01:19:35,317 --> 01:19:40,906
and the fact is that he fought in a way that we were not used to seeing.

1154
01:19:40,948 --> 01:19:43,450
A year after "Enter the Dragon" was released,

1155
01:19:43,450 --> 01:19:48,038
Marvel Comics created the character Iron Fist, based on Bruce Lee.

1156
01:19:48,121 --> 01:19:50,916
Other characters inspired by Bruce Lee next

1157
01:19:50,916 --> 01:19:54,545
including Shang Chi and the Kung-fu Hands.

1158
01:19:55,546 --> 01:19:59,842
I'm sure I wouldn't have done this book if it weren't for Bruce Lee.

1159
01:19:59,842 --> 01:20:04,847
I think any character in any form was a martial artist,

1160
01:20:04,847 --> 01:20:10,519
you would have to say that they owe their origin in some way to Bruce Lee,

1161
01:20:10,519 --> 01:20:17,359
because he was the first to make Westerners aware of this type of fighting

1162
01:20:17,359 --> 01:20:20,696
and that kind of a way of life.

1163
01:20:20,696 --> 01:20:23,907
With the arrival of video games in the 80s,

1164
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designers were quick to pick up the same features

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that had made Bruce Lee convert so well into the comics.

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In 1984, Bruce Lee's game was released, followed by a series of others.

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These included "Dragon - The Bruce Lee Story" and "Bruce Lee Quest Of The Dragon".

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Like many other games, it was inspired by the King of Martial Arts.

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Be water, my friend.

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One thing that can definitely give Bruce Lee credit is,

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you know, his inspiration for martial arts games.

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You will notice that there is no martial arts game

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that doesn't have a Bruce Lee character in it.

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If you go back to the Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat series.

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Mortal Kombat was one of the biggest arcade games to come out, what do they have?

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They have Liu Kang, looking exactly like Bruce Lee,

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"wah", jumping on his feet, looking like Bruce Lee.

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Ralph Lammche is a senior games producer at telecommunications giant Nokia.

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When the company wanted to develop a martial arts game inspired by its N-Gage platform,

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they turned to Ralph.

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I love Bruce Lee.

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That was the inspiration for the whole thing.

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I always wanted to make a martial arts game,

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so I want to do something like Bruce Lee.

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But transferring Bruce Lee's dynamism and fighting style into a game is not an easy task.

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For the most realistic combat simulation possible,

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Ralph decided to use a technique called motion capture,

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where human movement is filmed and then digitally recreated.

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After extensive research,

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Ralph found the man he thought best captured Bruce Lee's speed and fighting style,

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a Jeet Kune Do instructor from Glasgow called Tommy Carruthers.

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And he's the only Jeet Kune Do guy in the whole world.

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I mean, his speed, his power, and his accuracy, it's just unmatched.

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I love seeing what he does, you know?

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We shot, I think, seven days of motion capture

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and doing all the footwork, punching and kicking,

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and we did stunt work and fight choreography,

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which was a lot of hard work and really good...exciting and something different.

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I've never done anything like this before.

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The characteristics that made Bruce Lee well transmitted in games and comics

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they have also been a boon to advertisers.

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Because he was smart enough when he was alive to actually create aspects of his personality on screen.

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that are so identifiable from Bruce Lee.

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You don't even need Bruce Lee's name.

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You don't even need to hear his voice to think, "oh, that's Bruce Lee"

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And with this immediate recognition comes a set of values

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that people associate with Bruce Lee.

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Bruce Lee defines Kung-fu.

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If you want to reference kind of strength and control and speed and power,

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Bruce Lee is shorthand for all of these things.

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What they are trying to sell is an image of perfection.

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Alright, here's a guy who's really good at what he does,

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That's why my product is good.

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So I can understand what they are doing.

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The Bruce Lee brand can represent many things.

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There are many characteristics he had, many aspects of his personality.

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It can represent purity, health, confidence, speed, even tragedy.

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Ari Merkin is the CEO of the New York toy advertising agency.

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In addition to being one of the most awarded and creative directors in the world,

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he is also a big fan of Bruce Lee,

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using it as the inspiration for many of their commercials.

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Bruce Lee influenced me tremendously.

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Creativity is like letting go of what you have inside,

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You know, the things that influenced you,

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the images that remained in your mind.

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Bruce Lee and all the things I took from his films always stuck in my mind.

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Bruce Lee's image has been used in hundreds of advertisements around the world

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to sell everything from BMW cars, Levi jeans, and candy.

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Well, that's funny.

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Bruce Lee's image is still used today by many advertisers from many different companies,

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at Mars Bars for drinks in Japan for sweets for many other things,

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because Bruce Lee sells.

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In this Mars Bars ad, a Bruce Lee lookalike is being attacked,

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but instead of using the nunchaku, he opts for a much less threatening weapon.

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Wah!

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It is a very effective advertisement.

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It gets a little into parody territory.

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She pays tribute to the man and the brand

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with its signal turned off, that is, "a delicate version" of the classic.

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The commercial manages to recognize Bruce Lee's films as classics,

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elevating the brand, elevating the product.

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It's an advantage for both.

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Mars Bars is one ad in a long line of commercials that poke fun at the image of Bruce Lee.

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It became good to enjoy a little Bruce Lee.

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So when you get advertisements like the Brisk iced tea commercial,

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you know, that he's fighting the Karate Kid,

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I don't think anyone is offended by that.

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It's fun.

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This is from Brisk, baby.

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Wah!

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One of the latest campaigns to use Bruce Lee's image is one for the Nokia N96 cell phone

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which features Bruce Lee playing ping pong with nunchucks.

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Since it first appeared in China,

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he had over a million hits on YouTube worldwide.

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People are still finding ways to place Bruce Lee in the new context

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like in the recent commercial where someone dressed as Bruce with the inevitable jumpsuit

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is playing ping pong using a pair of nunchucks.

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All of this only adds to his legacy in its own way and,

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You know, kind of passing it on to the next generation.

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It's been more than 35 years since Bruce Lee's death,

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but there seems to be no respite from interest,

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with numerous projects in the Pipeline.

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These include Hollywood remakes of "The Green Hornet",

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and the 80s cult classic "The Last Dragon",

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as well as a Broadway musical and a computer-generated Bruce Lee film

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in the development of Spider-Man created by Stan Lee.

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It's an action fiction film where we found a way to make Bruce Lee appear in this film.

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It's Bruce Lee's legacy, which was foremost on people's minds when they gathered in Seattle

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for the 35th anniversary of his death.

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He is buried next to his son,

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Brandon, an up-and-coming actor who died in a tragic accident on the set of "The Crow."

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Bruce Lee's grave has become a Mecca for fans,

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with thousands turning up every year to pay their respects.

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Linda and Shannon returned to celebrate the life of a dedicated actor, husband and father.

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They are accompanied by more than 400 people

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who traveled from as far away from a field as Lee's ancestral home of Shunde in China.

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We are so proud of him because he is Chinese.

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It's a weekend dedicated to teaching Lee

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how top Jeet Kune Do experts hold demonstrations.

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It is also an opportunity for Shannon and Linda to discuss

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how they are keeping the legacy alive

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with plans for Bruce's first land in Seattle known as BLAM.

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This is the Bruce Lee Action Museum.

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So she wanted it to represent movement and action and to take action

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and that made it also about community, research, philosophy, education, founding, all these different things.

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It's July 20th, the day Bruce Lee died,

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and Linda, Shannon, and many of Bruce Lee's family and friends

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gathered at his cemetery to pay their respects.

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This is Bruce's tombstone.

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In front there is a book,

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and in the book it says, "his inspiration continues to guide us toward our personal liberation."

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It's the journey that's important.

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It's not destiny.

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Bruce Lee is also being remembered in other ways,

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with statues being erected in his honor in China and Los Angeles

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followed by those opened in Hong Kong and Bosnia,

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where he was chosen as a symbol of the fight against ethnic divisions.

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A spokesman said: "We will always be Muslims, Serbs, Croats...

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But one thing we all have in common is Bruce Lee."

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It's been more than 35 years since the man's death

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universally hailed as the king of martial arts films;

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a man who changed the world of philosophy, film, physical fitness, music and the arts;

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a man who died at age 32 before seeing the impact he created;

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a man who changed the world forever.

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His impact was so incredible and powerful.

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I mean it really hit pop culture in the Solar Plexus

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with the biggest right hand a man could throw,

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and I think we are still suffering from the blow.

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By Vinícius S.A.

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