To celebrate what would have been Bruce Lee's 82nd birthday on Nov 27, here are a few things you might not know about the man, the myth and the legend. Bruce Lee planned to make more period films after his 1972 film Fist of Fury. Lee's Way of the Dragon (1972), Game of Death (1972) and Enter the Dragon (1973).
July 04, 2021
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Bruce Lee has been talked about ever since he first appeared on American television in the late 1960s. Nationalist or narcissist? Chinese hero or Pacific Man? Fighter or philosopher? All have been weighed up by critics and colleagues down the years.
Here is what some of them had to say about the martial arts star who died an untimely death in Hong Kong in 1973.
Legendary martial arts director
Chang Cheh
, writing in his memoirs: “Bruce Lee was the disciple of Ip Man. Besides receiving a modern education, he was especially gifted. He was a wing chun adept, but he did not confine himself to one school, to one style, which also explains his extraordinary achievement. Quite a few practitioners of wing chun do not approve of him, and I find this too narrow minded.”