**MASTERPIECE!!** Enter the Dragon (1973) Reaction: FIRST TIME WATCHING 

Bruce Lee wasn't just a movie star, he was a Master and teacher.

He was 32 here, Enter the dragon was released a month after he died. He passed away July 19, 1973. The movie came out Aug 20th, 1973.

He was massively popular in Asia and this was his American debut, and sadly his only. He remains legend to this day, and his influences are felt worldwide

The guy with the scar that Bruce killed is the actor Bob Wall. About 10 years ago, I met him at the Arnold Fitness Expo in the martial arts section. We hung out and talked as we had a booth there. Really chill guy and I got an autograph picture of him with him and Bruce Lee together in a picture from this movie.

The woman playing Lee's sister is Angela Mao Ying, possibly the first critically-acclaimed female martial arts action film star. She had appeared in several classic Chinese-language movies. She does not work in film anymore after having retired from the industry and runs restaurants in New York City.

So, the actress who plays Bruce Lee's sister in this film (Angela Mao), has a family owned restaurant in Queens New York (near where I live) and I've gone several times with some of my kung fu school mates and teacher. She's an awesome lady and hung out with us a bit to talk movies!

Other have mentioned Jackie Chan, but he was also in another bit of that fight. During and interview, Jackie said he was a character who had his back to the camera (more or less) and Bruce was supposed to swing at him with the staff. However, Bruce messed up and actually connected. Jackie said Bruce stayed in point until the director yelled cut a few seconds later. Then he dropped the staff and ran to check on Jackie. Jackie said he wasn't badly hurt, but he was stunned, in a good way, because his idol Bruce Lee was holding him in his arms and was fussing over him.

Bruce Lee did not do all of his own stunts. His primary stuntman was Yuen Wah, the landlord from Kung fu Hustle. He did all the gymnastics and acrobatics in most of Lee's movies. He was Guang Bo in Shang Chi. He's the second guy to catch the apple with the dart.

I'm digging the couples vibe here. The conversation between the two of you flows so naturally. The backlit glow is a nice touch.

RIP, Bruce Lee, 1940-1973. He was 32 years old when he died, and it was a week before the release date for Enter The Dragon.

32:53 That's the Jackie Chan before he got famoused

The actor who played Bolo was in a couple of JEAN Claude van dame movies BLOODSPORT & DOUBLE IMPACT

During the making of this movie the big muscular Chinese man without a shirt (BOLO YEUNG) was a Chinese body builder and stunt man said that he picked up another stunt man in front of Bruce Lee to show off how strong that he was and Bruce just walked over and picked up another stunt man over twice his size without any hesitation and Bolo realized that he had truly under estimated the strength of Bruce. He is said to be able to do 1500 pushups in a single time without taking any breaks. You should watch the video of "was Bruce Lee super human?" It is truly AMAZING what that man could do.

Jet Li's Fist of Legend is a must. "Master of the Flying Guillotine" is another old school Hong Kong film with ridiculous fights, one of the best IMO.

26:44 Jim Kelly ( Chuck) had just won his 2nd straight US middleweight karate championship at the time. And Bolo did challenge Bruce on the set. He was beaten and submitted MMA style by Lee, who trained under wrestling and world judo champ Gene Labell and Jiu-Jitsu master Prof Wally Jay. His secret to his greatness? Spar, Spar Spar, with every style out there, borrow what you can use from that style. He was so good, many MMA champs today give him huge props and said they wouldn't want to fight him. ( Sad he didn't live to see the success of his breakout film)

I watched Bruce Lee on TV as a kid. He was on "The Green Hornet," playing Kato, the driver. He would do these amazing fight scenes.

So that guy who was held by the hair by Bruce Lee was Jackie Chan

Big Boss, Chinese Connection, Fists of Fury, way /Return of the Dragon(fight with Chuck Norris, Game of Death, and his son Brandon Lee in The Crow

I saw Enter The Dragon in Chicago in 1973 the first day of release! This was incredible at the time! Your girlfriend is great, you guys just got a new sub!

When it comes to classic martial arts films, you can't go wrong with any of the following: The Street Fighter (1974), The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Drunken Master, Heroes of the East, Five Element Ninjas, Shogun Assassin, Sister Street Fighter, and My Young Auntie.

12:16 The little boy to whom Bruce handed the rope connected to that boat later went on to have quite a few appearances in Hong Kong movies for over a decade after this. He was Mang Hoi (a.k.a. Randy Mang), and appeared in several movies with Sammo Hung (the man who spars with Bruce at the start). Sadly Mang Hoi died in October 2023 at the age of 65 after having battled oesophageal cancer for the preceding year.

1:21 Samo Hung 32:51 Jackie Chan .... and I think that among the martial army there was also Yuen Biao... the whole golden trio of martial arts films from the 80s.

The guy Bruce Lee was facing in the opening scene is another well know Martial Artist/Actor, Sammo Hung, who has collaborated a lot with Jackie Chan.

Bruce Lee's opponent in The Shaolin Temple is SAMMO HUNG, who went onto a successful career in martial arts movies in his own right. Bob Wall, a good friend of Lee's, as O'Hara. Contrary to what many people believe, this was not really Bruce Lee's final movie. He was filming GAME OF DEATH in Hong Kong in 1973 when he died. He started that movie in 1972, taking a hiatus to film ENTER THE DRAGON, and then started into it again in the last weeks of his life. He planned to film also in South Korea with George Lazenby, one of the first "James Bond" actors.

Enter The Dragon is probably the first movie I ever saw (outside of TV airings). I was a few months shy of 5 years old when I saw it first run with my parents at a drive in movie theater. All these years later I can still remember the power of those images and the amazing action up there on the huge drive in screen and the incredible effect the experience had on my young mind. It was instrumental, I'm totally sure, in making me a cinema lover for the rest of my life. What an introduction to The Movies, a cherished childhood memory.

Okay, since you have now seen "the Wizard of Oz" and "Enter the Dragon" you guys need to watch the Zucker Brothers (that made Airplane and many other spoof films) first movie, the 1977 cult classic "The Kentucky Fried Movie", it has some short satire clips and a movie within the movie called "A Fist full of Yen" that is a spoof on "Enter the Dragon", it is Hilarious.

Philosopher first really, and his martial arts prowess came as a result of that. The whole boat and rope scene is a great representation of that. He popularized martial arts in films and brought them West. He taught many actors of his generation in the West and publicly exhibited his feats when he came to the US. I think it was in San Diego where he demonstrated the now-famous one-inch punch. This guy was on a level that hardly anyone can approach, his dedication was absolute and he is in my top tier level of artists of all-time: Miles Davis, Mozart, Bruce Lee, Hildegard von Bingen, and Jimi Hendrix. There's simply nobody like them, and they should be celebrated until the end of all things. "Your powers are EXTRA ORDINARY." So cheesy but so iconic and good. Check out the wonderfully chaotic "The Last Dragon" from the mid-80s and you'll get a sense of the resurgence from The Glow and Sho-Nuff!!!!

Bruce was really fast in real life. He landed on O’Hara neck

I watched this movie many times back in the 80s! In Kentucky Fried Movie there's a great spoof of this! I love watching you two together! You're both a joy to watch!

*Just some Trivia:* (1) Angela Mao (Mr. Lee's sister) also made quite a few kung fu films during the '70's. Most notably "Deadly China Doll" (1972). (2) Jim Kelly (Mr. Williams) was also quick with his strikes. So much so that he impressed even Bruce Lee. Lee suggested to the execs that Williams survive Han's attack to fight in the final battle scene with Mr. Roper against Han's guards. They turned down the request. Lee then decided to cast Kelly to co-star in "Game of Death" along with Chuck Norris, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Robert Wall (O'Harra) and George Lazenby ("On Her Majesty's Secret Service"). Unfortunately, Lee passed prior to the film's completion.

fun fact the part where the guy in the little boat starts to sink was not planned the crew panicked but he screamed take the shot i can swim , and roper was normally the one who was killed off but they changed the script bacause of john saxons agent did not aprove with the original , and the liquid williams is dropped in is supposed to be acid

Bruce was actually so fast they had to use a high speed camera. The regular speed of 24 frames a second wasn't quick enough to register, so the other guy looked like he was falling down for no reason. But he did have doubles for the gymnastics. He said he was going to learn to do his own flips, but of course, he died young, before this movie was even release. He died working on Game Of Death, and it had to be finished with doubles but not for the fighting. The guy who's neck he broke fighting the guards in Han's factory was Jackie Chan. Bruce did actually have to hurt one of the stuntmen on the location who challenged him. But because they guy was going to be in the hospital for some time after that and couldn't work Bruce gave his mother a bunch of money so they wouldn't be broke while he recovered. He was a genuinely nice guy.

To answer your question in terms of body fat, Bruce was about 2% body fat according to many documentaries. He’s still considered the second fittest man to have ever lived. He was also at the peak of his career when he passed away. RIP Bruce.

@24:47 - That kick not only sent Bob Wall (O’Hara) flying into that folding chair, but caused him to land (chair and all) atop one of the extras standing behind the chair - and broke THAT guy’s arm.

Will always be the gold standard for martial arts movies. My mom actually got me a pair of nun-chuks after this. 🤣I actually got fairly good twirling them. Would have no idea how to use them as a weapon, LOL

Keye Luke, who played the blind master in the TV series "Kung Fu", which was the project that Lee pitched but ended up starring David Carradine, was the voice of Han in the movie became the the actor playing Han did not speak English.

Bruce has many movies that he made in China before he got his big break here in the United States. He has movies like: The way of the dragon, The big boss, Fists of fury and Game of death. You need to watch some of his movies and get to know his fighting technique. He died at the age of 32 in 1973. In this last movie one of the stunt men is Jackie Chan. And he says that no one would ever be able to beat Bruce in a fight. He was just so incredibly fast with both his hands and his feet.

This was supposed to be an introductory role for Bruce Lee as an American Movie star. He had been on US TV as a sidekick on the show The Green Hornet. There was a TV hit show called Kung Fu in the 1970s written specifically for him but the Network executives thought he was "too Chinese" for American TV so they gave the role to David Carradine a Caucasian who was supposed to be half-Chinese. Lee went to Hong Kong and made a few other movies to establish himself as a viable international star and then the opportunity to return to the US market presented itself with Enter the Dragon. Even though this was supposed to be his coming out party as a movie star, the studio executives still couldn't handle an Asian as the lead, which is why they made Roper, played by John Saxon, as the co-hero. If you want to see another Bruce Lee movie, I would check out Return of the Dragon. It was actually made before Enger the Dragon, but was released in the US later. Lee not only starred in the role, but wrote and directed it too. It's a bit campy but the big opponent is Chuck Norris in his breakout role. Both were known at the time much more for their marital arts expertise than their acting roles.

The woman is Angela Mao who is an accomplished martial artist in her own right and the big guy that Bruce lee fights in the beginning is sammo hung who went to the same Peking opera school as Jackie chan where they learned martial arts, acrobatics, Dancing, Singing etc.

Have you ever wondered about the Chuck Norris meme? A lot of it came from the fact he was one of the few people Lee officially sanctioned as skilled enough to teach "Jeet Kune Do" before Lee died.

22:40 LMFAO!!!! Yeah! I was afraid of Bolo when I was a kid too. LMAO

Please do watch "The Way of the Dragon", which I believe is a better Bruce Lee movie. Here he confronts a fellow martial arts expert, Chuck Norris, who was the World Karate Champion, for several years, at that time. Both of them came to be the top Martial Arts Superstars of their time.

3:28 "Emotional content - not anger." Mr. Lee is teaching the padawan to harness and focus all his emotions when fighting. Not just anger, but the full range of emotions. (In my opinion)

The bully guy was a real stuntman. He almost drown when that junk/boat sank.

1:21 Sammo Hung is the big brother of Jackie Chan. 4:35 Mr Han names Shek Kin,he was Bruce Lee’s godfather,and 50’s Kung fu action actor,but he pessed away on 2009.Rip 3:32 The boy names Stephen Wei ,he was Hong Kong’s martial arts instruction.

It was his first and only American produced film.

An extra on set challenged lee to a fight .Bruce complied then pinned guy against a wall and proceeded to educate how he done it

this movie holds up so well. this was not the original release in theaters in the 70,s they did a re-release in the early 80,s with added footage. Saw the original release in theaters shortly after his death. at the time they used state of the art tech. it was a packed house of men and women. there was no movie out with that kind of production value with a non white leading action hero. the stars involved along with location shooting and getting to see bruce lee in a major american film without it being dubbed. basically bruce lee playing bruce lee made it a magical experience. the audience reacted to every move every word he said on screen. i will never forget that experience. created a vacuum in the martial arts film industry for a decade after his death as the film industry attempted to look for another bruce lee. Lots of pressure was put on his son brandon to make for the loss. that was unfortunate now they're both gone

That guy at the beginning is the Sammo Hung. Kind of mad no one in the comments pointed that out. Sammo is the "Biggest of the big brothers" basically meaning he's very well respected. You should check out his films.

Several of the performers in this film were on my black belt testing panel, plus Chuck Norris. Very intimidating.

Formal bowing outside of the circle done correctly is full and without eye contact, inside the circle is with eye contact but a half bow. Context is important

A good follow up is Dragon the bruce lee story Starring Jason Scott Lee is fantastic. I watched an interview with his late wife after she watched it and she was in tears

good reaction guys, Lee died before I was born, as with you, at age 32 but for whatever reason I became infatuated with him, Sadly Bruce died I think a month before the movie was released so he never got to see the finished product but he opened so many doors for other Asians and martial artists and like other legendary people became larger than life over the years.

That scene was iconic.

The Gambler is John Saxon a well known actor who also was a martial artist.

Definitely watch Fist of Fury and Way of the Dragon. The latter features a legendary fight between Bruce and Chuck Norris.

By the way, the guy who grabs Bruce at 32:51 is a young Jackie Chan, he was a stuntman...

Angela Mao; is the one that was playing Bruce's sister, they called her the female Bruce Lee; Bruce always filmed his fighting scenes first, he is slowed down actually for the camera, Game of Death was his last movie, he died while filming it, Kareem Abdul Jabber is actually in the movie, you must see The Big Boss was released as Fists of Fury in the states and Fist of Fury became The Chinese Connection, in the States; Return of the Dragon

It's been years since I've watched this! Great fun!... 👍❤️❤️

This film ( and oyhers ) was the inspiration for Mortal Kombat. Bloodsport came out later.. Lu Kang is a representation of Bruce..Johney Cage is Van Dam..and Raiden is a character in tge movie " Big Trouble In Little China".. this movie started the mass interest in martial arts in the west.. Bruce is one of a kind

I remember watching the beginning of this film with my dad when I was a little kid😊 The beginning is kinda funny to me😂❤️👍

At 32:50, that's Jackie Chan as a henchman getting killed up by Bruce Lee. So awesome.

1973 there was like 7-9 real world martial artist champions in this movie including the female who played Lee's sister.

you must see the way of the dragon with Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris

Bruce Lee filmed footage for the TV show Longstreet when Golden Harvest edited The Big Boss(1971).

If you liked this, you should see some of his screen test footage for The Green Hornet. And a few years later, he talks philosophy in an interview with Dick Cabot, and he had some very Zen-like philosophies on life and the things he learned from jsut about an entire lifetime of learning martial arts. You should check that out. It also includes on of my favorite lines from a tv show he did called Marlowe: "Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless. Like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can be a tiny drip off a rock, but large amounts of it can wash away mountains. It can flow and drip and crash. Be water, my friend." Bruce Lee was a very intelligent man, always improving himself not only in body but in mind. It's some of the many reasons he is so revered by the global martial arts community.

Bruce created his own martial arts style called Jeet Kune Do, Brice also created books to help you learn Gung Fu aka Kung Fu; my brother actually learned from them and my brother taught himself how to work the nunchucks. Bruce also had a degree in Philosophy the art of fighting without fighting; basically use your mind first then if you must defend yourself, so be it, this includes biting someone to get out of a choke hold; Bruce never kicked someone above the knees in a real competition and he waa famous also for the one inch punch, he finger push ups, he had to slow down on screen he moves so fast, also he created MMA, Jeet Kune Do is a mixture of various Martial arts, including wrestling and grappling, see the fighting outfit he had on at the beginning of the movie; typical MMA gear.

Check out The Game of Death. Bruce's last movie. He was actually filming it before Enter the dragon. but Hollywood came to China/Hong Kong to sign Bruce to a James Bond type of movie. Hence, Enter the Dragon. Bruce filmed all the big fight scenes before he died sudden. For the use of Bruce's filmed fights, it's worth the watch. The intro/theme music is great too. Very classic Sean Connery 1960's James Bond like.

Sammo Hung being cast as Bruce's sparring opponent at the very beginning must have been a huge boost.

1:21 - In most Chinese action films, the fight scenes are filmed at a slow pace to get everything right and then the footage is sped up to normal speeds. With Bruce Lee, they had to slow down the film so people could see what was happening. 4:06 - Bruce Lee was a major Hong Kong action star, but in the US he was only known as Kato on the TV series The Green Hornet. This film was going to be (and was) his big break-out international hit, but unfortunately Lee died shortly before the film's release. All of his 'American' films after Enter the Dragon were rereleases of his older Chinese films. 11:59 - The art of Fighting Without Fighting. 16:26 - BMI wasn't really a thing in Bruce Lee's time, but it's been calculated at 8% from his other stats. 19:06 - Where do you think Anime got it from? 24:55 - It's not a matter of 'being enough.' Oharrah bringing dangerous weapons into the fight is nothing but the signal for Bruce to STOP HOLDING BACK. 30:02 - Williams absolutely didn't deserve this fate, and unfortunately, that's why the moment is so effective. 32:51 - Young Jackie Chan.

Bruce actually broke some ribs on Bob Wall with his famous side power kick, Bob had padding under his outfit, but it did not help, that's how strong he could kick, you see Bob go flying so far backwards, that was real, he even knocked down those other guys.

Not his most famous movie but it was the movie that brought him to the attention of an American audience. He actually played Kato in the 60s TV show Green Hornet, but he didn't gain much recognition for it. Personally I liked Return of the Dragon more, but not everyone would agree with me on that.

This was Bruce Lee's last movie; he was 32 years old when he died. And one more tidbit: this was his only Hollywood movie, his voice is real, when you watch his other movies in English, they are dubbed. Yes, he always choreographed the fights in his movies. Fun fact: one of the beige guards is young Jackie Chan.

First saw this movie in the theater when I was 12 & loved it. 8 years later, in college, it was part of a kick flick fest & you had drunk college kids jumping around on cars "being Bruce:

Never keep your eyes off your opponent, aka enemy. He was talking about enemies.

John Saxon, who played Roper, was also a student of Bruce Lee.

12:55 Filmed in the tennis courts in Hong Kong and you can still see the white demarcation lines that were not covered up very well.

32:50 Young Jackie Chan there. No bullsh!t.

This was Bruce Lee's only American movie . He stopped filming Game of Death , when he got the offer from Warner Bros to star in his first U.S. film . Sadly never got to complete Game of Death .

I was just a kid when Bruce died, but I grew up on his movies, was inspired me to take Kung Fu classes for a couple years. . This was his only Hollywood movie, his prior 3 being filmed in Hong Kong and Rome. He was an extreme trainer, and visionary. And his skills were unmatched. His side kick is the fastest many have ever seen. I moved from Pennsylvania out to western Washington a few years ago and stopped to visit Bruce (Jun Fan) and his son Brandon's grave site in Seattle.

A couple of other good movies you might want to check out: Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon (the main character lives in Harlem, and is a major fan of Bruce Lee), and The Silent Flute (the story was originally written by Bruce Lee, but wasn't made until after his death).

This movie is basically the reason for Mortal Kombat .

Yuen Wah (Drunken pervert Landlord in Kung Fu Hustle) Was Bruce Lee’s acrobatic stunt double. Any time you see him flip, it was Yuen. If you’ve not seen Kung Fu Hustle, it’s hilarious.

The guy in the cave that grabs Lee from behind who Lee swings him around and breaks his neck is Jackie Chan

Angela Mao Ying. She was in a good film called Hapkido(1972). She appeared in the British featurette Top Fighter 2.

No one can beat bruce lee in movies , martial art , style ,mannerism etc etc.....almost 10 actors copied 😢bruce from china , usa and india including jackie chan at the begening of his carrier...enter the dragon collected more than 430 million d in 1975 which is insane...even today hollywood movie struggle for that collection( including tarantino movie 😂).. .rip legend..he is always an inspiration for us❤

John saxon and Steve McQueen both big movie stars trained with Bruce Lee in california when Bruce came to go to university James coburn also received training from bruce

@32:51 Jackie Chan.... The big guy in the beginning is Sammo Hung.

4:08 Bruce Lee was famous for the Green Hornet and a few other TV appearances. By 1971, 72 He was like THE BEATLES or Elvis in Asia with the Releases of Fists Of Fury/The Big Boss and Fist Of Fury/ The Chinese Connection Or also think Macaulay Culkin Before Home Alone , with Uncle Buck and Rocket Gibraltar Leonardo Dicaprio before Titanic This Boy's Life, Basketball Diaries, Romeo and Juliet , Paul Walker before FAST AND FURIOUS Varsity Blues and She's All That ENTER THE DRAGON made Bruce Lee an INTERNATIONAL STAR.

The flips by Bruce here at the beginning at least. Was his stuntman/acrobat.

Bruce Lee was a champion martial artist who created his own style he called 'Jeet Kune Do'... He came under fire in America because he was teaching martial arts to non-Chinese students... His wife Linda said he beat a challenger within 3 minutes, earning the right to teach martial arts to anyone he pleased in his school... His reputation as a fighter got him cast in a TV show. In 1966/ '67... he was cast as 'Cato', the sidekick to actor Van Williams' masked hero 'The Green Hornet'... They appeared in an episode of 'Batman' (the series) where Cato fights Robin, the boy wonder... According to the show's producers, Bruce Lee moved so fast that they asked him to do his fight scenes slower because their cameras could not capture his movements. Afterwards, Bruce Lee discovered that American and Hollywood filmmakers would not cast him in lead role because he was Chinese and Asian... he always had supporting roles. But in Hong Kong, he was already a star because of 'The Green Hornet' (They called it the 'Cato show' there) An offer to film in Hong Kong led to Bruce Lee's first lead movie 'The Big Boss' in 1971. It became a massive hit in Asia... 2nd movie 'Fist of Fury' (1972) did even better... Lee had full control of his 3rd movie 'The way of the Dragon' in 1972 where he filmed a fight sequence w/ Chuck Norris... He was working on the movie 'Game of death' in 1972 when got an offer to make a Hollywood kung-fu movie after the success of his Hong Kong movies... Lee was able to film a fight scene w/ basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for 'Game of death'... Despite being the star of 'Enter the Dragon'... Bruce Lee had to share the lead role w/ martial artists John Saxon and Jim Kelly... Lee also staged the fighting sequences in the movie... In fact, one of the extras who fights Lee's character was a young Jackie Chan. When 'Enter the Dragon' finished filming in 1973, Bruce Lee was reportedly working long hours in the studio to complete the movie and combined w/ the toll of filming... his health began to suffer and he was reportedly hospitalized. With 'Enter the Dragon' completed and near release, Bruce Lee did not pause to rest and was back in Hong Kong working on 'Game of death'... His death came under mysterious circumstances in 1973 at age 32 ... he was given a pain medication after complaining of a headache and took a nap. He never woke up after that. He was rushed to the hospital and declared dead... Autopsy showed he had suffered a cerebral edema, the cause of which could have been sensitivity to the medication he took... or a heat stroke; he had been hospitalized for the same affliction before but had survived then. It raised quite a few conspiracy theories about Bruce Lee being murdered or poisoned. 'Enter the Dragon' premiered a week after his death; it became 1 of the biggest box office hits of 1973... Bruce Lee's short film career made him a legend in martial arts and his death left a huge void in the kung fu movie genre... Numerous Bruce Lee clones emerged in the Hong Kong & Asian movie industry, including Bruce Li... Dragon Lee... Bruce Le ... and even early Jackie Chan.

Bruce Lee was in a TV show in 1966 called The Green Hornet. He played the sidekick named Kato. You can see how amazing Bruce was before starring in Enter the Dragon.

So cool she's introduced to Bruce Lee!! Loved both your reactions here Nick, btw when you say "we'd like to see more Bruce Lee movies", funnily he never made any! Well, he tried three of them in Hong Kong, but all three he made in one single year (and all 3 released in that same year!). So you can check those out, but besides that attempt, this film Enter The Dragon was basically his debut to the world, including to Asia! So this was his first and real, bona fide, authentic, big budget movie, but sadly he died before it was even released. Had he not died he certainly would have started an acting career, this film was supposed to be the beginning of that. If you add those 3 chop saki films he did in a single year to this EnterTheDragon, they were all made at the very last 1.5 years of his life! Meaning the whole "movie thing" only happened at the last 5% of his life. Therefore that would logically beg the question; if the whole movie thing was only at the last 5%...what then was he doing for 95% of his life?? Answer: he was a pillar of the Martial Art community and a veteran at live combat. Champions, Black Belts, and pro fighters all knew of his reputation of being undefeated in a live altercation, of which there are so many in his life where none could defeat him. That jerk in the scene with "The art of fighting without fighting" is Peter Archer who is actually a pro fighter in Karate Tournaments, the villain with the beard is also a black belt in Karate, the black dude Williams was a former pro tennis player but more importantly he was two time Karate champion who would go on to say that Bruce Lee would fight many known champions behind closed doors and was undefeated. So the film is chock full of real fighters because that's the type of caliber you would HAVE to place with Bruce Lee. Even the big giant guy, Bolo, is a ten year Body Building Champion of Hong Kong! The reason he was a veteran at live combat is because his fighting experience began as a boy in Hong Kong in the streets where he would become the leader of the Hong Kong street gang known as "The Tigers 8 of Junction Street". When he became an adult and moved to America the fighting still continued where many had challenged him but none could defeat him. Part of the main reason he had to leave Hong Kong was because the "heat" of all the gang fighting was escalating to a boiling point where the Triads put a contract on his head and he and much of his cohorts had to flee the island, and so Lee's Dad exiled him to the states because they would not find him there and Lee could simultaneously take advantage of his American citizenship (as Lee was born in California, but after 3 months had left to be raised in Hong Kong). Here is a link to view his fight history www.deviantart.com/cowardsrunandrunand/art/1064574936 His uncanny combat skills were not the only amazing thing but rather his near superhuman strength; Lee has been ranked in the The Top 50 Greatest Athletes of All Time because he could raise unbelievable weights that pro weight lifters could not. As I mentioned how Bolo was the 10 year BodyBuilding Champ of Hong Kong, well Bolo could deadlift the same weight as Arnold Schwarzenegger, 715 lbs, and yet during one of their work out sessions that Lee and Bolo had together, Bolo stated that he was surprised that Lee could lift much heavier weights than he could. It's sad that Bruce Lee only made one real film and died just before it was released, but that film which you just watched had left such a lasting impression that people had to go back and discover those 3 other quick chop saki films he made in a single year (the year just before ETD) and maybe you guys yourselves can check those 3 out (Big Boss, Fist of Fury, Way of The Dragon). If anything, I'd rather recommend you guys watch "Bruce Lee, My Brother" a biopic of his gang fighting, and also the only interview we have of the man by "Pierre Burton". But yeah, he only made films in the last 1.5 years of his life, where he basically was reporting his entire life experiences and sharing his insights to the public of what live combat is like if it were by a Martial Art master. Sorry for the rant! Glad you guys enjoyed his one single film that he left behind which grabbed the world attention to back track and discover the amazing life he had lead!

"Rickshaw". Spoofed in John Landis' 1977 comedy Kentucky Fried Movie.

Bruce Lee's sister in blue fighting in the beginning was the star of all the Lady Kung Fu movies in the 70's!!!

Now that you've seen Enter the Dragon, you must see The Kentucky Fried Movie, or at least the spoof version of this Bruce Lee movie in it called "A Fistful of Yen." HILARIOUS, especially to those intimately familiar with Enter the Dragon.

Still one of the greatest martial arts movies ever! Great reaction! Another great Bruce Lee movie to watch is "The Way of the Dragon" (1972). It's famous for the final fight where Bruce Lee faces off against Chuck Norris. One of the greatest fight scenes ever made.

Lee reportedly can do over 2,000 push ups .over 200 with 2 fingers .he even used just his thumbs to do them

Enter the Dragon is an extremely polished and somewhat Western kung fu flick, and one of the best. Consider trying a classic like Drunken Master (1978, Jackie chan breakout role) Five Deadly Venoms (1978) 31:30 "Allow me to demonstrate the skill of Shaolin, the special technique of Shadowboxing." -Shaolin vs Lama

Great reaction you two to a classic movie. You probably missed it but one of the extra's in the staff battle is a very young Jackie Chan. Also, I have been begging all of my favorite reactors to watch 1985's "Enemy Mine". The message of the movie is very relevant. Even today. Much love and keep on keepin on J.