Continued from Tony Perez's Electronic Diary (October 19, 2018 - March 12, 2019) http://tonyperezphilippinescyberspacebook41.blogspot.com/

Photo by JR Dalisay / April 21, 2017

Saturday, July 10, 2021

I have the DVD, but watched Enter the Dragon for the nth time on Facebook videos. It had lapses in sound at the most strategic moments, possibly to prevent atchays from "pirating" the movie for their personal use. It isn't my favorite Bruce Lee movie, though; this was merely a series of fight scenes strung together. I prefer the all-Asian casts in the Hong Kong productions The Big Boss and Fist of Fury, because, whenever non-Asian performers are cast beside Bruce Lee, they always come across to me as B-grade actors and actresses--and only Bruce Lee remains the timeless character in those movies. Unfortunately this is probably the movie that Bruce Lee is best known for round the world. Its main accomplishment is eliminating romance altogether from a fight movie.

The screenplay and dialogue are forgettable except for the famous lines "Boards don't hit back," "You have offended my family, and you have offended the Shaolin temple," and "Destroy the image, and you will break the enemy."

The final showdown between Li and Han, however, is Bruce Lee's best fight scene ever. Many of Bruce Lee's iconic stills were taken from it.

Loved the five-second scene, of course, with that bumbling extra named Jackie Chan.

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