• uchuukeji69
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    		 I don't know if Bruce Lee could be considered the greatest martial artist ever, but I do like his movies. Oh, and David Carradine would have never had a career w/out him.
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  • madcatter
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    		 I do think many martial arts actors surpassed him in skill and live in his shadow, like Jackie Chan, who was his stunt double in two films. Bruce helped popularise Eastern storylines so they weren't so alien to Hollywood (so Jerry Lewis could stop playing his horrid Chinese caracatures). Bruce Lee demanded a huge salary from Shaw Brothers and they refused to pay it, so he signed with Golden Harvest instead and he was cast in Enter The Dragon for someting like $1 mil HKD which was unheard of. Shaw Brothers lost a fortune when Lee left and never recovered their stanglehold on HK cinema again, so I am thankful to Bruce for that.
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  • fistoflegend
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    		 Shaw brothers did miss a golden opportunity by not putting lee in their films,but their was a lot more to their demise that just them not getting him. Some of their main guys let and started golden harvest,they paid actors more and gve them more say in the films story lines. Many of shaw brothers biggest and best actors left to work for golden harvest and soon they couldn't compete. As far as martial artist surpassing him in skill is kind of debatable and I really don't see jacke chan as ever passing lee in skill. Interm of doing stunts maybe,but straight up fighting hell no. And to be honest I don't think we ever got to see bruce lee's full potential to be honest.
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  • madcatter
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    		 Lee leaving Shaw Brothers for another studio acted as an inspiration to other actors, mainly Chan and his friends. A lot of actors felt bound to Shaw Brothers because they gave them their first break. With Lee publically leaving and refusing to be bound by what Japanese call 'giri' (indebtedness with responsibility), other actors felt they too could leave.

    Another reason actors had stayed with Shaw Brothers was Run Run Shaw's connection to the Triads. Any actor approached by another studio was paid a visit by Run Run's associates and scared into staying. Golden Harvest didn't make a big deal of it, but it is known they did their own Triad deals to keep defecting actors safe from reprisals.
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  • fistoflegend
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    		 Not saying lee leaving didn't play a part in it just saying it wasn't the only reason. I had never heard about the triad stuff.
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  • madcatter
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    		 The HK film industry and Triads have a long history of mutual co-operation.
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  • uchuukeji69
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    madcatter wrote:
    The HK film industry and Triads have a long history of mutual co-operation.


    I'm guessing that's why they always harass Jackie?
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  • madcatter
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    		 they did try to early in his career; he details this in his autobiography. Ever wonder why he stopped making films in HK for a few years? He claims it was because it was hard getting government approval to film, which is total crap because he injects so much money into the economy. They'd let him do anything he damn well pleases in Kowloon.
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  • areyouakegger
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    		 You mean colonel cluster FUCK!
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  • fistoflegend
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    		 Speaking of lee I need to order some of his films. Going to get enter the dragon right now.
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    		 i meet jim kelly who acted with bruce lee in enter the dragon. oh and my real names brandon after his son brandon lee
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  • thabz
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    uchuukeji69 wrote:
    I don't know if Bruce Lee could be considered the greatest martial artist ever, but I do like his movies. Oh, and David Carradine would have never had a career w/out him.


    Martial-arts are always evolving and perfected so I would rather call him a pioneer/inventor of the genre we now see and love.
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  • Dyzfunk7ional
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    		 ^ Many consider him as a MMA pioneer.
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    		 has anybody seen the origionl green hornet
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