Introduction to Bruce Lee’s life

He was the first Chinese star to break into Hollywood. He made Kung Fu movies a new movie genre in Hollywood. However, he died suddenly and mysteriously at the age of 32. He inherited his father's dream and continued to promote Chinese Kung Fu. However, tragedy happened again. At the age of 28, he was killed by a prop pistol. Their lives are short but exciting. The legend of Bruce Lee and his son - "Chinese World" will be broadcast for you soon.

Chinese World, the home of the world’s Chinese, welcomes you to watch our program today. In the 1970s, a new word - kung fu - appeared in many foreign language dictionaries and dictionaries, and the word kung fu originated from one person, he was Bruce Lee. Today, a TV series "The Legend of Bruce Lee" about his extraordinary life is being broadcast on the screen. This TV series not only set off a wave of Bruce Lee craze in China, but also caused a huge sensation when it was promoted in the United States. At that time, Bruce Lee's mysterious death made many fans heartbroken and shed tears. However, just 20 years after Bruce Lee's death, the tragedy also happened again to his son Li Guohao. Li Guohao was snatched away by a prop pistol while filming. life. Their deaths were once circulated in society with various theories. However, now that we explore the causes of their deaths, it seems that they have lost their original meaning. What is important is that they left too many stories and too many stories to the world during their lifetimes. So many wonderful things. Today our program will tell you the life legend of this father and son.

Bruce Lee Forever

The headlines of Hong Kong newspapers on July 21, 1973 were all the same news. The popular kung fu superstar, 32-year-old Bruce Lee, was in Elizabeth at 11:30 late at night yesterday. He passed away in the hospital. When he woke up early in the morning, Hong Kong citizens were shocked by news headlines such as "Kung Fu superstar Bruce Lee died suddenly" and "The Raptor passed away." How exactly Bruce Lee died has become the most concerning issue for people.

Actor - George Lazaby: We met in the evening. It was half an hour after the agreed time and Bruce Lee hadn't come yet. I asked Zou Wenhuai where Bruce Lee had gone. He said, I know, give you his phone number. Number. I called and a girl answered the phone and said that Bruce Lee was sleeping and she couldn't wake him up. I said, you'd better call an ambulance quickly. I left the hotel and returned to the hotel. As soon as I entered the room, the phone rang, and the other party said, you know? Bruce Lee is dead.

Actor - John Saxon: He called me one day in May. I was surprised at the time. I didn’t know when he returned to Los Angeles, but he said he came to check up on his health. Said that he often fainted, I said how is that possible? He said, maybe "Bruce Lee" is going to disappear. I said, what did you say? But I didn’t think he was the kind of person who said these things for no reason. He was not the kind of weak person, so I started to worry. A day or two later, I called him and asked him how he feels now. He said that the doctor told him that he was as strong as an 18-year-old boy. That was the last time I talked to him, and he might have died at the end of the month.

Bruce Lee has only been making movies for two years, and has only four complete works left behind. However, his reputation continues to this day. He is the first Chinese star to break into Hollywood, and he is the first Chinese kung fu master to win international reputation. His self-created kung fu, Jeet Kune Do, shocked the martial arts world. So, what kind of person was Bruce Lee in real life?

Assistant Director of "Enter the Dragon" - Andrew Morgan: Bruce Lee was a complex person, but he never concealed himself. He knew what kind of person he was, where his roots were and what he was. Cultural background, he is proud to be Chinese, and he is also proud of his martial arts. Whether practicing martial arts or making movies, he is a perfectionist.

Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco, USA on November 27, 1940, which happened to be the Year of the Dragon in China. This is a photo of Bruce Lee shortly after he was born. Next to him is his father Li Haiquan. You may be curious, why did Li Haiquan dress his son like this? Because this is Li Haiquan's classic appearance. Li Haiquan was a famous comedian in Guangdong at that time and one of the four most famous uglies in Cantonese opera. He often took his family to tour around the world. This may be the reason why Bruce Lee was born in the United States. Bruce Lee spent his childhood and youth in Hong Kong. Bruce Lee was very thin when he was young. In order to make his son strong, his father, Li Haiquan, taught him Tai Chi when he was 7 years old. Then Bruce Lee became obsessed with martial arts. 13 When he was 2 years old, Bruce Lee systematically learned Wing Chun from the famous master Ip Man. However, from then on, Bruce Lee's martial arts training process became extremely difficult.

Actor - Elisanto: Those masters were unwilling to teach Bruce Lee because martial arts practitioners at that time were very conservative and did not want people from other sects to share their skills, so Bruce Lee could only go to second- and third-rate masters. There, I told them, do you want to learn my Wing Chun? I teach you Wing Chun, and you teach me Mantis Boxing. Bruce Lee just exchanged it with others, otherwise others would not teach him.

Bruce Lee was very naughty as a boy. As his kung fu improved, Bruce Lee's parents worried that he would become a bad learner. So when Bruce Lee was 18 years old, his parents decided to send Bruce Lee to study in the United States. In this way, in 1958, Bruce Lee returned to the United States with his martial arts skills.

Seattle Bruce Lee Kung Fu School coach-Kimura: I met him in 1959. That time I went to the place where they competed. The first thing they asked me to do was to fight Bruce Lee. I lit up. I punched him hard, but before I knew what was going on, I was tied behind my back like a burrito, and his fists came at me like a storm. I was scared to death, but I was immediately disappointed in myself. Said, oh my God, I have to learn kung fu from this guy.

In April 1962, Bruce Lee, who was still in college, opened the "Zhenfan Guoshu Museum" in Seattle's Chinatown to teach Chinese Kung Fu. During this period, he met Linda, a female medical student who came to learn martial arts. After more than a year of dating, they gradually developed feelings. In August 1964, they officially got married. One year after their marriage, Bruce Lee came to San Francisco. He began to write for the world-famous martial arts magazine "Black Belt". During this period, a person appeared and changed his destiny.

Mike James, publisher of "Black Belt" magazine: A man from a film company discovered Bruce Lee in a competition, and they got to know each other. He liked Bruce Lee's views because Bruce Lee admired The concept of martial arts completely abandons the showy movements that are of no use in self-defense. The moves used by Bruce Lee are eye-opening for people.

The person who admired Bruce Lee was Hollywood producer William Ducia, who immediately invited Bruce Lee to play a supporting actor in the TV series "The Green Hornet".

Seattle Bruce Lee Kung Fu School Instructor - Kimura: Bruce Lee came to me that day and said that 20th Century Fox asked him to audition for a role called Kato. He asked me if I should go. , I said you must go, he went, and everyone knew about him as a result.

"The Green Hornet" allowed Bruce Lee to realize his dream of entering Hollywood. However, Bruce Lee's initial journey to Hollywood was not smooth. In 1971, the disappointed Bruce Lee returned to Asia. He was invited to a small village in Thailand to shoot the film "Brother Tangshan". However, this non-Hollywood film became an important turning point in Bruce Lee's life.

He died young 35 years ago, and 35 years later his legend hit the screen. In American universities, there are courses devoted to his study; on Mount Fuji in Japan, his statue is enshrined. Bruce Lee Forever - "Chinese World" is now airing.

Actor - George Lazaby: He caught the attention of Zou Wenhuai on a TV talk show. It was when he first returned to Hong Kong. The guest on the show was a Japanese. He performed It was a show similar to tug-of-war, where he used his energy to drag three or four people over at once. At that time, someone said to Bruce Lee, "You are so strong, try to compete with him." Bruce Lee said, I don't want to compete with him, I can knock him down with one punch. The Japanese was very happy to hear that, but Bruce Lee knocked him down with one punch. Zou Wenhuai watched the show and immediately called Bruce Lee, and they began to cooperate from then on.

After cooperating with Chow Wenhuai's Hong Kong Golden Harvest Film Company, Bruce Lee's first film was "Tangshan Brother".

The Jeet Kune Do shown by Bruce Lee in this film shocked the martial arts world and the Chinese and foreign film circles. The difficulty and speed of the fighting scenes that Bruce Lee helped design excited the audience at the time. In less than three weeks after its release in Hong Kong, "Tangshan Brother" has grossed more than HK$3.5 million at the box office, breaking the box office record for all Chinese-language films in Southeast Asia. The success of "Brother Tangshan" made many Hollywood producers see the value of Bruce Lee. They invited Bruce Lee to return to Hollywood for development. However, Bruce Lee rejected these invitations at this time.

Assistant Director of "Enter the Dragon" - Andrew Morgan: Bruce Lee has not developed very well in movies. The films produced by Hollywood are very different from what he wants to show. Bruce Lee is very smart and thoughtful, and he loves movies. Like his passion for martial arts, he realized he needed to start in Asia, knowing that if it was successful, once it set box office records in Asia, American movie companies would be interested.

Facts have proved that Bruce Lee was right to stay and develop in Hong Kong. The second film he took over in Hong Kong, "Fist of Fury," became a work that completely changed his acting career. This film, which depicts Chen Zhen's revenge for his master Huo Yuanjia, aroused strong outcry from Chinese audiences who were bullied by the Japanese army as soon as it was screened. Bruce Lee became a hero in people's minds.

Assistant Director of "Enter the Dragon" - Andrew Morgan: First of all, this is a true story. This kind of sign was hung in the concession in Shanghai until 1948. Many Hong Kong people are from Shanghai and remember that kind of sign. , because it had brought shame to the Chinese, and the plot of this film aroused the patriotism of the Chinese.

"Fist of Fury" established Bruce Lee's status as an international movie star. Later, he wrote, directed and starred in the movie "The Way of the Dragon", which was also a success. Just as he was preparing to shoot his second movie When he starred in the movie "Game of Death", Hollywood's eyes once again turned to him. This time he did not avoid it, but took over the filming of this movie-"Enter the Dragon". Bruce Lee devoted himself wholeheartedly to the filming of "Enter the Dragon." Bruce Lee was involved in the selection of every scene and the design of every action, making this Hong Kong-Hollywood collaboration a huge success as soon as it was released.

"Enter the Dragon" Cinematography - Gil Hubbs: The success of the film cannot be described in words. I remember one day I was driving out and when I came back, it was eight o'clock in the evening. I lived in Hollywood and came home. I had to pass by the Chinese Theater. It was about seven o'clock at that time, and people were queuing up to buy tickets for "Enter the Dragon." I got off the car and looked in front of the theater, only to realize that everyone was not buying tickets for the show that started half an hour later. But it was a movie two and a half hours later. I couldn't believe it, so I asked some people in line, do I really have to stand for two and a half hours waiting to watch this movie? They said, yes. I was dumbfounded then and am still stunned now.

On August 19, 1973, "Enter the Dragon" premiered in the United States. Fans did not see the leading actor attending the ceremony, but only saw the lively Bruce Lee on the screen. On October 18, the film "Enter the Dragon" premiered in the United States. The Mandarin version of "Enter the Dragon" was released in Hong Kong, and at this moment Bruce Lee is lying quietly in a cemetery in Seattle, USA. Bruce Lee's death shocked the world, and also brought endless sadness to his fans. People can't believe how a person who was full of vitality and loved life could suddenly leave? Bruce Lee, who introduced the world to Chinese Kung Fu and made the Chinese people proud, has passed away.

Actor - George Lazaby: This news is so shocking, I can't believe it. He looks fine and strong, except for a little headache. Later, I got the pleasure of filming Kung Fu movies. I was injured, and during the treatment I met a doctor who did autopsies. He said that the blood vessels in the head burst and began to leak, just like the inner tube of a tire ruptured. That should be the cause of the headache. I think it was training. As a result, some people said that he was hit on the head, or that there was a kind of secret, that kind of privacy. I think he was too involved in training, which is really sad.

Actor - John Saxon: His physical condition was originally very good, but he trained too hard and his nervous system almost reached the limit. Especially after filming the movie, I sometimes feel strange, a lot He would put extra demands on himself for things that ordinary people wouldn't care much about, which gradually caused him to lose a certain physical balance.

With his superb traditional Chinese martial arts, unique character and patriotic screen image, Bruce Lee became a superstar of kung fu movies and became famous all over the world. He left unforgettable memories for his friends and fans.

Actor - Elisanto: On my birthday that day, my wife and I went to a hotel with Bruce Lee and his wife to celebrate. I brought a hundred dollars with me that day. I thought it should be enough to cover the expenses of that night, no. Thinking that the food in that restaurant was very expensive, he saw something on my face, because as soon as I looked at the bill I realized that I didn't have enough money, so he slipped me $50 from under the table without letting my wife see it. Even his wife Linda didn't know. Afterward, he said, "I know from the way you looked at the bill that you didn't bring enough money."

Actor - George Lazaby: Once he said to Zou Wenhuai, you have to give George $10,000. Zou Wenhuai asked why? Because Zou Wenhuai was a businessman, Bruce Lee said that George must have no money, otherwise why would he be standing there waiting for the bus.

Assistant Director of "Enter the Dragon" - Andrew Morgan: For a long time, the American and European film industry did not know much about martial arts movies. Bruce Lee stood out with his unique style and became the world's number one kung fu superstar. He made the world understand Chinese Kung Fu, and to be precise, Kung Fu itself.

Actor - James Gobin: He completed his mission. I don’t know who can do it better. He influenced many people, and this influence is still there today. His kung fu remains. In the movie and in the books he wrote, he lives in the memory of so many of us, so we are here to find together what made him such an extraordinary person and what he did. Everything he did left no doubt that he was a true artist, worthy of his name.

Bruce Lee's life was short, but it was like a dazzling comet streaking across the sky above the international martial arts arena. The Kung Fu movies he starred in became popular overseas, and Chinese Kung Fu became world-famous. In the minds of many foreigners, Kung Fu is Chinese martial arts, and Bruce Lee is the embodiment of Kung Fu. Many foreign martial arts masters, karate boxers, and Muay Thai masters have admitted after watching Kung Fu movies starring Bruce Lee: "Bruce Lee does have real Kung Fu." To this day, it is rare to see an Eastern martial artist who can break through the realm of country and race like Bruce Lee. And his reputation remained undiminished even after his death. As for the cause of Bruce Lee's death, the final verdict given by the court that year was that Bruce Lee died because he was allergic to a certain component of headache medicine, which caused cerebral edema.