Enter the Dragon

Enter the Dragon is a Kungfumovie American from 1973. The film was directed by Robert Clouse. It was the only American film where Bruce Lee played the lead role in. It was the debut film by Jim Kelly blaxploitationster.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Lee is a Shaolin martial artist from Hong Kongwho possesses great insight in both martial arts and philosophy. He receives an invitation to a contest on an island,martialarts-organized by the mysterious Han. Lee learns from his Sifu (master) that Han once a Shaolin student, but was exiled from their group, because he took advantage of their code of conduct.
 * 2 Cast
 * Background 3
 * 3.1 Production
 * 3.2 reception
 * 3.3 Aftermath
 * 4 external links

A man named Braithwaite from British intelligence approaches Lee and asks for his help in an undercover mission. Han is suspected to be involved in drug trafficking andprostitution. However, because a part of the island is private property of Han, they are not able to carry out a formal investigation. Han has a martialartsschool on its island in order to recruit talents to assist him in his practice. He also has a secret formula to test drugs on his maids. Recommended s undercover agents, one of Braithwaite called Mei Ling, managed to infiltrate to Han recommended s island, but contact with her has been lost. Lee is the ideal candidate for the mission, for he will not stand out on the tournament. In addition, his fighting Arts good, since Han disallows firearms on the island. Before his departure, Lee hears of his father that Hans henchman O'Hara was responsible for the death of his older sister, Su Lin, years ago.

Lee arrives on the island of Han and gets a warm welcome. Participants who join them include Roper (a white American Playboy-gambler on the run from a gang) and Williams, an African American activist on the run from the law after a fight with two white policemen in Los Angeles. Roper and Williams beat their opponents on the first match day with ease. That night, after Lee recommended contact with Braithwaite s undercover agent Mei Ling, Lee begins with searching for evidence against Han. He finds a secret entrance to an underground base. He comes Hans guards against, but doesn't manage to beat them before they can identify him. He is seen by Williams, who a walk. However, Williams is itself, however, also seen by a security guard.

The next day, Han warns the participants about evenings. He punishes his guards for failure in their task. Some of them is brutally killed by the sadistic Bolo, Hansbodyguard. Moments later, Lee called for his first game. His opponent is O'Hara. Lee defeats O'Hara and is forced to kill him after O'Hara's attempts to attack him using a broken bottle. Han announces that has caused him shame O'Hara's dishonourable attack, and inform the rest of the tournament one day off. Though he leaves Williams at call themselves. He accuses him of attacking his guards (which was actually Lee's work), and kills him in a hand combat.

Han leads Roper around in his underground base and calls on him to be for his heroin smuggling representative in the United States. He threatens to kill like Williams will Roper if he refuses. The same night breaks Lee to the underground base, where he finds sufficient evidence of Hans criminal practices. When the radio station he used to contact Braithwaite, Lee draws the attention of the guards unintentionally. He must fight his way out. However, he is lured into a trap and captured.

The next day Roper with Lee fighting to prove his loyalty to Han. Roper refuses and therefore let him with Han Bolo fight. Roper WINS, after which a raging Han his guards to kill both Lee and Roper gives the command.The two are very much in the minority, but they are standing up to get help from the prisoners from Hans underground prison, who has just been freed by Mei Ling. Amidst all of the chaos Han tries to sneak away, followed by Lee. The two fight each other in a room full of mirrors, where Lee Han beats and impales his own spear. When Lee returns to Roper, he sees that most of Hans men are defeated. They stick out their thumbs on just when military helicopters arrive in response to Lee's previous emergency call. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Times the production got Lee discord with fellow player Bob Wall, when during their battle scene Wall glass instead of a bottle of sugar glass really turned out to be fixed to keep giving Lee a cut sustained. Wall itself denies that he and Lee would have had heavy feud.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The famous staircase that gives Lee against O'Hara's chest was really, and devised by Wall. He was with Lee that would be unrealistic about neptrappen. Lee accidentally broke during the recording the arms of twoExtras who tried to capture him during the filming of the scene. Also Wall itself ran through the scene injuries, thus producing three months was delayed.

<p lang="en" len="257" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Jackie Chan has a supporting role in the film, as a guard whose neck is broken by Lee.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The scene in which Lee admits that his fighting style of "fighting without fighting", is based on an anecdote about the 16th-century Samurai Tsukahara Bokuden.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-martialDirect_3-0" len="182" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bokuden_4-0" len="176" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4] ===Reception<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Enter the Dragon brought in 25 million dollars in North America,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-imdb_5-0" len="173" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  and $ 90 million worldwide.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-imdb_5-1" len="173" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [5]  This against a production budget of $ 850,000. The film brought In Hong Kong HK $ 3.307.536 on <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-imdb_5-2" len="173" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]. For the film industry of that time were very high, but it was still significantly less than the yield of Lee's Fist of Fury and Way of the Dragon .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film was well received by critics, and is still seen as one of the best films of 1973.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]  Critics often Enter the Dragon described as a "cheap James Bond thriller",<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]  a "remake of Dr. No with elements of Fu Manchu".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" len="170" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [10]  the film holds 97% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" len="170" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [11]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2004 was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" len="170" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [12]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film took out in 2008 the Empire's 474th place in top 500 of best movies ever.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" len="170" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [13] ===Aftermath<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film was parodied several times, including in The Onion,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" len="170" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[14]  the game show Takeshi's Castle and the comedy film Balls of Fury .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In August 2007, Warner Independent Pictures announced that producer Kurt Sutter wanted to make a remake of the film as a film noir-thriller entitled Awaken the Dragon.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" len="170" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [15]