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Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey
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Wikipedia article
'Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey' is a 2000 documentary on the martial artist Bruce Lee and Jeet Kune Do. The documentary includes never-before-seen behind-the-scenes footage of Bruce Lee's life, as well as parts of the original footage of his incomplete film 'Game of Death', which had been left out of the film.
Plot
The film has five parts, the first three of which present an overview of Bruce Lee's life, including interviews of his widow, Linda Lee Cadwell, Lee's best student Taky Kimura, Hapkido Grandmaster Ji Han Jae and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who co-stars in "Game of Death". The last two parts include 23 minutes of the original footage of "Game of Death".
Cast
* Bruce Lee (Posthumous appearance, used with archive footage)
* Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
* Dan Inosanto
* Ji Han Jae
* John Little
* Linda Lee Cadwell
* Taky Kimura
* Ted Hanulak
Production
Five years after Bruce Lee's death in 1973, Golden Harvest used about 11 minutes of Lee's uncompleted original footage intended by him to become the film "Game of Death", completing the rest of their 1978 film using Lee look-a-likes. Twenty-three more minutes of Lee's original footage were considered lost for 28 years, until they were discovered by Bey Logan in 1999. John Little assembled these parts according to Lee's script notes, reflecting more accurately Lee's intentions.
Release
The documentary was released on VHS and DVD by Warner Home Video. It was also released as a bonus feature on the 2004 edition of 'Enter the Dragon' on DVD. It was released with Lee's original English and Cantonese dubbing as part of the documentary.
Legacy
The dialogue of the song 'Be Like Water' has been sampled into various Hip hop and Electronic Dance tracks and has been mentioned in academic works.[https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/6205 Jump cutting: tracing parkour as invisible spectacle through the filmic city, page 10], O'Brien, S., University of Canterbury, 2011 [https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10092/6205/thesis_fulltext.pdf thesis_fulltext.pdf (1.264Mb)]
References
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