ENTER THE DRAGON
Lots of efforts gone into the picture and sound quality of his other 4 films with dazzling results EVEN ON DVD and yet his most famous film...NOTHING other than this release.
I had forgiven them the grainy scenes due to the age of the film and everyone said the same, but then after seeing the last releases of The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, Way of the Dragon and The Game of Death there IS NO EXCUSE any longer and I still wait for a re-release of this on BLU-RAY?!
Thses labels are quic to want to sue money for taking things without paying but also I believe they should introduce fines for them for taking money for SHODDY work?!
Just saying! lol.
Well how about that I finally get around to the one that started it all and no not KING BOXER, or as that film was known in the west, but Enter the Dragon!
I can hear the wails from the Jeet Kune Do fanatics of the one that refused the fight scene in Way of the Dragon (what a moron), or some of them at any rate, from here to White Crane Mountain but sorry it is baloney, lol.
Wing Chun was what he did when he lived here, well at least the Siu Nim Tao and Chum Kui forms. When back living in Hong Kong he got together with Wong Shun Leung, Leung in Ip Man 2, where he learned more and the Bil Jee and it was WSL who liked to evolve the style that led to Bruce Lee coming up with JKD.
How this took place within the timelines of creating the HK films I do not care. But at the end of the day the core of JKD has Wing Chun as its foundation, or its birth and it is as simple as that.
The Bong Sao, Wing-Arm, and Tan Sao, Deflecting Arm, are key. Then of course there is the Six and a Half Point Pole in this film and you will not how bloody long that pole is and that is because unlike Bo Staffs and the like, which normally max-out at 6 feet, the Six and a Half Point Pole (named on the moves being six and a half) this is normally 8 or 9, that is EIGHT OR NINE, feet long.
Yes the Nunchaku are not part of Wing Chun I give you that. But he just stripped away things he thought no good in a REAL fight and added things he thought were good.
Then you have the likelihood that he added things because they looked good on film, yes I know it may be sacrilege but you do have to wonder.
Then there is his philosophy and he sounds like Confucius reborn at times.
The man is and always WILL BE a legend and there is a great many reasons for that. Forty years on and I still have not got over finding out he had died?! LMAO!!!
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