WING CHUN FILM SERIES: GAME OF DEATH

Game of Death.

Oh my god, how many of is still cry today that he never finished this?! LOL! A real shame on so many levels and what I would not have donated to have a finished version of this and another few movies with the legend in on my shelf.

Film speeded up indeed! I think not.

There is one thing about this though...the Nunchaku he used were fakes and I always though they behaved a little funny?!

Stumbled across this quite accidentally when I froze the image, on this version oddly, while Bruce was spinning his famous yellow Nunchaku and one end was pressing all its weight on one arm before being flung back in the opposite direction. Only I suddenly did i double take when i noticed that this end of the Nunchaku was doing an extremely good representation of a BANANA?!

It was bending in other words!

Now oddly enough I jhad heard, in a British TV Program I love, that in Bruce Lee's movies they had SPED UP the film to make him look good and I wholeheartedly disagree on this. It is also a little open ended as it may be one or two sequences they did it, someone mentions it and suddenly all film parts of Bruce doing his thing are sped up?! You see there... ambiguous!

HOWEVER! I will say that using soft, foam or otherwise, Nunchaku you cannot get the speed up due to the lack of weight. When I first taught myself years ago I found foam ones to be useless and though about putting ball bearings inside the hollow handles?! Now if say as I prefer to think that Bruce was showing signs of illness filming Game of Death, after all I saw an outake of him nearly knocking himself out with a pair of Nunchaku for that scene, he may have switched to foam ones and then just sped up the film in places to make them look like full weighted Nunchaku?!

That is what I would have done.

Also this film is famous for Bruce planning to use George Lazenby, James Bond on On Her Majesty's Secret Service, on the set and had met up with him several times about it. They were friends but then they had similar difficulties when it came to films so I guess they must have related. Hmm I need to find firneds like this but with LIFE, LMAO!

Sad but Legendary and always will be.