Man That Discovered Bruce Lee Is Now Dead

[toobfreak]

Raymond Chow, which is the man who pretty much created quality martial arts films, "discovered" Bruce Lee and made him the cornerstone of his studio, bringing Bruce Lee and all of his films to the world has now passed away.

Golden Harvest Studios was also instrumental in helping to create Jackie Chan's movie career as well.

Raymond Chow - Wikipedia

The Big Boss (Alternately titled Fists of Fury)
The Big Boss contained one of the best ever fight scenes which was not actually planned but was an actual unstaged fight between Lee and another on the set which Chow filmed as it happened, and was so good he used it in the movie. Originally written for another star, a change of directors gave Lee the lead instead, and the public's reaction to him cemented his career.
The Chinese Connection (Also alternately titled Fists of Fury. Confused?)
The Return of the Dragon (Originally titled The Way of the Dragon)
Introduces and launches Chuck Norris' film career as Lee's opponent. Norris, a champion of the arts himself, agreed to do the movie on the condition that he did not lose badly. Entirely written, produced and directed by Bruce Lee.
Enter the Dragon
Sadly released just 6 days after Lee's untimely passing, it was his only full blown western-produced, full-budget big studio movie. We can only guess what might have followed from here had he not died of a bad reaction to mixing two pharmaceuticals. The master of the fight contests, Han, who has the big, final fight scene in the room of mirrors with Lee, his real voice was not actually used but was actually dubbed in by Keye Luke, who played Master Po in the TV series - Kung Fu. The Kung Fu TV series was actually an idea that Lee himself created, but the studios rejected him for the lead role as being too Chinese and so feared he would not be accepted by the audience.
POST HUMOUS:
The Game of Death
Actually begun before Enter The Dragon with Lee again as producer, writer and director, Lee had completed the centerpiece filming of the main fight sequences when he got the offer to do Enter The Dragon with Warner Brothers. Some of the original Lee fight sequences was lost by Golden Harvest Studios. Lee was planning on resuming the filming of this movie when he died. The footage of his fight scenes which survived was pieced together by the director of Enter The Dragon with additional stand-ins woven into a new story line and released 5 years after Lee's death.

 

[william the wie]

he was obviously a genius.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Check out "Circle of Iron" (1978). The role of The Blind Man, also played by David Carradine, was also intended for Bruce. Christopher Lee plays a Vlad Tepes-looking nemesis.

The story was written by Lee, James Coburn and Sterling Sililphant.

 

[toobfreak]

Check out "Circle of Iron" (1978). The role of The Blind Man, also played by David Carradine, was also intended for Bruce. Christopher Lee plays a Vlad Tepes-looking nemesis.

The story was written by Lee, James Coburn and Sterling Sililphant.

I have that! They used to show it on TV pretty often many years ago. Very enjoyable movie. I especially like the part where they come across Eli Wallach in the desert sitting in a vat of oil dissolving his lower half away because he wants to be free of sexual desire. One of Carradine's better post-Kung Fu movies IMO.