From a film perspective alone, it might be good to adapt a film based on the life of "Bruce Lee".
However, it is unfortunate that this movie has really been "adapted"... which means that the adaptation can be "altered" or "tampered" or even "creative" wantonly. The most distressing thing is the so-called "adaptation." It is already fabricating and beautifying Huang Zemin and senior black Bruce Lee himself. If you just want to watch popcorn, you will give up, but it’s not good for me, really not. For those who don’t know or know Bruce Lee, watching this film will mislead newcomers at first.
I am a veteran dragon fan of Mr. Bruce Lee for more than ten years. I have known Bruce Lee since he was very young, because he likes martial arts and nunchakus... Later, he practiced martial arts, Wing Chun, etc. in junior high school. It’s been many years since I graduated from university... I still insist on running and fitness. I have read all Bruce Lee's film and television works, all the martial arts works and in-depth materials. I think I am quite familiar with Mr. Bruce Lee's life, martial arts philosophy and Jeet Kune Do martial arts philosophy.
As for this movie, I can't bear it, and the plot is completely reckless! Feel free to fabricate and tamper with! ! !
Mr. Li Zhiyuan’s book "The Reappearance of Bruce Lee Myth" describes in detail the process of the "Li and Huang War" in 1964, and the book "The Reappearance of Bruce Lee Myth" is very rigorous. If you are interested, you can check this book, it is more authoritative. And Liu Yong (played as the son of the ice rink boss in Tangshan, brother Chen Zhen in Jingwumen, and the role of the Raptors crossing the river) once disclosed the experience of the competition that year, because there were very few people present and said that it was not allowed at the time. It was announced to the public, so the match was even less known back then, and it was finally passed on to later generations a few years later.
Then compared with the movie, the difference is simply too big. The editor restores the real thing and lists the different places and doubts: How many incidents of facts have been tampered with in this movie, and everyone should identify it by themselves.
1: Did Huang Zemin compete with the Tai Chi master played by Wu Yue in the movie and kick him with Meng Shan? This is impossible to verify. So basically there is nothing. In the play, the competition is in a warehouse; but in reality, the competition is in the Auckland Martial Arts Center, Huang went to the door to challenge, and Li accepted the challenge.
2: Huang Zemin competes with Bruce Lee. In the movie, Huang came to San Francisco to confess and supervise Bruce Lee. Later, Li knew that he asked to see him and took the initiative to challenge Huang;
In reality, Huang challenged Li on behalf of the Chinese martial arts power, and Li accepted the challenge.
3: There are foreigners and?? Chinese women in the movie... Huang Ying and Li Biwu are related to this woman. This is also very funny, how is it possible, completely fabricated, and there is no evidence in reality.
4: In the movie, the two sides confronted each other and fought for nearly ten minutes. Each has its own strengths and each has its own victory and defeat. Once Li was beaten by Huang Kuang, and later Huang deliberately asked Li and Bruce Lee to calm down and defeat Huang, Of course, in the end, Huang deliberately guided Li with the goal of enlightening Bruce Lee.
5: In reality, it takes more than three minutes before and after both sides. Huang and seven of his companions showed up at the Oakland Martial Arts Center together. He handed Li Zhanshu to both sides to read the official rules, stipulating: If Li loses, either the martial arts gym shall be closed or the white men shall not be allowed to teach boxing.
Bruce Lee looked at him and asked, "Is this what you want?"
Huang seems to apologize, "No, that's not the case, I'm just representing the Chinese martial arts club!"
Li said, "Okay," Huang put on a traditional posture, while Li was still practicing Wing Chun, he issued a series of straight punches. In less than a minute... When Li started to gain the upper hand, those who came with him tried to stop the competition. Yan Jinghai warned them and signaled the competition to continue.
The process is simply a farce...
After a minute, Li concentrated on attacking him, Huang kept backing away, and even turned to escape for an instant, which forced Li to expend a lot of effort to chase him, so most of Huang's back was concentrated. Later when he returned to the center, Huang was already weak. Attacked, Li threw Huang to the ground with a lock technique, pressed him, raised his fist and yelled.
"Enough?"
Huang said "Enough"
Li asked a second time, confirming the end of the contest.
Li was very angry, grabbed the yellow collar, dragged him to the door and threw him out.
6: In the movie: In fact, Huang Wansheng, deliberately let Li, purpose to teach Li;
In reality: Huang defeated, fleeed... and this competition was not evenly matched. It's just a farce!
7: In reality, Huang Zemin studied under Ma Jinfeng and Yan Shangwu, and practiced Xingyi, Tai Chi and Shaolin martial arts. In 1964, he went to work in the Chinese Jingwu Branch of San Francisco from Hong Kong and was sent to challenge Bruce Lee. In the movie, it is confession and deliberately washing the dishes... Haha, let's not talk about it, I think everyone understands.
8: Before this martial arts competition, Bruce Lee opened a martial arts gym to accept foreign students, and was a guest performer at the Changti martial arts competition. He made his own understanding, elaboration and criticism of traditional martial arts, which offended the Chinese martial arts community. (After 4 consecutive days of 20 performances and demonstrations, he is very tired, and he is still suffering from a cold and in poor condition) At this time, Huang Zemin came to work in the San Francisco Jingwu branch. By the way: There is no evidence that Huang and Li met at the martial arts competition in the movie, it should be fabricated.
9: The last two people teamed up to deal with the gang, of course, it was a fabricated, nonsense, not to mention it.
10: In reality, after this competition, Bruce Lee concluded that it took him three minutes to defeat Huang and felt that it took too long. Therefore, the idea of changing the style of boxing and improving the actual combat of Wing Chun was born (this Bruce Lee’s wife has repeatedly appeared in the documentary Mentioned in) was later fully formed after 1967, which is now what people call "JeKon Do".
Well, the above is just an explanation of the match between Li and Huang and what happened in the past, as well as the comparison with the movie. I believe the audience and readers know how much this movie has been fabricated and adapted.
In fact, putting aside these fictitious and adapted plots, this film still has highlights, breakthroughs and merits. As a veteran dragon fan, I personally feel that Wu Yunlong's understanding and performance of Bruce Lee through movies and performances is actually somewhat in-depth. First of all, Wu Yunlong is playing Bruce Lee in his twenties, which reflects Bruce Lee’s state and dedication when he was young. I think it is good, especially the fluent English and the confidence in his eyes. This is the previous film and television dramas about Bruce Lee. Those who play the role can not reach, especially the 2009 CCTV production of "Legend of Bruce Lee" played by Chen Guokun. In acting, Li's image and its superficiality do not have any depth. Of course, this cannot be entirely blamed on the actor. It can only be said that it may also express the image of Bruce Lee in the mind of the director and screenwriter. The superficial understanding of the characters and the shoddy production behind the scenes caused the show to be controversial in the end. Closer to home, maybe Wu Yunlong’s appearance is not as good as Chen Guokun’s appearance, but the temperament shown by Wu Yunlong is good for me as a dragon fan. Compared with Bruce Lee’s interview with Canadian chat show Pierre Burton in Hong Kong in 1971, I think Wu Yunlong is very good. I feel, including Wu Yunlong who said that for this movie, watch Lee-related documentaries and video materials explaining martial arts in English.
In fact, this movie is actually a traditional story composed of elements in a typical master training manual. Because Chinese masters, especially martial arts masters, always need to grow up, they always need to be Zen religious or philosophical baptism to reach the top. In the current words: the routine is too deep, Chinese celebrities always like to respect not experiencing wind and rain, how to see The truth of the rainbow! Even if you are talented, you have to create a path that you will grow up through the years. If you don’t understand: Look at the movies Huo Yuanjia, Ye Wen, Zhang Sanfeng, Su Qier or the more exaggerated Jin Yong series, Yang Guo, Zhang Wuji...
A story that happened before a celebrity became famous can be adapted. After all, the life of the art source is higher than the life, but it is not advisable to adapt it too much and seriously distort the facts. The current screenwriters and directors deliberately increase the conflict in the drama, and for the plot of the movie, they always ignore the facts and cannot get out of the box. This may be an important reason why domestic movies always fail to progress.
Empty your glass to fill it up again.
———Bruce Lee
With the traditional model, you can only survive in the shadow of tradition, you can't understand yourself at all, you must dare to break the barriers of tradition, and liberate your thinking!
———Bruce Lee
Why do Hollywood blockbusters look good? Why are American dramas attractive? The reason why the same popcorn and foreign works are always exciting and meaningful at the same time is because of the truth. Film and television works can be exaggerated, fabricated, and can be created... But they cannot be divorced from reality. The soul of film and television dramas is based on reality. Those Oscar century-old classic works have extremely high artistic and ideological achievements, and they are all based on real stories and shock people's hearts. Therefore, truly expressing oneself and liberating one's own thinking are the essence of all things!
The so-called "returning to nature" does not require cumbersome routines, and does not require the brushwork of first suppressing and then raising. This is the essence of innovative thinking. Only those who dare to break through the traditional fence can break through themselves and be reborn.
For me, the ultimate goal of martial arts is to truly express myself, and it is difficult to do that now. I mean it’s easy for me to act, such as pretending to be arrogant. You have to feel the feeling of arrogance, and then feel that you are cool and powerful. I can behave like that. Do you understand what I mean? You can also be deceived by it, and I will show you some tricks, but you must truly express yourself and not deceive yourself. It's very difficult to really express yourself, so be like water, my friend.
———Bruce Lee
sorry!
It’s a bit farther again. Going back to this film, in addition to Wu Yunlong’s performance, there are still highlights, the screenwriter’s line skills are average, and the last Huang Li on the plot fights the underworld together. The plot is not handled well and falls into stereotypes... The plot adaptation and fabricated are people. Distressing, turning black and white, whitewashing Huang Zemin, and raising his image, in order to develop a manual compulsory series plot for the master, so naturally Bruce Lee has become an arrogant, clown image party, and even blackened Bruce Lee, this I think is too much.
Finally, by the way: Xia Yu is not suitable for filming this show, pretending to be an eminent monk, or not being serious. In the play, Xia Yu's substitute used slow motion blatantly and showed his face directly. Can you be more serious? The details can't stand scrutiny, and other places are lackluster! Still that sentence as a movie, but also improvised. The opportunistic popcorn is really unfair to Mr. Bruce Lee. It has completely tampered with facts and distorted history. Huang Zemin, who was beaten up wildly, has not only become a generation of monks in this play, but he has guided Bruce Lee’s success. .......
Unscrupulous filmmakers and unscrupulous directors, relying on the label "Bruce Lee" to collect money, are doing things to discredit Bruce Lee's image and destroy Bruce Lee's fame.
It's ironic... Mr. Bruce Lee's misfortune. However, I hope that more people will not be misled by this film, and even more because of this bad film, can truly understand the true history.
I sincerely hope that Mr. Bruce Lee will not be overconsumed anymore and let him rest in heaven!
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