Game of Death (1978) Review
March 26th 2010 18:44
Bruce Lee, martial artist, film maker, and philosopher. Not just an on-screen hero Bruce
Lee fought for equality and the rights of all men in real life. When he was instructed not to teach his brand of Kung Fu to white men and black men by Chinese gangs, he chose to fight the thugs they sent instead of give in. Truly an amazing man, almost like a living pulp adventure hero, and his movies were some of the best martial arts films made.
Before Bruce Lee came along, the Hong Kong movie studios would often make two or three films in a month. They were made with ultra-low budgets and had little story. Studios made money by making as many movies as possible and releasing them to as many theaters as they could. When Bruce Lee made his first big movie, “The Big Boss” it changed everything, audiences couldn't get enough of it, and it made more money than any other Hong Kong film in history, the record only being broken by Lee's next movie “The Chinese Connection”. After two more Film, Bruce Lee wanted to make a movie showcasing his Jeet Kune Do Fighting style, and began filming his next effort: Game of death. However, an American producer offered Bruce Lee an unheard of Salary to make “Enter the Dragon” so with only 100 minutes of film shot, Lee put “Game of Death” on Hiatus. Bruce Lee died in a Hong Kong apartment from an brain aneurism brought on by a bad reaction to a prescription medicine just after he finished “Enter the Dragon” and never got back to finishing “Game of Death”..
Golden Harvest productions has already sunk millions of dollars into “Game of Death” and had misplaced all but 10 minutes of Fight footage which is now considered lost for good. The fight scenes were incredible, but there was no story to go around it, Bruce Lee's vision of the movie was certainly unfilmable without him to direct, so what to do? What followed was one of the most ridiculous and bizarre movie oddities in the history of film. Golden Harvest, actually tried to assemble a 90 minute film, with a dead leading man. Making this the first (but not last) posthumous performance of Bruce Lee [ Click here to read more ]
The Game of Death posters, don't be fooled, Bruce is barely in this film despite his face being plastered all over the promotion material
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