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Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)

 -  Action | Biography | Drama  -  7 May 1993 (USA)
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A lionized account of the life of the martial arts superstar.

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Bruce's Father
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The Demon
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Young Bruce
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Storyline

Based on the life and career of Martial Arts superstar, Bruce Lee. Haunted by demons. Bruce was taught Martial arts at childhood. Bruce then was told by his father to flee to the United States. There, he opened up a Martial Arts school, then was chosen to be the Green Hornet's sidekick, Kato. Then, his big movie career that included "The Big Boss" and "Enter the Dragon". Fighting many enemies along the way, including his childhood demon. Written by John Wiggins

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The Mystery. The Life. The Love. The Legend


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Rated PG-13 for martial arts violence and sensuality | See all certifications »

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7 May 1993 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

A sárkány - Bruce Lee élete  »

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$14,000,000 (estimated)

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£1,723,230 (UK) (12 November 1993)
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Trivia

The style of kung fu being practiced by the young Bruce Lee and his instructor at the beginning of the movie is Wing Chun. See more »

Goofs

Although Bruce Lee did not injure his back during a fight to decide whether he could teach all races martial arts (he injured it doing Good Mornings, an exercise that places the barbell on your shoulders and lean forward until your torso is 90 degrees with your legs, then repeat) the fight did take place and he did win. See more »

Quotes

Jerome Sprout: [Before the combat dispute] I scooped him out. His name is Johnny Sun. He is formidable, he is a killer. 2 people tried to rob him last year, one went to the hospital, the one with the gun went to a funeral home.
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Connections

Referenced in Balls Out: The Making of 'Balls of Fury' (2007) See more »

Soundtracks

"The Big Boss"
(Ending Theme)
Music by Fu-ling Wang
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User Reviews

A BIO-PIC OF CONSIDERABLE ARTISTIC MERIT.
4 October 1999 | by (CARDIFF, WALES) – See all my reviews

I had severe misgivings when I heard about the making of this movie. Too many deplorable attempts had been made by tenth-rate Hong Kong movie-makers over the years at portraying Lee's remarkable life that another one,even an American one, seemed to promise more of the same.How wrong I was,"DRAGON" is a remarkably well made biopic made by people who obviously had genuine respect for their legendary subject.This respect,however, did not prevent them from embellishing aspects of Lee's life and experiences with elements that were exaggerated and sometimes hokey.This is true of most biopics though and "DRAGON" is not the worst offender.The movie stands and falls by the performance of Jason Scott Lee and what he achieves here is quite extraordinary and under-rated.Although he does not look very much like the late martial arts maestro,he has captured his charisma and gestures,even the voice down to a tee.His handling of the fight sequences is perhaps the weakest element in his portrayal,relying as it does on too much showy acrobatics.He does enough though,as everyone involved does,to illustrate what it was about Lee that made him one of the key figures of twentieth century pop culture.It is sad that Scott Lee himself seems so far unable to progress very far from this very promising lead in a major studio picture.We can only hope that this changes soon as he proved to be a personable lead here and in one or two other movies.


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