essay on bruce lee please please
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Alex Ben Block, The Legend of Bruce Lee
In light of this quotation, how did Bruce Lee bridge the gulf between Eastern and Western audiences to become an international film star?
For many of his fans all across the world, Bruce Lee has achieved an almost God-like status. Many of the books written about him posthumously are written by people who greatly admire the man, people who negate the value of 'Bruce Lee: the international film star' and instead focus, to an almost obsessive level, on 'Bruce Lee: the king of Kung Fu', 'Bruce Lee: the Eastern philosopher', 'Bruce Lee: the mystical sensei', 'Bruce Lee: the legend'. This may be due to his sudden and untimely death in 1973. Less than a year after his death, the writer Alex Ben Block predicted, quite rightly, that, 'Someday far down the line, after East and West have met, people will tell Bruce Lee stories in the same dreamy way people tell Jimmy Dean or Buddy Holly or Janis Joplin stories.'
My aim in this essay is to discard all the myths that surround Bruce Lee, all the speculations about the man himself. My focus will be Bruce Lee the film star, the image that he created which appealed to both East and West. In his unfortunately short adult career he completed four films and I will examine these to try and find what it was about Bruce Lee that made him an international star, the qualities that made him popular in both Hong Kong and Britain/America.
In the Chinese Year of the Dragon, on 27th November 1940, a baby boy was born to Lee Hoi Cheun (a minor star of the Cantonese Opera Company of Hong Kong) and his wife, Grace.
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BRUCE LEE
Bruce Lee was perhaps the greatest Martial-Artist ever. He was born in San Francisco, California on November 27th, 1940. A few months after his birth, Bruce and his family move back to Hong Kong. Bruce starred in a number of films as a child. His first starring role was actually when he was six years old! It was a role in a film titled "Little Orphan Sam".
At the age of 12, Bruce begins taking Martial-Arts instruction from the legendary Sifu Yap-Man, a master of the art of "Wing-Chun" gung-fu. During the next few years, when he was not practicing his art, he could be found in the movie studios with his father. At the age of 18, due to the numerous streetfights he was involved in, Bruce alone was forced…show more content…
He also gets a small role in the film "Marlowe". Sometime after the film "Marlowe" is made, Bruce marries Linda. Months later, he opens his first "Jun-Fan Institute", where he continues to share his knowledge of Martial-Arts.
Word spreads that Bruce Lee is teaching the "sacred" Martial-Arts to foreigners. Bruce is "warned" by various other instructors of his "violation of the sacred law". According to the instructors, it was considered forbidden to teach the "sacred" Martial-Arts to anyone who wasn't of Asian decent. Bruce argued this, saying that he wanted to show the beauty of their culture to the world. The instructors laid down an ultimatium. Bruce was to either teach only Asians, or stop teaching altogether. Bruce refused their instructions, vowing to teach whoever wanted to learn. Needless to say, the instructors were not pleased, and challenged Bruce to fight Wong Jack Man, another Martial Arts master in the area. The rules were set, if Bruce lost, he was to stop teaching. If he won, he would be able to teach who he pleased.
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