Biography: Bruce Lee: The Immortal Dragon (1994)
Season Unknown, Episode Unknown
5/10
Problematic biography of Bruce Lee
9 February 2006
Don't get me wrong. This is not a complete disaster but this biography is very inferior to the awesome "A Warrior's Journey" by John Little from 2000. For example, the music to "Immortal Dragon" is sentimental and quiet and harmonic (!) The quite opposite of how Bruce Lee was like! The music supervisor must really have been special. Moreover, there are many mistakes in the movie such as the implication that the fight scenes in GAME OF DEATH were done without purpose. On the contrary, Bruce knew exactly what he was doing with GAME OF DEATH, he just didn't have time to finish it before he died. Moreover, "Immortal Dragon" says that the fight scene with Kareem-Abdul does not show Bruce at his best but they give no reason why? I would disagree. I think it is a very, very good scene with Bruce. In fact, one of the best and most intense. The narrator for "Immortal Dragon" sounds like an old man who is telling a funny story. As seen many times through the years Bruce does not get the respect he deserves. Only in "A Warrior's Journey" by John Little we see the awesome martial artist as a real life-artist which is what he was. "Immortal Dragon" is not bad but it is problematic in many regards.
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