Bruce Lee Dragon Story Full Movie

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Aug 3, 2024, 6:02:35 PM8/3/24

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Considered the first biopic of the legendary Bruce Lee, fact blurs with fiction in this low-budget, loose interpretation of the great martial arts expert's life starring Bruce Li, the most well known Lee impersonator. The film takes a look at Bruce's humble beginnings as a paperboy to his rise in fame as a martial arts phenom, who later gets tangled up in a love affair with actress Betty Ting-Pei.

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This might be the most audaciously nonsense and made up bipoic ever made. Bruce Lee had been dead for less than a year when this hit cinemas in Taiwan, and I can only imagine whoever wrote it did so based on half a scrap of newspaper dropped into a puddle of dog piss. If there was ever a film that was like a British tabloid story brought to life, this is it.

Super Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (AKA Bruce Lee: A Dragon Story) was the first, and is still the worst, Bruce Lee biopic. Rushed (it came out the year after Bruce's passing), cheap, sloppy, and very inaccurate. It makes Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story look like a documentary! It also feels more like "The Betty Ting Pei Story" (although not as much as Shaw Brothers' Bruce Lee and I, obviously). Ho Tsung-Tao (AKA Bruce Li) does an okay job portraying the legend for the first time, but he would definitely improve both his acting and martial arts a lot in the years following this fiasco. Still, it's definitely worth a watch for Bruce Lee (and Li) fans and everyone interested in the Bruceploitation phenomenon, as this film is most likely the one that started it all.*

An early attempt at a Bruce Lee biopic, starring Bruce Li. Honestly, not sure why you'd watch this one when Bruce Lee: the Man, the Myth exists which is the far superior biopic (also starring Bruce Li.) It stays pretty close to the actual Bruce Lee's life, so no crazy random fights, but also focuses way too much on Betty Ting Pei's part in Lee's life. I prefer the tackier takes on the subject matter, although this one does end with showing Lee's actual corpse. Li was not in peak form yet when this was made. It shows in the fight scenes that he does do are rather sloppy compared to his later films. Overall it's fine, but there are better Lee biopics, even ones that also star Li.

This is a no budget melodrama that attempts to tell the story of Bruce Lee, but one has to wonder at the commitment to actual events. Did Bruce really have to fight a pair of Samurai on his front lawn in Seattle? Hmmm. The level of ineptitude is so high as to be oddly compelling and I couldn't put my finger on what felt so familiar about it. Then it hit me - if Doris Wishman ever made a kung-fu movie, I think it might go something like this. Definitely not for everyone, but for crackbrained fans of the stilted and surreal, it's a veritable feast of incompetent storytelling.

I don't remember much of the plot, except that it involved a boy of primary-school age obtaining this strange (rainbow-coloured?) egg from somewhere, a baby dragon hatching from the egg, and then the troubles the boy had trying to keep a little dragon as a pet. The story took place in the real world, not a fantasy world, i.e. the existence of a dragon was very remarkable. :)

To clarify after a couple comments: the baby dragon was kitten- or cat-sized for the part of the book I remember; this wasn't a case of a "baby" dragon still being much larger than the boy, D&D-style.

I read this book sometime in the (probably mid-)1990s. I suspect it was published around then, and I may have got it from one of the Scholastic book sales they'd run at my school. Anyway, it was a children's/YA book, not an adult novel.

Jeremy Thatcher knows a thing or two about raising animals-after all, his dad is a veterinarian. But after he leaves Mr. Elives' magic shop with a strange marbled egg, it soon becomes clear that this is one pet he wasn't prepared for! How is he supposed to keep a flame-breathing dragon with razor-sharp teeth and out-of-control appetite in his bedroom? If the playful baby dragon is ever to grow up to become a magnificent beast of myth and legend, it needs Jeremy. And though he doesn't know it yet, Jeremy needs a dragon.