What this obsession with Bruce Lee?
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Well, it's perfectly normal to ask this question since this must seem like a very unusual social phenomenon to you.\n\nYou must be wondering why people would go crazy over someone who's already no longer in the loop like all the current celebrities like 50 Cents or all the rappers, popstars and female divas who are still alive right?\n\nSit back and read on, the explanation is pretty interesting...\n\nBruce Lee was a Kung Fu icon way back in the 70's.\nThis was a decade that brought Kung Fu to the world of the westerners through the many films and TV shows that Bruce Lee himself starred in. He did for Kung Fu what Elvis did for Rock & Roll.\n\nBut it is interesting to note that while there were many other people who were also in the limelight during that era doing similar things to what Elvis and Bruce did, none achieved the immortality of cult status that Bruce Lee and Elvis Presley enjoyed.\n\nOther people who have lived on with such tenacity even though they have departed from our world include Mother Teresa, Ghandi, Marilyn Monroe and others.\n\nSo you see, it is a very unusual social phenomenon indeed.\n\nYour observation, though casual, reveals that perhaps there is a formula to acheiving cult status that these people have unwittingly attained, conciously or otherwise.\n\nCertainly there were many unique factors contibuting to it. Maybe an early demise at the height of their popularity had something to do with it, but it would be superficial to attribute their immortality to a single factor. Many aspects of their lives and the way it intertwined with society during their careers/lifetime had an influence I'm sure.\n\nTheir life stories and circumstances are worth analysing to find out more. No doubt, if one's wish were to replicate success on such a phenomenal level as theirs, it would be no mean feat. But by studying their lives, we learn how to live ours; no doubt if your wish is to be an immortal, then perhaps they are our greatest teachers.\n\nCheers!\nALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE
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I agree with you. However I wouldn't say there is NO proof, unsubstantiated statements are proof, just not very good proof. \n\nMuch of his image comes from linda lee trying to bolster it to cash in.\n\nThere is little evidence of if he was "great" or not. It is logical that he had some level of skill because he had a name for himself and I would imagine he would have been exposed. but he didn't have a fight record so there is no way to know for sure.\n\nEven still, don't think the UFC is a good measure of bruce lee because it is pretty obvious what worked 30 years ago is not necessarily what works today so even if he was "spectacular" then he was so 30 years ago when MMA and groundfighting wasn't really a reality (it was around, but no where near as popular or practiced as it is today).  Bruce even admits that muhammad ali would have kicked his ass.\n\nHowever I don't think it is fair to take away the man's accomplishments in hollywood. Even though fanboy's may piss you off it was a good and big step for asians in hollywood pictures. that has little to do with his actual ability but it is wrong to take that from him.
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good call it is only a script and the people are told to go down not as much as their put down. I believe the above stated could hold there own but in the street there s always some one better and to compare bruce lee to some one in the ufc is a joke those blokes are monsters and there are no scripts there. They would "snap" the on screen legends. I to find the posts of movie star performers interesting with who their compared too.
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He is in his own way. I love Mike Tyson and his antics. He has a bad rep though. I must say from 1986-1990 he was the best fighter ever. No one could beat him in his prime..... NO ONE.
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Chuck Norris is an experienced martial artist and former world Karate champion. He has trained with Bruce Lee and helped him create his famous style Jeet Kun Do.\nMacGyver gets his butt kicked every week it is a no contest.
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WOW! JUST WHEN I THOUGHT BRUCE LEE FANS WERE OUT OF THE DOOR, (BECASUE OF JET LI, JACKIE CHAN, MARC DAGASCOS, ETC.)\nHERE IS MY MAN ASKING AGAIN ABOUT "THE TRUE REAL LEGEND" MR.LEE!!!!\nI AM FROM CALIFORNIA, THERE IS A PLACE CALLED "CHINATOWN" NEAR LOS ANGELES, AND THAT IS WHERE THE FANS ARE!\nEVERYTHING, ANYTHING, ALLLLLL!!IS FOUND IN THOSE PLACES.\nTHERE IS EVEN RESTAURANTS NAMED "LEE'S MARTIAL ARTS FOOD" AND "K.O BRUCE LEE'S ARCADE" AWESOME HU?
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I think he's an interesting guy who likes to push his body to its limits.\n\nand he performs some pretty crazy street magic.
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for those of you who are unaware-benny "the jet" urquidez. is a full contact kickboxer renowned for his speed and courage-now retired he held the world crown for a number of years. his trademark being the full red-indian headgear he used to wear when entering the ring. while "the jets" speed and courage have seemingly no limitations i beleive sifu lee would have the edge in the technical and speed department-remember that in bruce lee you are talking of a man who could bring his kicking leg up from prone-to target-to prone again in one eighth of a second. i also beleive lee would have the edge in the power stakes as well-during the filming of the scene with bob wall in "enter the dragon" where lee backfists wall in the face several times the film-rate had to be slowed from 32 frames a second to 16 frames a second so the audience could see his hand move-benny the jet would have no answer to this combined with lee's legendary power.
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These people are out of their mind.  Lee was a movie star, but not a champion fighter.  Don't get me wrong.  He was a great fighter and lightning fast, but he didn't train in the way moder MMA fighters do to prepare for a ground fight.  He'd be taken down and either submitted or pounded into mat.
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Yes it was great! I Love Stephan Chow. he makes funny movies. the only 2 that were released out in the US were shaolin soccer and kung-fu hustle. which was another great funny film. I hope to see more of his chessy work. You know he came out of the same school where bruce lee was from?
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I'm mostly interested in Wing Chun Kung Fu, a martial  art developed by a chinese nun during the Ching Dynasty which is very practical and became popular in America after it was discovered that it was the original martial art that Bruce Lee studied before he left China. I haven't really seen any documentaries on this art except for being briefly mentioned in a documentary or two. Also,  there isn't really much info that I've seen on filipino martial arts. They are masters of weapons and knife fighting and it is said that if you train in weapons before you train in unarmed combat, you will posess extreme skill in any martial art. Probably because it takes so much more conditioning to avoid a blow from a weapon than from a fist or a foot. They have arts dedicated to weapons fighting such as Escrima, Kali, and Espada y Daga.
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Bruce Lee, Muhammad Ali, Winston Churchill and Octavius emperor of ancient Rome\n\nVS.  \n\nAdolph Hitler, Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson and OJ Simpson\n\nin an all out balls to the wall Texas razor wire cage match! chainsaws and box cutters are legal... eye gouging isn't. LMAO!\n\nfunny post bro.
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OK you know what Bruce Lee *himself* said about boxers? You know what he said about Muhammad Ali? Bruce Lee basically said Ali is too big for him and would kill him in a fight. This was in an interview for Enter the Dragon or something to that effect.\n\nSome more quotes for you:\n"Ali was Bruce's man. He had all of his fights on 8mm and he loved watching the Cleveland Williams fight over and over." -Leo Fong, student\n"He (Bruce Lee) did tell me he really respected Muhammad Ali and thought he was a great fighter." -Robert Lee, brother\nhttp://www.bruceleecentral.com/bruceleepeople.htm\n\nAverage people often say Bruce Lee will beat Tyson/etc because they watch his movies and don't train in boxing or realize how powerful Tyson's punches are. Bruce Lee might be strong for a small guy pound for pound but that doesn't mean he could hang with a top boxer for longer than a few seconds. Bruce Lee knew that. Stop living in fantasy.
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Bruce Lee was a God when it came to martial arts movies...but along with the legend came a lot of hype.\n\nThink about film speed back then...possible that it could not pick it up as it just was so slow.  \n\nHe trained many of some of the great actors who came with martial arts like one of my faves Bolo Yeoung.  He (Bolo) then went on to films with actors like Jean Claude etc.  Even Chuck Norris had an influence from Bruce from working with him.\n\nI was a huge fan of his son, and to be honest I was really upset with his tragic death.  Bruce was and always will be a legend though....
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do you have an obsession?
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It's just an obsession\n\nansw3r3r
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Did you watch that movie that was about the life of Bruce Lee?  I think it was called "Dragon" and was produced roughly around 1993.  \n\nAnyways, it seems that Hollywood was indeed racist at the time and I agree with you, in that Bruce Lee would've made a far better actor on the set of Kung Fu than David Carradine.