Bruce Lee (1940.11.27-1973.7.20) Original name: Li Zhenfan English name: Bruce Lee Zodiac: Dragon Birthplace: Chinatown, San Francisco, USA Origin: Nanhai, Guangdong Height: 5 feet 7.5 inches Weight : 140 pounds (64 kg)
Maverick, outstanding.
In the 1970s, a young man was confident that he could shock the world, although people did not believe it. Later, he actually did it - in four and a half movies. This young man is Bruce Lee.
Bruce Lee is a beginning and an end. No matter how time passes, there will never be another Kung Fu star who is both a philosopher and a warrior.
Bruce Lee used his sharp kicks and superb nunchucks to knock down the karate masters one by one. Then he tore off the four words "Sick Man of East Asia" and said, "Let me tell you, the Chinese are not sick men." Bruce Lee walked away, and the image of a national hero was created.
This is the classic picture of "Fist of Fury", and this is the eternal image of Bruce Lee that is deeply left in people's impressions.
Bruce Lee (1940-1973)
English name Bruce Lee.
On November 27, 1940, Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco, USA. His father named him Li Zhenfan, hoping that one day he would become famous in San Francisco. Bruce Lee was thin when he was young. In order to strengthen his body, he started practicing Tai Chi when he was 7 years old. At the age of 13, Bruce Lee began to learn Wing Chun from the famous teacher Ip Man. He successively practiced Hong Quan, White Crane Quan, Tan Kou, Shaolin Quan, Jab Kick and other types of boxing, which laid a solid foundation for his later creation of Jeet Kune Do.
At the age of 18, Bruce Lee left his parents and master, came to the United States alone, and was admitted to the philosophy department of Washington State University. After entering university, in addition to studying, he focused all his energy on studying martial arts. In 1964, at the National Karate Competition held in California, Bruce Lee, who was only 24 years old, swept all the contestants and won the championship.
Bruce Lee loved martial arts almost to the point of obsession. After practicing hard and striving for excellence, his kung fu became increasingly proficient and reached a very high level. In addition to being proficient in various boxing techniques, he is also good at various instruments such as long sticks, short sticks and two-section sticks. He studies Qigong and hard skills. Starting from actual combat, based on Chinese martial arts, he absorbs Western boxing, karate, Taekwondo, Thai Based on the advantages and specialties of boxing and other martial arts, he summed up many years of experience and created his own boxing technique - Jeet Kune Do.
Bruce Lee returned to Hong Kong and ushered in his rapid acting career. In 1971, he starred in "Tangshan Brother", which set a record of the highest movie box office in Hong Kong since the opening of Hong Kong in 1840: more than 3.1 million Hong Kong dollars. He became famous throughout Southeast Asia overnight with his practical fighting style in the film, setting off a martial arts craze in Southeast Asia.
In 1972, he starred in "Fist of Fury" and achieved another box office success of 4.4 million yuan. The "Bruce Lee style" fighting movements were recognized by people after the film was released, and his sharp eyes staring at the enemy and the strange screams during the fight also became his "registered trademark" after the film. It was also in this film that Xiaolong used a two-section stick for the first time and was known as "Li Sanjiao". Bruce Lee knocked down the karate masters one by one with his sharp and elegant kicks and superb nunchucks. Then he tore off the four words "Sick Man of East Asia" and said, "Let me tell you, the Chinese are not sick men." Bruce Lee walked away, and the image of a national hero began to emerge.
At the end of the same year, Bruce Lee wrote, directed, acted and served as a martial arts instructor. The film "The Way of the Dragon", which fully demonstrated Bruce Lee's film talents, broke the box office record of "Fist of Fury" and was released in the first round. It sold for more than 5.3 million Hong Kong dollars. Bruce Lee fights freely and freely in the film, and vividly demonstrates his Jeet Kune Do spirit of "making law possible out of the impossible".
If "Enter the Dragon" established Bruce Lee's status as an international superstar, then "Enter the Dragon", another masterpiece co-produced with Hollywood in 1973, established Bruce Lee's super status as an international superstar. Enter the Dragon established Bruce Lee among the world's top stars. Bruce Lee also promoted his philosophy to the world. “Not thinking, but a gut feeling.
"Bruce Lee is a kind of intuition. He just does what he thinks and never thinks about the consequences. In this regard, he is unprecedented and has no successor. Bruce Lee finally got his wish and got Chinese actors to get starring roles in important Hollywood films. His long-cherished wish enabled Americans to re-understand Chinese Kung Fu and the Chinese people.
In the late autumn of 1972, shortly after completing "The Way of the Dragon", Bruce Lee began to conceive and invest in the new film "Game of Death." ". Just when Bruce Lee was ambitious and ready to make great achievements, he died suddenly in Hong Kong on July 20, 1973.
Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco, USA, grew up in Hong Kong, and studied in college in the United States. , and finally returned to Hong Kong, he wandered between the two cultures. Perhaps this experience enabled him to finally break through the constraints of form and create Jeet Kune Do, which regards the impossible as the law.
< p> Bruce Lee's life was short, but he made a huge contribution to the development of modern martial arts and film performing arts. The Kung Fu movies he starred in became popular overseas, and Chinese Kung Fu became famous in many foreign dictionaries and dictionaries around the world. A new word has appeared: "Kung Fu". In the minds of many foreigners, Kung Fu is Chinese martial arts, and Bruce Lee has become the embodiment of Kung Fu.He was born like a shooting star. To shine. A person's life cannot be measured by length. Bruce Lee's life is complete