![]() ![]() Watching 'Enter the Dragon' today, over 30 years since it first debuted in 1973, I'm guessing that some younger moviegoers unfamiliar with cinema history may simply shrug their shoulders at the bad dubbing, cheap effects and CGI-less action sequences. Okay, perhaps I'm overstating my case just a little bit, but it is hard to imagine these films and filmmakers working in the quite same way had it not been for the visual style and action aesthetic Lee pioneered in the early '70s. Matrix' trilogy, ' Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon' and just about every comic book movie of the past two decades, not to mention the complete cinematic oeuvre of genre auteurs like Quentin Tarantino and John Carpenter. Still not impressed? Then consider as Exhibit A, Lee's perhaps finest effort and certainly his most well-known film, 'Enter the Dragon.' Without this cult classic we probably would never had such modern films as 'The ![]() Without him, we wouldn't have had Jackie Chan, Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Yun-Fat Chow or Jet Li. ![]() And no actor is more closely associated with the movement as to be virtually synonymous with the words "martial arts" as Bruce Lee. Say what you want about the appeal of the martial arts or "chop socky" movie, but its impact on modern American genre filmmaking is immeasurable.
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