Hey all
Maybe you've heard of this, I never did. Found it by fluke tonight.
Apparently Bruce Lee wrote this film, it was his vision to make a Zen-film with parables and wisdoms beyond the typical Hong Kong or Hollywood martial arts flicks.
Anyways its got David Carradine in it, Christopher lee and some He-Man lookin dude, lol
Its pretty cool! Not your typical film, its like a living book of Zen koans, but with fight scenes
Here is what shows up before the film starts:
CIRCLE OF IRON!!
Full film here:
http://vexmovies.org/circle-of-iron
Bruce Lee Wrote this film
looks like it may have had a B title, The Silent Flute:
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love those oldschool hand-drawn posters
Edge Guerrero wrote:- The Kung-fu series was a Bruce Lee idea.
And he was supposed to play Caine but Hollywood got nervous about having a Chinese leading man, so they hired a Caucasian to play a Chinaman instead. This was considered less offensive at the time.
It's ironic that the same Caucasian would once again take Bruce Lee's role in this movie.
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Wasnt it originally called "The Silent Flute" or something like that?
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Redneck wrote:Edge Guerrero wrote:- The Kung-fu series was a Bruce Lee idea.
he was supposed to play Caine but Hollywood got nervous about having a Chinese leading man, so they hired a Caucasian to play a Chinaman instead. This was considered less offensive at the time.
It's ironic that the same Caucasian would once again take Bruce Lee's role in this movie.
What Kelly remembers about Bruce Lee is they both “had similar struggles” being people of color in America. Race relations in the United States have changed so much from the 70s that a whole generation has grown up without an intimate knowledge of the culture then. Kelly says that Bruce Lee had “caught hell” in Hollywood because he was Chinese. “They didn’t want him in Hollywood,” Kelly said.
Kelly asserts that Kung Fu, the TV show that starred the late David Carradine, was “made for Bruce Lee.” That claim is backed by Bruce Lee’s widow Linda Lee Cadwell, who in her book Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew said Bruce Lee created the concept in 1971 for the series which was then stolen by Warner Bros.
Kelly says the writer of the series Kung Fu took the script to Bruce Lee and Lee wanted to do it. The writer, Kelly explains, went to the major studios, who loved the project and “Hey, everything’s good. We just can’t have a Chinese guy that starred in an American (film). So we gotta get a white guy and make him look half-Chinese. But we don’t want Bruce because he’s Chinese.”
https://blog.sfgate.com/abraham/2010/04/10/jim-kelly-on-enter-the-dragon-bruce-lee-discrimination-wondercon-sf/
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