A generation of superstar Bruce Lee, regarded as a "unique martial arts genius", has suddenly fallen to make people sigh, and what is even more unexpected is that his son also has the same fate.
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Bruce Lee's only son, Li Guohao, was pinned on high hopes, but before the filming of "The Crow" was completed, he died due to an accident at the age of 28.
The two are now buried in the same cemetery, accompanying each other, but the 12 big characters carved on Bruce Lee's tombstone seem to reveal a wordless "deep meaning......
Bruce Lee and Li Guohao cemetery
Someone was born in Rome
On February 1, 1965, a God's favorite was born, he was Li Guohao, the eldest son of Bruce Lee, the most famous kung fu superstar in Hollywood at that time, and the only son of Bruce Lee.
Li Guohao does not look very much like his father, but is more similar to his mother Linda, with a pair of big eyes and white skin, Li Guohao is deeply pleased.
Bruce Lee family photo
Although Bruce Lee has a busy schedule, as long as he has free time, he will stay with Li Guohao, Li Guohao under the leadership of his father, began to learn martial arts at a young age, quite a style, he is a very martial arts spiritual child.
Because he was born in Rome, Li Guohao's life has never experienced what a setback is, as long as people know that he is Bruce Lee's child, they will look at him with envy.
Li Guohao's life is a high-end bureau at the beginning, and under such pampering, his character has become more and more willful, as long as he puts forward requirements, Bruce Lee basically has no time to be unsatisfied.
But such a star-studded life was pressed on pause when Li Guohao was eight years old.
On July 20, 1973, the news of Bruce Lee's death shocked the world, and similarly, made Li Guohao feel grief and despair.
It seems to have fallen from heaven to hell in an instant, and eight-year-old Li Guohao can't even really understand what death is, and at his father's funeral, Li Guohao thought that his father was making a movie.
However, his father, Bruce Lee, could never wake up again.
It was in this year that Li Guohao left the place where he lived and changed to a new city life, he followed his mother to Los Angeles and lived a completely different life from the original.
Li Guohao's personality has also become more irritable and moody in the face of this huge gap in life.
When his father was there, he was always surrounded by a bunch of students who were learning martial arts, and the family was always very lively, Bruce Lee had many friends, and Li Guohao always played and learned martial arts with these uncles.
Bruce Lee and the students
After Bruce Lee left, he came to Los Angeles, where he was unfamiliar with his life, not only did Li Guohao have no friends, but his quality of life also declined significantly, although Bruce Lee's reputation was still there, but Li Guohao was in the ice cave.
It was also from this time that Li Guohao became more selfish, and he often locked himself in his room to read novels, listen to music, and learn martial arts, which followed by a sharp decline in Li Guohao's academic performance.
Li Guohao studied martial arts since childhood, and when his academic performance was hopeless, he chose Boston's Emmason Calle Film School to study filmmaking, and what he wanted to do at this time was to follow in his father's footsteps.
It's a pity that Li Guohao's patience was limited, and he was bored and bored studying filmmaking, so he dropped out of school halfway.
Later, because of his unique martial arts skills, the school saw his potential, and under such an accident, Li Guohao began to shoot movies and embarked on the same path as his father Bruce Lee.
Woe to men who are mad
Li Guohao is in a rebellious period, like most second-generation stars, he doesn't want to be shrouded by his father's aura, but his father's aura is too strong.
As long as Li Guohao appears in the place, there will definitely be Bruce Lee's name with him. What Li Guohao didn't know was that the reason why he was valued was precisely because of the title of his father Bruce Lee.
Although he tried his best to get rid of his father's influence, Li Guohao and Bruce Lee did have many similarities, and the Achilles' heel of the father and son's personalities also laid hidden dangers for their future encounters.
The reason why I say this is because Bruce Lee's personality is very irritable, and he is very talented in martial arts. Such people are used to learn martial arts, and once they cause trouble, it is easy to cause trouble, either hurting others or hurting themselves.
Sure enough, Li Guohao's character resembles his father, which lays hidden dangers for his future.
In 1985, Li Guohao starred in a TV series "Kung Fu Circle", he began to slowly become well-known and accepted by people in the circle, and finally he starred in the movie "Kung Fu Movie Version".
Although Bruce Lee and Li Guohao are not similar in appearance, Li Guohao still has the charm of Bruce Lee in every move, and when the film is promoted, it is under the name of Bruce Lee.
So as soon as this movie appeared, Li Guohao was praised as the descendant of the dragon, and his fame began to rise since then.
At this time, Bruce Lee's former friend Chen Huimin noticed Li Guohao and invited him to star in the movie "Dragon in the Rivers and Lakes".
It was with the help of this movie that Li Guohao was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Academy Awards, and his acting career became more and more popular after that.
When it comes to Chen Huimin, I have to say his evaluation of Li Guohao. Although Chen Huimin has the grace of knowing Li Guohao, Chen Huimin is not optimistic about Li Guohao in the interview.
Because Li Guohao's personality is too arrogant, and he has always emphasized that he is not Chinese, Li Guohao did not hesitate to refuse the request of some filmmakers to let Li Guohao imitate Bruce Lee.
As everyone knows, the reason why Li Guohao's film market was so hot at that time was that many people took a fancy to his father Bruce Lee's fame.
Li Guohao, as a newcomer, has a salary of several million.
If it weren't for Bruce Lee's influence, he would not have gotten such a salary.
But Li Guohao doesn't give the film any face, and he refuses to imitate Bruce Lee at all, how can such an actor be liked?
In the end, Li Guohao and the filmmaker broke up, and their evaluation of Li Guohao was also very poor.
Perhaps from this time on, Li Guohao's tragic fate has been decided. Li Guohao's personality is so arrogant, and his own strength is not strong enough, he offends people without knowing it. In this way, he slowly walked into the curse of fate.
The deep meaning of the tombstone
On April 1, 1993, when Li Guohao was filming the movie "The Crow", there was an ordinary gunfight scene. But what is surprising is that when the opponent actor shot a bullet, Li Guohao suddenly lay on the ground.
His stomach was instantly bloody, and then he fell into a coma, and although he was rushed to the hospital, he still couldn't save Li Guohao's life. This year, he was only 28 years old.
Screenshot from the movie of that gun
was also an accidental death, the same young age, and the same Li boy, Li Guohao's encounter caused a public uproar for a while, and there were various speculations about the cause of his death.
Media reports at the time
But in the end, after research, it was a prop accident. As for the truth, for so many years, there have been different opinions about the cause of Li Guohao's death.
He lost his husband when he was young, and his only son when he was middle-aged. For the death of the Li father and son, the saddest thing is Bruce Lee's wife, who is also Li Guohao's mother Lin Linda.
Despite having a daughter by her side, Linda's beloved husband, her good son, can never return to her. Bruce Lee liked Li Guohao very much before his death, so after Li Guohao's death, his family buried Li Guohao's tombstone next to Bruce Lee.
The tomb of the Lee father and son in Seattle
Li Guohao's tombstone is black, while Bruce Lee's tombstone is red, one red and one black, and the tombstone is very concise. Bruce Lee's tombstone only has an epitaph of 12 Chinese characters, but the deep meaning contained in it is thought-provoking.
"The impossible is the law, and the infinite is the finite".
In fact, it is obvious that these 12 words in front of Bruce Lee's tombstone have profound philosophical implications, and they also embody the kung fu philosophy that Bruce Lee studied all his life.
The study of kung fu is limited, but as long as you are willing to work hard, there will always be infinite possibilities. The reason why Bruce Lee's kung fu height can be so high, and even no one can match it so far, is naturally because of his efforts in it.
This sentence is not only a summary of Bruce Lee's lifelong study of martial arts, but also a summary of the height of his life, although Bruce Lee has passed away, the martial arts spirit he left behind is still inspiring people, his life is limited, but martial arts are unlimited.
Li Guohao's tombstone is quietly accompanied by Bruce Lee's grave, and the experience of the father and son is sighing and thought-provoking......
Sources of information:
The original article was published on China News Network, 2023-07-20, "The 50th Anniversary of Bruce Lee's Death: There Is a "Legend" Called Bruce Lee"
The original article was published in Jinan Times, October 31, 2023, "Bruce Lee's son Li Guohao's posthumous work "The Crow" is about to be restarted"
Text/Editor: Xiaomei