The review article written by Pig a few days ago about the "emergency withdrawal of the movie "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" reacted enthusiastically after its release, and netizens expressed their views on the arrogant and arrogant Bruce Lee image created by Quentin in the movie this time.
Most netizens believe that this matter does not need to be on the line, but should respect the director's film creation, because the fictional image and reality in the film cannot be equated, at most, it is the "bad taste" of artists like Quentin.
While discussing Quentin's controversial approach, we should also reflect on ourselves, because when it comes to deliberately black Bruce Lee, we do not do less in domestic movies, compared with Quentin in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood".
Next, Pigo will take stock of the films in film history that feature Bruce Lee as the protagonist or have Bruce Lee, and see how different his images on the screen are from the real thing.
I. "Ip Man: The Ultimate War" makes Bruce Lee "obscene"
When it comes to films that take Bruce Lee to death, Pigo's first thought is 2013's Ip Man: The Ultimate War, a film featuring Ip Man, directed by Qiu Litao and played by Huang Qiusheng.
With the release of Zhen Zidan's "Ip Man" series, this movie is obviously trying to rub a wave of heat.
The character image is the point that Pi Ge wants to complain about the most, looking for Huang Qiusheng, who is 180cm tall, to play the 163 cm Ip Man, the gap of nearly 20 centimeters makes it difficult for Pi Ge to have a sense of substitution for the character image.
And until the second half of the appearance of Bruce Lee image, found a passerby named Zhang Junjie to play, regardless of the face, figure, image are far from Bruce Lee real people, and the tone and form of speech are more reminiscent of only two words - obscene.
To be honest, Pigo was a little shocked to see this character appear, and he couldn't understand why the film's creator wanted to damage Bruce Lee's image so much.
If it's just a joke, it's more than twice as damaging as once upon a time in Hollywood.
Second, "Bruce Lee My Brother", Bruce Lee changed the plot "puppet"
In the 2010 movie "Bruce Lee My Brother", the filmmakers chose the young and handsome Lee Zhiting to play Bruce Lee.
The film has been in preparation for a long time, and the creators have spent a lot of energy on restoring historical details, and the release is just in time for the 70th anniversary of Bruce Lee's birth, which can be described as a favorable time and place.
However, while the film plays the sentiment card, the story is very thin, and bruce Lee's image does not reflect the personality at all, but has become a "puppet" that only exists to connect the historical figures of the Hong Kong film industry who appear like a marquee, and its own experience and emotional line are like chicken ribs.
The film also unsurprisingly attracted word-of-mouth and box office failures, and the national box office was only 13 million yuan, which was simply unbearable.
3. "Tower of Death", a work that circles money in the name of Bruce Lee
5 years after Bruce Lee's death, Jiahe remade a "Game of Death" based on Bruce Lee's unfinished posthumous work "Game of Death", and Korean actor Kim Tae-jung was responsible for completing the back and action scenes of "Starring Bruce Lee" according to the plot, but he actually did not look like Bruce Lee at all, and he did not know how he was selected that year.
In 1981, Kim Tae-jung starred in another film with Bruce Lee's money, "Tower of Death", and later starred in many action movies.
This includes the 1986 "Blood Game" directed by Won Kwai, with Shange Winton as the villain, and Kim Tae-jung playing Bruce Lee as the mentor of the male protagonist in the film. The movie is very middle two, the action scenes have no highlights, Bruce Lee's appearance is just a gimmick, and Kim Tae-chung's performance can be ignored.
Fourth, "Bruce Lee and Me" takes Bruce Lee's love history as the selling point
In the 70s, there was also a "Bruce Lee and Me" that could not be left out, because it was based on bruce Lee's red confidant Ding Pei's "self-exposed" and Bruce Lee's love history.
One of the most fascinating is Ding Pei's account of the details of the story that happened on the day of Bruce Lee's death.
But the film is full of Ding Pei's wishful thinking, and the story doesn't have much to show.
Although Li Xiuxian's image temperament is very good, playing Bruce Lee is still lacking, the body line is not in a grade, and it is difficult for the audience to associate him with Bruce Lee.
5. "The Birth of the Dragon", Bruce Lee vs. Shaolin Warrior Monk
The most recent film to tell the story of Bruce Lee was 2016's Birth of the Dragon, also a Hollywood production, starring Wu Yunlong as Bruce Lee.
The film also plays the sign of Bruce Lee's biography, but not to mention the image of Wu Yunlong, just to portray Huang Zemin as a Shaolin martial monk, it is enough to let Bruce Lee fight with a monk.
Sixth, Taiwan's He Zongdao imitated "too deliberately"
Counting the Bruce Lee actors, if you go back to the 70s, many people will recognize Ho Zongdao from Taiwan.
Known as "Bruce Lee No. 2" or "bruce li" in English, he has starred in many films that imitate Bruce Lee, and has also played Bruce Lee in two films, "A Generation of Raptors" (1974) and "The Legend of Bruce Lee" (1976).
He Zongdao is 176cm taller than Bruce Lee, and his image, temperament, and martial arts skills are very good, and he is generally accepted by the audience, but if he deliberately imitates a person, he will always live in his shadow and certainly cannot go too far.
Perhaps deeply touched by this, he actually directed himself in 1984 in a movie called "The Shadow of the Dragon", and Bruce Lee's disciple Dan Inocando also starred.
He Zongdao was active until 1990, and he retired when he was just 40 years old, and he did not know what the reason was.
Seventh, the image of Bruce Lee in the "Ip Man" series was well received
Compared with the first six different versions of the "Bruce Lee image", The treatment of Bruce Lee in Zhen Zidan's "Ip Man" series is much more positive.
A childhood Bruce Lee appeared in the easter egg at the end of 2010's Ip Man 2: The Legend of the Grandmaster, played by Zhen Zidan's apprentice Jiang Daiyan. It's just a shot that says something without a mile, and although it has nothing to do with historical facts, it's also very interesting.
Since the childhood Bruce Lee is mentioned, Then Pigo needs to interject the copyright issues regarding Bruce Lee's image.
Bruce Lee's wife, Linda Emory, and daughter Li Xiangning, along with his family, Lee Chun-fai, and others also had disputes over this, and later reached a consensus that the copyright of the image from Bruce Lee's birth until his departure from Hong Kong in 1959 belonged to Bruce Lee's family, and the copyright after he arrived in the United States in 1959 and before his death belonged to his wife and daughter.
However, when Lee Chun-fai's side used Bruce Lee's copyright, it has also been careful not to cause disputes. Therefore, in 2015's "Ip Man 3", Bruce Lee, played by Chen Guokun, only made a cameo appearance in the form of an Easter egg.
Pi Ge has always felt that among the many Bruce Lee imitators, Chen Guokun's image is the most similar, at least 80%, while others are less than 50%.
As early as when Stephen Chow filmed "Shaolin Football", Chen Guokun was discovered to play the fourth master brother in the film because his image was similar to Bruce Lee.
In 2008, he got the opportunity to star in the CCTV version of "The Legend of Bruce Lee", for which he spent a lot of time and energy to train his muscles.
In Ip Man 3, he basically continued his image in The Legend of Bruce Lee.
In addition, Chen Guokun also served as a stand-in for Bruce Lee's cg image in the 2013 Johnnie Walker drink commercial. Pico was really shocked when he suddenly saw the advertisement on TV, and later learned that it was originally drawn in CG.
"Ip Man 4" released at the end of the year will take Ip Man breaking into the United States as the main line, and in the cast list, Chen Guokun's name is next to Zhen Zidan, and Pi Ge estimates that Chen Guokun's version of Bruce Lee will have more scenes at that time.
Eighth, Hollywood produced "The Biography of Bruce Lee", and the drama covered up the difference in appearance
The more conscientious Bruce Lee movie produced by Hollywood is the 1993 "Bruce Lee Biography", played by The Big Man Lee who Pigo likes.
Li Tru has an exaggerated muscle, the height has reached 178cm, his chest muscles are larger than Bruce Lee's, but the back muscles are a little worse, which is the best shape among many actors, but the face is much worse than Bruce Lee.
The film is basically based on Bruce Lee's life experience, as a pure action film rather than a biopic, which adds a lot of action scenes, Bruce Lee wherever he goes, where there is a fight.
Although the story is headless and does not stand up to scrutiny, it is very enjoyable and is one of The movies that Pigo loved when he was a child.
IX. "The Biography of Bruce Lee (The Dragon in the Jianghu)", the character interpretation is the biggest highlight
As a child, Picot watched a well-thought-out TV series, 1992's Bruce Lee (The Dragon in the Jianghu). Liu Jialiang plays Bruce Lee's father in the film, named Li Baichuan instead of Li Haiquan.
Playing Bruce Lee is Wu Dawei, who has no martial arts skills, but his personality is somewhat similar.
This drama has a total of 30 episodes, Hong Kong-style story with wonderful action scenes, which can be regarded as a very serious work in the 90s, but unfortunately the whole episode cannot be found on the Internet now.
Whether it is Quentin's portrayal of Bruce Lee's "arrogant" image in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", or the imitation of the god-level in the above 9 film and television versions, in fact, the audience wants to see only the real Bruce Lee in history, not exaggerated, nor subjectively ugly.
Some netizens mentioned that Bruce Lee's personality at that time was indeed somewhat "arrogant and arrogant", and cited that the reason why he went to the United States to study was because he caused big trouble by fighting and causing trouble.
In response to this, Pi Ge would like to explain that according to Pi Ge's more in-depth understanding of Bruce Lee over the years, he did have an arrogant and grumpy side in his lifetime, and he also had a black history of carrying a knife to the downstairs of Luo Wei's house to fight him, and at that time he was also nicknamed "Wild Dragon" by the Hong Kong gossip media.
When he was a teenager, because Ip Man encouraged his disciples to communicate with people more, Wing Chun men, including Bruce Lee, did not fight with people less, mostly in the rooftop, and also had the experience of competing in the Kowloon City Walled City, and even Bruce Lee was also called one of the "Four Tigers of the Nine Dragons".
As far as Pigo knew, Bruce Lee was a man of love and hatred, and he could treat people he liked or was close to him, and those he hated were often very arrogant and violent.
Yuan Hua also recalled that on the set of "Dragon Fight Tiger Fight", Bruce Lee had always had a good attitude towards the staff of the Hong Kong company; for the Hollywood team, he changed into a different face and was furious at every turn. This actually has a lot to do with the resentment that he was treated unfairly in Hollywood in his early years.
Everyone has strengths and weaknesses, bruce Lee has many shortcomings, so that Pigo can write a separate article.
But the most important thing that Pigo likes Bruce Lee is that he is very real and direct, never hides himself, and shows both pros and cons.
Bruce Lee was extremely obsessed with martial arts and elevated it to a philosophical level, which was rarely achieved by martial artists of his time, and why he still had a place in the martial arts world even though he never had a record in the ring.
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