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Photo by Angelique Pearl Miranda, May 17, 2015

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Question: What does one do after an afternoon of knitting?
Answer: Continue watching one's Bruce Lee DVD.

Watched Bruce Lee: Forever Light on my second Bruce Lee DVD, another documentary of his life from his childhood through his death.

It has three chapters:

--Chapter 1: In Search of Destiny
--Chapter 2: A Dragon Comes Home
--Chapter 3: The Art of the Dragon
--Chapter 4: Walk On!

Made me want to collect his early films, such as My Son Ah Cheung, Boys on the Street, Blackboard Jungle, and The Orphan, all of which reminded me so much of Luis Bunuel, and Thunderstorm and Longstreet. Some of them already had prolonged fight scenes.

I especially like one training scene in this documentary in which a stick must be shot through an iron ring to snare a metal ball on twine. I should try that someday.

His movies were shown in sequence: The Big Boss, shot in Thailand, which made him a star; Fist of Fury a.k.a Chinese Connection, the first appearance of nunchucks; Way of the Dragon, wrote and directed be Bruce Lee himself and shot in Rome; Enter the Dragon; and Game of Death.

There were passages from The Art of Kung Fu, the first book Bruce Lee ever wrote.

This is also the first documentary I have that mentions that Bruce Lee died on the bed of actress Betty Ting Pei, followed by much discussion.

I watched everything, including the end titles, which were superimposed on takes edited out from the actual movies.

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