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Greatest Movie Scenes #75 - ENTER THE DRAGON

Successfully blending Hong Kong martial arts mastery with the groove of early seventies Hollywood action cinema, Enter the Dragon is Bruce Lee’s most famous flick and - pagoda fight sequences in Game of Death aside - the great man’s final feature-length film. Co-production with the West didn’t diminish or dilute Bruce’s raw power and the scene in which Lee as the character Lee (go figure) beats off the flunkies of bad-man Mr Han (Shih Kien) cathartically reminds us just which school of movie-making had the edge when it came to the action.

Investigating the island lair and uncovering an underground opium production plant, our hero ends up staving off the waves of beige-suited henchmen in expected sublime style. The intense facial zooms, measured suspenseful shots, rhythmic flow and striking shrieks from Lee are all present and correct and used to great effect to create one of the most magnificent of the martial artist’s one-man massacres.

It’s the animal magnetism of Bruce Lee that makes him one of the brightest stars ever to grace the screen and the cave clash with Han’s hoods in Enter the Dragon is the perfect example of his indomitable aura, focused ability and dynamic presence. Whether he’s using his fists, sticks or the infamous nunchaku (which got cut from UK releases), Lee is wonderful to watch. It’s also interesting to see a young Jackie Chan make an appearance and have his neck brutally broken by the lead. Bruce Lee was the ultimate when it comes to martial arts at the movies. Other outstanding figures have come since, but it’s in his shadow that they are forever to stand…

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