The last Bruce Lee movie ever?

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ThaGrandCow

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I remember seeing a history channel show on the movie Bruce Lee was making right as he died. The scene they were able to recreate from unedited clips was him in some kind of multi-level temple with one of the famous basketball players from the time at the highest level of the temple.

It looked extremely awesome, and I want to see if I can find anything about the history channel show or as much of the movie footage as possible.

Anyone able to provide some clues?
 
Baked

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Originally posted by: E equals MC2
what was that movie that came out in the 90s about bruce lee? and who played him?
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Jason Scott Lee in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
 
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Originally posted by: ThaGrandCow
I remember seeing a history channel show on the movie Bruce Lee was making right as he died. The scene they were able to recreate from unedited clips was him in some kind of multi-level temple with one of the famous basketball players from the time at the highest level of the temple.
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that sounds exactly like the plot of Game of Death where he fights his way up the different levels of the house and final level was against Kareem Abdul Jabbar...

Maybe they added extra footage to the movie that was already released??
 
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Game of Death! Such a good movie. The best part was definitely Kareem Abdul Jabbar and the fact that his foot was half the size of Bruce Lee.
 
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ThaGrandCow

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Originally posted by: zerocool1
Originally posted by: Baked
Originally posted by: E equals MC2
what was that movie that came out in the 90s about bruce lee? and who played him?
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Jason Scott Lee in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
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IIRC that's his nephew
Game of Death
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Bruce's well thought out plot line and poignant story telling was butchered by some people trying to make a last buck on Bruce's name. First of all, they chopped the scenes that Bruce shot and took all of his philosophical content out of it. After this was done, they took what was left (about 15 minutes) and mixed it in with a plot that was pretty lame to say the least. To add insult to injury, they took footage from his other films and a stand in actor (cheesily disguised behind sunglasses or a fake beard) to make it look like Bruce was in the whole damn thing. As if we wouldn't notice that Bruce wasn't in these scenes. Ed Wood's use of the last five minutes of Lugosi footage in "Plan Nine from Outer Space" was better than this crap.
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If you want to see how badly they butchered Bruce's genius, rent the special edition of Enter the Dragon. The special features disk has part of the pagoda sequence (presumably as Bruce would have intended it) on there. Even though it is way too short to make a motion picture from, it's a damn sight better than what they came up with after he died.
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That 15 minutes of what was "left" sounds about like the clip they showed on history channel. They emphasized multiple times about editing it together like Bruce Lee would have originally intended it to be. And it was such an amazing sequence, I wish I could see the entire movie as it would have been made if he hadn't died :( :( :(

I'll probably check out Game of Death anyways, cause I'm a sucker for martial arts movies anyways. Thanks guys
 
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