Review of “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story”
The movie “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story” is a biographical drama recounting of the colorful life of legendary martial arts star Bruce Lee. The film is written based on the Bruce’s window Linda’ book "Bruce Lee: the man only I knew", and directed by Rob Cohen and starred Jason Scott Lee. This biographical drama released in the United States in year 1993, and inspired a Kong Fu hit in Hollywood. The film gives audiences the closest account of inner Bruce Lee and represents his childhood in Hong Kong, to his days as a dishwasher, a teacher of martial arts and eventual martial art super star in Hollywood. Bruce Lee is an absolute legend of martial art, and he was prominent figure that represented strength and mastery.
This film is a retelling of Bruce’ life, but also shows how Bruce went up to the top and fought against obstacles along the way to his success. I was deeply impressed by Bruce’s talents and efforts, and fascinated by his mental capacity. In the film, Bruce was plotted against by another martial art master Chinatown and nearly died from injury. However, with his wife’s encouragements, he changed his fight methods and created his own concept of Kong Fu called Jeet Kune Do. This film also shows discrimination towards Chinese, which made me so sad. Racial discrimination presented in this film was great and targeted not only towards Bruce but also other Chinese in the United States. I still remember there is a scene that when Bruce was settled down as a dishwasher at a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco, he did not exempt from discrimination and racism though he was born in the United States. Some whites always make troubles and infuriate Bruce by insulting remarks, and Bruce always was the target with the whites since he was a Chinese man. The discrimination was also shown when Bruce and Linda went to meal, the restaurant waitress did not get them to sit since Bruce was a Chinese. The discrimination he experienced in American, motivated him to become a stronger individual to change the depiction of Chinese driven by racism and stereotype.
The reason why i choose this film because this film has been shown on TV for several times during my childhood, and my dad is a Bruce Lee addict. I found this movie captured all my attention from the beginning to the end because it is well made and enjoyable with nice action scenes, nice soundtrack. From my own perspective, I really like Jason’s portrayal of Bruce Lee. Jason Scott Lee is American Chinese as well, gives me an impressive, one of a kind performance as Bruce Lee. After I watched this film, Bruce’s story really inspired me. I think Bruce is a leading figure of American Chinese, and his success was remarkable and I admire his spirit of fighting for fairness.