As a Chinese descendant, I'm kinda ashamed to say that I've never seen any movies from the great Bruce Lee. So last weekend, I decided to pick one randomly to watch and it just happened to be "Enter the Dragon". Although it is a movie from the early 70s and despite it is a bit dated and slow pacing at a certain points during the movie, I have to admit that it is still pretty enjoyable to watch.
While the importance of the movie in the history of Hollywood is discussed to death, I just want to point out a few extra things that I notice. First the character Roper in the movie looks so much like Zac Efron. Right after the movie, I quickly went for research, to check out if the actor is related Zac Efron in any form. The actor is named John Saxon, too bad not related to Zac at all.
Secondly, the tournament aspect of the movie premise seems very similar to how the tournament in Mortal Kombat is. Now it makes me wonder if the fighting tournament in the story of Mortal Kombat is inspired from Enter the Dragon.
Due to Bruce Lee's iconic stature, even though this is my first viewing, I feel like I've seen most the scenes in the movie, like the intense slow-mo stomp to kill O'Hara or that super fast kick to an obviously dummy person during the final boss fight. Many times during the movie, I was like the "Pointing Rick Dalton". Especially that nunchaku scene if you what I mean, I was so thrilled. That feeling was ineffably awesome.
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| Me when Bruce Lee gets hold of nunchaku! |
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