How Did Bruce Lee Change In Enter The Dragon

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When Kung Fu films were being made, the art was strict and rigid. There was very little change in the teaching and the different types of Kung Fu were not mixed together. However, that all changed when Bruce Lee started to make his own films. When Lee filmed Enter the Dragon, everything about them started to change. The style of fighting that was present in Kung Fu films changed, along with the introduction of a more multiracial cast. Lee’s influence also spread into the real world. How Lee was viewed in the real world, along with how people trained in martial arts changed greatly after Lee’s appearance in Enter the Dragon. Lee greatly changed how actors performed martial arts in movies for generations to come. Shortly after Lee’s role in …show more content…

The technique that Lee mastered was a variety of different techniques combined into one. His technique “threw out the old rigid models, limitations, and restrictions and invited the world to come and play” (Cathcart). This is quite evident in Enter the Dragon as Lee is talking to his master and several other points during the film. At the beginning when he is talking to his master and later in the film when he is talking to another competitor, he says that the technique that is the highest that is able to be achieved is “to have no technique” (Enter the Dragon). This is very different from how kung-fu naturally is. Kung-fu, like many of the other forms of martial arts at this time “were rigid, and compartmentalized” (Cathcart). It didn’t allow for much variation in how you performed. Lee, however, changed the style. He studied several different techniques and “mastered them and incorporated them into his own” (Cathcart), which he then showed to the viewers on film. In Enter the Dragon, Lee was unable to be defeated due to the fact that he fought with an unorthodox style. It was completely different from what everyone was being taught or what they have studied, because they have all studied one discipline and mastered that, while he had studied many and has incorporated them all to have a technique that is not a

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