#Bruceploitation

[theactioneer]

The Clones of Bruce Lee (Joseph Velasco & Nam Gi-nam, 1980)

[gurumog]

Game of Death (1978) Golden Harvest Dir. Robert Clouse / Bruce Lee / Sammo Hung

Kim Tae Chung (doubling for Bruce Lee) as Billy Lo Hugh O'Brian as Steiner

[kungfuwushuworld]

Jaleel White and Reginald VelJohnson Fight with Thugs in Family Matters (TV Series 1989–1998)

[boardsdonthitback]

Kim Tai-Chung, Casanova Wong - Tower Of Death a.k.a. Game Of Death II (1981)

[b-movieenema]

One of the most popular Bruceploitation movies to come out in the wake of Bruce Lee's shocking early death was 1980's The Clones of Bruce Lee. I've said in the past I'm not a fan of the genre as I kind of feel like it's insensitive. I'm not sure this movie changed my opinion on the matter.

[watching-pictures-move]

‘Enter the Clones of Bruce’ – Exclusive Poster Reveal for Tribeca Documentary About the Bruce Lee Exploitation Craze

[grindhousefunhouse]

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BRUCE LEE CLONES? | Enter The Clones Of Bruce Documentary | Trailer Reaction!

What did happened to all those Bruce Lee clones in those countless 70's Kung Fu Movies?

The documentary "Enter The Clones Of Bruce" from Severin Films will give you all those answers and so much more!

This is a trailer reaction video (without the actual watching of me watching the trailer cuz who wants to see that?) to let you know if it's worth checking out this upcoming documentary that will screen at a film festival near you soon.

Directed by David Gregory and featuring Bruce Le, Bruce Li, Bruce Liang, Dragon Lee, Angela Mao, Ron Van Cleef, Sammo Hung and Godfrey Ho.

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[nickmarino]

Bruceploitation is one of the strangest and most ambitious mass storytelling experiments of all time, with its own tropes and inventive meta devices that make it unlike any other cinematic trend.

Filmmakers simultaneously imagined alternate realities where lookalikes and relatives (or even the legend himself) seek revenge for Bruce Lee's death, which is a bizarre way to grieve but also a fascinating shared experience between storytellers and the audience.

Obviously money was on the table and that was part of the motivation, but even more so than that people just weren’t ready for Bruce Lee to be gone. Everyone desperately wanted his legacy to continue and so filmmakers took it upon themselves to continue it the best way they knew how.

[dgspeaks]

A Night of Bruceploitation at the National Museum of Asian Art

On Saturday, July 13, my mom and I attended the “Asia After Dark | Bruceploitation” festival at the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC. This event was a delightful dive into the world of Bruceploitation, a genre known for its campy and surreal take on martial arts films. The evening’s highlight was the screening of The Dragon Lives Again, a film that proved both bizarre and highly…

[theactioneer]

Challenge of the Tiger (Bruce Le, 1980)

[gurumog]

Game of Death (1978) Golden Harvest Dir. Robert Clouse / Bruce Lee / Sammo Hung

[kungfuwushuworld]

Happy Birthday of Dragon Lee

Dragon Lee (sometimes credited as "Bruce Lei"; born 1958) is an actor and practitioner of Taekwondo and Hapkido. He made a name for himself as a martial arts film star in the 1970s and 80s. His birth name is Moon Kyung-seok, but he has also been called Keo Ryong (literally "giant dragon") in South Korea.

[sirfrogsworth]

Bruce Lee's final film was called Game of Death. It's where the famous yellow and black jumpsuit came from. The same one Uma Thurman wore in Kill Bill.

They filmed about 40 minutes of footage before he died. And then some slimy producer decided to take only about fifteen minutes of that and cut it into an hour and thirty minute movie "starring" Bruce Lee.

To do this, they basically used a double and hid his face in various ways throughout the movie. You remember that scene in Austin Powers where they try to hide his nakedness using camera angles and cleverly placed items in front of his bits?

Imagine an entire movie like that only trying to hide the Bruce Lee double's face.

First they filmed him at night in suspiciously large sunglasses. (I brightened this substantially.)

I'm pretty sure every elderly rich lady I've ever seen has those same sunglasses.

Then his face is horribly disfigured, so he has the obligatory mummy-in-the-hospital scene.

And to hide the shame of his disfigured face, he wears a fake beard and those suspiciously large sunglasses again. This allows them to film him during the day.

"We have Bruce Lee at home."

It didn't work so well, but the movie still has the iconic scene of (real) Bruce and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar fighting, so it's fun to skip ahead to that part.

This movie catalyzed a genre of films called "Bruceploitation." They capitalized on the popularity of Bruce and cast Bruce-a-like actors to star in martial arts movies. They would often give them stage names like Bruce Li or Bruce Le or Dragon Lee. They'd just find tiny, fit, Asian martial artists and put them in a porn parody-quality movie with kung fu instead of sex.

I mean, you put some giant sunglasses and a fake beard on this fella and he looks almost exactly like Bruce Lee...'s body double.

[male1971]

Bruceploitation classics, a wave of low-budget martial arts films that sought to capitalize on Bruce Lee’s immense popularity after his untimely death in 1973, by featuring actors who resembled him in appearance, fighting style, or mannerisms.

[romanceyourdemons]

“bruce lee knockoff” used to be a valid career path. you’d sign a contract with a studio and they’d assign you a stage name like bruce liu and you’d have steady work making fundamentally identical martial arts films and i don’t know why i’m romanticizing the bruceploitation era it wasn’t all that great. but that’s showbiz babey

[streetfarterturdstrike]