Bruce Lee - The Little Dragon

Bruce Lee Biography and History of Jeet Kune Do

Bruce Lee wanted to be unique! He would study all forms of martial arts and take what he felt was useful to himself and not worry about the rest of it. He wanted to accomplish one thing, win the fight! He didn't want to mess around! He wanted to attain his goal in the least steps possible too! That is why he studied all forms of martial arts and applied what would work for him and his body!

He later gave this form or system of his a name and he began teaching this "way" or style to others who he felt was worthy to teach. He would also teach his Jeet Kune Do to others while they taught their style to him!

Lets let Bruce Lee himself explain this a little more!
These are his own quotes!

Jeet Kune Do is training and discipline towards the ultimate reality in combat.
Jeet Kune Do is the only non-classical style of Chinese Kung Fu in existence today. It is simple in its execution, although not so simple to explain. Jeet means 'to stop, to stem, to intercept,' while Kune means 'fist' or 'style,' and Do means 'the way' or 'the ultimate reality.' In other words--'The Way of the Intercepting Fist.'

Even after Bruce Lee's untimely death, his Jeet Kune Do and his legacy has lived on. There are schools open today that teach this system to others.

Another Bruce Lee quote. (my personal favorite!)

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.

Even after death, Bruce Lee's legacy has lived on. Jeet Kune Do has become increasingly popular! Read about a little history of Bruce Lee!

How did Bruce Lee die?
When did Bruce Lee Die?

On July 20th, 1973 Bruce Lee was in Hong Kong filming his movie Enter the Dragon. During a filming break Bruce had complained of a head ache and took a couple head ache pills and laid down to rest. He never woke back up. His official cause of death was Cerebral Edema or swelling on the brain.
Enter The Dragon opened three weeks later nation wide to mourning fans who lined up for blocks in all cities that the movie showed in.

These are the films Bruce Lee made!
Bruce Lee was also a movie star. He had 5 full length films. Bruce Lee used the movie stardom to further his Martial Arts studies! Watch his fight scenes to see Bruce lee demonstrate his Jeet Kune Do fighting style!

Big Boss
Fists of Fury
Chinese Connection
Enter the Dragon
Game of Death

Kept away from Hoolywood because of his race, Bruce Lee decided to give Hong Kong producer Raymond Chow a chance and began making movies in Hong Kong. The first full length movie Bruce Lee starred in is

Fists of Fury!

Chein (Bruce Lee) is a city boy who moves with his cousins to work at an ice factory. He does this with a family promise never to get involved in any fight. However, when members of his family begin disappearing after meeting the management of the factor, the resulting mystery and pressures forces him to break that vow and take on the villainy of the Big Boss.

Until the success of Fists of Fury, Bruce Lee did not feel that movies would be his chosen career. After his first movie was so successful, it launched Bruce into a cult like figure. His movies would from then on fill the movie house night after night with each new release! As was the case with his next movie,
The Chinese Connection

Chen Chen returns to the international compound of China only to learn of his beloved teacher's death. This is compounded by the continual racist harassment by the Japanese population in the area. Unlike his friends, he confronts it head on with his mastery of martial arts while investigating his teacher's murder.

Nothing could stop Bruce Lee from achieving super stardom now. Hollywood would certainly be knocking on Bruce Lee's door now with the success of 2 movies. Knocking on his door than came too! We are so glad they did! The result is this next Bruce Lee movie with Chuck Norris as the co-star!
Return of the Dragon

Tang Lung (Bruce Lee) arrives in Rome to help his cousins in the restaurant business. They are being pressured to sell their property to the syndicate, who will stop at nothing to get what they want. When Tang arrives he poses a new threat to the syndicate, and they are unable to defeat him. The syndicate boss hires the best Japanese and European martial artists to fight Tang, but he easily finishes them off. The American martial artist Colt (Chuck Norris) is hired and has a showdown with Tang in Rome's famous Colosseum.

Enter the Dragon is the best martial arts movie Bruce Lee ever made. This movie is responsible for what good kick butt movies have become today. Stars like Jackie Chan, who is an extra in Enter the Dragon, Jet Li and other great stars owe their life's to this movie and Bruce Lee for making this movie!

Enter the Dragon

Lee, a member of a Shaolin Temple, is a master of the physical and spiritual disciplines of the martial arts, and is being visited by Braithwaite, a British law officer. Lee has been invited to a tri-annual martial arts tournament held on an island owned by Han, a reclusive billionaire who was once a member of the Temple but has now become a renegade. Braithwaite believes Han uses his tournaments as cover for narcotic and prostitution activities. Lee reluctantly agrees to enter the tournament, but his reluctance to confront Han disappears when a Shaolin monk reveals that during the previous staging of this tournament, he and Lee's sister were accosted by several toughs led by Han's personal bodyguard, an American named O'Hara. In the ensuing confrontation the monk cut a deep scar on O'Hara's face but Lee's sister ultimately perished, and at her gravesite Lee vowes revenge for her death. Also attending the tournament are two American martial arts experts, John Roper and Kelly Williams, who served together in Vietnam and took differing paths toward martial arts upon their discharge - Roper is on the run from Mafia gambling debt collectors, while Williams was accosted by two racist cops whom he'd dispatched before stealing their car to escape. All three will soon find themselves at the mercy of Han and his army of martial arts fighters as he protects his underground factory of narcotics and prostitution.

During filming of Game of Death, Bruce was offered the chance to film Enter the Dragon. So Bruce delayed the rest of the filming of Game of Death to make Enter the Dragon. Bruce died 3 weeks before Enter The Dragon was released and Game of Death was shelved. Only later did the studio come back and finish the movie as a tribute to Bruce Lee.
Game of Death

Bruce Lee plays Billy Lo, a HongKong based movie actor, who is a box office draw. His girlfriend, Ann Morris is a singer who is also climbing to the top. Now it seems the syndicate wants Billy and Ann to join their "management firm". But Billy knows that they will be treated like property, so he refuses and tells her to do the same. So they try to "encourage" him to join but he still refuses. He would be advised that they will not stop, so he must stop them, permanently. He is even more hesitant to do that but when an attempt on his life is made, he fakes his death and alters his appearance, and decides to go after the syndicate; taking them out one at a time.

Often find your self wondering who owns the Bruce Lee name and who gains any income from his name? I was wondering that same thing the other day, so I went and looked it up! It is his daughter and his wife! Guess that was kind of obvious huh!

Who owns the copyright to Bruce Lee's Legacy?

Concord Moon LP, the Los Angeles-based company of Shannon Lee (Bruce Lee's daughter) and Linda Lee (Bruce Lee's widow), owns all rights to exploit Bruce Lee's name, likeness, trademarks and works "Concord Moon is in the process of opening another office in Beijing now," announced Managing Partner, Shannon Lee.