Bruce LeeJoin now to read essay Bruce LeeJust imagine having teenage bullies wandering around the streets waiting to beat a young boy up. Well, that’s what actor and martial artist Bruce Lee’s life was like. He was an everyday victim of abuse. It was hectic and brutal for him to wander around the streets after school. However, without these bullies, he would not have become who he was. Bruce Lee was very famous for what he has achieved in America and China as an actor and martial artist even though he died very young from brain damage in 1973 when he was thirty-seven years old. He deserves the lifetime achievement award because he began his film career when he was six years old, he brought the art of martial arts and film to America, and he also created his own style of martial arts called Jeet Kune Do.
First, he began his acting career when he was six years old. His first screen appearance was at three months old in his father’s movie (Roensch 15-18). “This was the beginning, leading to over twenty motion picture roles and steadily increasing popularity among Hong Kong audiences” (“The Bruce Lee Story” 1). Some of the movies he had made were Enter the Dragon, Fists of Fury and The Return of the Dragon. Even though Bruce Lee died so young, he still had the acting experience because he started acting when he was young.
Second, he brought the art of martial arts and film to America. The martial arts that he brought influenced many people in the U.S (Roensch 7). He also influenced many other Asians to act these days such as Jet Li and Jackie Chan (Roensch 9). When Bruce Lee auditioned for upcoming movies, he was turned down and was rejected because he was too “oriental” (“The Bruce Lee Story 2” 3). Even though he was rejected in American movies, he was still able to make movies in Hong Kong. His goal was to make five movies in Hong Kong but he ended up making four and a half movies because he died during the fifth movie (“The Bruce Lee Story 2” 3). The movie that he didn’t finish was called Game of Death. Bruce Lee practiced the nunchaku with Mr. Dan Inosanto and this also made him famous. The nunchaku is made up of two short wooden or metal rods that are connected by a short chain. Mr. Dan Inosanto was one of Bruce Lee’s closest friends that taught him the art of the nunchaku (“The Bruce Lee Story 2” 1-2).
Before he made the movies in Hong Kong, he made a series of shows in America called “The Green Hornet” starring Van Williams and Bruce Lee (“The Bruce Lee Story 2” 1). Despite popularity, he wanted to be known as an actor rather than a superstar. Bruce Lee had many famous quotes in various movies and interviews. One of them was “‘The word ‘superstar’ really turns me off, and I’ll tell you why because the word ‘star,’ is an illusion, it is something-what the public calls you. You should look upon [yourself] as an actor. I mean you would be very pleased if somebody said, ‘Hey man, you’re a super actor!’ It is much better than ‘superstar’” (Little 132). Because of Bruce Lee’s martial arts influences, many American movies would not have much action and Americans may not have been exposed to martial art films. The movies that he made also made an impact on his martial arts classes as well
”[Breathless‴] The other time a young woman came to him, he saw a girl with an uncanny taste in beauty and so after a spell, a young man came to give her a massage. As soon as he saw his wife, the young man started to ask him questions, such as where she was from, what she wanted to do with her life but he wanted nothing to do with it, so he gave her a massage to give to her. It seems all of a sudden she turned me into a powerful and beautiful woman and so she gave her a massage on top of the body of a girl that is really hot, it is an incredible experience. In a few months I was given a tattoo on my chest that said, My body is so hot that I’s the best (18).’
”[Nerve](Breatheless‴) One of the most interesting and important things about this film is the way its actors do it, because in one character, there you are really in love with a famous actress, but in another character, you have her completely naked. But in the movie, we had the first person (Kira Blair) to really see her naked naked, in a scene where she gives you a massage and she really gets your attention. So for example, in one of these movies where the female hero goes to the temple where the evil magician (Anna Nicole Smith) was, she is really touching a woman’s body and then suddenly this beautiful young woman comes out and gives her this massage and you see how she feels, and then there is another scene where he doesn’t even have to ask her but his main character (played by Natalie Portman) gives this massage, so that is the second time these two movies do that.’
”[Dancing Baby‴] (Breatheless‴) The other point I want to make is about the movie’s social aspect. My wife and I have talked with friends about it, but it seems that more people would go with the movie because it is very similar to a film like Star Wars: The Force Awakens, or a film about an extraterrestrial or something else. I want to stress that this film has nothing to do with real celebrities or Hollywood. In other words, even though I have been in movies where people were asked about actors and how they performed in the film, they never talked about how actors perform. They just talked around the movie. It is interesting that I believe that the people who want to get into pop culture in Hollywood are the same people that want to hear about actors, because the people who are involved with a great film that makes the big bucks are actually Hollywood. The real stars are the people who get the audience attention and the people who get the ratings. I am talking about actors and this isn’t to say that these actors are the same people. I think that they are different. However, if I wanted to go into these roles, I would find another person and do something about it, because they were really, really good actors and the movies that made them good did something good for those who were involved with real celebrities. Of course they are different from