As his first directorial film, the story is actually very simple. The action scenes shown in the movie are simply Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do textbook. The martial arts movements in it all interpret Bruc

As his first directorial film, the story is actually very simple. The action scenes shown in the movie are simply Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do textbook. The martial arts movements in it all interpret Bruce Lee's martial arts philosophy until today, decades later. This movie is still used as a Jeet Kune Do teaching material. The last action scene between Bruce Lee and Chuck in the Colosseum can be said to be the most vivid expression of Eastern action aesthetics. Jeet Kune Do is a boxing thinking thought out by Bruce Lee combined with his own philosophical thoughts. "Considering the impossible as the law, the infinite as the finite" is the program and essence of Jeet Kune Do. It combines the advantages of a large number of domestic martial arts to show us extremely refined but effective martial arts scenes.

Tang Long (played by Bruce Lee) is a young man from the countryside in Hong Kong. Entrusted by his uncle, he goes to Rome alone to assist the restaurant manager Chen Qinghua (played by Miu Kexiu). The restaurant is often threatened by a group of business groups, forcing them to sell the restaurant's land and often sending gangsters to cause trouble. The restaurant's business is deteriorating. When Tang Long first arrived in Rome, he was not used to local customs, which disgusted the staff at Tsinghua University and the restaurant. One night, the gangsters came to cause trouble again, and a waiter was knocked unconscious. Tang Long took action angrily and knocked down the gangster with three or two powerful kicks. Everyone was impressed by him and Chinese Kung Fu. But the leader of the business group did not give up. He gathered a group of gunmen to destroy the restaurant and specified that he wanted to seek revenge from Tang Long. Tang Long returned to the restaurant from outside, and the gangster forced him to leave Rome immediately with a gun. Tang Long pretended to agree, led the gangsters out of the restaurant, and knocked them down one by one. In this fight, Bruce Lee demonstrated the power of his double nunchucks. He calmly faced multiple enemies, attacking left and right with his nunchakus, severely injuring his opponents at lightning speed.

The gangster leader issued an assassination order. On New Year's Eve, a sniper was ordered to assassinate Tang Long. However, Tang Long escaped with his agility and tracked the killer. Only when he returned home did he find that Tsinghua University had been captured by the gangsters. . The angry Tang Long and his gang went straight to the gangster's lair, taught all the gangsters a lesson, and warned the gang leader again not to cause trouble again. The angry gangsters hired the national karate champion and his apprentices at a high price, as well as aikido masters, and set a trap in an attempt to kill Tang Long. But with his strong martial arts and tenacious fighting spirit, Tang Long finally defeated the enemy and annihilated the gang of gangsters in one fell swoop (from Baidu Encyclopedia)

This story seems very vulgar and simple today. But it can express the oriental martial arts aesthetics very well. Personally, I think this movie is the pinnacle of Bruce Lee's movies. If the above "Swordsman of Two Flags Town" is the pinnacle of freehand brushwork. So this film "The Way of the Dragon" is definitely the pinnacle of realistic action movies. And compared to other martial arts films of the same period, those were simply kids fighting. Bruce Lee's "The Dragon Crosses the River" is of epoch-making significance. If you like action movies, you must not miss it.

"Drunken Boxing"

Drunken Boxing, I think, is one of the most oriental styles of boxing. The movie "Drunken Master" filmed by Jackie Chan can be said to be his first personal peak. I have watched this movie countless times when I was a kid, but every time I watch it I still feel unsatisfied. As the first generation martial arts director of Hong Kong films, Yuan Xiaotian can be said to be the "god" of that era. If the "Drunken Master" action shown in the film does not possess oriental aesthetics, then I think the actions in other movies are even less comparable. Moreover, Drunken Master was also the first to establish his style of action comedy. Unlike Bruce Lee's rigid action style, Jackie Chan's action movies always give people a sense of cruel humor and always make people laugh.

In the late Qing Dynasty, there was a clever boy named Huang Feihong in a martial arts hall in Guangdong. He liked to play pranks while practicing kung fu, and he would cause trouble when he left the martial arts hall. One day, he was teasing a girl on the street and was beaten up by the girl's mother. When he got home, he found out that the girl was his aunt and cousin whom he had not seen for many years. When his father learned that he had bullied his cousin, he was very angry and locked him up. In order to educate and train his son strictly, his father invited his friend Su Huazi, which made Huang Feihong suffer a lot.

In order to train the basic skills, Su Huazi asked him to stand on the edge of the water tank and move the water from one tank to another. He was asked to hang upside down in the air and use wine glasses to pour water from the bucket on the ground into the bucket in the air. After pouring, pour another cup back; ask him to do a push-up motion with his palms facing up. After a period of training, Huang Feihong was able to use the martial arts he learned to beat the gangsters on the street to death. So Su Huazi taught him the Drunken Eight Immortals Boxing. To use this boxing technique, you must drink alcohol first. Body shaking and unsteady steps are the key to defeating the enemy. After Huang Feihong learned this boxing technique, his father's enemy bribed the murderer to harm his father. As a result, he defeated the enemy with drunken fist and won. (Excerpted from Baidu Encyclopedia)

Its story template is actually a very simple old routine of old Shaw Brothers movies. The protagonist is harmed by an adulterer, and finally returns from training to get revenge. But the simple plot cannot stand up to the action design inside, which is so exciting that even the characters in it were borrowed from the Japanese game "King of Fighters" and made into game characters. The martial arts action is definitely the most beautiful oriental aesthetic color of this movie. Every frame of it explains to us the philosophical thinking of Eastern martial arts and the thinking of martial arts masters of that era on "Kung Fu". Although this film was shot in 1978, it is definitely timeless today more than 40 years later. Definitely worth a second try.