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Johnboy3434
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Some questions concerning Bruce Lee's movies (aficionados needed!)
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3-Oct-2007, 11:07 PM
I've also picked up the movie "Fist of Unicorn." Bruce Lee makes an appearance in it, but not how you would imagine it. He was the fight choreographer for the film (which starred a close friend of his named Unicorn Chan, who also died before Game of Death was released, as it turned out). There were onset cameras around the shooting location that captured some everyday conversations and sparring practice between Bruce and Unicorn, ostensibly as part of a documentary. Well, producers being producers (and Unicorn aiding them, the backstabbing bastard), the celluloid with Bruce Lee was considered too valuable, especially since the movie itself sucked in general. So, to add some impromptu star power to the otherwise dud of a movie, they edited the onset footage of Bruce into the film, dubbing plot-related lines over his conversations with Unicorn. Lee broke off all ties to Unicorn after the incident, and never spoke to him for the rest of his life. Sadly, that turned out to be less than three months. Apparently his family didn't know of the incident, as Unicorn still appeared as a pallbearer at the master's funeral.

I just recently ordered a copy of "Fist of Fear, Touch of Death." While the movie is considered blasphemy by many avid fans and is at least considered disrespectful by everyone else, I picked it up to take a gander at a falsified "interview" with Lee. After reading a few reviews on the 'Net, I was under the impression that they took real interview footage from earlier in Lee's career and dubbed a fictional "sub-plot" (if you could say the film had a plot to begin with) over his original words. I was going to consider this "new" footage on the technicality that, while it would have been seen beforehand, it was a genuine interview when shot, and only the dubbing in this travesty made it part of a fictional construct. Convoluted, I know, but that's how my brain works. Unfortunately, all my logical acrobatics may be wasted, anyway. After reading a few more reviews, it seems the master's footage was simply taken from the already-fictional TV movie "Longstreet" (tHe MaStEr WoUlD nOt ApPrOvE ), which means I may have wasted five good dollars.