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Special Features
- Audio commentary by director 'Rob Cohen'
- Production notes
- Storyboard sequences
- Jason Scott Lee's screen test
- Making-of featurette
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Jason Scott Lee does a great job of portraying Bruce Lee and it's a shame that we can't see more of him these days. You can really feel the power of his performance on the screen. If you have any interest in Bruce Lee, you have to check out this film. It's sure to inspire you to reach for your own impossible dreams.
Director Rob Cohen's sure hand with actors gives him an edge, surely, and his cast is wonderful -- Lauren Holly was in her late 20s at filming but plays her character as a teen deftly. Jason Scott Lee may not look much like Bruce Lee, but unless Brandon Lee were cast, that's an insurmountable limitation. What Jason Scott Lee creates is a Bruce Lee that's much more likeable, more of a boy next door, than the real Bruce Lee, and considering the romantic, mythical tone of the film in general, it was an apt choice. His athleticism and dedication make him come alive onscreen, and the moment when he explodes at Holly shows him as nuts as Bruce Lee was.
The most brilliant touch of this movie was in its appropriation of certain Bruce Lee film idioms. The single most true-to-fact sequence in Dragon, in fact, is the back-alley fight with the cooks. The music, staging, editing and character behaviour here are so much like Lee's films (with the exception of The Chinese Connection) that they emblematize Lee in a way that's purely cinematic. Randy Edelman's score for the whole film was excellent ; this is one reason why you'll very often hear the "Dragon" theme used in film trailers -- it is perhaps the most widely used trailer score throughout the '90s. But his work was especially fit in this sequence.
And the DVD edition?
... Read more ›The movie starts with Bruce Lee's father leading us to a young Bruce Lee, which leads us to believe he was an only child which is not true at all. He had many siblings. It is also mistaken that his family was poor - also not the case. When he is shown down in the bowels of a freighter going to "Land of Opportunity" that is also fake. He was on a passenger liner, albeit not first class it was still like a "cruise ship."
He also didn't take Wing Chun kung fu to fight his inner demons... it's because he was punk kid who got into alot of trouble and he needed it to defend himself from other punks.
The scene where he is fighting to be able to teach the non-chinese although real was not fought in a secret cave as the filem indicates, he fought it in his own school as a teacher named Wong Jack Man (his name is mentioned in the film) challenges him. He didn't get his back broken from a kick in the fight. He had back problems from lifting weights...
This is just to mention the baloney supposed biography in the film. If you're interested in really knowing who Bruce Lee really was you can get a few good documentaries and you can also read the book that inspired it by Linda Lee (Caldwell).
I am a huge movie buff.
I just recently watched it again & much of the movie retained its brilliance and... Read more
