Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee, referred to professionally as Bruce Lee (Chinese: 李小龍), was a Hong Kong and American performing artist, movie executive, military craftsman, hand to hand fighting teacher, philosopher[5] and originator of the military workmanship Jeet Kune Do, one of the wushu or kungfu styles. Lee was the child of Cantonese musical show star Lee Hoi-chuen. He is generally considered by pundits, commentators, media, and other military specialists to be a standout amongst the most compelling military craftsmen of all time,[6] and a popular culture symbol of the twentieth century.[7][8] He is regularly attributed with changing the way Asians were displayed in American films.[9]
Lee was conceived in Chinatown, San Francisco, on November 27, 1940, to guardians from Hong Kong and was brought up in Kowloon, Hong Kong, with his family until his late youngsters. He was acquainted with the film business by his dad and showed up in a few movies as a kid performing artist. Lee moved to the United States at 18 years old to get his advanced education, at the University of Washington, at Seattle[10] and it was amid this time he started showing hand to hand fighting. His Hong Kong and Hollywood-delivered films lifted the customary Hong Kong hand to hand fighting film to another level of fame and approval, starting a surge of enthusiasm for Chinese combative techniques in the West in the 1970s. The heading and tone of his movies changed and impacted hand to hand fighting and combative techniques films in the US, Hong Kong, and whatever remains of the world.[11]
He is noted for his parts in five full length films: Lo Wei's The Big Boss (1971) and Fist of Fury (1972); Golden Harvest's Way of the Dragon (1972), coordinated and composed by Lee; Golden Harvest and Warner Brothers' Enter the Dragon (1973) and The Game of Death (1978), both coordinated by Robert Clouse.[12] Lee turned into a notorious figure known all through the world, especially among the Chinese, as he depicted Chinese patriotism in his films.[13] He prepared in the craft of Wing Chun and later consolidated his different impacts from different sources, in the soul of his own combative techniques reasoning, which he named Jeet Kune Do (The Way of the Intercepting Fist). Lee held double nationality in Hong Kong and the US.[14] He kicked the bucket in Kowloon Tong on July 20, 1973, at 32.[15] years old
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