In just 32 years of life, Bruce Lee was able to influence many generations to come. The current history of kung-fu cinema cannot be understood without films like ‘Operation Dragon’, and its wake left a long absence that is still noticeable to this day. 50 years ago the master of martial arts passed awayand Ang Lee, the director of ‘Tiger and Dragon’, is determined to pay tribute to him through his own son.
kicking through life
You never know where Ang Lee is going to go. As soon as he prepares a multi-award-winning film like ‘Life of Pi’ or ‘Brokeback mountain’ as he hits it resoundingly with things like ‘Geminis’. Now, the always interesting Taiwanese director is preparing, at the age of 68, a project for which he has been preparing for some time: the biopic of Bruce Lee himself.
It’s not the first time it’s been tried, of course, but so far movies like ‘Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story’ or ‘Bruce Lee: A Dragon Story’ (which came out the year after his death starring Bruce Li) have not fully captured what he meant in the history of action and martial arts cinema. In this case, the manager He has been working on the project for years.which will not only be limited to the actor’s triumphs, but also his problems.
Playing Bruce Lee, everything stays at home (and in the same last name): will be Mason Lee, the director’s son. The actor has been preparing for the role since the start of the lockdowns in China, and is well known for films like ‘The Hangover 2: Now in Thailand!’ or ‘Who killed Cock Robin’, for which he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Chinese Language Film Awards. only remains to be seen if he knows how to kick as well as he knows how to act.