Chapter 8 Bruce Lee's Intention

Screenplay!

It must be a script of good quality!

And it has to be a script for a ready-made kung fu movie!

Even if it is not complete, as long as there is a general story line, Bruce Lee will seriously consider it, and if he is satisfied, he will choose to cooperate.

As far as Bruce Lee is concerned, when he comes to the United States in the past few days, if he wants to negotiate cooperation with him, he must have a strong script, otherwise, no matter who the other party is or how good the conditions are, he will not choose to accept it. After all, for him, who is now Chinese New Year's Eve two years old, life can no longer wait, and he must prove himself as soon as possible with a movie with his own style in Hollywood.

When Bruce Lee was still imitating in Hollywood, he once boasted of Haikou and made three grand wishes in his life: one is to promote and promote Jeet Kune Do, so that Chinese kung fu can spread all over the world; second, to make Chinese films enter the international market and let film audiences all over the world know about Chinese films; and third, to play the leading role in European and American films and establish the international status of Chinese actors. And the first two of these ambitions can be said to have been basically realized by him, and now he can be said to have become a legendary hero in the American martial arts world.

Of course, his three ambitions can be said to have been very bumpy, such as the first ambition, in Europe and the United States, white people generally look down on the yellow race, because Bruce Lee spared no effort to promote, especially his amazing Jeet Kune Do, which amazed the white people, have left an indelible memory in the impression of the white community.

Today's Chinese kung fu has long since advanced from the western part of the United States to the eastern part of the United States, and has gradually become a craze, until it has become a kung fu craze in the United States. After World War II, the international forces were reshuffled, and until the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the United States' position in the international community can be described as pivotal, and it can be said that what is popular in the United States will inevitably affect the world.

Therefore, the original American kung fu craze has gradually been publicized and popular all over the world, starting from the United States, followed by the kung fu craze in Europe, Latin America, and Australia. This worldwide Chinese kung fu craze has even been fed back to the Chinese world in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macao and Southeast Asia, making Chinese people who are estranged from martial arts once again keen on ancient Chinese kung fu.

All of this, no matter how later generations criticize Bruce Lee, there is no actual combat information, and there are doubts about his martial arts, but it is undeniable that Bruce Lee has gradually forgotten the kung fu culture in China, and promoted the Chinese kung fu culture to the world, so that the world can re-understand China.

Therefore, no matter what, no one can erase Bruce Lee's status in the promotion of Chinese culture, it can be said that he is the "light of the Chinese" of this era, and countless Europeans and Americans will think that Bruce Lee is Chinese kung fu when they mention it, and take it for granted that this Chinese American is a Chinese, not their native.

As for the second ambition, it has also been completely realized after the release of "Tangshan Big Brother" and "Jingwumen" starring him in recent years. Of course, in fact, the film starring Bruce Lee is not the first to enter the international market, but he is the first and most successful pioneer to enter the international market.

With Bruce Lee's "Big Brother Tangshan" and "Jingwumen" first made a big splash in Southeast Asia, and then swept Beirut, Rome, Buenos Aires, XN and other metropolises, and in the United States, it also recorded an astronomical box office income of 6 million US dollars in the eyes of Hong Kong people. Even at the end of 1972, after the release of his "Raptors Across the River", Bruce Lee fever was set off in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, and spread to the whole world.

Now, Bruce Lee, who is over the age of life, has realized the first two grand wishes of his life, and he is just short of the last grand wish, playing the leading role in European and American films. Of course, in fact, Bruce Lee has not encountered this kind of opportunity. When he fulfilled the film contract of Golden Harvest, Hollywood's Twentieth Century Fox Film Studio had a plan to ask him to shoot "The Silent Flute", but he was finally rejected for various reasons.

What is lost cannot be regained, Bruce Lee does not regret that choice, and this time in the United States, he is bound to complete his third ambition. Of course, he didn't just find a bad movie and take over the shooting, so even if he starred and couldn't sell well at the box office, how could he establish the status of a Chinese actor?

You must know that in this era when the US economy is mired in stagflation and the road to recovery is far away, evaluating the quality of a movie is not the standard of later generations such as all kinds of pretense on the surface, all kinds of money public relations, and politically correct literary documentaries in the dark.

At this time, a good film must be a commercial film that is a big hit at the box office, and if it doesn't meet this standard, the Oscars will ignore you. Think about it, in the current economic downturn, most people have a hard time eating enough, who will care about your literary and artistic feelings, and it is the last word to make money

If you can't make money, the audience doesn't know you, naturally, other investors and film companies won't pay attention to you, what else do you want as an actor's film status?

When Bruce Lee asked if he had a script for a kung fu movie, Walter understood that his efforts were finally not in vain, and the Disney where he worked had entered Bruce Lee's eyes, and the rest was whether he could fulfill Bruce Lee's conditions in other aspects.

As for the script, it's very simple, as early as when he came, Walter found a few screenwriters within Disney, and in his previous life, he naturally read the script of "Enter the Dragon", for this kind of kung fu commercial film full of American flavor, I can't say that I like it, and I don't hate it, so I can naturally know the general plot.

In the summary of later novels, it is nothing more than a grievance between the master and the family, plus the contradiction of blood feud between close relatives, the protagonist played by Bruce Lee goes to take revenge on the Shaolin traitor who betrayed his master, and then dissolves the blood feud halfway. In terms of environmental setting, it is set up with an island, and then it is to turn the protagonist Wei Guangzheng into a righteous thing that is instructed by the government to kill the evil underworld.

Of course, although the plot is nonsense and simple, after all, this kung fu movie is not a good plot, and the main selling point is the story of Bruce Lee fighting against fighters from other countries, which is just a commercial selling point.

For Walter, this was enough, so when Walter sent the script that had been prepared to Bruce Lee, the kung fu master's eyes were not ordinary.

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