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Since 1973, the year Bruce Lee died and his famous motion picture Enter the Dragon was released, movies have been the single most influential factor behind the growing popularity of martial arts. Lee’s cinematic success spawned a global industry of the martial arts, and schools opened and flourished worldwide. During the 1970s more students took up the study of martial arts than at any time before or since. To those involved in martial arts, the years from 1972 to 1975—the height of Lee’s popularity—are often cited as the Bruce Lee era.
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These black Bruce Lee t-shirts feature a large image of Bruce Lee's face, as it can be seen at the end of the movie Enter the Dragon. Bloody slash marks adorn the side of Lee's face as a result of his confrontation with the clawed crime lord. This black Bruce Lee tee is as intimidating as the man himself.
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Bruce, James Coburn and Stirling Silliphant had been trying to put together a project to be called "Silent Flute". 20th Century Fox agreed to do it, but on a tiny budget and providing that it could be shot in India. They spent weeks location hunting there and finally decided it was a waste of time. In Nepal Bruce saw a Bigota (Tall Tower). This gave him the idea for "Game of Death". Bruce only filmed 1/3 of this film before being interrupted to film the eventual Hollywood smash hit "Enter the Dragon".
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In 1973, Lee played the lead role in Enter the Dragon (1973), his first film to be produced jointly by Golden Harvest and Warner Bros. This film would skyrocket Lee to fame in the U.S. and Europe. However, only a few months after the film's completion and three weeks before its release, the supremely fit Lee mysteriously died. Enter the Dragon would go on to become one of the year's highest grossing films and cemented Lee as a martial arts legend. It was made for US$850,000 in 1973 (equivalent to $4 million adjusted for inflation as of 2007)[15]. To date, Enter the Dragon has grossed over $200 million worldwide[16].
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Bob Wall himself was rumored to have conflicted with Bruce on the set of Enter the Dragon when Bob accidentally cut Bruce's hand with a broken bottle in a fight sequence. The cut not only halted the filming of the movie for several days, but supposedly ... sent tempers flaring between the two. Days later when resuming the scene, Bruce was notified that Bob was bragging about how he was a superior martial artist and that he could take any of Bruce's strikes without budging. The cameras rolled as Bob tried to remain unmovable for an upcoming kick. The kick not only moved Wall, but it knocked him back several yards into the arms of several extras, one of whose arms were broken from the impact.
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Already renowned as a martial arts master, Lee landed a role as Kato in TV's "Green Hornet" (1966) and appeared briefly in 1969's Marlowe, but found good roles for Asian actors scarce in America. Back in Hong Kong, he struck international gold as the kung fu hero of Fist of Fury, The Chinese Connection and Return of the Dragon. Their success brought him back to Hollywood for his first and only starring role in a Hollywood feature, the hugely successful Enter the Dragon (1973).
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