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Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993) |
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| Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film. |
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| This is a fictionalized account of the life of martial arts movie superstar Bruce Lee (Jason Scott Lee) based on a book written by Lee's wife Linda Lee Caldwell. It shows us Lee's life as if he were in one of his own movies. There's also a story line about a giant supernatural demon that appears to Lee's father in a dream, then appears later in Lee's dreams and visions. His father feared for Bruce's life, so he dressed him as a girl for two years to fool the demon, which targets first-born sons. Later he sends young Bruce to learn martial arts so he can fight the demon. Decades later, in the hospital after his wife gives birth to his first child, Lee sets out three small mirrors that he explains are like gargoyles on churches - "You put them around to ward off evil spirts." We saw his father put them out in Hong Kong earlier. Then Lee returns to his martial arts teacher in Hong Kong who tells him that the demon is after him because he is special and that it represents the inner demons of fear, hatred, and anger, which Lee must learn to conquer in order to triumph. He tells him the demon will come when Lee is at his absolute peak. |
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At the end of the movie, Lee is filming some of the room of mirrors scene in his most successful and final movie "Enter The Dragon" when his mind gets lost in a fantasy world. He's alone on the movie set when it starts shaking like an earthquake (which it did when the demon appeared in the past.) Then a wall of distorted mirrors drops from the ceiling to the floor. He tries to get out but he's trapped in a hazy mirrored room. The demon's reflection appears in the mirrors, then it crashes through one of them, and drags Lee through another mirror to a cemetery where he sees his own gravestone and is forced to finally battle the demon in a climactic fight scene. After the fight is over, Lee finds himself back in the original mirrored room in front of the film crew where the director asks him if he's okay. Lee just walks off the set dazed, and drives home to be with his family, knowing he's going to die soon. The mirrors scene starts at about 1:49:43. Watch the scene on YouTube
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