# Bruce Lee - Dead and Kicking **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 15, 2001, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-dead-and-kicking/93602 "2001-11-15T21:02:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-dead-and-kicking/93602/1 "2001-11-15T21:02:40Z")
Sorry 'bout the pun. Here’s what I’m talking about: [http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pub&dt=011115&cat=entertainment&st=entertainmentleisureleedc.html](http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pub&dt=011115&cat=entertainment&st=entertainmentleisureleedc.html) :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-dead-and-kicking/93602/2 "2001-11-15T21:08:10Z")
:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Pucette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Pucette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucette)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-dead-and-kicking/93602/3 "2001-11-15T22:23:48Z")
Well that made me feel really uncomfortable. \ ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-dead-and-kicking/93602/4 "2001-11-15T23:03:24Z")
Gee! Why don’t they just use the incredible Bruce Li? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-dead-and-kicking/93602/5 "2001-11-16T00:10:05Z")
You know, this almost could be a good idea. Before you stone me, hear me out. Robert Mitchum’s lifelong dream its said was to play Hamlet and he never got the chance. The computer technology involved could allow that to happen. That, IMHO would be an acceptable use for this technology It would also be helpful if an actor dies in the middle of a production. Still, I think that this use is a particularly crappy application of the technology. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-dead-and-kicking/93602/6 "2001-11-16T01:19:58Z")
Linda and Shannon Lee should be smacked. This is about as good an idea as Fred Astaire dancing with that vacuum cleaner. Besides, no computer simulation could compare to Bruce. I wonder what some of today’s actions heroes think of this? Like Jackie Chan, who I think knew Bruce. I think it’s a terrible idea, and I won’t support it with my checkbook. And **Tuckerfan** - if the actor is DEAD, and it’s a total computer simulation, IT AIN’T HIM. Robert Michum wouldn’t be playing Hamlet, Deep Blue would be. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-dead-and-kicking/93602/7 "2001-11-16T01:26:36Z")
> [@](#): > > And Tuckerfan- if the actor is DEAD, and it’s a total computer simulation, IT AIN’T HIM. Robert Michum wouldn’t be playing Hamlet, Deep Blue would be. No foolin’? I didn’t know. 😉 Seriously, though, that’s a better use of the technology than what they’re proposing to do with Bruce Lee or sticking Cher in Ingmar Bergman’s role in _ **Casablanca** _ (shudder)! ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-dead-and-kicking/93602/8 "2001-11-16T01:30:53Z")
Oh no way. Are you serious about the _Casablanca_ thing? I’m going to go puke. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-dead-and-kicking/93602/9 "2001-11-16T01:34:25Z")
Sort of. Back when someone first conceived of this idea, _ **Discover** _ magazine did a piece on the whole idea with the editor saying that it was his fondest wish to be able to put Cher in _ **Casablanca** _, as you can imagine the concept of that burned itself into my brain and, despite my best efforts to remove it, has stuck there ever since. ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-dead-and-kicking/93602/10 "2001-11-16T05:54:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by EJsGirl \* > \*\*I wonder what some of today’s actions heroes think of this? Like Jackie Chan, who I think knew Bruce. > > \*\* [kung fu movie geek hat on] Jackie was an extra in two of Bruce’s movies. First, in “Fist of Fury”. If you look carefully, you can see him sparring with a girl in front of the kung fu school. Jackie also was the stunt double for the main bad guy. When Bruce kicks the villain through the window at the end, you’re actually seeing Jackie Chan. Jackie’s more visible in “Enter the Dragon”. He’s one of the guards who attacks Bruce one at a time in the underground lair. Bruce breaks his neck. After Bruce died, Jackie was the “designated successor”, and made several deadly serious, good but ordinary kung fu movies. It wasn’t until he developed his own formula and added humor that he became the world’s biggest action star. From the linked article. > [@](#): > > Returning to Hong Kong in the early 1970s, Lee began making martial arts films and was a huge hit based both on his skills as a kick-boxer and his sense of humor. Movies like 1971’s ‘‘Fists of Fury’’ and 1973’s ``Enter the Dragon,’’ which was released after his death, lifted him to cult hero status. As a fan, I’m offended by this. Bruce was not a kick-boxer. He used a highly modified form of Wing Chun kung fu. “The Big Boss” (Fists of Fury in the US) did indeed make him a cult hero. “Enter the Dragon” made him a mainstream legend. So much so that the legend outstrips his actual accomlishments. He made 3 1/2 movies, only two of which were any good (Enter the Dragon and Way of the Dragon). [kung fu movie geek hat off]