", While it's heartwarming to know that the Jeet Kune Do innovator and the karate master were actually great buddies in real life, Norris also answers the real question on everyone's lips: What would have happened if the two had faced each other in a for-realsies competition? "The Way of the Dragon" is a classic Bruce Lee movie in every sense of that term, and if you are not familiar with Bruce Lee movies, then "The Way of the Dragon" is a good introduction movie for his style of movies and his martial arts.As with all of his movies, there is a lot of martial arts in "The Way of the Dragon" as well, and it is nicely choreographed and executed, and I will say that with this movie then it starts to look a lot more realistic and natural, whereas it was a bit more staged in the previous movies.And needless to say that "The Way of the Dragon" is also the movie that pitted none other than Chuck Norris against Bruce Lee.
October is packed with great movies and several new and returning TV series. Greatest martial artist of all time.) When Tang arrives he poses a new threat to the syndicate, and they are unable to defeat him. Now rare footage of Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee each showing off their fighting prowess has made its way to the internet. Against heavyweight mixed martial artists or Muhammed Ali, not everyone agrees. Well, with the 1972 "The Way of the Dragon" (aka "Meng long guo jiang") I must admit that Bruce Lee is back in form, after the slightly less impressive "Fist of Fury" movie also from 1972.The storyline in "The Way of the Dragon" is one that proved to be both interesting and actually nicely enough constructed and written by Bruce Lee himself. Check out our most anticipated streaming picks. The Official Golden Harvest tribute to the Master of the Martial Arts Film, Bruce Lee. As Biography tells us, Lee's original name was Lee Jun Fan, and he was born in California to an immigrant family from Hong Kong in 1940, reportedly in "both the hour and the year of the dragon." If anyone had ever wanted to put a "Bruce Lee vs [whoever]" they would have had to do it with restrictions, because a fight to the death isn't really an option. Norris was also born in 1940 and became a famous martial artist, but that's where the similarities end. A ton of people who probably know what they're talking about say so. 6.
Was Bruce Lee a real fighter? Chuck Norris was actually on great terms with Bruce Lee! Bruce Lee may have died 42 years ago, but one question has managed to plague the internet like a bad case of ringworm—was he actually good a "fighter?” Though his status as martial arts philosopher, teacher, practitioner, and fitness guru are well documented, how well he would actually “do in a fight” doesn’t seem so cut and dry. During the fight scene between Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris, Lee demonstrated and popularized a technique that would later be called the oblique kick. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. He beat the boxing champion of his high school without being a boxer. Why the ironic music when Tang Lung presents the wad of banknotes to the bank manager?
5. Lee possessed the qualities a fighter needs.His reflexes were faster than a jaguar hopped up on methamphetamines. 106 responses to “Bruce Lee vs Chuck Norris: The Real Truth” Mark Devaney 2014, January 7 at 12:56 am. But I can't claim to ever have been much of a fan of Chuck Norris, and find him way overrated. A young martial artist is caught between respecting his pacifist father's wishes or stopping a group of disrespectful foreigners from stealing precious artifacts. In 1978, following Lee's death, an exploitation sequel was released titled Way of the Dragon 2, starring Bruce Le and Bolo Yeung. So, let's see what Norris has to say about this! Chuck Norris Says That Bruce Lee Could Beat Up Anyone on Earth, Including Himself. The most popular fight scene of all time was Bruce Lee vs Chuck Norris. With Bruce Lee, Gig Young, Dean Jagger, Hugh O'Brian.