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Paris: Plon. London: Routledge. London: Wallflower Press, — Telotte ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 26— Paris: Editions Nouveau Monde, 60—1. Similarly, my interlocutors may be telling me what they think I want to hear. And my hypothesis would remain that they very often make noises that can directly and unequivocally be traced back to no one other than Bruce Lee. The fact that few such children are likely to have any conscious knowledge or awareness of Bruce Lee makes this even more interesting.
But, in such a situation, are we still dealing with a cult? A transformation, certainly. There were comparatively more judo and karate clubs in Europe and the US than kung fu clubs. This disparity has geopolitical and historical causes that are too complex to cover adequately here.
Suffice it to say that kung fu clubs gradually emerged in response to the demand. The films that inspired the interest came from Hong Kong, but the Asian martial arts on offer in the West came from Korea and Japan, generally via some connection to the military.
He had trained in wing chun kung fu as a teenager in Hong Kong. Wing chun is a close range fighting art with short punches, locks, grapples, and a preference for low kicks.
When he moved to the USA at the age of 18, he was definitely a competent martial artist, and apparently blessed with incredible speed and grace of movement. His speed reputedly impressed even very senior and well established Chinese martial artists. Rather than recounting them here, the point to be emphasised in this context is that when Bruce Lee gradually began to enter into the TV and movie business, first as a trainer, then choreographer, and supporting actor, he clearly knew that what mattered most on screen was drama.
Hence, his screen fights always involved high kicks, jumps, and big movements. Everything was exaggerated and amplified although those closest to him have claimed that he really struggled to move slow enough to enable the camera to capture his techniques.
First, his Chinese kung fu sent people flocking into Japanese and Korean style dojos and dojangs. Nonetheless, fans flocked to find wing chun classes. Others sought jeet kune do classes. Some of his students felt that they should continue to practice and teach exactly what Bruce Lee had practiced and taught with them.
Others felt that the spirit of his jeet kune do was one of innovation, experimentation and constant transformation, and that what needed to be done, therefore, was to continue to innovate and experiment in line with certain principles or concepts. It continues to this day. Yet they are all doing very different things and adhering to very different images and ideas.
I use this term because I have heard these words — and words like them — in many countries and contexts, from many different kinds of people, the world over. The most memorable occasion was in Hong Kong, after a kung fu class. The style we were practicing was choy lee fut kung fu. This is very different to the wing chun kung fu that Bruce Lee studied as a teenager in Hong Kong, and a world away from the jeet kune do style that he devised as an adult in the USA.
It is certainly the style that is mentioned most frequently in the various versions of mythical stories of the young Bruce Lee in Hong Kong. Sometimes in these stories Bruce Lee is depicted as the scourge of all rivals. In other versions, an innocent young Bruce Lee is depicted as starting his first rooftop fight and immediately recoiling in pain and shock, before being told to get back into the fray, doing so, and emerging victorious.
In all of the Hong Kong based wing chun kung fu stories about Bruce Lee, choy lee fut kung fu comes off badly. Perhaps this is the reason for the frequent animosity that exists between wing chun and other styles of kung fu in Hong Kong. I certainly witnessed some of this during a visit there in In this sense, the global success of wing chun itself could be regarded as a kind of cult formation that is indebted to Bruce Lee Bowman ; Judkins and Nielson On the one hand, Bruce Lee popularised a rival style of kung fu, and stories about his martial arts encounters often involved the disparagement of other styles specifically choy lee fut.
But on the other hand, for all who had eyes to see, Bruce Lee was unequivocally brilliant — amazing to watch, astonishing, inspiring, graceful, powerful, elegant. Nonetheless, my claim is that all such examples are ripples that attest to a significant and generative intervention.
For, in the end, Bruce Lee most often functions as a kind of muse Morris People have been inspired by Bruce Lee in myriad ways: musicians, athletes, artists, thinkers, performers, dancers, and others, have all referenced Bruce Lee as an inspiration.
In the realms of martial arts practice and film fight choreography, Bruce Lee arguably dropped a bomb, the effects of which are still being felt. But, being forever absent, forever image, forever a few frozen quotations, what we see are a diverse plurality of practices of citation.
Before Bruce Lee, one could dream of being any number of things — footballer, athlete, rock star, and so on. After Bruce Lee, one more gleaming new option was definitively out of the box, on the table, in the air, everywhere: martial artist. This is why the impact and importance of Bruce Lee has always exceeded the world of film, and seeped into so many aspects of so many lives.
This is another way in which Bruce Lee can be said to be like water. Works Cited Barrowman, Kyle. Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. Body, in Theory. What Is Cinema? Berkeley: University of California Press. Insert stamps, images, hyperlinks to PDFs.
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