• 2 months ago
Get ready to play a game of death … and another … and another. The wild documentary Enter the Clones of Bruce dives into the Bruce Lee exploitation craze.

Director
David Gregory
Stars
Bruce Le -Bruce Li -Ryong Keo -Dragon Lee -Bruce Leung -Godfrey Ho -Sammo Hung -Phillip Ko -Angela Mao Ying -Ron Van Clief
Transcript
00:00Tell us your name.
00:02My last name is Lee, Bruce Lee.
00:05We just hit a certain moment in history where people were looking for that kind of hero.
00:10The truth in fact is we were just at the cusp of that fame when he passed away.
00:15We're really getting into this guy and all of a sudden he's gone.
00:17The next question is, can we find another Bruce Lee?
00:21We want Bruce Lee's movie.
00:22Impossible.
00:23He died.
00:24Yeah, but we still want Bruce Lee's movie, man.
00:27They would go to people in the martial arts schools, the gymnasiums and so forth.
00:31Hey, anybody look like Bruce Lee?
00:33Anybody who's good?
00:34I didn't know at the time he was a real person because I'd see other people playing Bruce Lee.
00:43And they give name called Bruce Lee.
00:48He's playing Bruce Lee.
00:49I looked at him and said, well, if I really stretch my imagination a little bit.
00:54Yeah.
01:00Dragon Lee, who was this Bruce Lee times 10, this gigantic muscular guy.
01:06You're the famous Bruce?
01:07Yes, I'm Bruce.
01:08Hello.
01:10My name's Bruce Lee.
01:11He kind of looks a bit like Bruce Lee.
01:13Give him a pair of big sunglasses and a bald haircut and we can turn him into it.
01:16You're looking for me?
01:17Just when you thought you had seen all of his films, he's back.
01:21Get him.
01:22Bruce Lai, Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee.
01:24Bruce Tai.
01:25Grunson Lee.
01:27Bruce Lo.
01:30Bruce Lo.
01:35Action.
01:36A good crew could shoot a complete film in 15 days.
01:45It was tough.
01:46Many people get hurt.
01:52We were constantly successful with these pictures.
01:56The first kind of wave of these films pivoted around Bruce Lee's death.
02:00I'll have to find out if there was some foul play and if there was, I'll avenge.
02:03People wanted more.
02:04There was no video at the time.
02:05Films like this weren't going to appear on TV for years.
02:07The other was sequels and prequels and two of those spin-offs.
02:10What if he had lived and he had played Indiana Jones?
02:12We stick him in New Guinea and you've got Bruce Lai in New Guinea.
02:16Crazy fun.
02:22So you're Bruce Lee?
02:23Yes.
02:38It was a golden time for the filmmaking.
02:40Cut.