![]() While some are admittedly uncanny, others are ridiculous, such as the fact that Bruce’s co-star in Game Of Death was Kareem Abdul Jabbar, whose basketball number was 33, the age Bruce would’ve been on his next birthday! The truth – that it’s just a pair of awful tragedies – is certainly less tantalising, but perhaps the definitive evidence against the Death Curse is that Bruce’s brother Robert (despite being a male member of the Lee family) is still alive. Reality : This is classic conspiracy fodder and the more you look into it, the more you can make connections. Even more creepy when you consider Brandon died after being shot with a prop gun loaded with real bullets instead of blanks, the exact same thing that happens to Bruce’s stuntman character Billy Lo in Game Of Death. Little bit creepy when put in the context of Brandon then dying just months before the film’s release. Bruce himself allegedly had visions of his own death occurring at “half the age of his father” (and indeed his father died at 64, Bruce at 32) and when risible biopic Dragon : The Bruce Lee Story was released in 1992, it showed a literal demon pursuing Bruce in his dreams and then moving on to his son Brandon. Lee’s parents had already lost one son in infancy, so when Bruce was born they nicknamed him “Little Phoenix”, a girl’s name to ward off the attentions of the demon they believed could claim all men in the family line. The Lee Family Death Curse Killed HimĬonspiracy : It’s a popular theory that the Lee family had a multi-generational death curse put on them. In actuality, they were slowed down! He moved too quickly for 35mm film to capture him so the cameras were ‘overcranked’ to take more frames per second so when it’s played back, the action is slower. Reality : Not so crazy, you might think, but this is one where the truth is madder than fiction. This was a commonly applied technique in old martial arts movies and when you watch something like Fist of Fury and see him leaping, punching and kicking his way through swathes of hapless on-comers like a wild animal, it’s easy to believe he’s either superhuman or faking it. One theory is that filmmakers sped-up his fighting in post-production to make it look better. #Bruce lee through the darkest of times movie#Get out there and have start practicing your Dragon Flag (his notoriously merciless abs exercise)! His Movie Fights Were Sped-UpĬonspiracy : There are many conspiracies that suggest Bruce Lee wasn’t as skilled a fighter as he seemed to be onscreen. While there are potential correlations between pre-existing health conditions and certain types of exercise, no known evidence suggests Bruce Lee’s death was purely down to his physical fitness level. Reality : It’s almost a reassuring thought when you don’t want to go to the gym to think “nah, better not get too fit…” but there’s no medical proof that this is possible. As a result, it’s been suggested that Bruce’s intense training regime was directly responsible for his death, that he’d burned away so much body fat it left him unable to function or to absorb medication properly. Let’s take a look through a few of the wildest ideas: He Was Simply Too Fit To LiveĬonspiracy : Uber-badass Chuck Norris once described Bruce Lee, as “muscles on muscles” and even Lee’s own physician remarked that it was “obscene how little body fat he had”. Perhaps it’s this extraordinary talent being snatched away so suddenly that’s led to decades of speculation over Bruce and to many conspiracies about his life, his death and beyond. Dying as young as 32 is tragic by any standards but Bruce was at his physical and artistic peak, his big break about to happen. Sadly, just months before Enter The Dragon came out, Bruce Lee took a headache pill that disagreed with him and died from a cerebral edema. Beyond being a great screen presence and natural showman, he was an accomplished director, a writer of screenplays, poetry and philosophy texts, and a celebrated martial artist who created a style of kung fu still practiced to this day – Jeet Kune Do. He was by no means a one-trick pony though. When Enter The Dragon was released in 1973, Bruce became an instant worldwide superstar with an iconic look and a new way of fighting onscreen. You think kung fu, it’s his image that comes to mind, a blur of gleaming muscles, swinging nunchakus and bestial war cries. For many, Bruce Lee is the embodiment of martial arts. ![]()
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