Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story is a 1993 American biographical drama film that was directed and co-written by Rob Cohen, and stars Jason Scott Lee, Lauren Holly, Nancy Kwan and Robert Wagner. The film follows the life of actor and martial artist Bruce Lee (Jason) from his relocation to the US from Hong Kong to his career as a martial arts teacher, and then as a television and film actor. It also focuses on the relationship between Bruce and his wife Linda Lee Cadwell, and the racism to which Bruce was subjected; an example of behaviour towards Asian people that was typical in the US at the time.

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRob Cohen
Produced byRaffaella De Laurentiis
Rick Nathanson
Dan York
Screenplay by
  • Rob Cohen
  • John Raffo
  • Edward Khmara
Based on
Starring
Music byRandy Edelman
CinematographyDavid Eggby
Edited byPeter Amundson
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • 7 May 1993 (1993-05-07)
Running time
120 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Cantonese
Budget$16 million[2][3]
Box office$63.5 million[4]

The film's main source is the 1975 biography Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew, which was written by Cadwell. Other sources include Robert Clouse's book Bruce Lee: The Biography and research by Cohen, including interviews with Cadwell and Bruce's son Brandon Lee. Rather than making a traditional biopic, Cohen decided to approach the script by including mystical elements and dramatizing fights scenes to give it the same tone as the films in which Bruce starred. Dragon was filmed primarily in Hong Kong, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story received positive reviews; Jason was praised for his portrayal of Bruce. The film was a commercial success and its revenue exceeded box office averages for biographical films, which was attributed to its romantic themes and its appeal to audiences other than the traditional kung fu film audience. A video game adaptation of the same name was released the following year. Dragon is dedicated to Brandon Lee, who died several weeks before its release while filming The Crow.

Plot

In a nightmare, Bruce Lee's father sees a phantom, known as the Demon, haunting his young son, and subsequently enrolls him in a Chinese martial arts class led by instructor Yip Man. As a young adult, Bruce fights British sailors who are harassing a young Chinese woman, resulting in him having to leave Hong Kong. His father suggests he go to the US.

In the US, Bruce works as a dishwasher at a Chinese restaurant until he gets in a brawl with four of the cooks. The restaurant owner fires him but also lends him money and encourages him to continue his education. While studying philosophy in college, Bruce begins to teach martial arts classes, where he meets Linda. Bruce marries Linda in defiance of her racist mother. Linda suggests Bruce opens a martial arts school but his Chinese peers demand he must only train Chinese people and challenge him to settle the matter in combat. Bruce defeats Johnny Sun in a secret, no-holds-barred honour match but Sun attacks Bruce after he has admitted defeat, and Bruce sustains a debilitating back injury. While Bruce is temporarily paralyzed, Linda helps him write a book called Tao of Jeet Kune Do. Linda gives birth to their first child Brandon and the couple reconcile with Linda's mother.

Some months later, during a martial arts tournament run by Ed Parker, Johnny Sun challenges Bruce, who defeats Johnny, earning the respect of the audience. After the match, Bill Krieger, who later becomes Bruce's manager, offers him the role of Kato in the television series The Green Hornet. Bruce and Krieger also create the idea for the television series Kung Fu. At a cast party, Linda says she is pregnant with their second child. Shortly afterwards, the cancellation of The Green Hornet is announced. Kung Fu later makes it to television but much to Bruce's frustration, it stars the Caucasian actor David Carradine. Bruce believes Krieger has betrayed him.

Bruce returns to Hong Kong for his father's funeral. Philip Tan, a Hong Kong film producer, hires Bruce to star in the film The Big Boss. During the filming of the final scene, Johnny Sun's brother Luke attacks Bruce in revenge for Johnny's humiliating defeat and subsequent disability; Bruce wins the fight. The Big Boss is a success and Bruce makes several more films, working as actor, director and editor. This causes a rift between Linda, who wishes to return to the US, and Bruce. Krieger offers Bruce a chance to work on a big-budget Hollywood film, to which Bruce agrees, partly led by Linda's wish to return home.

On the 32nd day of filming Enter the Dragon, during the climactic "room of mirrors" sequence, Bruce has a terrifying vision of the Demon that has haunted his and his father's dreams. This time, after being beaten and then shown his own grave, Bruce sees his son urging Bruce to save him. The Demon pursues Brandon, spurring Bruce to fight back, save Brandon and break the Demon's neck. The film ends during a shot of the final scene of Enter the Dragon, which would make Lee an international star. In a voiceover, Linda tells the audience Bruce died shortly before the film's release and says she has preferred to discuss Bruce Lee's life rather than his death.

Cast
Jason Scott Lee (no relation), pictured in 2003, starred as Bruce Lee.

Themes

Writing about themes of pedagogy and political correctness in film, Meaghan Morris includes a six-page analysis of a scene in Dragon, where Bruce and Linda watch Breakfast at Tiffany's at a cinema; Linda suggests they leave when she notices Bruce is upset at Mickey Rooney's yellowface performance of I. Y. Yunioshi. Morris describes the scene as didactic, as it allows Linda, who was originally enjoying the film, to understand and share Bruce's revulsion of racist stereotypes. Noting the film's portrayal of Bruce's life as a "battle against Western prejudice", Morris concludes Dragon is "one of the more powerful treatments of institutionalized racism in a film industry that US cinema possesses".[5]

Writing in the Asian Journal of Communication in 2013, academic Zheng Zhu listed Dragon alongside Kiss of the Dragon (2001) and The Tuxedo (2002) as films that broke from the tradition of portraying Asian men as asexual, stating that while they are often featured as heroes in martial arts film, they are rarely portrayed as romantic or loving. Noting the films each show an Asian martial artist with a White female partner, Zhu states they reverse the conventional portrayal of a "dominant white knight and a submissive Oriental lady". Critiques, however, were made at the portrayal of these relationships. For example, each film shows "white women play[ing] the most important role" in helping Chinese men accomplish success, as evidenced by Linda's support for Bruce while he recovers from his back injury. Asian men, Zhu argues, are portrayed as incapable of achieving success in Western society unless they are supported by white femininity.[6]

Production

Pre-production

A major source for the film's screenplay, which was written by Edward Khmara, John Raffo and director Rob Cohen, was Linda Lee Cadwell's biography Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew.[7] Other sources included Robert Clouse's book Bruce Lee: The Biography, and original research by Khmara and Cohen.[8][9] Cadwell spoke highly of the film and provided resources for its production. Scenes showing hand-written notes and drawings from Bruce's book Tao of Jeet Kune Do are his original works. Cadwell also provided access to Bruce's clothing so replicas could be created for the film.[9]

Cohen stated his first problem when writing the screenplay was to condense Bruce's life into under two hours of film. It was decided to avoid making a standard biographic film and instead incorporate "mystical and legendary aspects" from Bruce's life, telling his story "as if it were, in fact, a Bruce Lee movie".[9] Cohen learnt for the first two years of Bruce's life, his parents had dressed and passed him off as a girl to protect him from a superstitious Chinese belief that demons target first-born sons. Influenced by this tale, Cohen decided to show Bruce being pursued by a supernatural demon, seeing it as a metaphor for an inner demon that may have motivated and influenced Bruce. When Cohen first met Cadwell after giving her the screenplay, she asked how Cohen had learnt about Bruce's demon. Cohen said he had dramatized the plot element after studying his life; Cadwell said Bruce told her he felt as though a demon was trying to drag him away when he collapsed 10 weeks before his death.[9] Cohen spent hours talking to both Cadwell and Brandon Lee in preparation for the film.[10]

Casting
"[Brandon Lee] said I wouldn't survive in this part if I treated his father like a god. He said his father was, after all, a man who had a profound destiny, but he was not a god. He was a man who had a temper, a lot of anger, who found mediocrity offensive. Sometimes he was rather merciless."

Jason Scott Lee[10]

While Brandon Lee was the right age and had appropriate training to portray his father, and was perceived by some as a likely choice for the role, producer Raffaella De Laurentiis said he did not look Chinese enough and that she would have refused to work on the project if they had to resort to making Brandon appear more Asian. Jason Scott Lee, who had auditioned for a role in The Last of the Mohicans but was rejected because he did not appear Native American, was recommended for the role of Bruce early in pre-production.[8] The Last of the Mohicans's casting director was impressed with him and recommended him to Cohen.[10] Jason said at first he felt intimidated by his role portraying Bruce but he overcame his fear after speaking to Brandon.[10] Jason, who had no martial arts training prior to his role in the film, was a gymnast and athlete. Cohen cast Jason because believed trying to teach a martial artist to act would not work and decided to train an actor in martial arts.[9][11] To prepare for their roles, Jason and Lauren Holly trained in Bruce's martial-arts style of Jeet Kune Do for months under Bruce's former student Jerry Poteet.[10] Poteet praised Jason's new martial arts abilities, as did John Cheung, the actor who portrayed Johnny Sun and served as the film's fight and stunt coordinator. Cheung worked as a stuntman on Enter the Dragon,[8] Cohen chose him because he believed it was important for the fight scenes to be choreographed in a Hong-Kong style rather than a US one.[9]

Cohen cast Nancy Kwan as Gussie Yang, a restaurant owner and Lee's employer. Like Bruce, Kwan played a pivotal role in the acceptance of actors of Asian ancestry in major Hollywood film roles and Cohen wanted audiences to be reminded of her achievement and the struggle of Asian actors in the US.[9] He cast Michael Learned as Vivian Emery because he loved her portrayal of Olivia in The Waltons and wished to see Bruce's confrontation with the person recognizable as that character. Vivian Emery gave filmmakers permission to portray her as initially hostile and racist towards Lee; Emery said she had treated Bruce that way when they first met.[8][9]

Van Williams, who played The Green Hornet in the 1960s TV series of the same name, was given a cameo appearance as the director of The Green Hornet.[12] Bruce Lee's daughter Shannon Lee has a cameo as a singer in the party scene, at which Linda tells Bruce she is pregnant with Shannon.[9] Sven-Ole Thorsen was cast as the Demon due to his height and physique. Cohen states he did a "remarkable job" during the fight scenes considering he was unable to see out of the costume's headpiece. Cohen gave himself a cameo as the director of Enter the Dragon.[9]

Filming
Lo Pan Temple was used for the film's opening scene. The ceramic figures at the top drew Cohen's attention when he was scouting locations.[9]

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story was filmed primarily in Hong Kong, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The opening scene was filmed at an 18th-century temple in Hong Kong, which Cohen found while scouting potential locations. Cohen, who wanted the audience to understand from the beginning the film would not be a traditional biopic, incorporated the theme of a demon chasing Bruce. Cohen wanted to film in Seattle but found little cooperation from local authorities and was denied permission to film at the University of Washington, which Lee had attended. It was subsequently decided to merge the events of Bruce's life that occurred in Seattle with those that occurred later when he moved to California, where much of the filming took place.[9]

Filming was delayed multiple times; Cohen had a heart attack on 6 February 1992, delaying production for a month;[3] another delay was caused when Jason became ill.[2] Filming was also affected by a monsoon during which Hong Kong experienced its heaviest rainfall in decades,[2][9] as well as an extortion attempt by triads,[2] who threatened Cohen and other individuals because the crew were working on the gang's territory. Cohen sped up production so the cast and crew could vacate the area earlier than planned.[9] The setbacks used up the entirety of the film's $1.3 million contingency budget.[3]

The fight between Bruce and the chefs is set in San Francisco but was filmed on a set in Hong Kong, and some of the scenes that take place in Hong Kong were filmed in California.[9] The outdoor scene in which Bruce teaches martial arts to a football team was filmed at a college in Los Angeles using exact replicas of the columns at the University of Washington, where Bruce used to teach. The crowd scenes during the premiere of The Big Boss were shot in Macao because the crew could not obtain permission to close roads and film scenes involving hundreds of extras in Hong Kong, where the scene is set.[9] Bruce's final confrontation with the demon was filmed on a set in Santa Clarita, California; Bruce's tombstone is a replica that bears a picture of Jason rather than one of Bruce.[9]

Over 1,600 shots were taken for the film, of which 1,000 were for the eight fight scenes. One stuntman received a minor cut during the hall of mirrors scene, which was filmed with the camera and the crew hiding inside mirrored boxes so they would not be visible in reflections. There were no other injuries. Cohen inserted several references to Bruce's films; the extended warm-up routine by Bruce and Johnny before their fight is a reference to the one performed by Bruce and Chuck Norris before their fight in The Way of the Dragon.[9]

Post-production

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story's original budget had been about $14 million.[8] Despite exhausting the contingency budget, Universal Pictures agreed to spend a further $1 million on Dolby Digital fight-scene sound effects and the soundtrack after viewing the film's rough cut, bringing the final cost to $16 million.[3] None of the custom-made sound effects in the fight scenes was used twice.[9]

Cohen decided to expand the theme of Bruce's father's belief a demon was stalking his son by showing the demon chasing Bruce's son Brandon. Filming was completed and Dragon was less than two months away from opening when Brandon died in a shooting accident while filming The Crow in March 1993.[8] Cohen stated the scene is one of the "eeriest moments" in the film for him; after Brandon's death it "gave [him] great pause to think and still haunts [him]".[9] Following Brandon's death, Cohen asked Cadwell whether she wanted to postpone the release or modify the film; she declined and asked for it to be dedicated to his memory with an appropriate quotation. With Cadwell's approval, Cohen chose a quotation by Saint Augustine he originally had on the front of the script: "The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering", which he felt applied to both Bruce and Brandon.[10]

Marketing for Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story focused on the romance between Bruce and Cadwell; advertising campaigns targeted soft-rock radio stations. Universal chairman Tom Pollock said they were trying to appeal to women and to move beyond Bruce's core audience.[13] The marketing campaign was not modified following Brandon's death.[3]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack for Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story was composed by Randy Edelman, who used a 90-piece orchestra and traditional Chinese instruments. Cohen praised the soundtrack for acting as a kind of "emotional through line" for his film[9] and Ray Apello from Entertainment Weekly praised its romantic tracks.[3] Jason Ankeny from AllMusic gave the soundtrack two stars out of five, saying the "oddly patriotic, even stereotypically Americanized score" is too generic for the subject matter, adding "per usual, Edelman operates in broad, simple strokes, crafting saccharine melodies that are pure function and no form".[14] Edelman's soundtrack has been licensed for use in trailers for several other films.[15]

Release

Critical response

The film received positive reviews. On the review aggregating website Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 71% based on 21 reviews; the site's critical consensus reads, "While its impact is blunted by an overly reverential approach to its subject, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story remains a reasonably entertaining biopic of the martial arts legend".[1]

Peter Rainer from the Los Angeles Times said the film is "hero-worshiping" Bruce, though he gave a favorable review, saying, "you can forgive the way the film concocts and inflates incidents in Lee's life, because ... that's the way it is with larger-than-life actors: They prime you for larger-than-life stories."[16] Roger Ebert said the martial arts sequences defy "gravity and logic ... but what the heck: It's fun to watch",[17] and Vincent Canby described it as "an enjoyably hokey, big-budget theatrical film with a lot of kicks and the soul of a television movie".[18] Richard Harrington of The Washington Post praised the film's ability to appeal to more people than just Bruce Lee and martial arts fans, saying it also explored issues such as love, interracial romance, marriage and parenthood.[19] Sheila Johnston from The Independent, however, argued the attempt to cater to multiple audience with the numerous themes convoluted the film.[20]

Jason's performance as Bruce was widely praised.[16][17][18][19] Both Donald Chase and Lawrence Christon of the Los Angeles Times commended him; Chase said he seemed to be Bruce's reincarnation and Christon said Jason "brings intelligence and charm to the role".[2][8] According to Rainer, the exciting thing about Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story is that with Jason, it was creating a new star from the story of an old one.[16] Cadwell also praised the performance, saying "I almost feel it was worth waiting all this time for Jason to grow old enough to play Bruce".[9] Jason received a nomination for "Most Promising Actor" at the 1993 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards for his roles in both Dragon and Map of the Human Heart,[21] and a nomination for "Best Breakthrough Performance" for Dragon at the 1994 MTV Movie Awards.[22]

Initial screening and box office
Bruce Lee's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was dedicated on the day Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story premiered

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on 28 April 1993; Bruce's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was dedicated earlier that day, a few feet from the theatre. A post-screening after-party was held in a nearby parking lot under a 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m2) tent that was decorated with Chinese themes. Over 1,200 guests including Demi Moore, Wesley Snipes, Dolph Lundgren, Sheila E., Mike Myers, Linda Cadwell and Shannon Lee attended, together with the film's co-stars Lauren Holly, Robert Wagner, Nancy Kwan and Van Williams, and producer Raffaella De Laurentiis.[7][12] Bill Higgins from the Los Angeles Times reported the word 'bittersweet' was mentioned many times due to Brandon's recent death. Cadwell stated she attended because the film "is a tribute to our family’s life and for that reason I thought I should be here. I feel the film is a tribute to Bruce as a father and to Brandon as a son."[7]

The film debuted at number one at the US box office, grossing just over $10 million in its opening weekend.[4] The film's revenue outperformed expectations for a biography, which was largely attributed to the number of women who attended screenings; 45% of the film's audience were women, whereas audiences for Bruce's actual films were overwhelmingly male. The success of the film and also the political satire Dave were credited with raising cinema audiences 65% from the same weekend period the previous year.[13] Earnings were considerably lower than those during busier times of the year but the film set a record for takings in early May.[23] Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story had a domestic gross of $35,113,743 and $28.4 million was earned in other territories, making a total worldwide revenue of $63,513,743.[4]

A video game of the same name was created by Virgin Interactive and first released on Sega Mega Drive in Europe in June 1994;[24] it was later released in other continents and ported to other platforms. It is a fighting game in which players assume the role of Bruce and fight his opponents in the film, including the English sailor and the chefs, and the final boss is The Demon. The game omits some of the film's plot elements, such as the romance between Bruce and Cadwell. The game was met with mixed reviews.[25][26] Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the Atari Jaguar version 4.4/10, calling it "more or less your run-of-the-mill action fighter game" and commenting it was released too long after the film to benefit from the license.[27]

Historical accuracy

In Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Bruce Lee travels to the US in steerage; Cohen acknowledges this is inaccurate and was done to show the appalling conditions most Chinese people experienced when emigrating at the time. It also allowed him to introduce the character called the History Teacher, who illustrates the difficulties Chinese immigrants faced once they arrived. Extrapolations are made for events in Bruce's life before he met Cadwell; Bruce had a reputation for street fighting but there is no evidence he fought with a group of chefs as depicted in the film. Metaphors are used to represent real events; for example, a cheering crowd carries Bruce away from Linda after the premier of The Big Boss; Cohen used the scene to illustrate Bruce's fame creating a distance between the couple.[9]

Some elements of Bruce's life were condensed to reduce the length of the story; all of Bruce's managers were replaced with the fictional Bill Krieger and the order of events was sometimes altered to suit the narrative. Tragedy is depicted by combining the death of Bruce's father, who had died years earlier, with the news Bruce's idea for a television show was stolen and turned into Kung Fu,[9] which was not released until a year after its depiction in the film.[28] There is some evidence to support Bruce and Cadwell's assertion his idea was stolen though according to Warner Bros., Kung Fu was a separate project they were developing at the same time as Bruce's idea; this version of events is supported by Bruce Lee biographer Matthew E. Polly.[29]

Bruce's assertion the Chinese martial-arts community confronted him about teaching martial arts to non-Chinese people, and subsequently challenged him to a fight with Johnny as depicted in the film, is debated. Bruce's real-life opponent Wong Jack Man said he challenged Bruce to a fight that had nothing to do with his teaching of non-Chinese people.[30] Cohen said he dramatized the fight's ritual setting and states the event is otherwise genuine. Bruce injured his back through weight-training whereas in the film, Johnny attacks Bruce from behind; according to Cohen, depicting Bruce injuring himself through weightlifting would not have been a "great movie moment".[9] While Ed Parker invited Bruce to speak at the 1964 Long Beach International Karate Championships, Johnny did not challenge Bruce to a rematch there as depicted in the film. Johnny's brother Luke's attack of Bruce on the set of The Big Boss is also fictional, as is the depiction of Bruce breaking a 200-pound (91 kg) block of ice with his fist during the fight. While wishing to depict an accurate account of Bruce's struggles, accomplishments and personality, Cohen stated he wanted to create fights that had the "humor and spectacle" of one of Bruce's actual films, where there was a "larger sense of fun [and] danger" and "reality is not exactly adhered to".[9]

References
  1. "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  2. Christon, Lawrence (2 May 1993). "The Shadow of the Dragon". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 29 September 2016.
  3. Appelo, Tim (14 May 1993). "Tears of the Dragon". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 31 May 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2010.
  4. "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 10 December 2019.
  5. Meaghan, Morris (2007). "Learning from Bruce Lee: pedagogy and Political Correctness in Martial Arts Cinema". In Wilson, Roy; Connery, Christopher Leigh (eds.). The Worlding Project: Doing Cultural Studies in the Era of Globalization. North Atlantic Books. pp. 49–57. ISBN 978-1556436802.
  6. Zhu, Zheng (2013). "Romancing 'kung fu master' – from 'yellow peril' to 'yellow prowess'". Asian Journal of Communication. 23 (4): 403–419.
  7. Higgins, Bill (30 April 1993). "A Film Premiere Tempered by Loss". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 28 December 2019.
  8. Chase, Donald (25 October 1992). "Re-Enter the Dragon". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 24 April 2020.
  9. Rob Cohen (1993). Director's Commentary (Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, DVD). Universal Pictures.
  10. Weinraub, Bernard (15 April 1993). "Bruce Lee's Brief Life Being Brought to Screen". New York Times. Archived from the original on 19 April 2020.
  11. Rob Cohen (1993). Making of Featurette (Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, DVD). Universal Pictures.
  12. Galbraith, Jane (16 May 1993). "A Look inside Hollywood and the movies : Cameo Corner : Green Hornet Pays Homage to His Kato". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016.
  13. Citron, Alan (11 May 1993). "'Bruce' and 'Dave's' Excellent Box Office". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 19 January 2019.
  14. Ankeny, Jason. "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 27 October 2015.
  15. Sella, Marshall (28 July 2002). "The 150-Second Sell, Take 34". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 14 April 2019.
  16. Rainer, Peter (7 May 1993). "'Dragon,' Jason Scott Lee: They Have the Chops : The biopic depicts a larger-than-life Bruce Lee". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019.
  17. Ebert, Roger (7 May 1993). "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story". Chicago Sun Times. Archived from the original on 30 June 2013.
  18. Canby, Vincent (7 May 1993). "Review/Film; Recalling The King Of Kung Fu". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 24 August 2019.
  19. Harrington, Richard (7 May 1993). "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 24 August 2019.
  20. Johnston, Sheila (22 October 1993). "Film / Incestual proposal". FILM / Incestual proposal. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019.
  21. "Chicago Film Critics Awards 1993". FilmAffinity. Archived from the original on 31 August 2019.
  22. "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)". MSN. Archived from the original on 12 August 2020.
  23. Fox, David J. (11 May 1993). "Weekend Box Office : 'Dragon' Makes 'Dave' Vice President". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016.
  24. "Up 'N' Coming". Mega. No. 20. Future Publishing. May 1994. p. 81. Archived from the original on 12 November 2018. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  25. "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story for Genesis". GameRankings. CBS Interactive. 2019. Archived from the original on 1 July 2019.
  26. "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story for Super Nintendo". GameRankings. CBS Interactive. 2019. Archived from the original on 1 July 2019.
  27. "Review Crew – Major Mike's Game Roundup – Dragon – Atari / Jaguar". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 66. Sendai Publishing. January 1995. p. 46.
  28. Polly, Matthew E. (2019). Bruce Lee: A Life. Simon and Schuster. p. 571. ISBN 978-1471175725.
  29. Polly, Matthew E. (2019). Bruce Lee: A Life. Simon and Schuster. pp. 277–280, 321–327, 573–574. ISBN 978-1471175725.
  30. Russo, Charles (3 October 2016). "Bruce Lee vs. Wong Jack Man: Fact, Fiction and the Birth of the Dragon". Fightland. Archived from the original on 13 December 2019.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.