Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
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| Directed by | Rob Cohen |
| Produced by |
Raffaella De Laurentiis Rick Nathanson John Badham |
| Screenplay by | Rob Cohen John Raffo Edward Khmara |
| Based on |
Bruce Lee: The Beginning by Robert Clouse Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew by Linda Lee Cadwell |
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| Music by | Randy Edelman |
| Cinematography | David Eggby |
| Edited by | Peter Amundson |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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120 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $14 million |
| Box office | $63.5 million |
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| Soundtrack album by Randy Edelman | |
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Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story is a 1993 American biographical drama film written and directed by Rob Cohen, and starring Jason Scott Lee, Lauren Holly and Robert Wagner. The film was released in the United States on May 7, 1993.
The film tells the story of actor and martial artist Bruce Lee.Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story was dedicated to Brandon Lee, who died two months earlier while performing in his last film, The Crow.
The film begins with a nightmare of Bruce Lee's father (Ric Young), who sees a terrifying phantom known as the Demon (Sven-Ole Thorsen) in black samurai armor that haunts the young Bruce Lee (Sam Hau). In a montage that passes quickly through his teenage years in Hong Kong, Bruce is shown receiving instruction in traditional Chinese martial arts. As a young adult, Bruce (Jason Scott Lee) fights with British sailors harassing a young Chinese woman, this results in him having to leave Hong Kong. His father suggests that Bruce go to the US, since he was actually born in San Francisco when his father was on a tour there and has a US birth certificate. His father asks Bruce to become a success, so big a success that his name will be famous even back in Hong Kong.
In the US Bruce works as a dishwasher at a Chinese restaurant, until a violent brawl with four of the cooks, the restaurant owner (Nancy Kwan) arrives and fires Bruce. As well as severance, she gives him an "all-purpose loan" and exhorts him to invest in an education. While studying philosophy in college, he begins to teach martial arts classes, where he meets Linda Emery (Lauren Holly). They marry in defiance of Linda's racist mother (Michael Learned). Linda suggests that Bruce open a martial arts school, but his Chinese peers demand he not train "blacks or Americans" and challenge him to settle the matter via "combat". Bruce defeats Johnny Sun (John Cheung) in an secretive, illegal, no-holds-barred honor match, but an embittered Sun, attacks Bruce after having already admitted defeat. Sun's cowardly, vengeful attack results in a seriously debilitating back injury for Lee.
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