Enterbay Game of Death 1/6 2010

[BlitzOUT]

The main appeal is that it's not just a great sculpt on a commonly available body with common accessories. It's the whole shooting match, body, outfit, head, the lot and each has it's unique quirks. You can never accuse Bruce Lee of being generic!

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Thanks for a decent answer Rogerbee. I do like the look of some of them. Mainly the ones with the rubber body's. Looks very realistic. I really have to get round to watching some of his movies. Maybe then I will understand the popularity surrounding these figures

 

[Rogerbee]

Yeah, you should,

There's no CG or wire-work like you get now, everything Bruce did is possible.

Enter The Dragon is probably the one to start with.

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[mrchris]

agree ETD most popular also give the 40min cut of game of death a view if you can.bruce tried to put a deeper meaning in that before he passed away and the finished movie was dire at best.then watch the most gifted and graceful martial artist ever

 

[axecutioner18]

Yeah, you should,

There's no CG or wire-work like you get now, everything Bruce did is possible.

Enter The Dragon is probably the one to start with.

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Id suggest Fist of Fury, Its more visceral IMO and my fav Bruce film... also speaking about wire work and editing there are places where Bruce DID use wire work and some of the stunts/was exaggerated like:

In the Big Boss, punching the guy who made a hole of his body shape through the shed

In FoF the picking up of the rickshaw was wire-work

Bruce couldnt do somersaults in the air, as we know the FoF scene where he somersaults and lands on the ground from a throw by the Japanese teacher as well as the scene in EtD where he somersaults and kicks O'Hara in the face is done by a body double

BUT
all this shouldnt distract from the fact that his approach to showing onscreen fighting was more realistic from his time and even now. The essence of a real fight was embodied and not a 'dancing choreography' popularised by Jackie Chan and eulogised in the Matrix

 

[Rogerbee]

Yeah, I did realise that the rickshaw scene in FOF wasn't entirely Bruce and I've never seen The Big Boss. I didn't realise he couldn't somersault though.

However, where it really counted, that was him, as the gif above shows!

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[Lawrence]

I'm not actually that keen on the BD head.

i thought that of the smiley till i got one..but yeh i hear what your saying..perhaps it looks better in hand.

I saw both in hand the other week and the smiling sculpt looked even more awesome than it does in pics - and it looks pretty awesome in pics. The BD one looks exactly like it does in pics - kinda crap.

I do understand where you guys are coming from. Viewing the head sculpt at certain angles can bring out the likeness more than others. I still prefer to display it over the smiley. Although I do admit, the smiley does not really suffer from the same problem as the BD head sculpt.

Looking at Rory's custom BD head sculpt. It seems to me that it was more of a paint app fail, than the fault of the sculpt itself. Even with the EVision intact, I think they could have been better.

I don't want this to be regarded as a noob or newbie question, but, I really don't see the large attraction to all the Bruce Lee figures. Can anyone who owns an EB or HT version please tell me whats so good about a figure like this (articulation, sculpt, accessories, why so popular?)

To understand you might have to watch some BL movies

I don't know if watching BL movies for the first time now, would have the same effect as watching them growing up though. BL movies are classics

Enter The Dragon is probably the one to start with.

Or 'Fist Of Fury'

agree ETD most popular also give the 40min cut of game of death a view if you can.bruce tried to put a deeper meaning in that before he passed away and the finished movie was dire at best.then watch the most gifted and graceful martial artist ever

Anybody here think BL would have went back & reshot the 'Game Of Death' fight scenes after EtD? Kinda feels like a "soft shoot" to me at times

Bruce is only fully known to a hardcore group of fans of a particular genre. Harrison Ford, due to the success of Star Wars and Indy, is a much more known face.

I'm not sure about this statement

 

[Lawrence]

In the Big Boss, punching the guy who made a hole of his body shape through the shed

I remember that

Bruce couldnt do somersaults in the air, as we know the FoF scene where he somersaults and lands on the ground from a throw by the Japanese teacher as well as the scene in EtD where he somersaults and kicks O'Hara in the face is done by a body double

BL didn't do the O'Hara flip kick?

 

[Rogerbee]

I meant that the Indy films and Star Wars have probably had broader appeal over the years than Bruce's will have. Still, that's more down to Hollywood commercialism than anything else.

I was aware of Indy and Han Solo long before I was aware of Bruce. My first contact with anything Bruce related was in the early 90's when I built a 1/5 garage kit of him from ETD. I bought a copy of Premiere magazine for reference (The photo was actually of Jason Scott Lee in Dragon and not Bruce!) and didn't see ETD till many years later.

I certainly appreciate his body of work more now than I ever would have back then.

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[mrchris]

I remember that




BL didn't do the O'Hara flip kick?

he didnt do the summersault over the monks either..but what he did do is bring even after 40yrs are some of the best fight scenes ever put on film..and i grew up with bruce at the peak of his time (mid70's)
yep im a dinosaur
take away some of the daft effects and the fight scenes IMHO speak for themselves

 

[Rogerbee]

Oh yeah, there's no doubt now that Bruce was the king when it came to choreographed fight scenes. Many have followed, but few have led.

The only guy I've seen that I've enjoyed watching as much as Bruce was Donnie Yen in Ip Man.

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[Lawrence]

BL knows how to sell his strikes. The way he tenses up his muscles & the expression on his face, makes his strikes look more convincing.

 

[Rogerbee]

I think the reaction of the other actors to his strikes also sell his moves well. A sign that he knew what he was doing. Had he lived, I reckon he'd still be teaching and choreographing even now.

It's a shame that Brandon, like his father before him, died before realising his true cinematic potential. It's also a shame that Brandon's movies will never be as well remembered as his father's.

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[Lawrence]

Oh yeah, there's no doubt now that Bruce was the king when it came to choreographed fight scenes. Many have followed, but few have led.

The only guy I've seen that I've enjoyed watching as much as Bruce was Donnie Yen in Ip Man.

Jackie Chan vs Benny Urquidez in 'Wheels On Meals' is

The version with the upbeat music sountrack. Their is another version with different background music (HKL version I think) that's not as cool to me

 

[Rogerbee]

There you have it, Jackie Chan appealed to the cool end of the market, after The Green Hornet, Bruce never went that way again.

Before this veers off topic too much further, I wonder if the version we have now will be the last EB GOD Bruce we see!?

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[Lawrence]

Ever? I don't think so

Perhaps they will release a 1/4 'Game Of Death' statue

 

[mrchris]

Ever? I don't think so

Perhaps they will release a 1/4 'Game Of Death' statue

1/4 statue..i'd save for that needs a holed hand for stick and chuks methinks..going OT again..EB CROW/RAPID FIRE FIGURE!!..id have one brandon deserves some form of recognition other than neca

 

[mrchris]

Jackie Chan vs Benny Urquidez in 'Wheels On Meals' is

The version with the upbeat music sountrack. Their is another version with different background music (HKL version I think) that's not as cool to me

yep great fight scene..i enjoyed bennys fight with shannon lee too
but there's something about bruce fighting..intensity/charisma..you know something you cant put your finger on..makes him unique

 

[Lawrence]

I didn't even know Shannon fought Benny

I watched it on YouTube. Thanks

 

[mrchris]

I didn't even know Shannon fought Benny

I watched it on YouTube. Thanks

my pleasure larry..looks like her dad in some scenes

 

[Y4NK33 PL4N3T]

I hope EB revisits WOtD and takes a long break from GOD. A 1/4 GOD would be another story ofc