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* OnceOriginalNowOverdone: At this point, you're probably familiar with multiple works of fiction about martial arts tournaments being held on islands out in the middle of nowhere so in that respect, ''Enter The Dragon'' might feel like a ClicheStorm... except that this was actually the ''first'' work of fiction about a martial artist hero having to fight his way through an island tournament to face the BigBad in a spectacular battle. The only reason viewers at the time might have feel familiar with the setting is the film's atmosphere echoing 007's novel ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', whose film adaptation has been acknowledged as a likely inspiration for this movie.
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* OnceOriginalNowOverdone: OnceOriginalNowCommon: At this point, you're probably familiar with multiple works of fiction about martial arts tournaments being held on islands out in the middle of nowhere so in that respect, ''Enter The Dragon'' might feel like a ClicheStorm... except that this was actually the ''first'' work of fiction about a martial artist hero having to fight his way through an island tournament to face the BigBad in a spectacular battle. The only reason viewers at the time might have feel familiar with the setting is the film's atmosphere echoing 007's novel ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', whose film adaptation has been acknowledged as a likely inspiration for this movie.
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* OnceOriginalNowOverdone: At this point, you're probably familiar with multiple works of fiction about martial arts tournaments being held on islands out in the middle of nowhere so in that respect, ''Enter The Dragon'' might feel like a ClicheStorm... except that this was actually the ''first'' work of fiction about a martial artist hero having to fight his way through an island tournament to face the BigBad in a spectacular battle. The only reason viewers at the time might have feel familiar with the setting is the film's atmosphere echoing 007's novel ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', whose film adaptation has been acknowledged as a likely inspiration for this movie.
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** At this point, you're probably familiar with multiple works of fiction about martial arts tournaments being held on islands out in the middle of nowhere so in that respect, ''Enter The Dragon'' might feel like a ClicheStorm... except that this was actually the ''first'' work of fiction about a martial artist hero having to fight his way through an island tournament to face the BigBad in a spectacular battle. The only reason viewers at the time might have feel familiar with the setting is the film's atmosphere echoing 007's novel ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', whose film adaptation has been acknowledged as a likely inspiration for this movie.
** A viewer familiar with modern UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts might find the sparring between Lee and Sammo Hung a failed, awkward attempt of mixing kung fu with grappling moves. However, keep in mind this was ''1973'', twelve whole years before the first official MMA promotion was founded and even more years before the Anglosphere heard the word ''vale tudo''. For the film's age, however, seeing two tight-clad fighters mixing strikes with grappling and even wearing special gloves for both was basically futuristic. It's even believed that this fight might have been an inspiration for Wrestling/SatoruSayama, the founder of the aforementioned first promotion and the popularizer of the gloves used now for the sport.
** At this point, you're probably familiar with multiple works of fiction about martial arts tournaments being held on islands out in the middle of nowhere so in that respect, ''Enter The Dragon'' might feel like a ClicheStorm... except that this was actually the ''first'' work of fiction about a martial artist hero having to fight his way through an island tournament to face the BigBad in a spectacular battle. The only reason viewers at the time might have feel familiar with the setting is the film's atmosphere echoing 007's novel ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', whose film adaptation has been acknowledged as a likely inspiration for this movie.
** A viewer familiar with modern UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts might find the sparring between Lee and Sammo Hung a failed, awkward attempt of mixing kung fu with grappling moves. However, keep in mind this was ''1973'', twelve whole years before the first official MMA promotion was founded and even more years before the Anglosphere heard the word ''vale tudo''. For the film's age, however, seeing two tight-clad fighters mixing strikes with grappling and even wearing special gloves for both was basically futuristic. It's even believed that this fight might have been an inspiration for Wrestling/SatoruSayama, the founder of the aforementioned first promotion and the popularizer of the gloves used now for the sport.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Did Lee go into his fight with O'Hara with the intent to eventually kill him, as it may look, or was he content with beating and humiliating him until O'Hara brought out the broken bottles? After kicking O'Hara into the audience Lee turns around, bows to Han, and looks quite ready to make his exit until O'Hara comes at him with the broken bottles.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Did Lee go into his fight with O'Hara with the intent to eventually kill him, as it may look, or was he content with beating and humiliating him until O'Hara brought out the broken bottles? After kicking O'Hara into the audience Lee turns around, bows to Han, and looks quite ready to make his exit until O'Hara comes at him with the broken bottles.bottles. That might also explain Lee's momentarily anguished face after killing him, as if he was realizing he had just gone too far in the heat of the moment.
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* GenreTurningPoint: This is the film that brought the martial arts film to America.
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* GenreTurningPoint: This is the film that brought the martial arts film craze to America.
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** When he visits his relative's graves, Lee himself asks for forgiveness, as he is certain that his revenge will reach a Moral Event Horizon. The look on Lee's face after killing O'Hara suggests that he fears he may already have crossed the line.
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** When he visits his relative's graves, Lee himself asks for forgiveness, as he is certain that his revenge will reach a Moral Event Horizon. The look on Lee's face after killing O'Hara suggests that he fears is afflicted that, either consciously or in the spur of the moment, he may already have has just crossed the line.
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** As mentioned on the front page, Creator/AngelaMao Ying aka. "Lady Whirlwind" found appreciation among non-Chinese audiences as the tragic sister of Lee, Su Lin.
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** As mentioned on the front page, Creator/AngelaMao Ying aka. aka "Lady Whirlwind" found appreciation among non-Chinese audiences as the tragic sister of Lee, Su Lin.
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** A viewer familiar with modern UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts might find the sparring between Lee and Sammo Hung a failed, awkward attempt of mixing kung fu with theatrically performed grappling moves. However, keep in mind this was ''1973'', twelve whole years before the first official MMA promotion was founded and even more years before the Anglosphere heard the word ''vale tudo''. For the film's age, however, seeing two tight-clad fighters mixing strikes with grappling and even wearing special gloves for both was basically futuristic. It's even believed that this fight might have been an inspiration for Wrestling/SatoruSayama, the founder of the aforementioned first promotion and the popularizer of the gloves used now for the sport.
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** A viewer familiar with modern UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts might find the sparring between Lee and Sammo Hung a failed, awkward attempt of mixing kung fu with theatrically performed grappling moves. However, keep in mind this was ''1973'', twelve whole years before the first official MMA promotion was founded and even more years before the Anglosphere heard the word ''vale tudo''. For the film's age, however, seeing two tight-clad fighters mixing strikes with grappling and even wearing special gloves for both was basically futuristic. It's even believed that this fight might have been an inspiration for Wrestling/SatoruSayama, the founder of the aforementioned first promotion and the popularizer of the gloves used now for the sport.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
** Did Lee go into his fight with O'Hara with the intent to eventually kill him, or was he content with beating and humiliating him until O'Hara brought out the broken bottles? After kicking O'Hara into the audience Lee turns around, bows to Han, and looks quite ready to make his exit until O'Hara comes at him with the broken bottles.
** Related to the previous point, a lot of emotions cross Lee's face after stomping O'Hara to death, from righteous rage for his revenge to looking at the verge of tears. About the last: is Lee simply very emotional about having avenged his sister? Is he upset upon realizing that, [[TheseHandsHaveKilled in revenge or not, he has killed a man]]? Is he fine with the killoing intent, it being just that [[ItGetsEasier it was the first time he killed someone]]?
** Did Lee go into his fight with O'Hara with the intent to eventually kill him, or was he content with beating and humiliating him until O'Hara brought out the broken bottles? After kicking O'Hara into the audience Lee turns around, bows to Han, and looks quite ready to make his exit until O'Hara comes at him with the broken bottles.
** Related to the previous point, a lot of emotions cross Lee's face after stomping O'Hara to death, from righteous rage for his revenge to looking at the verge of tears. About the last: is Lee simply very emotional about having avenged his sister? Is he upset upon realizing that, [[TheseHandsHaveKilled in revenge or not, he has killed a man]]? Is he fine with the killoing intent, it being just that [[ItGetsEasier it was the first time he killed someone]]?
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**AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Did Lee go into his fight with O'Hara with the intent to eventually kill him, as it may look, or was he content with beating and humiliating him until O'Hara brought out the broken bottles? After kicking O'Hara into the audience Lee turns around, bows to Han, and looks quite ready to make his exit until O'Hara comes at him with the broken bottles.
** Related to the previous point, a lot of emotions cross Lee's face after stomping O'Hara to death, from righteous rage for his revenge to looking at the verge of tears. About the last: is Lee simply very emotional about having avenged his sister? Is he upset upon realizing that, [[TheseHandsHaveKilled in revenge or not, he has killed a man]]? Is he fine with the killoing intent, it being just that [[ItGetsEasier it was the first time he killed someone]]?bottles.
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** Related to the previous point, a lot of emotions cross Lee's face after stomping O'Hara to death, from righteous rage for his revenge to looking at the verge of tears. About the last: is Lee simply very emotional about having avenged his sister? Is he upset upon realizing that, [[TheseHandsHaveKilled in revenge or not, he has killed a man]]? Is he fine with the killoing intent, it being just that [[ItGetsEasier it was the first time he killed someone]]?
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** Did Lee go into his fight with O'Hara with the intent to eventually kill him, or was he content with beating and humiliating him until O'Hara brought the broken bottles? After kicking O'Hara into the audience Lee turns around, bows to Han, and looks quite ready to make his exit until O'Hara comes at him with the broken bottles.
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** Did Lee go into his fight with O'Hara with the intent to eventually kill him, or was he content with beating and humiliating him until O'Hara brought out the broken bottles? After kicking O'Hara into the audience Lee turns around, bows to Han, and looks quite ready to make his exit until O'Hara comes at him with the broken bottles.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Did Lee go into his fight with O'Hara with the intent to kill him or to simply beat and humiliate him? After kicking O'Hara into the audience Lee turns around, bows to Han, and looks quite ready to make his exit until O'Hara comes at him with the broken bottles.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
** Did Lee go into his fight with O'Hara with the intent to eventually kill him, or was he content with beating and humiliating himor to simply beat and humiliate him? until O'Hara brought the broken bottles? After kicking O'Hara into the audience Lee turns around, bows to Han, and looks quite ready to make his exit until O'Hara comes at him with the broken bottles.bottles.
** Related to the previous point, a lot of emotions cross Lee's face after stomping O'Hara to death, from righteous rage for his revenge to looking at the verge of tears. About the last: is Lee simply very emotional about having avenged his sister? Is he upset upon realizing that, [[TheseHandsHaveKilled in revenge or not, he has killed a man]]? Is he fine with the killoing intent, it being just that [[ItGetsEasier it was the first time he killed someone]]?
* AntiClimaxBoss: The duel between Lee and O'Hara is probably meant to be cathartic for Lee's character, this being the presumable reason why it is even more of a CurbstompBattle than his usual fights, with Lee beating, counterbeating and generally kicking him around literally at every movement.
** Did Lee go into his fight with O'Hara with the intent to eventually kill him, or was he content with beating and humiliating him
** Related to the previous point, a lot of emotions cross Lee's face after stomping O'Hara to death, from righteous rage for his revenge to looking at the verge of tears. About the last: is Lee simply very emotional about having avenged his sister? Is he upset upon realizing that, [[TheseHandsHaveKilled in revenge or not, he has killed a man]]? Is he fine with the killoing intent, it being just that [[ItGetsEasier it was the first time he killed someone]]?
* AntiClimaxBoss: The duel between Lee and O'Hara is probably meant to be cathartic for Lee's character, this being the presumable reason why it is even more of a CurbstompBattle than his usual fights, with Lee beating, counterbeating and generally kicking him around literally at every movement.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Williams was so popular it pretty much single-handedly catapulted Jim Kelly to martial arts stardom for the rest of his career. [[spoiler: One of the main criticisms of the film is in fact his [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter early death]].]]
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Williams was so popular it pretty much single-handedly catapulted Jim Kelly to martial arts stardom for the rest of his career. [[spoiler: One of the main criticisms of the film is in fact his [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter early death]].]]
** Williams was so popular it pretty much single-handedly catapulted Jim Kelly to martial arts stardom for the rest of his career. [[spoiler: One of the main criticisms of the film is in fact his [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter early death]].]]
* FightSceneFailure: The goof is more in the philosophy than the choreography, but it's notable that at the beginning of the film, Lee's slaps his student because he took his eyes off Lee while bowing to him - yet when Lee fights O'Hara, Lee himself does exactly that! It's likely that the scene with the apprentice was shot after the fight and they left it that way hoping nobody would notice the detail.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: At this point, you're probably familiar with multiple works of fiction about martial arts tournaments being held on islands out in the middle of nowhere so in that respect, ''Enter The Dragon'' might feel like a ClicheStorm... except that this was actually the ''first'' work of fiction about a martial artist hero having to fight his way through an island tournament to face the BigBad in a spectacular battle. The only reason viewers at the time might have feel familiar with the setting is the film's atmosphere echoing 007's novel ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', whose film adaptation has been acknowledged as a likely inspiration for this movie.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: SeinfeldIsUnfunny:
** At this point, you're probably familiar with multiple works of fiction about martial arts tournaments being held on islands out in the middle of nowhere so in that respect, ''Enter The Dragon'' might feel like a ClicheStorm... except that this was actually the ''first'' work of fiction about a martial artist hero having to fight his way through an island tournament to face the BigBad in a spectacular battle. The only reason viewers at the time might have feel familiar with the setting is the film's atmosphere echoing 007's novel ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', whose film adaptation has been acknowledged as a likely inspiration for thismovie.movie.
** A viewer familiar with modern UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts might find the sparring between Lee and Sammo Hung a failed, awkward attempt of mixing kung fu with theatrically performed grappling moves. However, keep in mind this was ''1973'', twelve whole years before the first official MMA promotion was founded and even more years before the Anglosphere heard the word ''vale tudo''. For the film's age, however, seeing two tight-clad fighters mixing strikes with grappling and even wearing special gloves for both was basically futuristic. It's even believed that this fight might have been an inspiration for Wrestling/SatoruSayama, the founder of the aforementioned first promotion and the popularizer of the gloves used now for the sport.
** At this point, you're probably familiar with multiple works of fiction about martial arts tournaments being held on islands out in the middle of nowhere so in that respect, ''Enter The Dragon'' might feel like a ClicheStorm... except that this was actually the ''first'' work of fiction about a martial artist hero having to fight his way through an island tournament to face the BigBad in a spectacular battle. The only reason viewers at the time might have feel familiar with the setting is the film's atmosphere echoing 007's novel ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', whose film adaptation has been acknowledged as a likely inspiration for this
** A viewer familiar with modern UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts might find the sparring between Lee and Sammo Hung a failed, awkward attempt of mixing kung fu with theatrically performed grappling moves. However, keep in mind this was ''1973'', twelve whole years before the first official MMA promotion was founded and even more years before the Anglosphere heard the word ''vale tudo''. For the film's age, however, seeing two tight-clad fighters mixing strikes with grappling and even wearing special gloves for both was basically futuristic. It's even believed that this fight might have been an inspiration for Wrestling/SatoruSayama, the founder of the aforementioned first promotion and the popularizer of the gloves used now for the sport.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Han's daughters are skilled enough fighters to catch Roper off-guard... yet we never again see them in action after that brief scene, not even in the climax when [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting everyone ELSE on Han's island is throwing down]].
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* {{Narm}}: [[http://i.gyazo.com/be0b7dc084de1b83c7896e9e5e522205.png This face]]. And the "[=WAAAAAaaaaa=][-aaaa-]..." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQfzvQFTtEw yell he makes during it]] (at 28 seconds).
** Of course, being Creator/BruceLee, it might qualify as NarmCharm.
** Of course, being Creator/BruceLee, it might qualify as NarmCharm.
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* {{Narm}}: [[http://i.gyazo.com/be0b7dc084de1b83c7896e9e5e522205.png This face]]. And the "[=WAAAAAaaaaa=][-aaaa-]..." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQfzvQFTtEw yell he makes during it]] (at 28 seconds).
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: At this point, you're probably familiar with multiple works of fiction about martial arts tournaments being held on islands out in the middle of nowhere so in that respect, ''Enter The Dragon'' might feel like a ClicheStorm... except that this was actually the ''first'' work of fiction about a martial artist hero having to fight his way through an island tournament to face the BigBad in a spectacular battle. The only reason viewers at the time might have feel familiar with the setting is the film's atmosphere echoing 007's novel ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', whose film adaptation has been acknowledged as a likely inspiration for this movie.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The leisure suits, turtle necks, the funky music, Williams' afro and [[JiveTurkey manner of speech]] along with mentioning that the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar was only a few years ago, all point to this movie being in TheSeventies. Also, this movie is mostly responsible for kick-starting the kung-fu craze in the US during this time.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The leisure suits, turtle necks, the funky music, Williams' afro and [[JiveTurkey manner of speech]] along with mentioning that the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar was only a few years ago, all point to this movie being in TheSeventies. Also, this movie is mostly responsible for kick-starting kickstarting the kung-fu craze in the US during this time.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Aside from how awesome a Bruce Lee / Bolo Yeung fight would have been, Han's daughters are skilled enough fighters to catch Roper off-guard... yet we never again see them in action after that brief scene, not even in the climax when [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting everyone ELSE on Han's island is throwing down]].
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Did Lee go into his fight with O'Hara with the intent to kill him or to simply beat and humiliate him? After kicking O'Hara into the audience Lee turns around, bows to Han, and looks quite ready to call it quits until O'Hara comes at him with the broken bottles.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Did Lee go into his fight with O'Hara with the intent to kill him or to simply beat and humiliate him? After kicking O'Hara into the audience Lee turns around, bows to Han, and looks quite ready to call it quits make his exit until O'Hara comes at him with the broken bottles.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: At this point, you're probably familiar with multiple works of fiction about martial arts tournaments being held on islands out in the middle of nowhere so in that respect, ''Enter The Dragon's'' plot might feel like a ClicheStorm... except that this was actually the ''first'' work of fiction about a martial artist hero having to fight his way through an island tournament to face the BigBad in a spectacular battle.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: At this point, you're probably familiar with multiple works of fiction about martial arts tournaments being held on islands out in the middle of nowhere so in that respect, ''Enter The Dragon's'' plot Dragon'' might feel like a ClicheStorm... except that this was actually the ''first'' work of fiction about a martial artist hero having to fight his way through an island tournament to face the BigBad in a spectacular battle.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Aside from how awesome a Bruce Lee / Bolo Yeung fight would have been, Han's daughters are skilled enough fighters to catch Roper off-guard... yet we never again see them in action after that brief scene, not even in the climax when [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting everyone ELSE on Han's island is throwing down]].
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: ... by not having Bolo face off against Bruce Lee. Seriously, whose bright idea was it?
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Williams was so popular it pretty much single-handedly catapulted Jim Kelly to martial arts stardom for the rest of his career. [[spoiler: One of the main criticisms of the film is in fact [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter early death]].]]
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Williams was so popular it pretty much single-handedly catapulted Jim Kelly to martial arts stardom for the rest of his career. [[spoiler: One of the main criticisms of the film is in fact his [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter early death]].]]]]
** Ditto for Bolo, who became something of a MemeticBadass in several Eastern European countries after ''Enter the Dragon'' first appeared on television in the early 1990s.
** Ditto for Bolo, who became something of a MemeticBadass in several Eastern European countries after ''Enter the Dragon'' first appeared on television in the early 1990s.
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* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Considering that this was long before CGI could be used to cover it up, the fact that the climatic fight is completely surrounded by mirrors and you ''never once'' see the camera crew in them is just stunning.
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* OvershadowedByControversy: In the UK, this film is at least as well known for kicking off a ban of nunchucks on the screen under controversial BBFC director James Ferman as it is for its merits as a martial arts picture. Copycat crimes inspired by the film are said to have caused Ferman to take a hatchet to any film or television program that so much as ''showed'' nunchucks for his entire career at the board.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The leisure suits, turtle necks, the funky music, Williams' afro and [[JiveTurkey manner of speech]] along with mentioning that the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar was only a few years ago, all point to this movie being in TheSeventies. Also, this movie is mostly responsible for kick-starting the kung-fu craze in the US during this time.
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* CompleteMonster: [[DiabolicalMastermind Han]] is a martial artist turned crime lord who kidnaps women off the streets of Hong Kong to hook them on drugs to make "[[HumanTraffickers high demands]]". Han would even conduct experiments on teenage girls to test his drugs, which has [[DrivenToMadness warped some of their minds]] as a result. Han starts a [[NotJustATournament martial arts tournament]] to recruit new fighters for his drug operation, [[BadBoss having his guards executed]] by his henchman Bolo in public solely for incompetence. Han later has a participant of his tournament, Williams, beaten and tortured to death for information and threatens his friend Roper to join him unless he also suffers the same fate. Han later forces Roper to fight hero Lee to the death, only to try to then have his men try and kill Roper and Lee for defeating his henchman instead. Han was the template for countless amoral and brutal martial arts villains in Hong Kong and American cinema and other media, whose treachery continues to disgrace us.
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* CompleteMonster: [[DiabolicalMastermind Han]] is a martial artist turned crime lord who kidnaps women off the streets of Hong Kong to hook them on drugs to make "[[HumanTraffickers high demands]]". Han would even conduct experiments on teenage girls to test his drugs, which has [[DrivenToMadness warped some of their minds]] as a result. Han starts a [[NotJustATournament martial arts tournament]] to recruit new fighters for his drug operation, [[BadBoss having his guards executed]] by his henchman Bolo in public solely for incompetence. Han later has a participant of his tournament, Williams, beaten and tortured to death for information and threatens his friend Roper to join him unless he also suffers the same fate. Han later forces Roper to fight hero Lee to the death, only to try to then have his men try and kill Roper and Lee for defeating his henchman instead. Han was the template for countless amoral and brutal martial arts villains in Hong Kong and American cinema and other media, whose treachery continues to disgrace us.media.
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* CompleteMonster: [[DiabolicalMastermind Han]] is a martial artist turned crime lord who kidnaps women off the streets of Hong Kong to hook them on drugs to make "[[HumanTraffickers high demands]]". Han would even conduct experiments on teenage girls to test his drugs, which has [[DrivenToMadness warped some of their minds]] as a result. Han starts a [[NotJustATournament martial arts tournament]] to recruit new fighters for his drug operation, having his guards executed by his henchman Bolo in public solely for incompetence. Han later has a participant of his tournament, Williams, beaten and tortured to death for information and threatens his friend Roper to join him unless he also suffers the same fate. Han later forces Roper to fight hero Lee to the death, only to try to his men kill Roper and Lee for defeating his henchman instead. Han was the template for [[FountainOfExpies countless amoral and brutal martial arts villains]] in Hong Kong and American cinema and other media, whose treachery continues to disgrace us.
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* CompleteMonster: [[DiabolicalMastermind Han]] is a martial artist turned crime lord who kidnaps women off the streets of Hong Kong to hook them on drugs to make "[[HumanTraffickers high demands]]". Han would even conduct experiments on teenage girls to test his drugs, which has [[DrivenToMadness warped some of their minds]] as a result. Han starts a [[NotJustATournament martial arts tournament]] to recruit new fighters for his drug operation, [[BadBoss having his guards executed executed]] by his henchman Bolo in public solely for incompetence. Han later has a participant of his tournament, Williams, beaten and tortured to death for information and threatens his friend Roper to join him unless he also suffers the same fate. Han later forces Roper to fight hero Lee to the death, only to try to then have his men try and kill Roper and Lee for defeating his henchman instead. Han was the template for [[FountainOfExpies countless amoral and brutal martial arts villains]] villains in Hong Kong and American cinema and other media, whose treachery continues to disgrace us.
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*CompleteMonster: [[DiabolicalMastermind Han]] is a martial artist turned crime lord who kidnaps women off the streets of Hong Kong to hook them on drugs to make "[[HumanTraffickers high demands]]". Han would even conduct experiments on teenage girls to test his drugs, which has [[DrivenToMadness warped some of their minds]] as a result. Han starts a [[NotJustATournament martial arts tournament]] to recruit new fighters for his drug operation, having his guards executed by his henchman Bolo in public solely for incompetence. Han later has a participant of his tournament, Williams, beaten and tortured to death for information and threatens his friend Roper to join him unless he also suffers the same fate. Han later forces Roper to fight hero Lee to the death, only to try to his men kill Roper and Lee for defeating his henchman instead. Han was the template for [[FountainOfExpies countless amoral and brutal martial arts villains]] in Hong Kong and American cinema and other media, whose treachery continues to disgrace us.
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* CommonKnowledge: No, [[{{Creator/BruceLee}} Bruce Lee]] and Bolo Yeung do not actually face off at any point in the film. It's easy to understand where that misconception would arise since a showdown between the two [[WhatCouldHaveBeen would've been one for the ages]].
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: ... by not having Bolo face off against Bruce Lee. Seriously, whose bright idea was it?
