History Film / DragonTheBruceLeeStory

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Bruce's beatdown of a racist British sailor at the Hong Kong Lantern Festival towards the beginning. It gets him in trouble with the Hong Kong police and leads to him facing criminal charges that force him to leave Hong Kong, but who's really feeling sorry for the sailor?

A year later, it received a LicensedGame available for Creator/{{Sega}}'s consoles, the UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem, and the UsefulNotes/AtariJaguar. It contextualizes the story as a series of fights inspired by Bruce's films and personal life, as well as introducing a metaphysical villain known as the Phantom, representing Bruce's fear of death. Interestingly, it utilized three-person multiplayer, each player controlling a clone of Bruce.

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: It doesn't quite get to the level of DanBrowned, but a great deal of artistic licence is taken due to RuleOfDrama.

* LiesDamnLiesAndStatistics: An example of reactionary criticism in cinema is featured in the film. In one scene, the protagonist Bruce Lee, played by Jason Scott Lee, is shown in the cinema not at all amused as he witnesses the gags of Mr. Yunioshi in ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''; his girlfriend Linda, noticing his discomfort, convinces him to leave the room with her. This scene, similarly to the 1999 movie ''The Hurricane'', never happened in real life and was accused of revisionism and forced neo-liberal propaganda, since when the film was released in theaters the Asian American community of the time complimented Mickey Rooney, even through letters, for his performance finding it hilarious (MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales), not to mention the fact that Yunioshi's character is Japanese while Bruce Lee was Chinese. The controversies about the representation of Yunioshi started only in the 1990s, around the time of the release of ''Dragon'' and at least thirty years after that of ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''.

* LiesDamnLiesAndStatistics: An example of reactionary criticism in cinema is featured in the film. In one scene, the protagonist Bruce Lee, played by Jason Scott Lee, is shown in the cinema not at all amused as he witnesses the gags of Mr. Yunioshi in ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''; his girlfriend Linda, noticing his discomfort, convinces him to leave the room with her. This scene, similarly to the 1999 movie ''The Hurricane'', never happened in real life and was accused of revisionism and forced neo-liberal propaganda, since when the film was released in theaters the Asian American community of the time complimented Mickey Rooney, even through letters, for his performance finding it hilarious (MexicanLoveSpeedyGonzales), not to mention the fact that Yunioshi's character is Japanese while Bruce Lee was Chinese. The controversies about the representation of Yunioshi started only in the 1990s, around the time of the release of ''Dragon'' and at least thirty years after that of ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''.

* LiesDamnLiesAndStatistics: An example of reactionary criticism in cinema is featured in the film. In one scene, the protagonist Bruce Lee, played by Jason Scott Lee, is shown in the cinema not at all amused as he witnesses the gags of Mr. Yunioshi in ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''; his girlfriend Linda, noticing his discomfort, convinces him to leave the room with her. This scene, similarly to the 1999 movie ''The Hurricane'', never happened in real life and was accused of revisionism and forced neo-liberal propaganda, since when the film was released in theaters the Asian American community of the time complimented Mickey Rooney, even through letters, for his performance finding it hilarious, not to mention the fact that Yunioshi's character is Japanese while Bruce Lee was Chinese. The controversies about the representation of Yunioshi started only in the 1990s, around the time of the release of ''Dragon'' and at least thirty years after that of ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''.

* FightingWithChucks: Bruce uses nunchucks in the end, when he defeats his family demon.

* ButNotTooForeign: Discussed. On the set of ''Series/TheGreenHornet'', a network executive is shown commenting about Bruce "He's awfully Oriental...", but producer Bill Krieger assures him nothing is wrong with Bruce, because he's merely "playing Oriental" as Kato. Regardless, the executive asks him if he can stay masked at all times, and it also prevents Bruce from starring in ''Series/KungFu'', despite helping develop it with Krieger.

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