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Birth of the Dragon is a 2016 American martial arts action film directed by George Nolfi and written by Christopher Wilkinson and Stephen J. Rivele. The film stars Philip Wan-lung Ng, Xia Yu, Jin Xing, Qu Jingjing, Ron Yuan, and Billy Magnussen.
Sep 14, 2021 · ‘Birth of the Dragon’ takes inspiration from a brief but legendary battle between two young kung fu masters in 1964. However, the film’s overarching dramatic license keeps much of the narrative completely fictional and focuses on Steve McKee’s character, from whose perspective the story is told.
Aug 25, 2017 · Birth of the Dragon. Directed by George Nolfi. Action, Biography, Drama. PG-13. 1h 35m. By Glenn Kenny. Aug. 25, 2017. 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版. The milieu from which Bruce Lee emerged to become the...
- George Nolfi
Feb 23, 2018 · In 1964, the 23-year-old Lee (played by Hong Kong actor Philip Wan-Lung Ng) is teaching martial arts in San Francisco when the revered Wong (a quietly charismatic Xia Yu) arrives in the city. In the film’s version of events, Lee interprets Wong’s presence as a rebuke to his presumption to teach kung fu to westerners.
- Bruce Lee barely gets the spotlight in the movie about his most important fight.
- Verdict
By Blair Marnell
Updated: Aug 25, 2017 5:37 pm
Posted: Aug 25, 2017 1:00 am
Warning: there are minor spoilers ahead for Birth of the Dragon.
Birth of the Dragon is not the Bruce Lee biopic you’ve been waiting for, as strong performances and martial arts action by Philip Ng and Xia Yu are wasted on a movie that had too little faith in the real story.
In 1965, martial arts icons Bruce Lee and Wong Jack Man had a private match away from the public that became legendary, even though neither man agreed upon the outcome. Director George Nolfi’s Birth of the Dragon is very loosely inspired by that chapter of their history. But the movie itself is being marketed in a way that misrepresents the finished film. If we were to judge by the posters of Philip Ng as Lee, it would be easy to believe that this is a Bruce Lee biopic. That’s not what this is, and the movie treats Lee as if he is only the third most important character in his own story.
Birth of the Dragon’s filmmakers lacked the faith in their movie to ever make it truly about Bruce Lee and Wong Jack Man. Allowing McKee to steal the focus of the story diminished the movie as a whole, which already had two perfectly cast leads in Ng and Yu. In terms of production, the film was more impressive than the ‘70s kung fu movies it emulat...
Feb 19, 2018 · This Bruce Lee origin story – entrée the dragon? - is a bizarrely ill-executed effort to show how the martial arts legend got his start.
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Nov 11, 2017 · Filmmaker George Nolfi's Birth of a Dragon presents a fictionalized account of a mythic bout between Lee and Shaolin master Wong Jack Man, who resented Lee's determination to teach kung fu to Americans. “You fight for ambition and pride,” Wong told Lee, “but you do not fight with your soul.”
