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Oct 4, 2016 · George Nolfi’s hyperbolic new film Birth of the Dragon will frame Wong Jack Man as a Shaolin Monk on pilgrimage who eventually teams up with Lee to battle the mafia.
Aug 28, 2017 · Let’s get this out of the way – Bruce Lee scholars, historians and all-around fanboys could, if they were so inclined, nitpick “Birth of the Dragon” to death on the issue of historical accuracy – everything from the fact that Wong Jack Man, while an exponent of Northern Shaolin, was never a Shaolin monk, to that fact that he and Bruce ...
Sep 25, 2017 · The late great martial artist and legendary dynamo Bruce Lee has been spotlighted in countless biopics detailing the iconic fighter’s trials and tribulations as an international movie star.
- George Nolfi
- PG-13
- Billy Magnussen
Birth of the Dragon. A 2016 American martial arts movie directed by George Nolfi that is a fictional account of a supposedly true story that involves Bruce Lee 's (Philip Wang Lung Ng) challenging Wong Jack Man (Xia Yu) in a duel over who is a better martial artist.
- 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...
Sep 14, 2021 · Is Birth of the Dragon Based on a True Story? ‘Birth of the Dragon’ is partly based on a true story. The film is inspired by the legendary battle between Bruce Lee and Wong Jack Man that took place in 1964.
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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.”
