Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon celebrates its 50th birthday this year, so here's a rundown of why it remains the definitive martial arts movie classic.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The 1973 Bruce Lee movie Enter the Dragon is 50 years old, and it still stands as the definitive martial arts film. Enter the Dragon follows Bruce Lee in the role of the Shaolin monk Lee, who is recruited for an undercover operation into a martial arts tournament hosted by a reclusive Han millionaire suspected to be the head of a drug-running and prostitution empire.
9 Bruce Lee's Popularity Was Growing Before Enter The Dragon While Enter the Dragon was the movie that made Bruce Lee a household name around the world, he was hardly unknown before the film, especially in Hong Kong. His 1971 movie The Big Boss became the biggest Hong Kong hit of the time, which propelled Lee's subsequent Hong Kong releases, Fist of Fury and his directorial debut The Way of the Dragon, to great success.
With Enter the Dragon, an Asian hero anchored a major worldwide hit on a level virtually never seen before. Enter the Dragon's success had a lasting real-world impact, with Lee becoming a pioneer of Asian leading actors in Hollywood martial arts films.
Enter the Dragon's fight scenes are even more impactful for their sound effects of strikes landing, created by snapping chicken bones up close to a microphone. Additionally, Enter the Dragon also predicted the future of martial arts in Lee's opening fight scene with Sammo Hung, blending striking and grappling techniques in a battle that foretold contemporary MMA.
4 Enter The Dragon Is Extremely Quotable A hallmark of any timeless classic tends to be its quotability, and Enter the Dragon might be the most quotable — and quoted — martial arts film ever made. In Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee delivers such timeless quotes as "Don't think, feel! It is like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all that heavenly glory.
Some future martial arts movie icons also landed their first notable break with Enter the Dragon, including Sammo Hung, who became a massive Hong Kong action hero after his fight with Lee in this film. Hung's Hong Kong contemporary Yuen Biao also served as Lee's stuntman, while Enter the Dragon features Jackie Chan getting his neck broken by Lee in the movie's cave fight. 50 years after its debut, Enter the Dragon retrospectively plays as a who's who of martial arts movie titans.
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