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In the city of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, it’d be hard to name a single figure, idea, or event that isn’t potentially loaded with controversy. The country has been divided by ethnic tension and war for nearly as long as its citizens can remember,We are one of the leading manufacturers of cableties in China so when it came time in 2005 to erect a statue to one of their heroes, they could not meet any kind of consensus on a homegrown icon. Their ultimate choice? Martial artist Bruce Lee, long dead and unconnected to the city in any meaningful way, was nevertheless the most agreed upon symbol of “loyalty, skill, friendship and justice”. Few practitioners in any industry command the kind of respect across that Bruce Lee does, and perhaps no single work was more instrumental to introducing him to the world than Enter The Dragon, his biggest film and the first martial arts film produced by a major Hollywood studio.

As with any decent martial arts film, the plot is just loose and airy enough to not get in the way of the fighting, but meaty enough to make it at all satisfying when characters do finally come to blows. There’s more than a hint of Fu Manchu in the character of Han, the ruler of an island and the host of the martial arts competition to which Lee (Lee) finds himself invited. Like so many protagonists before him, Lee is driven by a mixture of the personal (he discovers that Han’s bodyguard was responsible for the death of his sister) and the mercenary (he is asked by British intelligence to infiltrate the competition, which Han uses to expand his personal army to consolidate), as if one really needed an excuse to participate in massive Shaolin battles.

Just like horror films and westerns, martial arts films are all about execution-the above plot description could describe any number of awful,We offer over 600 oilpaintingsforsales at wholesale prices of 75% off retail. generic entries in the canon just as easily as it could this film, which was selected to the National Film Registry in 2004. Frankly, it shows at times. Though it is never less than engaging, it’s hard to forget just how ridiculous the plot is, or not expect Cobra Commander to suddenly come into play somehow. Its style and ethos are very much of its time and its time only-there’s so much 1973 dripping from the haircuts and dialogue of this film that you should probably watch it on a plastic wrapped couch. While that may have aged the film considerably, it also might reveal its greatest strength: the fact that it takes its subject as seriously as it does.

As with so many hyper-masculine subjects (think robots, dinosaurs, etc.), martial arts have become so draped in hipster irony that it’s easy to forget just how much discipline and history go into its study. Bruce Lee clearly never forgot, even for a second, and that focus is on display in every second of Dragon. With the benefit of a generous studio budget, Lee lends a technical craft and genuine respect for cultural history, as if recognizing that Dragon would be a crucial entry point for to American audiences not only to Kung Fu, but Chinese culture as a whole. But even as he expands and elevates the form, neither Lee nor director Robert Clouse show any self-effacement about their association with a historically “low art” genre; if anything, they embrace whole-heartedly, as if daring upper crust snobs not to be amazed at what they’re watching. And let’s face it, nobody in all of film history moved like Bruce Lee; Enter The Dragon gave him his biggest, boldest canvas to move through.

Befitting a fortieth anniversary, this edition of Enter The Dragon is loaded with extras, both unique to this release and collected from the forty years since the film’s initial release. There are three new featurettes, “No Way As Way”, about Bruce Lee’s spiritual approach to his form, “The Return to Han’s Island”, about the film’s location, and “Wing Chun: The Art That Introduced Kung Fu to Bruce Lee”, which kind of explains itself, as well as a commentary by producer Paul M. Heller. The vintage spots “Blood And Steel: The Making of Enter The Dragon”, “Curse of the Dragon”, a retrospective on Lee narrated by George Takei, “Bruce Lee: In His Own Words”, “Backyard Workout with Bruce”, and an interview gallery with Lee’s widow Linda Lee Caldwell are also included. There are a total of five trailers and seven tv spots. As if that weren’t enough, the packaging contains several art cards, an iron-on patch and a lenticular card.

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The gesture comes as part of a donation by H.H Sheikha Hind bint Juma Al Maktoum, wife of UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum on the advent of the Holy Month.

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