History Film / DragonTheBruceLeeStory

* BriefsBoasting: Like many American men of his time, this depiction of Bruce wears plain white briefs, as shown in two scenes here. The first time is when [[HomeNudist he is alone in his room (before he met his future wife Linda) reading while wearing naught but his briefs and his glasses,]] and is interrupted by his then-lover. Later, he is seen in his underpants again with a matching white A-shirt (AKA tank top) when talking with Linda, who incidentally is wearing black underwear; perhaps this is [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory meant to be symbolic of yin and yang...?!]] On a related note: in real life, his first appearance in {{Film/Enter the Dragon}} has him participate in a sparring match (with ''Creator/SammoHung'') clad in all black gear - including [[MrFanservice wrestling briefs]].

* BriefsBoasting: Like many American men of his time, this depiction of Bruce wears plain white briefs, as shown in two scenes here. The first time is when he is alone in his room (before he met his future wife Linda) reading while wearing naught but his briefs and his glasses, and is interrupted by his then-lover. Later, he is seen in his underpants again with a matching white A-shirt (AKA tank top) when talking with Linda, who incidentally is wearing black underwear; perhaps this is [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory meant to be symbolic of yin and yang...?!]] On a related note: in real life, his first appearance in {{Film/Enter the Dragon}} has him participate in a sparring match (with ''Creator/SammoHung'') clad in all black gear - including [[MrFanservice wrestling briefs]].

* BriefsBoasting: Like many American men of his time, this version of Bruce wears plain white briefs, as shown in two scenes here. The first time is when he is alone in his room (before he met his future wife Linda) reading while wearing naught but his briefs and his glasses, and is interrupted by his then-lover. Later, he is seen in his underpants again with a matching white A-shirt (AKA tank top) when talking with Linda, who incidentally is wearing black underwear; perhaps this is [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory meant to be symbolic of yin and yang...?!]] On a related note: in real life, his first appearance in {{Film/Enter the Dragon}} has him participate in a sparring match (with ''Creator/SammoHung'') clad in all black gear - including [[MrFanservice wrestling briefs]].

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The anti-Asian attitudes that Bruce constantly encounters. The [[EthnicScrappy Ethnic Scrappies]] in ''Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys'' could be found all over cinema at the time, and even Linda laughs, until she sees Bruce's reaction to it.

* 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, but who's really feeling sorry for the sailor?

* BriefsBoasting: Like many American men of his time, this version of Bruce wears plain white briefs as shown in two scenes here. The first time is when he is alone in his room (before he met his future wife Linda) reading while wearing naught but his briefs and his glasses, and is interrupted by his then-lover. Later, he is seen in his underpants again with a matching white A-shirt (AKA tank top) when talking with Linda, who incidentally is wearing black underwear; perhaps this is [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory meant to be symbolic of yin and yang...?!]] On a related note: in real life, his first appearance in {{Film/Enter the Dragon}} has him participate in a sparring match (with ''Creator/SammoHung'') clad in all black gear - including [[MrFanservice wrestling briefs]].

* BriefsBoasting: Like many American men of his time, this version of Bruce wears plain white briefs as shown in two scenes here. The first time is when he is alone in his room (before he met his future wife Linda) reading while wearing naught but his briefs and his glasses, and is interrupted by his then-lover. Later, he is seen in his underpants again with a matching white A-shirt (AKA tank top) when talking with Linda, who incidentally is wearing black underwear; perhaps this is [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory meant to be symbolic of yin and yang...?!]] On a related note: in real life, his first appearance in {{Film/Enter the Dragon}} has him participate in a sparring match (with ''Creator/SammoHung'') clad in all black gear - including [[ MrFanservice wrestling briefs]].

* BriefsBoasting: Like many American men of his time, this version of Bruce wears plain white briefs as shown in two scenes here. The first time is when he is alone in his room (before he met his future wife Linda) reading while wearing naught but his briefs and his glasses, and is interrupted by his then-lover. Later, he is seen in his underpants again with a matching white A-shirt (AKA tank top) when talking with Linda, who incidentally is wearing black underwear; perhaps this is [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory meant to be symbolic of yin and yang...?!]] On a related note: in real life, his first appearance in {{Film/Enter the Dragon}} has him participate in a sparring match (with ''Creator/SammoHung'') clad in all black gear - including wrestling briefs.

* BriefsBoasting: Like many American men of his time, this version of Bruce wears plain white briefs as shown in two scenes here. The first time is when he is alone in his room (before he met his future wife Linda) reading while wearing naught but his briefs and his glasses, and is interrupted by his then-lover. Later, he is seen in his underpants again with a matching white A-shirt (AKA tank top) when talking with Linda, who incidentally is wearing black underwear; perhaps this is [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory meant to be symbolic of yin and yang...?!]] On a related note: in real life, his first appearance in {{Film/Enter the Dragon}} has him participate in a sparring match (with ''Creator/SammoHung'') clad in all black gear: shoes, gloves, shin coverings, and wrestling briefs.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
** In the film, Lee's father signs him up in a martial arts school because he dreams of a demon haunting the boy. In real life, he did it because Lee was an unruly teenager who would get in many street fights. In fact, Lee was already a trained western boxer by this time, having been coached in the St. Francis Xavier's College.
** In line with the previous point, the filmic Lee gets sent to United States for heroically beating up several racist British sailors, making his parents afraid of retaliations. The real story is much less virtuous, although certainly not any less cinematic: whom Lee beat up was the son of an important [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triad]] family, which made Lee's parents send him abroad on the fear that a contract had been put on his head, nothing less.
** The film portrays Lee as being alone and forced to work for seedy bosses in United States, when in real life he lived with two of his siblings and worked for a friend of their father.
** The character of Jerome Sprout is fictitious, thought it is an obvious replacement for Jesse Glover, a black UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} practitioner who was Lee's first ever student. One wonders why couldn't they keep his real name as they did with several other characters.
** In the film, Lee is solely a teacher of kung fu: he neither practises other disciplines nor learns from any training partner, as most of those are portrayed as novices, and he gets his Jeet Kune Do philosophy mostly from self-experimenting. In contrast, the historical Bruce Lee favored cross-training and was constantly seeking knowledge from any source he could find (for instance, he learned judo and wrestling with Wrestling/GeneLeBell while teaching him kung fu in turn), and the Jeet Kune Do was the result of that, an effective mix of martial arts.
** Bruce is depicted opening his first martial arts school out of inspiration by Linda, whereas in real life he'd opened it long before meeting her. In fact, their relationship started as a TeacherStudentRomance.
** Bruce's father is shown to have died shortly after his daughter Shannon was born, whereas he'd been long dead by that time.
** The real Lee was proud of his Chinese background and there is no record of him ever refering to himself as an American.
** In the film, the ''Series/KungFu'' series is presented as an idea by Lee who got surreptitiously stolen from him. There is a real life precedent for this, as Linda Lee claims so in her book about him, but most other biographers believe it to be false. For what is known, Lee did conceive a similar series named ''The Warrior'', but he never went forward with it because he thought no American company would greenlight a series with an Asian lead. By all accounts, the development of ''Kung Fu'' had nothing to do with Lee; the only connection is that Lee apparenly auditioned for the title character's role, but was rejected precisely because his Asian accent and personality didn't fit the character.
** The film implies that Bruce was neglecting his family in favor of his movie career, and shows him being violent and psychologically abusive towards them. Not only do many biographies claim otherwise, to the point that Lee was famous for often inviting his family to the set while filming, but one of which shows pictures of them together on the set of ''Film/GameOfDeath''. Similarly, while some of his partners and relatives do note Lee had a fearsome temper, none of them has ever spoken of him as an unstable or abusive person.
** As with Sprout, neither Johnny Sun nor his brother ever existed, although Sun was probably based on Wong Jack Man, a martial artist who challenged Bruce to a no holds barred match, while his brother is based on reports of extras on the set of films that challenged Bruce insisting that he was only an actor. Bruce indeed broke his back, but it was due to excessive weighlifting, not by a treacherous attack after a fight.
** Ed Parker did invite Bruce to speak at the 1964 Long Beach International Karate Championships, but there was no impromptu challenge match as the film portrays. Lee only demonstrated two-finger push ups and his famed one-inch punch.
** This Bruce Lee is scared by an evil spirit chasing him in his dreams, while the real one was an atheist.

* BriefsBoasting: Like many American men of his time, this version of Bruce wears plain white briefs as shown in two scenes here. The first time is when he is alone in his room (before he met his future wife Linda) reading while wearing naught but his briefs and his glasses, and is interrupted by his then-lover. Later, he is seen in his underpants again with a matching white A-shirt (AKA tank top) when talking with Linda, who incidentally is wearing black underwear; perhaps this is [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory meant to be symbolic of yin and yang?!]] On a related note: in real life, his first appearance in {{Film/Enter the Dragon}} has him participate in a sparring match (with ''Creator/SammoHung'') clad in all black gear: shoes, gloves, shin coverings, and wrestling briefs.

* BriefsBoasting: Like many American men of his time, this version of Bruce wears plain white briefs as shown in two scenes here. The first time is when he is alone in his room (before he met his future wife Linda) reading while wearing naught but his briefs and his glasses, and is shortly after interrupted by his then-lover. Later, he is seen in his underpants again with a matching white A-shirt (AKA tank top) when talking with Linda, who incidentally is wearing black underwear; perhaps this is [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory meant to be symbolic of yin and yang?!]] On a related note: in real life, his first appearance in {{Film/Enter the Dragon}} has him participate in a sparring match (with ''Creator/SammoHung'') clad in all black gear: shoes, gloves, shin coverings, and wrestling briefs.

** In the film, Lee's father enrolls him in a martial arts school because he dreams of a demon haunting the boy. In real life, he did it because Lee was an unruly teenager who would get in many street fights. In fact, Lee was already a trained western boxer by this time, having been coached so in the St. Francis Xavier's College.
** In line with the previous point, the filmic Lee gets sent to United States for heroically beating up several racist British sailors. The real story is much less virtuous, although certainly not less cinematic: whom Lee beat up was the son of a feared Triad family, which made Lee's parents send him abroad on the fear that a contract had been put on his head.

** In the film, Lee is solely a teacher of kung fu: he neither practises other disciplines nor learns from any training partner, as most of those are portrayed as novices who first taste martial arts under him. The historical Bruce Lee, aside from being a former boxer, favored cross-training and actually learned judo from Glover while he taught him kung fu in turn, and later trained it further (as well as wrestling) with Wrestling/GeneLeBell on the set of ''The Green Hornet''.

** In the film, the ''Series/KungFu'' series is presented as an idea by Lee who got surreptitiously stolen from him. There is a real life precedent for this, as Linda Lee claims so in her book about him, but most other biographers believe it to be false. For what is known, Lee did conceive a similar series named ''The Warrior'', but he never went forward with it because he thought no American company would greenlight a series with an Asian lead, and ''Kung Fu'' developed independently from that. In fact, Lee apparenly auditioned for the title character of ''Kung Fu'', but was rejected because his Asian accent and personality didn't fit the character.
** The film implies that Bruce was neglecting his family in favor of his movie career, and shows him being violent and psychologically abusive towards them. Not only do many biographies claim otherwise, to the point that Lee was famous for often inviting his family to the set while filming, but one of which shows pictures of them together on the set of ''Film/GameOfDeath''.

* BriefsBoasting: Like many American men of his time, this version of Bruce wears plain white briefs as shown in two scenes here. The first time is when he is alone in his room (before he met his future wife Linda) reading while wearing naught but his briefs and his glasses, and is shortly after interrupted by his then-lover. Later, he is seen in his underpants again with a matching white A-shirt (AKA tank top) when talking with Linda, who incidentally is wearing black underwear; perhaps this is [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory meant to be symbolic of yin and yang]]. On a related note: in real life, his first appearance in {{Film/Enter the Dragon}} has him participate in a sparring match (with ''Creator/SammoHung'') clad in all black gear: shoes, gloves, shin coverings, and wrestling briefs.

* BriefsBoasting: Like many American men of his time, this version of Bruce wears plain white briefs; as shown in two scenes here. The first time is when he is alone in his room (before he met his future wife Linda) reading while wearing naught but his briefs and his glasses, and is shortly after interrupted by his then-lover. Later, he is seen in his underpants again with a matching white A-shirt (AKA tank top) when talking with Linda, who incidentally is wearing black underwear; perhaps this is [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory meant to be symbolic of yin and yang]]. On a related note: in real life, his first appearance in {{Film/Enter the Dragon}} has him participate in a sparring match (with ''Creator/SammoHung'') clad in all black gear: shoes, gloves, shin coverings, and wrestling briefs.

* BriefsBoasting: Like many American men of his time, this version of Bruce wears plain white briefs; as shown in two scenes here. The first time is when he is alone in his room (before he met his future wife Linda) reading while wearing naught but his briefs and his glasses, and is shortly after interrupted by his then-lover. Later, he is seen in his underpants again with a matching white A-shirt (AKA tank top) while talking with Linda, who incidentally is wearing black underwear; perhaps this is [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory meant to be symbolic of yin and yang]]. On a related note: in real life, his first appearance in {{Film/Enter the Dragon}} has him participate in a sparring match (with ''Creator/SammoHung'') clad in all black gear: shoes, gloves, shin coverings, and wrestling briefs.

* BriefsBoasting: Like many American men of his time, this version of Bruce wears plain white briefs; as shown in two scenes here. The first time is when he is alone in his room (before he met his future wife Linda) reading wearing naught but his briefs and his glasses, and is shortly after interrupted by his then-lover. Later, he is seen in his underpants again with a matching white A-shirt (AKA tank top) while talking with Linda, who incidentally is wearing black underwear; perhaps this is [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory meant to be symbolic of yin and yang]]. On a related note: in real life, his first appearance in {{Film/Enter the Dragon}} has him participate in a sparring match (with ''Creator/SammoHung'') clad in all black gear: shoes, gloves, shin coverings, and wrestling briefs.

* BriefsBoasting: Like many American men of his time, this version of Bruce wears plain white briefs, shown in two scenes here. The first time is when he is alone in his room (before he met his future wife Linda) reading wearing naught but his briefs and his glasses, and is shortly after interrupted by his then-lover. Later, he is seen in his underpants again with a matching white A-shirt (AKA tank top) while talking with Linda, who incidentally is wearing black underwear; perhaps this is [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory meant to be symbolic of yin and yang]]. On a related note: in real life, his first appearance in {{Film/Enter the Dragon}} has him participate in a sparring match (with ''Creator/SammoHung'') clad in all black gear: shoes, gloves, shin coverings, and wrestling briefs.

* BriefsBoasting: Like many American men of his time, this version of Bruce wears plain white briefs, shown in two scenes here. The first time is when he is alone in his room (before he his future wife met Linda) reading wearing naught but his briefs and his glasses, and is shortly after interrupted by his then-lover. Later, he is shown in his underpants again with a matching white A-shirt (AKA tank top) while talking with Linda, who incidentally is wearing black underwear; perhaps this is [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory meant to be symbolic of yin and yang]]. On a related note: in real life, his first appearance in {{Film/Enter the Dragon}} sees him participate in a sparring match (with ''Creator/SammoHung'') clad in all black gear: shoes, gloves, shin coverings, and wrestling briefs.

* BriefsBoasting: Like many American men of his time, this version of Bruce wears plain white briefs, shown in two scenes here. The first time is when he is alone in his room (before he his future wife met Linda) reading wearing naught but his briefs and his glasses, and is shortly after interrupted by his then-lover. Later, he is shown in his underpants again with a matching white a-shirt (AKA tank top) while talking with Linda, who incidentally is wearing black underwear; perhaps this is [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory meant to be symbolic of yin and yang]]. On a related note: in real life, his first appearance in {{Film/Enter the Dragon}} sees him participate in a sparring match (with ''Creator/SammoHung'') clad in all black gear: shoes, gloves, shin coverings, and briefs.

** The character of Jerome Sprout is fictitious, thought it is an obvious replacement of Jesse Glover, a black judoka who was Lee's first ever student. One wonders why couldn't they keep his real name as they did with several other characters.

** The real Lee was proud of his Chinese background and there is no record of him ever refering to himself as an American.

** The character of Jerome Sprout is fictitious, thought it is an obvious replacement of Jesse Glover, a black judoka who was Lee's first ever student. One wonders why couldn't they keep his real name as they did with many other characters.

** In the film, the ''Series/KungFu'' series is presented as an idea by Lee who got surreptitiously stolen from him. There is a real life precedent for this, as Linda Lee claims so in her book about him, but most other biographers believe it to be false. Apparently, Lee did conceive a similar series named ''The Warrior'', but he never went forward with it because he thought no American company would greenlight a series with an Asian lead. Amusingly, when ''Kung Fu'' was in production, Lee actually auditioned for the title character, but was rejected because his accent and personality didn't fit the character.
** The film implied that Bruce was neglecting his family in favor of his movie career. Not only do many biographies claim otherwise, to the point that Lee was famous for often inviting his family to the set while filming, but one of which shows pictures of them together on the set of ''Film/GameOfDeath''.

** This Bruce Lee is scared by an evil spirit, while the real one was an atheist.

A 1993 {{Biopic}} of Creator/BruceLee, ''Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story'' tells of the legendary martial artist and movie star as he deals with his duality as continuing a strong Chinese heritage while embracing his identity as an American. Creator/JasonScottLee (no relation) plays Bruce, Creator/LaurenHolly plays his American wife Linda and Creator/RobertWagner plays Hollywood producer Bill Krieger.

** Bruce is depicted opening his first martial arts school out of inspiration by Linda, whereas in real life he'd opened it long before meeting her. In fact, their relationship started as a TeacherStudentRomance.
** Bruce's father is shown to have died shortly after his daughter Shannon was born, whereas he'd been long dead by that time.
** The film implied that Bruce was neglecting his family in favor of his movie career. Not only do many biographies claim otherwise, to the point that Lee was famous for often inviting his family to the set while filming, but one of which shows pictures of them together on the set of ''Film/GameOfDeath''.
** Neither Johnny Sun nor his brother ever existed. Sun was probably based on Wong Jack Man, a martial artist who challenged Bruce to a no holds barred match, while his brother is based on reports of extras on the set of films that challenged Bruce insisting that he was only an actor. Bruce indeed broke his back, but it was due to excessive weighlifting.
** The real Lee was proud of his Chinese background and there is no record of him ever refering to himself as an American. Also, this Bruce Lee is scared by an evil spirit, while the real one was an atheist.

A 1993 {{Biopic}} of Creator/BruceLee, ''Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story'' tells of the legendary martial artist and movie star as he deals with his duality as continuing a strong Chinese heritage while embracing his identity as an American. Jason Scott Lee (no relation) plays Bruce, Lauren Holly plays his American wife Linda and Creator/RobertWagner plays Hollywood producer Bill Krieger.

%%* IdenticalLookingAsians: {{Discussed}} at length throughout the film.

A 1993 {{Biopic}} of Creator/BruceLee, ''Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story'' tells of the legendary martial artist and movie star as he deals with his duality as continuing a strong Chinese heritage while embracing his identity as an American. Jason Scott Lee (no relation) plays Bruce, Lauren Holly plays his American wife Linda and Robert Wagner plays Hollywood producer Bill Krieger.

* DudeNotFunny: Happens InUniverse, as Bruce is extremely unamused with Mickey Rooney's infamous depiction of [[EthnicScrappy Mr. Yunioshi]] in ''Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys''.

* {{Yellowface}}: Mickey Rooney's [[Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys Mr. Yunioshi]], one of the most notorious examples, is shown. Bruce is deeply appalled by this portrayal, contrasting how he would soon change the way Asian Americans were portrayed.

* MalignedMixedMarriage: See YellowPeril below.

* YellowPeril: Referenced by Linda's mother when she objects to her marrying Bruce. She even refers to possible mixed-race grandchildren [[KickTheDog as "yellow babies"]]. [[spoiler: Though she ultimately gives in after some time.]]

A year later, it received a LicensedGame available for Creator/{{Sega}}'s consoles, the UsefulNote/SuperNintendo, 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.