Bruce Lee, a Chinese martial artist of Hong Kong origin, died 51 years ago under mysterious circumstances. Despite the fact that he was 32 years old at the time of his death, he had grown into a true icon even in this short time. Breaking into the film industry, he also had a great influence on the depiction of martial arts in films.
Although Bruce Lee mainly fell in love with sports, including martial arts, as a teenager, in the later stages of his life he also made feature films, with which he inspired several actors and directors. Léj was born as Can-fán on November 27, 1940 in a wealthy family, although out of superstition they called her Szaj-fung, i.e. little phoenix, which was a girl's name. This was due to a belief, as his parents lost their first son, and in Chinese culture, it is believed that the spirits can be tricked by giving the next male child a girl's name. By the way, he got sick a lot as a child, but after he started actively playing sports, that changed a lot.
Since his father was a Cantonese opera performer and appeared in many films, he also had the opportunity to appear in various productions from the age of three months.
By the age of 17, he had acted in more than twenty films, but his first real role The Birth of Mankind . In most of his works, he played a troublemaker who got into fights, just as in real life he got into street gangs and often got into trouble. When he decided that he wanted to practice martial arts, he became a student of Jíp Man, who also initiated him into philosophy. Later, moving to America, he started teaching martial arts, analyzing several types of which he developed his own style, which he named jeet kune donak.
In addition, Lee also managed to break into Hollywood after getting a role in the series The Green Hornet He was signed to the Golden Harvest film studio and played in several productions, the most famous of which The Dragon's Path and The Dragon's Intervention .
The latter was the last production in which he appeared, as he died unexpectedly on July 20, 1973, a few days before the production was to be presented. Although according to the autopsy report, the cause of her death was an allergy to an ingredient in a painkiller she had taken, there is still a lot of speculation about this.
Featured image: Bruce Lee in 1978. Photo: Sunset Boulevard/Getty Images
