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In 1973, [[Bruce Lee]] was in the middle of filming the film that was to showcase his personal style of Jeet Kune Do, '''''The Game of Death''''' when he received an offer to star in ''[[Enter the Dragon]]''. The first kung fu film to be produced by a Hollywood studio, and with a budget unprecedented for the genre, it was an offer Lee was unable to refuse. He was slated to resume filming ''The Game of Death'' as soon as that was finished. Alas, before ''EtD'' was even released, he died.

 

 

''TGoD'' was to be about Korean thugs coercing Lee's character, Hai Tien, into helping them retrieve a treasure from the top of a guarded pagoda, wherein they would have to fight a different martial artist on each of its five floors. ''GoD'' does away with this and features an entirely new plot. Billy Lo (played at various stages by Yuen Biao, Kim Tai Chung, and Chen Yao Po) is a renowned martial arts movie star. A trafficking syndicate wants his aid, and he refuses. When they fail to intimidate him, they order his assassination instead. [[Faking the Dead|Lo makes the attempt look like a success, and then uses the cover of supposedly being dead]] to bring the syndicate down.

The film uses only 11 minutes of footage from ''TGoD'', in which Lee is genuinely the actor used to portray Lo. This fight scene is one of the most treasured in the history of martial arts movies, and [[Just Here for Godzilla|probably the only reason to watch the film]]. In addition to it being the last time audiences would ever see Lee fight, it is also known for the costume Lee dons during it: a bright yellow track suit with black stripes up the sides. This suit has come to be seen as something of a trademark for the actor; homaged numerous, numerous times. The homage to it that you most likely know of, however, is when Uma Thurman dons the same one whilst fighting the Crazy 88 in ''[[Kill Bill]]''.

 

 

* [[Bruce Lee Clone]]: ''GoD'' was put together predominantly to milk cash out of Lee's death.

** And before then, two films made to capitalize on the legend of Game Of Death were made, Goodbye Bruce Lee: His Last Game Of Death (1975, starring Bruce Li) and Enter the Game of Death (1977, starring Bruce Le)... and one ''[[Serial Escalation|after]]'', The True Game Of Death (1981, starring "Bruce Lee Siao-Long"), which ripped off the general plot and sometimes whole segments of the film were redone almost shot for shot.

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