Enter the Dragon - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Enter the Dragon or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Enter the Dragon

[jessie]

Adjusted for inflation, the film's box office amounted to around $500 million.

[ethel]

The movie was filmed without sound. All of the dialogue and effects were dubbed in during post-production.

[tammy]

Bruce Lee died in Hong Kong three weeks before this movie's premiere. Game of Death (1978), which was completed after Lee's death, includes footage from his funeral.

[elmer]

When John Saxon arrived on-set, he thought, and acted as if, he was the star of the movie.

[janice]

Bruce Lee wanted to use this movie as a vehicle for expressing what he saw as the beauty of his Chinese culture, rather than it being just another action film.

[richard]

The producers wanted the movie's production design to resemble the comic strip "Terry and the Pirates".

[amber]

The soundtrack sold more than five hundred thousand copies, earning a gold record.

[eli]

The flat-bottomed boat Williams (Jim Kelly) travels on is known as a sampan. Sampan means "three planks" in Cantonese.

[violet]

In the finished screenplay, there were no details of what was happening in the action sequences. They would be written as "They will be choreographed by Mr. Bruce Lee".

[frederick]

One scene was filmed with close to three hundred extras from martial-arts schools around Hong Kong.

[lonnie]

Bruce Lee was concerned about the character he was portraying in this movie. He was unsure whether the West would accept a Chinese hero and whether the Chinese would accept his new approach. According to Robert Clouse, screenwriter Michael Allin made flippant remarks that Lee shouldn't worry about such things, claiming that the only reason the movie was being made was because it was cheap and that it wasn't a fine piece of literature. Lee tried to brush this aside, but Allin persisted in his attitude and made script alterations. Knowing that Lee had trouble pronouncing certain words, he contrived to include as many "r"s into Lee's dialogue as he could. Eventually, Lee refused to work with him anymore and demanded a new script. The producer suggested that Allin lay low for a few days. To Lee's utter anger, he encountered him on a ferry in Hong Kong.

[ava]

Bruce Lee defeats 51 opponents in a cave fight scene.

[brent]

The courtyards where Han's martial arts students train were actually modified tennis courts.