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10 Best Martial Arts Moves In Bruce Lee’s Movies, Ranked


Bruce Lee stands as a martial arts movie legend – we rundown the 10 best martial arts moves Bruce Lee uses in his filmography.
Bruce Lee is the most enduring icon of the martial arts movie genre, and every fight scene in his filmography is full of amazing fighting techniques. Bruce Lee first took up martial arts as a youth in Hong Kong, studying the art of Wing Chun kung fu under the legendary Grandmaster Ip Man. Lee would later collect techniques and fighting theories from a wide range of different martial arts to create his own fighting philosophy, which he would dub Jeet Kune Do, or The Way of the Intercepting Fist.

Lee would then bring his martial arts mastery to the film industry, first breaking out as Kato on the TV series The Green Hornet, and headlining Hong Kong martial arts films like The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, and The Way of the Dragon. The posthumous release of Bruce Lee’s enduring martial arts classic Enter the Dragon also cemented him as an eternal legend of martial arts worldwide. With so many incredible fight scenes in Lee’s body of work, it’s not surpriing that people want to revisit some of Bruce Lee’s best martial arts moves.
One of Bruce Lee’s signature methods of on-screen intimidation is in kicking out a light hanging from a ceiling, which can be seen in two of his movies. In 1967’s Harlowe, Lee plays Winslow Wong, who trashes an enemy’s office before kicking out the hanging light with a jumping front kick. Lee later repeats the feat in his directorial debut The Way of the Dragon, in which his protagonist Tang Lung frightens off two henchmen by kicking out a hanging light in the villain’s office.

9Bruce Lee Trapping O’Hara
Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do draws heavily from the trapping and in-fighting techniques of his base art of Wing Chun, and Lee fully puts them to use in his fight scene with O’Hara (Bob Wall) in Enter the Dragon. With Lee and O’Hara meeting at the wrist, Lee traps O’Hara’s arms repeatedly to land strike after strike at absolutely blinding speed. 50 years after Enter the Dragon’s release, Lee’s traps still amaze with their speed and pinpoint accuracy.

8Bruce Lee’s Armbar On Sammo Hung
Enter the Dragon’s opening fight scene in the Shaolin Temple pits Bruce Lee against Sammo Hung, and Lee achieves victory in a very unique manner for the time. After pummeling his opponent with strikes, Lee traps Hung in an armbar, forcing him to tap out. Enter the Dragon’s opening fight scene is essentially an MMA match decades before the UFC would come along, and shows Bruce Lee’s innovation in fight choreography was far ahead of its time.

7Bruce Lee’s Flying Sidekick
In numerous fight scenes throughout his career, Bruce Lee would take to the sky to slam his opponent with a powerful flying sidekick. This would first be seen in the final fight of The Big Boss, with Lee later bringing it back in the final showdown of Fist of Fury. Perhaps most memorably, Lee would land an amazing flying sidekick on the face of the villainous Han (Shih Kien) in Enter the Dragon’s final fight, with the kick even captured in gorgeous slow-motion for good measure.
6Bruce Lee’s Spinning Heel Kick
Bruce Lee would develop swift and strong kicks in his extensive martial arts training, and one that he would consistently excel at is his spinning heel kick. In nearly every fight scene throughout his career, Bruce Lee lands a strong spinning heel kick that leaves his opponent dazed or even knocked out. With the spinning heel kick itself being an especially powerful kicking technique, Bruce Lee always knows how to hit the mark with it in every fight scene.
5Bruce Lee’s Grappling Moves In Game Of Death
While Enter the Dragon would bring a taste of MMA-style grappling into its opening fight, Lee’s unfinished film Game of Death goes much further in bringing grappling techniques into the mix. This is first seen in Lee’s fight with Hapkido master Ji Han-jae, with Lee countering his throws with various kinds of takedowns. Lee later employs takedowns and chokes in his subsequent fight with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, making Game of Death’s fights quite the preview of MMA-style fight choreography – though it is much more comprehensively seen in the documentary Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey, which includes all the footage Lee was able to complete before his passing.
4Bruce Lee Taking Out Multiple Opponents With Kicks
Bruce Lee’s skills with kicking techniques would really come into focus in two major fight scenes in Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon, with Lee taking out multiple opponents in seconds with a swift sequence of kicks. In Fist of Fury, this happens in the movie’s immortal dojo fight, with Lee fending off eight opponents with one fell swoop of kicks. Lee later repeats the same feat in the massive fight with Han’s henchmen in Enter the Dragon, with Lee dropping 11 opponents with different kicks before finishing another off with a back fist strike. Needless to say, Bruce Lee throwing rapid-fire kicks never fails to amaze.
3Bruce Lee’s Quintuple Roundhouse Kicks
While Bruce Lee takes out several opponents with a slew of powerful kicks in Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon, he also unleashes much more focused punishment on individual opponents in Enter the Dragon and The Way of the Dragon. As seen in both Enter the Dragon’s free-for-all fight and Lee’s illegally shot Colosseum fight with Chuck Norris in The Way of the Dragon, Lee takes out both opponents with a whopping five roundhouse kicks, first delivered to the legs and then the head. In both cases, it is a jaw-dropping moment of unbridled combative energy from the Dragon.
2Bruce Lee Using Nunchucks
Whenever Bruce Lee breaks out a pair of nunchaku, he is bringing his signature martial arts weapon to a fight scene. With the sole exception of The Big Boss, every Bruce Lee movie sees him wielding a pair of nunchaku against one or more opponents. Bruce Lee’s use of nunchucks in Enter the Dragon’s cave fight is the most memorable instance and it is always a real treat to see him using his famed weapon with the level of skill he brings to it.
1Bruce Lee’s Sidekick
Bruce Lee would perfect the art of the sidekick with his training with Tae Kwon Do legend Jhoon Rhee, and some of Lee’s most jaw-dropping on-screen moments have involved him sidekicking his opponents. One example is seen in the training sequence of The Way of the Dragon, with Lee sending his training partner flying back 10 feet with a powerful sidekick to a kicking shield. Even more unforgettable is Lee’s sidekick against O’Hara in Enter the Dragon, captured in slow-motion and delivered with utterly devastating impact. In the legacy of Bruce Lee’s filmography, his powerful sidekicks are the best fight scene money shots of his career.

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‘I am officially off the market’: When Margot Robbie revealed she made the ‘conscious’ decision of not dating actors


Margot Robbie revealed her decision to not date actors because of the media scrutiny that came with a public relationship of two high-profile actors
Back in 2015, A-lister Margot Robbie made a declaration that she would not be dating any actors. The actress may have alluded to her fiance Tom Ackerley, who she married the following year in 2016. In an exclusive interview with Marie Claire, she revealed that being in a relationship as an actor herself came with its own set of challenges. She believed that dating someone who was popular would add on to the media scrutiny.

Margot Robbie opened up on why she made a conscious decision to not date actorsTalking to Marie Claire, she claimed, “I am officially off the market.” She then shared the reasoning behind her decision and added, “I made a conscious decision not to date actors.” She continued to explain, “But not because I hate actors. That’s a nasty generalization to make, and that’s not the case. People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile, it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.”
The Barbie actress continued, “So two people with profiles, I figure it’s just double the amount of scrutiny, and I’d like to avoid that at all costs.” This came after reports of her locking lips with Tarzan co-star Alexander Skarsgard started making rounds. It was reported that she was caught kissing the actor during the Sundance Film Festival.

Margot Robbie revealed she opted for a minimal lifestyle even after becoming an actorIn the interview, Robbie also opened up about how she was adapting to fame. She shared, “I have a normal 24-year-old life. If I were a waitress, I’d probably have the exact same lifestyle. I’d go to the same clubs I go to already, live in the same house with the same housemates, hang out with the same people.”
However, Margot Robbie tied the knot with Tom Ackerley who is an English producer and actor. The duo met on the sets of 2013 movie Suite Francaise where Tom was working as an assistant director. Post marriage, both of them launched their production company LuckyChap Entertainment.

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Monica Bellucci and Tin Burton at lunch in the restaurant in Selci Lama


For All Saints’ Day, the Hollywood star from Tiferno returned to his native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and then visit his parentsOn the occasion of the All Saints’ Day celebrations, the Hollywood star of Tiferno origin, Monica Bellucci, returned to her native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and to visit her father Pasquale and her mother Brunella.Flanked by her current partner Tim Burton, she went to lunch, together with about twenty old friends, at the Osteria del Musicista, which has always been her favorite restaurant, in Selci Lama.Menu dedicated to typical dishes of the area, which includes an appetizer with breadsticks lined with coppa, duck in porchetta and grilled pork livers, polenta with wild boar sauce accompanied by the very typical cappelletti in broth.To conclude, a dessert based on fried “ciaccia” with Nutella and roasted chestnuts.
Having paid the bill and greeted the restaurant owner and lifelong friend, Roberto Polchi, Monica brought home cappelletti and broth for a family dinner.

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‘Rocky’ Was Quite Different In His Original Screenplay, Sylvester Stallone Claims


Sylvester Stallone took his friend’s advice on a rewrite of the original screenplay to Rocky. A few tweaks later, he was on his way to major success.
In the new Netflix documentary Sly, Stallone discussed how he initially conceived of the project, which had a much harder edge. In the early version, Rocky was depicted as a “thuggish” character, inspired by Martin Scorsese’s crime drama, Mean Streets.

But Stallone’s perspective changed when a friend read the script and thought the boxer was too cruel for audiences to actually care about him.
Stallone recalled her crying.

“She goes, ‘I hate Rocky. I hate him. He’s cruel. He hits people. He beats them up.’”
Stallone took it to heart, and asked what he could do to soften the character.

“I said, ‘what if you stop short of it?’ Like, maybe he almost did. He could have, that’s his job, but he doesn’t?’ ‘That’d be nice,’” he added. “I said, ‘What if he had a girlfriend or something?’ ‘Yeah, that’s nice.’ So I go back, start writing that: ‘Girlfriend. Nice.’”
$117 million in box office later, a franchise was born.

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“Dolph Lundgren… he pulverized me,” Stallone says in the documentary. “Later that night, my heart started to swell—which happens when the heart hits the chest—and then my blood pressure went up to 260, and they thought I was going to be talking to angels. Next thing I know, I’m in intensive care, where I’m surrounded by nuns, and I thought, ‘OK, that’s curtains.’”
Stallone was in the hospital for nine days following the incident, praying for “one more round.”
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Doctors allegedly told Stallone that he received a blow to the ribs that made his heart rattle around in his ribcage, a condition typically seen in head-on collisions. “I did hit a bus, of sorts,” Stallone joked.

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