\n2. THE LOOK WAS INSPIRED BY A COMIC STRIP.<\/strong>
\nEnter the Dragon was made quickly, on a tight schedule, and with a budget much more constrained than what we commonly associate with action movies today. As a result, Heller and Weintraub had to start concerning themselves with getting sets built in Hong Kong even before Michael Allin\u2019s script was completely finalized. To do that, Heller looked to his childhood and to a comic strip about adventures in China that he\u2019d loved, Terry and the Pirates.<\/p>\n\u201cIt was high chroma reds, blues, golds, and it just lent itself to this project so closely,\u201d Heller said.<\/p>\n
So, with Terry and the Pirates in mind, Heller began working with a sketch artist to design various sets, including Han\u2019s (Kien Shih) underground layer, the banquet hall on the island, and other key areas of Han\u2019s domain. From there, the sketches were turned over to set builders in Hong Kong, and construction was underway<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n8. THE ICONIC MIRRORED ROOM WAS NOT IN THE SCRIPT.<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s impossible now to imagine Enter the Dragon without the iconic final fight between Lee and Han, which takes place in a mirrored room that replicates Lee\u2019s movements several times over as he delivers his famous kicks. Once upon a time, though, this was nowhere in the script, and only came about because Heller noticed the effect mirrors had at a Hong Kong hotel where he was eating one day.<\/p>\n\u201cI took Bruce and showed it to him. He thought it was too fragmented, that you couldn\u2019t get any action that would mean anything out of it,\u201d Heller recalled. \u201cBob Clouse and I really fought hard for it, and we created this mirrored room.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clouse and Heller pushed ahead with the mirror concept, and once they showed the set to Lee and he was able to move around in the space, he became a believer. A special \u201ccloset\u201d made of mirrors with a hole cut in one side for the camera lens was built, so that the cameraman would always blend into the rest of the scene, and filming of the famous sequence began. According to Hubbs, though, working for hours on end in that environment created a unique set of challenges.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember that I would always have to touch, because if I\u2019m looking at something, they might not be there, they might be over there,\u201d Hubbs said. \u201cI found that I could only be in there for a couple of hours, and I\u2019d have to go out and sit down and look at a wall and real dimension, because it\u2019s like there was a fourth dimension in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n9. LEE CHOREOGRAPHED THE FIGHT SCENES HIMSELF.<\/strong>
\nLee was not just the star of Enter the Dragon. He also played a key role in how it was staged, as the screenplay would often describe action sequences by simply saying \u201cThis Will Be Choreographed by Mr. Bruce Lee.\u201d As Heller recalled, Lee would often walk through the various sets, particularly Han\u2019s underground lair, and look for details and props that he could then incorporate into each sequence, with the help of Clouse. Together, they worked closely to engineer the film\u2019s iconic fight sequences, and by the time early footage from the film was available, Lee was so excited that he didn\u2019t want Enter the Dragon to end. According to Weintraub, he later went back to Hong Kong to shoot the early sparring sequence at the monastery with his friend Sammo Hung.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Jackson and Mental Floss present\u00a0 11 Legendary Facts About Enter the Dragon.\u00a0Here are three of my favorites … 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,56,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-comics","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21162,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21161\/revisions\/21162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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