Folks typically declare that it was Bruce Lee who was the daddy of the Kung Fu increase of the Seventies, however was he actually? Certain, Bruce introduced a way of realism to the style, but it surely was Kwai Chang Caine who set the ball rolling. The opposite in style TV collection Monkey and The Water Margin had been additionally influential, however felt like they had been aimed toward a youthful viewers. And for teenagers like me it wasn’t attainable to observe a Bruce Lee film – all of them tended to be rated 18.
I’d go so far as to say that Lee wouldn’t have had the film success he had, notably within the west, if it weren’t for the Kung Fu collection.
Right here’s a superb documentary on the making of Kung Fu – I nonetheless bear in mind a few of these motion sequences, notably the one the place he kicks the knife out of the man’s hand and it sticks within the roof, which is proven on this video. That second was the beginning of my lifelong curiosity in Chinese language martial arts.