Game of Death

He put it on the biggest stage in the world.

When you watch Enter the Dragon or Game of Death, the iconic sequences where he's using the double nunchuck or the kali sticks, that was his public unveiling of this curriculum.

It was a global debut.

Yeah.

And it had these one-on-one boss battles at the end of each stage.

But his massive-- Like, his primary cinematic inspiration was Bruce Lee's 1972 film, Game of Death.

Oh, wow.

Which is iconic.

It was the sort of thing...

I mean, we just did Game of Death and that had all those roulette sort of visuals and things with the images put inside it.

It was basically the equivalent to that.

Yeah, but it is used as like a plot point where it's saying how on one side he has to deal with the...

perfect.

It took me like 16 years to get that from the first time I saw it because I hadn't seen Game of Death at that point, so I didn't get that Bushido Brown was just a reference to Jim...

Jim Kelly in game of death and his

whole character and stick.

Cause I just thought,

And then You know, Tarantino will spout out off the top of his head something that will cause...

He did it with Paul Dano with the movie There Will Be Blood, saying he ruined that movie.

I thought Paul Dano was excellent in that film.

Yeah, you're right.

I mean, he's not making, he's not a filmmaker that's making films for them to end up on a streaming platform, right? This guy is, and that's what I loved about the conversation.

He's another like Tom Cruise.

It's all about the movie going experience.

And he's like, why do I want to go through all that just for something that's going to, what, maybe be two weeks in the theater and then gone? Because he said a lot of the things we've been talking about on the podcast for the last few years about the state of the box office and how it's a hit, it's a flop, or it's You know, there's, there's really no big, it's big money or it's, it's, it's nothing.

Like, Kareem, Kareem, I never, y'all need to go watch it.

Go, if y'all haven't seen Game of Death, it's a weird movie because Bruce Lee wasn't around for the whole of it.

But, like, if y'all haven't watched Game of Death before, go watch right now again.

Watch Kareem in a fight with Bruce Lee.

Watch the way Kareem is moving.

because i think it i think he was starting to slowly find um books on it but he didn't really like get to really go to like thailand and train or train with anybody like senchai or whoever right like imagine like bruce getting to train with somebody like senchai that's so cool in my head i i think he would have just or tony jaw i think he would have just like had a blast learning that stuff So I just really, we got like the infant stage of where Bruce Lee's mind was really going.

It's too bad he never finished Game of Death.

I know.

Except, I mean, there is a version out there.

One guy, he fights not just 20, he fights 40, 50 guys at a time, that kind of thing.

It's like Game of Death, but on a ship.

Yes,

and Bruce's skill is just out of this