Brucesploitation

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Bruceploitation (a portmanteau of Bruce Lee and exploitation) refers to the practice on the part of filmmakers in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan of hiring Bruce Lee look-alike actors ("Lee-alikes") to star in many imitation martial arts films in order to cash in on Lee's success after his death.[1] Bruceploitation is an exploitation film subgenre mostly seen in the 1970s after Lee's death in 1973.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Bruce Lie	4
Saro Lee	2
Bronson Lee (from his real name Tadashi Yamashita)	2
Myron Bruce Lee	2
Brute Lee	2
Bruce Thai	1
Bruce Li (黎(Lí)小龍 from his real name Ho Chung Tao (何宗道))	1
Bruce Le (呂(Lǔ)小龍 from his real name Wong Kin Lung), (黃建龍))	1
Bruce Liang (also known as Bruce Leung)	0
Bruce Lei	0
Bruce Ly (real name Binhslee)	0
Bruce K.L. Lea	0
Bruce Lai (real name Chang Yi-Tao)	0
Bruce Chen	0
Lee Bruce	0
Dragon Lee (real name Moon Kyoung-seok)	0

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 3 May 2019 17:14 (six years ago)

Was "Bruce Lie" intended as a joke re: the fraudulent nature of these knockoffs?

― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Friday, 3 May 2019 17:23 (six years ago)

https://cdn.eventfinda.com.au/uploads/events/transformed/625973-285515-34.jpg

― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 May 2019 17:37 (six years ago)

Looooool, should've known before I even clicked that bg and I were once again of a like mind.

― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 May 2019 17:42 (six years ago)

My favorite film of the bunch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjKnJJLiuCw

The terrible dubbing voices reach an apotheosis on this one. To pick just one scene:

"Bahwss...bahwass...it wasn't our fauwlt."

*shortly afterward*

"Huh? Yes, this is George."

"HELLO GEORGE."

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 May 2019 17:56 (six years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Thursday, 9 May 2019 00:01 (six years ago)

Looking forward to seeing how many people voted in this tbh.

― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 May 2019 00:04 (six years ago)

Bruce Leroy to thread!

― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 May 2019 01:01 (six years ago)

c'mon, this has to be ho chung-tao. the chinese stuntman is such a great film, even beyond the fact that chung-tao (billed under his real name) spends the first half of the movie trying to make it as an insurance salesman!

incomplete list, anyway. how about siu-lung leung aka "bruce leong", star of "the dragon lives again", wherein bruce lee goes to hell and fights a rogues' gallery consisting of Zatoichi, James Bond, The Godfather, The Exorcist, Emmanuelle, Dracula, and Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name with the assistance of popeye? what about adriano stuart, director of the 1975 brazilian film infamously known in english as "bruce lee vs. gay power"? (the film's actual sexual politics are hopelessly muddled, but i feel like people interpreting the film as being actually "pro-gay" are going too far)

― Burt Bacharach's Bees (rushomancy), Thursday, 9 May 2019 03:30 (six years ago)

Nobody doesn't like Saro Lee

― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 9 May 2019 04:46 (six years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Friday, 10 May 2019 00:01 (six years ago)

star of "the dragon lives again", wherein bruce lee goes to hell and fights a rogues' gallery consisting of Zatoichi, James Bond, The Godfather, The Exorcist, Emmanuelle, Dracula, and Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name with the assistance of popeye

I’ve seen this and it’s a massive omission

― blokes you can't rust (sic), Friday, 10 May 2019 00:14 (six years ago)

really? i'm the only ho chung-tao voter? i'd almost think people in this thread were voting based on what they think of the names alone rather than the martial arts and acting skills of the people involved. ilx, you disappoint me.

― Burt Bacharach's Bees (rushomancy), Friday, 10 May 2019 00:44 (six years ago)

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