Le jeu de la mort

Titre original : Game of Death

1978
PG
1h 40m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

5,9/10

23 k

MA NOTE

Bruce Lee and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Le jeu de la mort (1978)

Liretrailer1 min 20 s

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Martial Arts Action Crime Drama Thriller

Une star des arts martiaux doit simuler sa propre mort pour trouver les personnes qui essaient de le tuer.Une star des arts martiaux doit simuler sa propre mort pour trouver les personnes qui essaient de le tuer.Une star des arts martiaux doit simuler sa propre mort pour trouver les personnes qui essaient de le tuer.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

5,9/10

23 k

MA NOTE

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Hakim
(archive footage)
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Chuck Norris

Fighter
(archive footage)

Dan Inosanto

Pasqual
(as Danny Inosanto)
…

Billy McGill

John

Sammo Kam-Bo Hung

Lo Chen
(as Hung Kim Po)

Roy Chiao

Henry Lo

Tony Leung Chiu-wai

David
(as Tony Leung)

Jim James

Surgeon

Russell Cawthorne

Doctor

David Hu

Businessman 1

Peter Gee

Businessman 2

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Anecdotes
Steve McQueen, James Coburn, and Muhammad Ali refused roles in the film because they felt it exploited Bruce Lee's death, and because of the low pay Golden Harvest was offering.

Gaffes
In the beginning of the movie, a scene where you can see Lee's face in the mirror of his trailer. It's obviously a cardboard cutout, as the neck below it moves freely about unconnected to the head.

Citations
Dr Land: So much for the weather report. I'm not the only one who just arrived. How about your trip to Berlin Stick?
Stick: It went pretty much as you figured. Now that he's the big star, I couldn't reason with him. He said he was pulling out and he threatened me.
Dr Land: Oh my my my my. The rest of it was in the papers. That's when he committed suicide huh? Haha!
Stick: He just got up and jumped out of the window...

Autres versions
New Zealand theatrical and videotape versions were originally cut to remove the entire nunchaku battle between Bruce Lee and Dan Inosanto, although the censors later allowed this sequence to appear intact in the documentaries The Curse of the Dragon (1993) and Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (2000). In 2005 the cut was also waived for the Region 4 DVD release of "Game of Death".

Connexions
Edited from Tang shan da xiong (1971)

Bandes originales
Game of Death
(Hong Kong version only)
Music by Joseph Koo
Lyrics by James Wong
Sung By Roman Tam

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funny, sad, and enjoyable

The sad:

Bruce's premature death, the disposal of the original script, the inclusion of the current one, the cop-out ending, "Bruce's" punking out...

The Funny:

The double used through mist if the film meant to be passed off as Bruce Lee, the blatant use of stock footage from other Bruce films, the acting...

The enjoyable:

The score is very underrated, one of John Barry's finest (I have the soundtrack to this movie, along with another Barry film, Night Games.) Some real good martial arts sequences make the wait for the real Bruce footage towards the end, especially the locker room fight between "Bruce" and Bob Wall (choreaographed by Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, who reportedly portrayed Bruce in that scene.) Sammo himself appears as a fighter in the film. I give this movie a modest recommendation.