Yesterday’s post celebrated the David Lynch film Blue Velvet‘s 30th anniversary, but today I wanted to take a second to note that 2016 also marks the 45th anniversary of Fists of Fury — the Bruce Lee action film originally titled The Big Boss when it was released overseas in 1971. The movie was the first great martial arts film of the kind that Lee became known for, and The Big Boss made the martial artist a superstar across Asia. Of course, Lee didn’t become a household name in the United States until the posthumous release of Enter the Dragon in 1973, but by then his legacy had already passed into legend. I posted about Fists/Boss a few months back, but I was reminded about the film again after finding my favorite Bruce Lee documentary on YouTube this weekend.

Here’s How Bruce Lee Changed the World…

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