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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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Savonarola

#55530
May 23, 2024, 04:18:39 PM
Quote from: Josephus on May 23, 2024, 06:11:17 AMOh man....I used to watch that when I was little.

It's not a bad show; although a bit formulaic (Caine wanders into a new town, faces discrimination, tries to avoid conflict, isn't able to, then Kung Fus the hell out of the bad guys; plus there's flashbacks with Shaolin wisdom.) 

David Carradine's limits as a martial artist are obvious.  The casting director said that Bruce Lee auditioned for the role (well, he said he barged into his office and started showing off his nunchaku skills, but that amounts to the same thing), but he couldn't understand much of what Bruce Lee said.  Since martial arts plays a very limited role in the show (about two minutes in a forty minute episode), I don't think it would have worked with Bruce Lee as Caine.
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Josquius

#55531
May 23, 2024, 04:23:26 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on May 23, 2024, 04:18:39 PM
Quote from: Josephus on May 23, 2024, 06:11:17 AMOh man....I used to watch that when I was little.

It's not a bad show; although a bit formulaic (Caine wanders into a new town, faces discrimination, tries to avoid conflict, isn't able to, then Kung Fus the hell out of the bad guys; plus there's flashbacks with Shaolin wisdom.) 

David Carradine's limits as a martial artist are obvious.  The casting director said that Bruce Lee auditioned for the role (well, he said he barged into his office and started showing off his nunchaku skills, but that amounts to the same thing), but he couldn't understand much of what Bruce Lee said.  Since martial arts plays a very limited role in the show (about two minutes in a forty minute episode), I don't think it would have worked with Bruce Lee as Caine.

I thought it was well known that Bruce Lee originally developed the show and was rejected from being the lead due to racism?
It's certainly the version the Bruce Lee biopic tells.
Untrue?
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HVC

#55532
May 23, 2024, 04:24:01 PM
Quote from: Josephus on May 23, 2024, 06:11:17 AMOh man....I used to watch that when I was little.

Never saw the original, but I used to watched the sequel.
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Barrister

#55533
May 23, 2024, 04:33:49 PM Last Edit: May 23, 2024, 04:35:49 PM by Barrister
Quote from: HVC on May 23, 2024, 04:24:01 PM
Quote from: Josephus on May 23, 2024, 06:11:17 AMOh man....I used to watch that when I was little.

Never saw the original, but I used to watched the sequel.

Yeah, I remember the sequel show - Kung Fu - The Legend Continues.

It was a straight to syndication show and was deeply mediocre.


(I also remember David Carradine's mysterious death in Thailand) :ph34r:
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HVC

#55534
May 23, 2024, 04:46:00 PM
He's chocking himself in heaven with Michael Hutchence :yes:
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Savonarola

#55535
May 23, 2024, 04:53:36 PM
Quote from: Josquius on May 23, 2024, 04:23:26 PMI thought it was well known that Bruce Lee originally developed the show and was rejected from being the lead due to racism?
It's certainly the version the Bruce Lee biopic tells.
Untrue?

I think his wife claimed that.  I really don't know; but, having seen all Bruce Lee's movies, if he did have a television show in development, I doubt it would have been anything at all like Kung Fu.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

grumbler

#55536
May 23, 2024, 07:28:10 PM
Quote from: HVC on May 23, 2024, 04:46:00 PMHe's chocking himself in heaven with Michael Hutchence :yes:

And getting rubbed on the bitch.
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