Hello, my name is Justin DeClew, and I'm here today with Will Sloan,

and you're listening to The Important Cinema Club, where we talk about important filmmakers,

like the one, the only, Bruce Le.

Actor, producer, martial arts choreographer, director, O'Tour, and, most importantly, Bruce Lee impersonator.

Wait, Bruce Lee impersonator. What's that, Will, for anyone who may have just stumbled upon this podcast for the first time to listen to an episode about Bruce Lear?

Well, thank you, Justin. Here is listen to an episode about Bruce Lear. Well, thank you, Justin.

Here is a quick explanation of the Bruceploitation phenomenon.

After Bruce Lee died in 1973, he was, what, 32 years old?

He died a month before Ender the Dragon came out.

He was on the cusp of being the first global Asian superstar,

and when he died, that left a massive void in the market. International buyers were saying,

we want more Bruce Lee movies. Hong Kong producers were saying, but he's dead. The international

buyer said, we don't care. Give us more Bruce Lee. Do you have someone that looks

vaguely like Bruce Lee and we have no qualms about putting the return of Bruce or Bruce Lee's

back right on the cover and putting it on the market until somebody sues us, asks us to not do it,

and then we do something like put 10 minutes of

footage of a film that Bruce Lee shot when he was a teenager in black and white. So we can still

slap Bruce Lee is in this movie. So for the next seven or eight years, and even longer actually,

you had Bruce Lie, Dragon Lee, and the man we're talking about today, Bruce Lay, who, by the way, I've been mispronet.

Bruce Lay.

Yeah, we've been mispronouncing this for years.

Bruce Lay.

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