The Last Dragon (1985)

Buzzn The Tower

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

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🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In New York City, martial arts student Leroy Green (also known as "Bruce Leeroy") has dreams of becoming a great martial artist like his idol Bruce Lee. His master explains that he has almost reached the final level of martial arts accomplishment, known as "The Last Dragon." Martial artists who reach this final level are said to be able to concentrate such mystical energy into their hands that they begin to glow. Only a true martial arts master would be able to exhibit "The Glow" over his entire body. So on a mission Bruce Leeroy is sent, to find the master and complete his training. Along the way he finds deceit, lies, and a little bit of romance. Today on Buzzn The Tower we're gonna take a look at one of the greatest films ever made, that is a combination martial arts, Blaxploitation, comedy called The Last Dragon. I'm Mo Shapiro and joining me as always the Sho'nuff to my Bruce Leeroy, Max Sanders. And with that...

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0:00.0	This is my fan theory, okay?
0:03.0	So, you are the last Reagan.
0:07.0	This is my fan theory,
0:11.0	okay? I like it. So show enough, right, gets beat about the glow.
0:17.0	Yeah, takes place in 85. Yep. So he's disgraced. He's basically becomes John Crease, right? Like from Cobrkai.
0:23.4	Yeah.
0:24.4	His whole dojo is gone.
0:25.7	Nobody's wearing any red jerseys anymore.
0:27.0	I like it, yeah.
0:28.0	You know, totally distributes.
0:29.0	He's living in that van.
0:29.7	What have I told you that years later, he resurfaces? He's lost most of his hair he's lost
0:34.4	some teeth and he has re-emerged as Dragonfly Jones do you know who dragonfly
0:40.0	Jones is he's a sense a who does self-defense classes and he is prominently seen on the Martin
0:46.7	Lawrence show.
0:47.7	Oh yeah.
0:48.7	Now do you remember Dragiplay Jones?
0:51.0	First of all, the Fumanchu is is bald but he's got the red kind of like
0:54.5	show gun. Yeah and he got the flare. This is my working theory that show enough turns
0:58.8	into Dragonfly Jones. Welcome to Buzz in the Tower, a podcast dedicated to the movies of the 1980s.
1:09.3	Prepare to be stuffed in our DeLorian and taken on a trip through the best decade of film ever.
1:14.0	Hey Mo, we better back up. We don't have enough road to get up to 88.
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