Weekly Written Analysis 2

For this week analysis, it was very hard to choose one icon or one myth among the millions that exist and summarize my taught. I decided rather to concentrate on my move this week and comeback to this analysis at a later stage. Today, we had the cable guy finally come in and activate our Internet and cable. Surprisingly, when my husband was flipping through the channels, he stopped at one and said "it has been a while since I saw this movie". The movie Dragon was about the cultural icon Bruce Lee. I finally found my icon for this analysis.

When the name Bruce Lee come to mind, we think about Kung Fu, Karate, China, martial arts, street fighting, and amazing action movies. But how all of these words come to refer to one singleton person? It all happens when Bruce lee's family decide to send their fourth child Bruce Lee to his country of birth USA in order for him to continue his education and avoid the street fighting trouble with local crime groups in Hong Kong. Soon after he was engaged in the University of Washington, he started teaching the arts of martial fighting for the university students as well as for the locals. Later, he met the love of his life Linda Emery and the mother of his two children.

More over, Bruce Lee is not only an icon but rather a life legend. People all over the world when ever asked about China, they associate the country to the image of Bruce Lee. As a child my brother had posters all over his room of Bruce Lee and China Wall. He has this idea, that one day he can fly over to China and learn how to fight like the legend.

Furthermore, American action movies has taken a significant shift with the introduction of Chinese martial arts. Bruce has featured in five memorial movies in which he wrote The Big Boss and produced Way of the Dragon. He had also fought against famous American names such as Karim Abdul-Jabbar and Chuck Norris. He has made himself as the icon of the fastest and talented fighter in the films industry.

I m not a big fun of action movies, but I always love to watch Bruce Lee movies. I like the fact that all of his movies show authentic fights and his character is always of protective nature. I believe that even though we lost Bruce Lee at a younger age, his contribution for the world will always remain a legend and an example to follow.

Reference:

Wikipedia (2010). Bruce Lee. Wikipedia. Retrived on May 30 2010 from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_lee