Brandon Lee and David Carradine comment on Kung Fu (1986)
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- Brandon Lee and David Carradine comment on the release of Kung Fu: The Movie (1986). In his acting debut, Brandon Lee, son of legendary martial arts cinema star Bruce Lee, plays the son of David Carradine's character in “Kung Fu: The Movie” (1986 TV movie). Bruce Lee was considered for the lead role in the original Kung Fu TV series (1972-75), but Carradine was cast instead. David Carradine comments on the quality of the original Kung Fu show and expresses interest in reviving the series.
“Kung Fu: The Movie” was intended as a pilot for a sequel to the original Kung Fu series. Eventually there was a sequel series lasting four seasons, 1993-96, but it was not a result of the film.
Brandon Lee died in 1993 at age 28 after being accidentally wounded by a shot from a prop gun while filming on a movie set. 🅲🅲 / @tvcrewguy - Розваги
There's a reason why people still remember Bruce Lee and his movies and not David Carradine and Kung Fu.
These are two entirely different things.
You can't compare Bruce Lee to David Carradine. Actually, you CAN compare them, but it's pointless.
But also, there's an awful lot of people who remember 'Kung Fu' and love it - even today.
I appreciate both Bruce Lee and David Carradine for the legacy of their artistry. R.I.P
Brandon lee quote was beautiful
Brandon lee he is look like his father
He thinks his kung-fu show is bigger than bruce lee movies 🤣
RIP Brandon lee and David Carradine.
Quentin Tarantino calling Linda Lee (Bruce Lee's widow) a liar sent me here.
Can you explain what took place
Gyönyörű vagy Brandon;''''''')♡♡♡♡♡...a lelkemnek szuksege van a szepseged jelenletere a lelkunk talalkozasara mindennap ..örökre most mindig holnap es meg akkoris ha nem tetszem neked;'')'♡es amiert sirni volna kedvem mert mikor meglatlak mindig ezt teszem.nem is tudtam a mindennapjaim ugy elni hogy ne gondoltam volna rad szeretlek
Great Rare Video Thanks for posting it
Thank you so much
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Do you have more interviews of Brandon Lee ?
No sorry I think that's all I have of him
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Too bad.
Thanks anyway for sharing this video
The true series finally
Very interesting how they find this picture from the archives Brandon and David both died 🔥
Ive done some research on David Carradine. The dude was a wild man. He once got high on Peyote, then proceeded to get naked, run around the neighborhood, going inside peoples houses turning there electrical appliances on and off. He cut himself started bleeding and then started harassing a young lady and accused her of being a witch.
He really had no martial arts skills and just talked about eastern philosophy. His background was in dancing and leveraged that so the fights on tv could look real. For the 1993 revival Kung Fu the Legend Continues many of his fight scenes either used stuntmen or trick photography.
In the end he was found dead in Thailand at a hotel, naked, hanging by his neck in a closet with a rope around his nuts.
RIP David Carradine
You were the Man
That's Pure Bullcrap about Carradine having "no martial arts skills." 🙄
Other martial artists do not usually say that. Because Carradine did study Kung Fu seriously for many years, with teacher Kam Yuen, starting with the tv show. And while that was his first formal study in Asian martial arts, he had been trained in boxing and wrestling and swordfighting.
And he had been a scrappy kid from the get-go, getting kicked out of schools for fighting from a young age, winding up in reform school and later getting arrested several times.
So Carradine was a skilled streetfighter before the Kung Fu show came along; and he was also a skilled *dancer* who had some acrobatic moves like high kicks and somersaults, etc. Many people do not seem to realize the degree of athleticism required of male dancers, in terms of strength and agility and endurance.
So when Kung Fu came along, it was like a mix of two things Carradine already knew -- fighting plus dancing -- and he took to it like a duck to water.
Of course the fight scenes were choreographed there; and not always realistic. But the FCC was breathing down their neck to limit the violence depicted on a family show in prime time tv -- which is one reason why Caine did not inflict more damage and injury.
But Carradine did almost all of his own stunts in the show, including all the fight scenes. And that alone was a good demonstration of how athletic he was at the time.
Later on he did Kung Fu instructional videos with Kam Yuen too.
Carradine was an actor first, of course; and a martial artist second. But he was more than capable as a martial artist, even though he was never at a champion level. And he was clear about that, saying that he sae himself not as an 'expert:' but an enthusiast and an 'ambassador' for the martial arts.
And Chuck Norris, on the Dick Cavett show, also said that Carradine did actually know his martial arts.
The fight scenes that Norris and Carradine did for "Lone Wolf McQuaid were largely improvised, with minimal choreography.
So maybe stop saying nonsense that is simply not true. 🙄
David Carradine is Kung Fu:The Legend Continues and Brandon Lee is Kung Fu:The Next Generation (TV Pilot CBS Summer Playhouse) Legendary Icon Bruce Lee He Son Starting TV Show Titles? David Carradine, Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee is Heavenly
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Bruce Lee actually pitched that. But of course they stole his idea right out from under him. They even tried to sue Bruce because he wad telling people it was his idea. Which was even confirmed by his wife Linda. He even had written notes. They thought twice of couse about taking Bruce to court, bec2 they knew they stole Bruce's idea and he could prove it.
Not really. Bruce Lee pitched The Warrior, a quite different story, only thing alike was that it happened also in 19th century America. That show was produced recently and it's pure Bruce Lee.
Kung Fu originally was to be a movie, and the history of that script is documented by Matthew Polly, in his authoritative Bruce Lee biography. At this point, even Wikipedia knows what really happened there. Mrs. Lee simply was wrong. You bet nobody from Warner Bros. went to tell her what the full story of the script development, or the casting process for the TV series was like.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_(1972_TV_series)
Don't you believe it? Watch the series. It's full of cultural mistakes. Also, notice that Brandon Lee mentions the casting issue, not the authorship one.
Bruce Lee had nothing to do with developing the original Kung Fu TV show. That's a myth perpetuated by Linda Lee Cadwell. The Kung Fu TV show was created by Ed Spielman when he was living in New York City's Chinatown in the early 1960's and was influenced by Chinese culture, years before Bruce Lee came to Hollywood.
Spielman first submitted his script (intended as a cinematic release) back in the early 60's, which is documented and proven. While it is true that Bruce Lee created his own concept for a TV series called 'The Warrior’, the storylines and characters for both shows were different, with the only similarity being that they were set in the old American west.
@@MariaMartinez-researcher Technically they did steal Bruce Lee's idea, the story was Bruce Lee had written a concept about a martial artist from China wandering the american west doing martial arts and had trouble pitching it to warner bros as they felt the american audience wouldn't take to an asian actor to take on a lead role in an american tv series. Kung Fu originally wasn't suppose to be about a shaolin priest wandering the american west, it was suppose to about Miyamoto Musashi, Japan’s most famous samurai going to China to learn Kung Fu but that idea was scraped, so yeah they stole Bruce Lee's idea from his show the Warrior and reworked to Kung Fu The TV series. Kung Fu The TV Series and Warrior which a different arch but it has a similarity.
@@Rockabillyman26 Nope. The idea for the Kung Fu TV series started years before as a movie script by Spielman-Friedlander (fans of martial arts films) that was bought by Warner Bros. by an executive who knew Bruce Lee and thought he would be great as the leading character, but the project was shelved. Later, the same executive brought the script to the TV division, and there it was accepted and adapted as a TV movie/series pilot. Again, Bruce Lee auditioned for the role (one among several actors, Asian and American), but lost against David Carradine, who won the role in his *second* audition just a couple of weeks before production started, because he was the best at playing a pacifist monk. But Lee made an impression, and another executive requested from him a project for another series, and *then* Lee proposed Warrior, but, as in the meantime he had filmed his first major role in Thailand and suddenly became a movie star, didn't followed up with his TV project.
All of this was researched and presented by Matthew Polly in his authoritative biography Bruce Lee: A Life. The rumor that Lee created Kung Fu was his widow confusing the two projects. You bet that when an actor doesn't get a role, nobody calls him to explain why exactly - and certainly nobody explains anything to his wife.
The Wikipedia article about the TV series has a synthesis of its history, explaining the chronology of the events in more detail.
So, nobody stole anything from Bruce Lee. Do you think he would have just stay silent? Also, if you watch the series, you'll find out by its mistakes that it wasn't written by Chinese authors :-)
@@MariaMartinez-researcher Yup, At around 1967 Ed Spielman created a concept, about a samurai going to china to learn Martial Arts, the idea got scrapped and later Spielman changed the concept to a peaceful Shaolin monk name Caine created by Ed Spielman wandering the American west, pretty similar to Bruce Lee's character Ah Sahm coming from China to San Francisco during the tong wars in Chinatown set in the american west, There is circumstantial evidence for this in a December 8, 1971, television interview that Bruce Lee gave on The Pierre Berton Show. In the interview, Bruce Lee stated that he had developed a concept for a television series called The Warrior, meant to star himself, about a martial artist in the American Old West (the same concept as Kung Fu, which aired the following year), but that he was having trouble pitching it to Warner Brothers and Paramount. so yeah as I said before the idea of a Martial Artist traveling the american west was stolen from Bruce Lee's idea he had for his show Warrior and reworked as Kung Fu.
Funny how they did bring the series back, “King Fu The Legend Continues”placed it in a modern 1990’s era, yet still did not cast Brandon Lee, they cast actor Chris Potter as the son. So I would say the Lee’s got f****d twice.
Well because Brandon died
Bruce Lee had nothing to do with developing the original Kung Fu TV show. That's a myth perpetuated by Linda Lee Cadwell. The Kung Fu TV show was created by Ed Spielman when he was living in New York City's Chinatown in the early 1960's and was influenced by Chinese culture, years before Bruce Lee came to Hollywood.
Spielman first submitted his script (intended as a cinematic release) back in the early 60's, which is documented and proven. While it is true that Bruce Lee created his own concept for a TV series called 'The Warrior’, the storylines and characters for both shows were different, with the only similarity being that they were set in the old American west.
so good looking. looks better with weight on.
His voice was so deep before 1987.
nah i like him lean and longhaired more
That why Brandon lee was killed and david carradine wow
Jesus christ loves you so do l gorgeous man
For people who still believe the old myth.
Bruce Lee had nothing to do with developing the original Kung Fu TV show. That's a myth perpetuated by Linda Lee Cadwell. The Kung Fu TV show was created by Ed Spielman when he was living in New York City's Chinatown in the early 1960's and was influenced by Chinese culture, years before Bruce Lee came to Hollywood.
Spielman first submitted his script (intended as a cinematic release) back in the early 60's, which is documented and proven. While it is true that Bruce Lee created his own concept for a TV series called 'The Warrior’, the storylines and characters for both shows were different, with the only similarity being that they were set in the old American west.
Actually back in the late 60s Ed Spielman had a idea for a Kung Fu series with a samurai going to China to train in Martial arts that idea was scrapped, in the early 70s Bruce Lee had developed a idea for a TV series set in the american west about a martial artist from China coming to america, unfortunately that never happen because the network felt the american audience wasn't ready for asian actor to become a lead star in a american tv series, so they took Bruce Lee's show The Warrior and modified it into the Kung Fu TV Series, so yeah where do you think they got the idea of making Kung Fu TV Series set in the American West? they got it from Bruce Lee's show The Warrior.
I don't agree, Americans had already welcome ( HOPSING ON BONANZA ) ( SULU ON STAR TREK ) & ( THAT ASIAN GUY IN THE 🧺 DETERGENT COMMERCIAL ) @@Rockabillyman26
No offense, but I'll believe her over you. Sorry.
@@CatsClaw44 believe what you want ok I don't care, No offense.
This is the only interview where he sounds different. Maybe he weighs 170 lbs. for Kung Fu: The Movie here. That would break his weight for Rapid Fire, which was 1 lbs. I hear people say he looks good with weight on.
This was not a very good movie.
I liked Kung fu tv show from the 70’ but we really can’t compare the fighting skill of Bruce Lee with David Carradine. Bruce was exceptional, David rather pathetic. Period!