Zenos
February 25th, 2014, 10:53 PM
Ok I have watched Enter the Dragon 100 times are more and I was wondering if the villain Han was indeed right when he talked about the pursuit of strength and his opinion on Youth?
and if so how much more true is it today with our generation seeming to not give a rats ass about much other then video games and techno toys?
I'll give you a bit of what he said as found in a Copy of Bruce lee's Script for Enter the Dragon (talked about in the book Bruce Lee :The Art of Expressing the Human Body):
There is a terrific soliloquy made by veteran Chinese actor,Shek Kien,near the end of Bruce Lee's last film,Enter the Dragon.It occurs when Kien's character the evil Han is talking John Saxon's character Roper,on a small tour of his "museum" of feudal weaponry.As they walk,Han says:
"It is difficult to associate these horrors with the proud civilizations that created them.Sparta,Rome,the Knights of Europe,the Samurai...all shared the lone ideal:the honor of strength,because it is strength that makes all other values possible.Nothing survives without it.Who knows what delicate wonders have died out of the world for want of the strength to survive?"
Although excised from the final print in Bruces copy of the script,Han's peripatetic continues:
" Civilization's highest ideas-justice-could not exist without strong men to enforce it.Indeed, what is civilization but simply the honor of strong men?Today,the young are taught nothing of honor.The sense of life as epic,life as big,of life as something for which one learns to fight-this is foolish to them.To them,grandeur is irrelevant.The young no longer dream?
For a Villain,Han makes perfect sense.That is he,makes awonderful apology for why our species has o ardently pursued the acquisition of strength throughout the centuries.The pursuit of strength is by no means antiquted;it is still revered today,albiet in many different forms: strength of character,strength of will,strength of resolve,etcetc ,and of course physical strength.
So I'd like your opinion on whether you think what Han said about the young applies even more to teens today ?
and if so how much more true is it today with our generation seeming to not give a rats ass about much other then video games and techno toys?
I'll give you a bit of what he said as found in a Copy of Bruce lee's Script for Enter the Dragon (talked about in the book Bruce Lee :The Art of Expressing the Human Body):
There is a terrific soliloquy made by veteran Chinese actor,Shek Kien,near the end of Bruce Lee's last film,Enter the Dragon.It occurs when Kien's character the evil Han is talking John Saxon's character Roper,on a small tour of his "museum" of feudal weaponry.As they walk,Han says:
"It is difficult to associate these horrors with the proud civilizations that created them.Sparta,Rome,the Knights of Europe,the Samurai...all shared the lone ideal:the honor of strength,because it is strength that makes all other values possible.Nothing survives without it.Who knows what delicate wonders have died out of the world for want of the strength to survive?"
Although excised from the final print in Bruces copy of the script,Han's peripatetic continues:
" Civilization's highest ideas-justice-could not exist without strong men to enforce it.Indeed, what is civilization but simply the honor of strong men?Today,the young are taught nothing of honor.The sense of life as epic,life as big,of life as something for which one learns to fight-this is foolish to them.To them,grandeur is irrelevant.The young no longer dream?
For a Villain,Han makes perfect sense.That is he,makes awonderful apology for why our species has o ardently pursued the acquisition of strength throughout the centuries.The pursuit of strength is by no means antiquted;it is still revered today,albiet in many different forms: strength of character,strength of will,strength of resolve,etcetc ,and of course physical strength.
So I'd like your opinion on whether you think what Han said about the young applies even more to teens today ?