When I think of Kung Fu movies I think of great dancers - most will ask who would win in a fight, Bruce Lee or someone else.
Give both guys a gun and you might call it a draw, if they knew how to fire they might stand a good chance of at least coming close, especially when the miss rate of trained Police is so high due to environmental and bio-chemical factors.
They're just movies people, appreciate them for what they are; do you think Zombies are real because they appear so much in video games and movies? Who would win there? Bruce Lee or a Zombie? What if Bruce Lee WAS the Zombie? (Now there is an interesting B movie in the making.haha).
Seriously though, if one got pissed off at the other I'm sure we would not really see a good display of anything we have seen on the silver screen (or even in the Cage for that matter, with two fighters pissed off at each other).
They certainly could give the River Dance Guy a run for his money, but they really aren't even in the same league - especially since one advertises as Dance, straight up, and the other fools people into thinking otherwise.
It is almost like a form of hypnosis, the same technique is used when we see commercials that subliminally tell our brains we need something we don't and to go buy it.
I wonder how many people actually thought Stallone was really Rocky? There was something interesting I heard about how he trained for that movie, that he'd broken his nose in the training and gotten upset because his face needed to be in tip-top shape for close-ups.
I wonder if he ever thought that it might lend some credibility to his character should he appear with a broken nose, instead of make-up, in some of those close-ups? Again, he is not the same guy in the movie that he is in real life. He never went Rambo on someone and if he had he would be in prison for a very long time.
Look at Wesley Snipes, Mr. Blade, who just got sentenced to two or three (maybe more) years in prison for Tax Fraud.
He portrays the silent killer type in movies, even some types that are brave, honest, forthright, but as a person, he is just a person like everyone else, answerable to the same laws, and not even half the person as some of the characters he plays.
Who would win there? Wesley Snipes or Bubba the Cell Mate? My money would be on Bubba and his shank.
Marc MacYoung talks about the rough nature of Construction Workers and Miners in his book 'Taking it to the Street' in which he talks about how much time they spend fighting, actually fighting, as opposed to people who study fighting.
How these guys are tough as nails - one story he talks about how his Dad had fallen from a great height and then went back to work the next day, or how he himself had been kicked numerous times by Cows (I think it was Cows, maybe horses).
My Uncle Chuck is damn near 80 years old and still breaks horses, he used to drive truck where he saw altercations almost every night at truck stops, people trying to break into his truck, bar fights, ect.
Do we really think about these individuals in our training? They are not few and far between, though many would like to think otherwise.
Who would win between Bruce Lee and Uncle Chuck? My money is on Uncle Chuck, for one, I KNOW that I would never want to piss off this 80 year old guy.
Maybe Bruce Lee COULD kick my ass back in the day, unfortunately he is six feet under (no disrespect intended to Mr. Lee) and when he was alive he was a great actor and great Martial Artist, perhaps he even had some fighting experience (as his biography attests), however, I don't know.
What I do know is that Uncle Chuck stands well over six feet and takes on animals much larger and more spirited than himself, at 80 years old!
In the face of all that, and other things, a Black Belt is nothing more than a giant target (in most cases, with a few exceptions, but the belt never makes the person, it is the other way around).
In closing, movies are great for entertainment, and there are many forms of entertainment (including sports entertainment). Appreciate things for what they are, not what we want them to be.
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