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"Don't call up. Feel."

Enter the Dragon is the fourth major motion picture (and last completed film) in the career of martial arts fable Bruce Lee. It premiered in August 1973, one calendar month after Lee's untimely death. Enter the Dragon was the kickoff of Lee's movies to premiere in America and the get-go to be recorded in English.

The film'southward story centers effectually Lee, a Shaolin monk and martial arts main, who is approached by Braithwaite (Geoffrey Weeks), a member of an international intelligence organization that wants Lee to go an clandestine amanuensis. The organization has been investigating a man named Han (Shih Kien), a former student of Lee's main, who lives in an island fortress and oversees a criminal empire that has its hands in kidnappings, drugs, and prostitution. Braithwaite's organization "know[south] everything, but tin prove nothing", so they recruit a reluctant Lee to infiltrate Han's island during a martial arts tournament held there once every three years and gather evidence that volition uncover his crimes. Other cardinal characters of the flick include fellow martial creative person Williams (Jim Kelly), martial creative person and unlucky gambler Roper (John Saxon), and another undercover agent named Mei Ling (Betty Chung). Though the heroes don't often cooperate with each other directly, they each individually work to uncover the secrets of Han's secret functioning, risking the deadly penalties imposed by Han and his Made of Atomic number 26 bodyguard O'Hara (Robert Wall).

Enter the Dragon is still considered one of the finest martial arts films in history. Critics take often praised it for its ethnic equality, as it features heroes of European, African, and Asian descent. It also features Lee as a philosophical warrior, assuasive him to tie in his own personal philosophies of martial arts by virtue of his personally rewriting the script to add dialogue at the opening Shaolin Temple scenes. Of course, the real beauty of the picture is in the exquisite fight sequences showcasing Lee in his absolute prime alongside with an splendid supporting cast and stunt crew (including time to come martial arts stars Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan). Run into for yourself.

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Enter the Dragon contains the following tropes:

• The Ace: Lee is leagues above nearly every other martial creative person in the tournament. But Han is able to even contest him through dingy fighting and the use of weapons, and Han himself was leagues above everyone else. Every other fight Lee gets into is a Curb-Stomp Battle, and one of the more pivotal activeness scenes in the flick is him kicking the asses of a modest ground forces. He's also shown to exist clever, down-to-earth, spiritual notwithstanding streetwise, no stranger to bloodshed, and unshakably moral.
• Acrid Pool: The spiked pit of light-green liquid Han lowers Williams' trunk into is meant to be this, but only the Cantonese version has the bubbling sound effects of the dissolving body that brand it clearer it'due south acrid.
• Activeness Girl: Lee'southward sister, Su Lin, counts because of the problem she gave The Dragon. (Angela Mao Ying would continue to be a martial arts star in her own right in Hong Kong.)
• Action Prologue: Before the opening credits even begin, Bruce Lee fights and beats Sammo Hung in a nonlethal kung fu match at a Shaolin Temple in Hong Kong.
• Afro Asskicker: Williams is the Ur-Example; he is a blackness homo with an afro and serious martial arts skills.
• Desperation of the Feet: Williams throws a kick at Han, who blocks it with his metallic prosthetic hand. Williams clutches his pes in pain.
• The Ambitious Drug Dealer: Turns out that Mr. Han tin afford his private isle fortress and Thug Dojo by making cocaine in a laboratory concealed inside said isle and selling it (he even invited Roper in the hopes that he would get his amanuensis in his planned expansion to u.s.a.)...and abducts women from the streets of Hong Kong, getting them forcibly hooked on the cocaine in gild to "create demand."
• All In that location in the Script: Han'due south secretarial assistant/madame is named Tania.
• Amazon Brigade: Han's daughters too serve equally his personal guard. He is too accompanied past several female servants who are skilled with throwing darts.
• And Starring: "Introducing Jim Kelly as Williams."
• Anti-Climax: The fight with O'Hara. Up to that signal, O'Hara was congenital upward as some sort of Implacable Man who had Charles Atlas Superpower level strength and endurance (also, he was responsible for the expiry of Lee's sister) but Lee took him down with just a couple of kicks.
• Curvation-Enemy: Mr. Han to Lee.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Parsons from New Zealand, until Lee puts him in his place.
• Creative License – Martial Arts: Many of the extras in the courtyard fighting scenes are wearing wristwatches. They would exist banned at an actual martial arts contest.
• As You Know: Why Lee suggests guns for his mission, Braithwaite says this while explaining that the possession of a firearm is a serious offence.
• Bad Boss: Han punishes guards for incompetence by having Bolo beat them to death.
• Badass Boast: Lee wasn't impressed with O'Hara's breaking a wooden lath with a punch before their fight.

  Lee: Boards don't hit back.

• Baddie Flattery: Han is impressed with Lee'south prowess:

  Your boxing with the guards was magnificent, your skill is boggling. And I was going to ask you to join usa.

• Fustigate Brothers: Lee and Roper get this in the penultimate battle, every bit they fight off Han'southward Mooks side by side.
• Batter Up!: The one Mook who survives this Curb-Stomp Battle responds to Lee's Fighting with Chucks in this manner. Then information technology becomes a One-Hit KO.
• Beneath the Mask: In reference to Han, the villain, whose martial-arts tournament is a front for a really nasty operation: "You must remember...the enemy has just images and illusions, backside which he hides his true motives. Destroy the image, and you volition intermission the enemy."
• Improve to Die than Exist Killed: Lee's sister Su Lin stabs herself with a piece of broken glass when she is cornered by O'Hara and his henchmen.
• Big Bad: Han.
• Large Badass Boxing Sequence: The Black Robes and the white gi in the Terminal Battle.
• Bigot with a Badge: Williams gets into a fight with racist cops prior to getting on the boat for the tournament. Their master slur for him is "jig", but when Williams fights back, they expect positively enthusiastic upon getting a chance to do him ugly for "assaulting a police officeholder."
• Bittersweet Ending: Lee avenges his sis and completes his mission, simply Williams and Tania are dead.
• Blackness Dude Dies Showtime: Williams, in conjunction with the Sacrificial Lion situation.
• Black Is Bigger in Bed: Subverted. Williams is among the martial arts contestants offered some feminine "visitor" for the evening from Han's Paid Harem. He picks out four of them, and and then apologizes to the rest of the girls that, um, he's "a little tired" this evening.
• Blade Beneath the Shoulder: Blazon 3. Han replaces his prosthetic mitt with spiked and bladed weapons to fight against Lee.
• Bract on a Stick: At 1 point, Han uses a spear confronting Lee.
• Bodyguard Babes: Han's daughters are his personal bodyguards. Every bit Roper says, "No one'south more loyal than Daddy's fiddling girl."
• Bond Villain Stupidity: Han really captures Lee at ane bespeak, subsequently Lee has wiped out dozens of guards and made his intentions to sabotage Han's operation all as well articulate. Just unlike how he handled Williams, Han doesn't impale Lee. Instead, he tries to become Roper to fight him to the death, apparently to gear up some kind of example (he calls it "edification") and also mayhap to test Roper's loyalty. However, Roper refuses (not actually to Han'south surprise) and anarchy ultimately ensues.
• Brick Break: O'Hara does this to a lath with a standing punch correct in front of Lee. Lee'southward response: "Boards don't striking back." Information technology turns out that O'Hara doesn't either.
• Briefs Boasting: The unnamed opponent wearing blackness bikini briefs certainly loves to brag.
• Broomstick Quarterstaff: This is how the unimpressed mook that bears witness to Lee Fighting with Chucks attempts to counter.
• The Peachy: Parsons abuses some poor kid on the boat conveying oranges and tries to goad Lee into a fight. He gets humiliated twice - get-go by Lee while demonstrating "the art of fighting without fighting" and by Williams in the tournament.
• Menu-Conveying Villain: Han freely admits to Roper that his business is all near corruption.
• Cartoonish Supervillainy: Lampshaded by Williams after seeing Han's island base of operations and his overtly breathy evil.

  Williams: Man...y'all come right out of a comic book.

• The Casanova: Both Williams and Roper have a way with the ladies.
• Catchphrase: Roper's appears to be "wanna bet?"
• Cats Take Ix Lives: Han challenges Mr. Roper to pull the cord on a guillotine with a cat in said guillotine. Instead, Roper picks the cat up, says "Now yous've got eight more than" and lets it go.
• The Cavalry Arrives Belatedly: The war machine flies to the island but after the villains are taken care of and mere seconds earlier the end credits.
• Celibate Hero: Unlike Roper and Williams, Lee doesn't indulge in whatsoever of the women on the island; the only 1 he deals with is the undercover agent who came ahead of him.
• Chairman of the Brawl: During the final battle, someone gets hitting by a chair.
• Chekhov's Gun: In one scene, Roper is taken through Mr. Han's museum, which includes a glass display case with several replacement weapon-easily. 1 of them, a metal claw, is used during the big fight with Lee in the end. In addition, during the large fight (which takes place in said museum room, acting every bit another Chekhov'south Gun), Mr. Han tries throwing a spear at Lee, which goes through a wall and into the Hall of Mirrors beyond. The climax of the pic involves Lee kicking Han correct into the spear and Impaling Him With Extreme Prejudice. Also, the advice that Bruce takes nigh "smashing the paradigm" in order to defeat Han was itself a Chekhov's Lecture given by Bruce's master near the very beginning of the film.
• Vesture Damage: Lee's shirt gets torn at the outset of the fight in the drug factory. He then ditches the shirt and spends the rest of the picture shirtless.
• Combat Pragmatist:
  • When Roper is caught in an armbar, instead of using a martial arts technique to become out of it, he opts to simply bite his opponent's leg. Humorously, whatever grappler knows that this would only country you a broken arm rather than a hold escape.
  • Lee vs Han isn't a remotely fair fight going on concrete prowess alone. Han has to employ weapons and dirty tricks to keep up with Lee.
• Co-Dragons: Bolo and O'Hara are Han's two top enforcers on the island. The Hero Lee fights O'Hara, with whom he has a deeply personal enmity, while Deuteragonist Roper fights Bolo immediately prior to the Final Boxing.
• Colour-Coded Characters: In the Final Battle, all of Han'southward henchmen are dressed in white gi, while all of the shanghaied men are dressed in black attire.
• Conservation of Ninjutsu: Every hero (and fifty-fifty a villain in ane scene) gets the chance to kick the crap out of multiple guys at in one case, simply their one-on-one fights are more protracted.
• Creepy Souvenir: The skeletal hand among all of the other warrior-related gadgets in Han's bays room, which he describes to Roper with this exact term. It'south pretty much unsaid that it's his ain missing hand, because the amiable sarcasm he uses when he says it.
• Cultured Badass: Lee starts the movie by winning a not-lethal bout confronting Sammo Hung; he then discusses Shaolin philosophy with his teacher.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Lee vs O'Hara. Nosotros're led to believe that O'Hara will put up a reasonable fight, being The Dragon and all. Instead, he doesn't even get the courtesy of getting a punch in (well, he gets a kick, merely Lee is just too quick for him).
  • Lee's fight with Han's minions in the drug factory counts as well. By the fourth dimension Lee's captured, he's already mowed down at least a couple dozen of them. From the fourth dimension the fight starts to the moment it ends, Lee takes downwardly 50 people, most of them with one or two blows each.
  • Williams beats Parsons in combat with piffling to no difficulty. Sadly, he gets pulverised by Han after.
• Daddy's Little Villain: Han trained his daughters equally his personal bodyguards on the theory that no 1 will be more loyal to him. One of them tosses Roper articulate off his feet rather than give him a handshake.

  Roper: Nobody's as loyal as Daddy's picayune daughter.

• Dead Guy on Display: Williams. Roper sees him and damn near soils himself.
• Death by Cameo: Jackie Chan was a stuntman and extra for the flick before he became famous; he appears during the drug factory battle, where he has a short fight with Bruce Lee before his cervix is snapped. He is also one of the guards who Lee hits with a staff (Jackie was accidentally hitting in real life in this scene).
• Death Glare:
  • Lee's response when a mook harasses him about not doing the morning routine in uniform. Said mook promptly leaves wordlessly.
  • Hell, yous could brand a Drinking Game for all the times Bruce Lee glares at someone and be totally plastered past the end.
• Deuteragonist: Roper. He gets his ain story arc with Han completely independent from Lee'south, and a pretty solid dose of Character Evolution. John Saxon is billed correct side by side to Bruce Lee in the opening credits, and it doesn't feel unjustified.
• Divide and Conquer: Defied. Han tries to strength Roper and Lee to fight to the death but they refuse. He sends Bolo in to do the chore instead.
• Disproportionate Retribution: The two racist cops that are clobbered by Williams are patently looking for whatever reason to apply Law Brutality on a black guy, but the one that starts the fight seemingly really hates the fact Williams was going to go to Hawaii in his flight to Hong Kong.
• Doesn't Like Guns: Han does not allow guns on his island because he had a bad experience with them. Information technology would also make him vulnerable to bump-off and provide an easy pretext for outside forces to perform a raid of his island.
• Don't Think, Experience: One of Lee's lines in this film is the Trope Namer.

  "Information technology is similar a finger, pointing away to the moon...(Dope Slap) Don't concentrate on the finger or you lot volition miss all that heavenly glory."

• Dope Slap: Lee does this to a Shaolin pupil later on teaching him how to kick with feeling.

  Lee: How did that experience?

  Lao: Permit me call back...

  Lee: [slaps him] Don't think! Feeeeeel. [points to the sky] It is similar a finger pointing a way to the Moon. [sees Lao looking at his finger and slaps him again] Don't concentrate on the finger, or yous will miss all that heavenly glory.

• The Dragon: Bolo for Mr. Han. Killing him falls to Roper, rather than Lee (who goes straight for Han as soon as Bolo is defeated).
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: No ane, not fifty-fifty Han, tin reasonably match Lee in a fight. So he not but uses hook easily, but traps Lee in the famous Hall of Mirrors to try and fifty-fifty the odds.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him:
  • O'Hara's death should exist expected, as he is a villain and Lee wants revenge for his sister's death, but instead of dying in the climax equally is unremarkably the case in revenge plots, he kicks it midway through the movie in a pretty one-sided battle confronting Lee.
  • Tania is killed offscreen and abruptly.
• Duel to the Death: Several - Lee vs. O'Hara, Williams vs. Han, Roper vs. Bolo and Lee vs. Han.
• Enter Eponymous
• Epic Movie
• Escalating Brawl: The climactic battle starts off with Roper and Bolo fighting one-on-1. After Roper kills Bolo, Han sends his mooks to Zerg Rush Roper and Lee, who concord them off until Han'due south prisoners (recently released by Mei Ling) launch their ain attack and all hell breaks loose.
• Fifty-fifty Evil Has Standards: For all of Han'southward villainy, he is dead serious nigh the tournament rules; not even O'Hara is exempt. Han is visibly and audibly angered by his attempting to catch Lee'southward leg after existence knocked downwards, and the concluding straw is when O'Hara attacks Lee with broken bottles. In one case Lee has killed him, Han declares that "O'Hara's treachery has disgraced usa" rather than being displeased at Lee killing 1 of his top men.
• Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting: The film ends with a massive kung fu battle. On i side y'all have Han's ground forces of martial arts students, trained to impale mercilessly with their blank easily. On the other side you lot have...a bunch of vagrants and runaways, kidnapped from the streets of Hong Kong and freshly released from Han'south dungeons. And Bruce Lee. The two sides announced to be about evenly matched.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Han volition torture your best friend to death and so show yous his corpse, not out of sadism but because he wants y'all to join him and would rather yous exist fully aware of the depravities you'll be party to as his ally. Needless to say, Roper doesn't get for information technology.
• Evil Program: Han has a long running one involving drug and Sex Slave trafficking. He uses the tournament to recruit new talent.
• Fighting with Chucks: Lee takes them from a clueless mook and demonstrates how to actually use the nunchaku. Which is not how one really uses the nunchaku; it was just used to either strangle an enemy or become upside their head with information technology, like a western flail. All the fancy spinning and twirling was popularized by none other than Bruce Lee himself, who did it and then spectacularly that everyone merely assumed that's how you were supposed to use nunchaku. On the other hand, this display is enough to nonplus another mook, who grabs a stick and charges. Then he gets flailed.
• Final Battle: A gigantic melee between Han'south mooks in white and the freed prisoners in black (come across Color-Coded Characters). This is besides the key sign that the picture was shot in People's republic of china.
• Finishing Stomp: Lee finishes off O'Hara with a leaping, two foot stomp.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Lee and Roper may not meet eye-to-eye at showtime, only they waste petty fourth dimension in teaming up confronting Han's mooks during the climax.
• Flashback: Several early in the movie, showing the backstories and motivations of the characters.
• Strange Queasine: Williams is disgusted by the nutrient at the banquet.
• Funny Bruce Lee Noises: Of class the Trope Namer does this, specially in his fights with O'Hara and Han.
• The Gambling Addict: Roper. Information technology'south implied this is why he's in debt in the get-go identify, hence why he enters the tournament.
• Genius Bruiser: Lee isn't merely a kickass fighter; he'southward also a philosopher, as his teacher taught him.
• Genre Mashup: Information technology'southward a martial arts picture with the trappings of a James Bond film with a scrap of blaxploitation thrown in.
• Genre Refugee: Williams is a Blaxploitation character in a martial-arts picture.
• A Glass in the Hand: Subsequently being soundly defeated by Lee, O'Hara grabs a bottle and shatters it, intending to use information technology on Lee. Unfortunately for O'Hara, this wasn't plenty to prevent him beingness literally crushed underfoot.
• Good Colors, Evil Colors: Inverts the Western convention. In Chinese culture white is associated with death and black is associated with life. In the Final Battle, Han'due south mooks all vesture white and all of the prisoners fighting them wearable blackness.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Subverted. O'Hara has a (ordinarily) heroic "crossing ane middle just not damaging it" scar, but is definitely evil.
• Practiced Weapon, Evil Weapon: Lee uses a Elementary Staff, Eskrima sticks and nunchaku on occasion and his own way of martial arts the remainder of the time, while Han'south evilness is emphasized by his penchant for sinister-looking claw easily.
• Grievous Bottley Damage: O'Hara is getting destroyed past Lee, and in frustration grabs a canteen from an on-looker and smashes information technology. In the scene where he actually breaks information technology, he ends upward with a very tiny stem of the bottle in his paw, with very minor jagged edges to act every bit a weapon. In the next scene cut, he is threatening Lee with a more visually appropriately cleaved canteen. Of class, it nevertheless doesn't practise him any skilful...
• Groin Assault: Lee'due south sis gives one to a mook in a flashback, Lee as well delivers one to O'Hara during their fight, and Roper gives one to Bolo.
• Guile Hero:
  • Roper is a gambler who begins to purposefully lose a fight in order to swindle a spectator out of money and is upfront about the fact that he plans to trick Lee into losing money. Despite this, he is still seen as mannerly to both the audience and the other characters.
  • Lee codified this as part of his fighting manner, "The Art of Fighting Without Fighting".
• Hall of Mirrors: The setting for the terminal showdown is ane of these where Han avoids Lee through the reflection trick.
• Hand Wave: The reason Lee doesn't gets a gun from Interpol when they offer him whatever equipment and no guns are ever seen on the island is a complicated event regarding weapons ownership legalities in British territorial waters and Han having survived a prior assassination attempt. Lee can simply show (not entirely fictional) annoyance at hearing that explanation.
• Hero of Some other Story: Lee may exist The Hero, only Roper and Williams have their own backstories that are shown via flashbacks, and they all find themselves opposing Han.
• Hit Me, Dammit!: Lee teaching a younger student to kick with feeling (but not acrimony).
• Horrible Gauge of Graphic symbol: Han tries to recruit Roper into his organization, playing on Roper'south debts in America, then direct afterward showing his whole drug lab and plans, shows Roper the hanging body of Williams' who is a close friend of Roper, and seems to accept Roper joining despite Roper doing so while clearly full of rage at his friend's death. Unsurprisingly, this comes back to seize with teeth Han badly.
• Hustling the Mark: Roper and Williams pull this trick in a tournament fight.
• If Y'all're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: Han tests Roper's limits with a nearly-literal example of this. When Han places his pet true cat onto a guillotine, Roper saves the cat, says "Now you've got eight more," and lets the true cat go. Han used this situation to meet if Roper had a line he would non cross; he shows Roper that the pull chain was but for a surreptitious lift, not the guillotine.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Mr. Han meets his terminate when Lee kicks him into a spear that Han had earlier hurled at him during an early part of their concluding duel, which also makes this a instance of Hoisty By His Own Petard.
• Inertial Impalement: Mr. Han meets his end when Lee kicks him right into a spear sticking out of a wall, a spear that Han tried to kill Lee with in the adjoining chamber earlier on in the fight.
• Intimidation Demonstration: O'Hara breaks a board with his fist in an intimidating style. Lee is non impressed.

  "Boards don't hit back."

• It'due south Personal with the Dragon: Lee's rivalry with O'Hara stems from the death of his sister.
• Wiggle with a Eye of Gold: Roper is a conman but he has limits. He wants null to do with Han'southward performance, and he genuinely respects Lee and teams upwardly with him during the Concluding Boxing.
• Kick Them While They Are Down: Lee kills O'Hara with a jumping stomp later being pushed too far by the latter'south attempt to kill him with broken bottles.
• Killed Offscreen: Tania, Han'due south banana, is seen expressionless after the final boxing. How she died and who killed her is a mystery.
• Kung-Shui: Evident in the climax where chairs, staffs, and anything made of wood is shattered to splinters.
• Concluding-Name Basis: Every primary character goes by his last name.
• Literal Metaphor: Early on in the pic, Lee'south master tells him, "The enemy has only images and illusions, backside which he hides his true motives. Destroy the image and yous will intermission the enemy." When fighting Han in the hall of mirrors, Lee reinterprets this communication and begins to suspension the mirrors and then he can draw Han out.
• Lots of Luggage: Roper brings several rickshaws worth of luggage with him on his mode to the tournament.
• Fabricated of Iron: O'Hara is played up equally this in the video that Lee watches. Subverted when they really fight; against Lee, O'Hara may every bit well exist Made of Plasticine.
• Man Bites Human being: Roper bites down on Bolo while in a leg lock to get him to let go.
• Martial Arts Uniform: Nigh every martial artist on Han's island wears a Gi, and they did and so for pretty much the whole moving picture. Except Lee, who insists on wearing his Chinese-style clothes instead.
• Meaningful Name: Roper is a con man who ropes people into his bets.
• Men of Sherwood: The imprisoned Black Robes in the Last Boxing; Han slashes ane of them.
• Mission Briefing: Braithwaite gives Lee ane before sending him to Han's island.
• Mooks: The White Robes in the Concluding Battle.
• Morality Concatenation Across the Grave: This is explicitly addressed during the cemetery scene where Lee swears vengeance for Su Lin:

  Lee: You volition not agree with what I'm going to do. It is contrary to all that you have taught me, and all that Su Lin believed. I must exit. Please endeavor to find a way to forgive me.

• Mugging the Monster:
  • There were virtually a dozen or and so people on that boat. Parson decided Lee was the all-time i to pick a fight with. (Actually, though, he was lucky; Lee was content to but play a joke on him, while Williams and Roper would accept more probable whooped him.)
  • Both Roper and Williams are introduced beating up groups of men who idea they'd be piece of cake pickings: gambling debt collectors for Roper, racist cops for Williams.
• Multi-Mook Melee: Bruce Lee vs. l mooks. Approximate who wins.
• Neck Snap: Quite a few people are killed this mode, including one character (Jackie Chan in his cameo appearance) getting his neck snapped by Lee during a battle.
• Never Bring A Pocketknife To A Fistfight:
  • Lee'due south uncle slashes O'Hara'south confront with a knife merely is disarmed with a few punches and kicks.
  • After, O'Hara comes after Lee with two broken bottles and is similarly disarmed.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Han kills Williams by beating him to death with his cast iron hand.
• Non Only a Tournament: The hero participates in the tournament, but was actually sent at that place to uncover evidence about the tournament organizer's criminal activities.
  • Said tournament is also being used by the Big Bad equally way to scout for new talent.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Roper has three of them: one comical-nonetheless-serious one when Han reveals his opium ring, i when he sees Williams' corpse (he slow motion mouths the words "Oh shit"), and a debatable third one when Han orders Roper to fight Lee. In the first two cases, Roper may be a con artist, just he draws the line at murder and drug trafficking; in the last, he has seen what Lee is capable of and doesn't want to mess with him.
  • And then there are the two villains in the radio room when Lee unleashes a venomous snake. They waste matter niggling fourth dimension in getting the hell out.
• Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: Inverted. If the characters are the same ages as their actors, Han is quondam plenty to be Lee'southward father.
• Opium Den: Williams meets his stop in one of these at the easily of Mr. Han.
• Pacifist Dojo: The Shaolin Temple. Han was a student, but perverted the arts for evil.
• Police Are Useless: The Hong Kong Police take been utterly ineffective at trying to auscultate Han. They have been unable to get together whatever evidence, they have not been able to communicate with their secret agent in the compound, their easily are tied in general because of the absurdities of politics between Hong Kong and mainland Mainland china (and Han's island lying in the border) and when Lee sends out a message, the cavalry arrives at to the lowest degree one-half an 60 minutes late.
• Constabulary Brutality: Inverted in Williams' dorsum-story when he kicks the crap out of racist police officers and and so drives off in their car.
• Power Fist: Mr Han conceals one, while wearing gloves, and uses information technology for offense and defense.
• Pre Ass Boot One Liner:

  Lee: You lot have offended my family, and you have offended the Shaolin Temple.

  Williams: Man...yous come up right out of a comic book. (Subverted, though, in that Han beats Williams to death.)

  Lee: Boards don't hit dorsum.

• Punched Across the Room: In the scene where Lee kicks O'Hara off his feet and into a crowd of spectators, one of the stunt men was bowled over with such force that he broke his arm. Jackie Chan got knocked out by a glancing accident from Bruce'due south nunchuk. Jackie admits it was his own mistake: he wasn't on his marking, and would have been fine if he'd been where the fight choreography required him to be. Bruce was and then horrified after the scene, he helped Jackie up and hugged him, apologizing profusely. Jackie admitted that he hammed up how much pain he was in because he didn't desire Bruce to end hugging him. He claims it's i of the greatest things that has happened to him in his entire career.
• A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: Han was a educatee at the Shaolin temple until he became an organized law-breaking boss. Lee, a more than loyal student of the temple, is sent to cease him.

  Lee: You accept offended my family, and you have offended the Shaolin temple.

• The Quiet One:
  • Lee is the potent, tranquillity type.
  • O'Hara and Bolo. The one-time but has i line in the motion picture - "Y'all will attend the morning ritual in unifom".
• Rated G for Manly: Bruce Lee in a fighting tournament as a secret agent? Yep, that earns the rating.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Braithwaite is this, if not specially effective. It's not entirely his error, though.
• Red Right Hand: Mr. Han is missing 1 hand and likes to supplant information technology with various killer prosthetics (such as a literal fe paw or the claws that inflicted the iconic scratch mark injuries on Lee). O'Hara as well has a jagged scar on his face that we before long discover was inflicted by Lee'south father in an attempt to end O'Hara from raping Lee'southward sister.
• Right-Hand Cat: Han, trying to recruit Roper into joining his arrangement, carries a fluffy white cat. To test Roper'southward resolve, Han sets the cat downward in the business concern area of a guillotine and offers to allow Roper pull the concatenation. Roper declines.
• Sacrificial King of beasts: Williams, ane of the three heroes, is killed mid-motion-picture show.
• Salt and Pepper: Roper and Williams. Both are pretty even-tempered.
• Same Language Dub:
  • Shih Kien (Han) couldn't speak English, so he was dubbed past Keye Luke.
  • Peter Archer (Parsons) was dubbed by another histrion because the director didn't feel that his voice was "New Zealand" enough, though the dubbed vox sounded nil like a New Zealander's accent.
  • When the extended Cantonese/Mandarin versions were released for the beginning time in English in 1998, some extra dubbing had to be washed, because no English language dialogue existed at that time for those scenes. Ane of the scenes involved Roy Chiao (Shaolin Abbott) and Bruce Lee. Chiao was withal alive (he died shortly thereafter), and was able to dub himself, but Lee'due south voice was supplied past his biographer John Trivial. Luckily, Lee'due south existent voice was left alone for the scenes that originally used it.
• Saying Sound Furnishings Out Loud: When Williams is being threatened in Han's office, Han calls in some guards to trounce him up. Williams says "Human, you come right out of a comic book!" and beats up the guards. This isn't strictly in the motion-picture show, but in the novelization (and perchance in some out-takes somewhere), he beats upwards said guards with appropriate shouts, similar "Bam" and "Kapow".
• Scenery Porn: One of Bruce Lee'south stated goals was to prove the beauty of Chinese civilization in this movie, and good lord does it evidence, especially in the gorgeous dinner scene.
• Shout-Out:
  • One scene shows Lee dealing with an big-headed fellow contestant who wants a fight. Lee says the ship is too cramped for a duel, and so they should accept i of the lifeboats to a nearby isle and settle things in that location. Every bit before long as the other guy gets in, Lee kicks the lifeboat down and lets the poor schmuck go dragged behind the boat. This is a direct reference to Tsukahara Bokuden, who is believed to have washed the aforementioned thing in one case.
  • Roper makes i to Laurel and Hardy.

    (to himself in the mirror) "Another fine mess you got me into."

• Soft Glass: During the filming, Bruce Lee got quite badly lacerated during a have of his fight with O'Hara, equally the glass bottles Robert Wall smashed to make his ersatz daggers were quite real.
• Sore Loser: O'Hara is so angry that Lee beat him that he breaks two glass bottles and tries to set on Lee with them, which is what leads to Lee finally ending his life.
• Soul Brotha: Williams is a skilled and afroed martial creative person that is "also busy looking good" to have time for losing. This dude is and then cool the music even changes to become funkier when he makes his commencement appearance afterward the credits scene.
• Spoiler Encompass: Williams' corpse is on the poster, spoiling his death.
• Stating the Simple Solution: Lee brings this very point upwardly to Braithewaite, only for a jerky explanation that Han would never allow a gun to ever be brought to his home. Lee visibly rolls his eyes at this. This is considering even though Bruce Lee was a martial arts master without equal at the time, he had admittedly no illusions on the firearms vs. martial arts debate and, playing a (sort of) clandestine agent in this movie, very much wanted to use one. Only the producers nixed this idea, much to Bruce'south badgerer.
• Storming the Castle: The climax plays with this trope slightly past having the force that attacks the villain'south base be prisoners freed from inside.
• Suppressed Rage: Roper is quivering with barely-restrained fury when Han shows him Williams' dead body.

  Roper: And you desire me to bring together this?

• Swiss Army Appendage: Mr. Han has a hand-stump, to which he attaches a jade fist, tiger claws and a bagh nakh.
• Talking to the Dead: Lee visits the graves of his mother and sister, asking them to forgive him for his plan to avenge Su Lin.
• A Threesome Is Hot: The hostess of the isle brings an assortment of girls around for each of the fighters to choose a companion for the night. Williams chooses four, and and then apologizes to the residuum for snubbing them because he'south a petty tired.
• The Animal: Bolo.
• To Win Without Fighting: Lee describes his fighting style to an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy equally "the art of fighting without fighting," then proceeds to demonstrate information technology past tricking him into boarding a tiny row-gunkhole which Lee so kicks out, causing it to be dragged backside the ship.
• Tranquil Fury: Lee is chock full of this trope. When facing O'Hara, he doesn't break out the Funny Bruce Lee Noises until after O'Hara attacks with anger on the encephalon, and fifty-fifty and so, he keeps his cool...until he kills him. Even when facing Han, Lee states his intentions in an eerily calm tone earlier proceeding with the fight:

  Lee: You have offended my family, and y'all take offended The Shaolin Temple.

• Trapped by Gambling Debts: Roper has congenital up some sizable gambling debts, which Han tries to use to persuade him to go his amanuensis in America. Roper, yet, refuses to join him. (The fact that Han had just killed Roper's friend Williams may have something to practice with that.)
• Trope Codifier: Since this movie, almost every other piece of work of martial arts tournament fiction has borrowed from Enter The Dragon, specially its usage of the main hero seeking revenge against the Big Bad in a fighting tournament in a faraway exotic location full of colorful villains and other supporting heroes with their ain personal motives for entering.
• Truth in Television:
  • In Existent Life, Bruce Lee was once put into an armbar during a sparring session, and his opponent asked what he'd do in this situation. Bruce responded, "Why, I'd bite your leg, of course." In the picture, Roper does this in his fight with Bolo.
  • People who visit Hong Kong in the decades afterward the film will notice how much the urban center has changed since then.
• Unknown Rival: Oddly enough, Han notices and confronts Williams and Roper before he ever meets the protagonist of the movie. This is in spite of the fact that Lee was sent at that place for the specific purpose of bringing the villain down while the two minor characters were at the tournament for unrelated reasons.
• Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: Han throws a spear at Lee, which goes straight through a wall and stays there. During the fight, Lee kicks Han into the spear and kills him.
• The Vietnam Vet: A chip of dialogue betwixt Williams and Roper suggests that they both fought in 'Nam.
• Villainous Breakdown: O'Hara seemed confident he could beat out Lee, only when the fight starts, Lee takes him down rather easily. O'Hara gets angry and tries to beat up Lee but fails horribly. He then tries to kill Lee with broken bottles, who again overpowers O'Hara and kills him.
• Violence Is Disturbing: Even though O'Hara was a treacherous bounder who caused Su Lin's death and attacked Lee himself with a broken canteen, Lee looks on the verge of tears after stamping his chest in.
• Warrior Monk: Lee, courtesy of his Shaolin training. The first two scenes establish both his ass-boot and philosophical credentials. (The philosophy give-and-take was in fact added to the script by Bruce himself.)
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Mei Ling is concluding seen freeing the captives.
• What the Fu Are Yous Doing?: A mook who has been given footling training trying to use nunchucks while he thinks no one can see. His obvious mistakes requite away his inexperience to Lee, who proceeds to demonstrate how it's washed. This may not be shown on the edit/cutting/version you're watching, though.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Lee brings this up correct away, but he'south visibly disappointed by the answer (guns aren't immune on Han'due south isle). Off-screen, Bruce Lee was excited most playing a sort-of secret agent in this movie because he very much wanted to use a gun in at least one scene. Thanks to the flick's producers nixing this idea, the badgerer Lee portrays on-camera is existent.
• The Worf Upshot:
  • Williams takes down two cops, Parsons, and a gang of mooks in order to prove he is a badass...then he goes up against Han.
  • Nosotros're shown multiple times how scary O'Hara is...then he goes up against Lee, who barely breaks a sweat while wiping the floor with him.
• Wolverine Claws: Han replaces his prosthetic hand with these in the final fight against Lee.
• Wrestler in All of Us:
  • Bolo's style, while Eastern in origin, however consists of a lot of grappling—and even a bonebreaker.
  • In the opening fight scene, Lee defeats his opponent via a crucifix submission.
• Xanthous Peril: With the motion picture having a large number of Asian characters, including the hero, ane might come across an Asian villain as to be expected and thus, an aversion. However, Mr. Han nevertheless draws on stereotypes from such Yellow Peril characters every bit Fu Manchu and Dr. No, including living on his own private isle, having an underground lair, keeping harems of women, smuggling opium, kidnapping innocents, beingness fascinated with weaponry and martial arts, and possibly dabbling in black magic.
• You Have Failed Me: When Han's security guards neglect at their duties, he forces them to fight Bolo to "show their worth". It'due south nothing more than than a public execution.
• Zen Slap: During the scene with his educatee, Lee smacks his student on the head several times, once for telling him "Let me retrieve..." when asked a question nearly how he felt ("Don't think. Feeeeeeeel."), and again when he focuses on Lee's finger when he's talking virtually a finger pointing to the moon.

  Lee: Don't concentrate on the finger, or you lot will miss all the heavenly glory.

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