by Matt Medina

Oh boy Oh boy, we are back and in full swing. Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: gather round and let me start talkin' talkies! I am Matt Medina and I am pleased to talk to you guys again. SO, without further rambles here is my Talkie this week.

This week The Editor n' Chief of our beloved NEON EAGLE wanted me to do a retrospective on any movie that I chose. The movie that I picked was the Kung-Fu classic 'Big Boss' (or Fist of Fury if you aren’t familiar with the OG name). Well where do I start.....Ah yes IM A HUGE FUCKING BRUCE LEE FAN!!!!!! I love all of his movies, yes even Game Of Death but the only reason I like it is because of the ridiculous thing that they did in that movie to make it seem that Bruce was still in it after minute 15. But that is for another day. TODAY we talk Big Boss so here is a plot summary:

Chein (Bruce Lee) is a city boy who moves with his cousins to work at an ice factory. He does this with a family promise never to get involved in any fight. However, when members of his family begin disappearing after meeting the management of the ice factory, the resulting mystery and pressures forces him to break that vow and take on the villainy of the 'Big Boss'.

As you read that it is short, sweet, and straight to the point. With this being an early 70s movie there is a lot of cheesy things like bright red fake blood, and easy to catch edits of people getting hit with knives and hatchets. Even with all goofy crap this movie still kicks ass 5 ways to Sunday. If you’ve never seen this movie and are a fan of any classic GOLDEN HARVEST movie or any old Kung-Fu talkie, then I highly recommend this. So with this being Bruce Lee's first major motion picture it's one of his best, he even helped write it, and Lo Wei directed it with Bruce's help. Bruce choreographed most of the fights scenes but that’s a given since he is BRUCE LEE. Anyway, when the film was released in Hong Kong in 1971, it included scenes that were later removed from all mainstream versions. Those scenes where of a man being cut in half by a circular saw, a man's forehead spewing blood from an artery cut caused by a knife, and a notorious depicti0n of a villain killed by "vertical partial cranial laceration" with a hand saw......Yeah that’s some heavy shit. But I cannot stress enough that I really love this movie. As with my other reviews don’t just take my word for it, go see it and start doing high kicks around your house and your place of work. OK so that is the end of my review/love letter to Bruce Lee and his Legacy.

Thanks of sitting down or standing up in a bus to hang out with me to talk talkies. I’ve have been your Talkie Shaman Matt Medina, Please come back next week when I have some other Talkie that will blow your wig off.