
These Fists Break Bricks
How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World
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Grady Hendrix
When a major Hollywood studio released Five Fingers of Death to thrill-seeking Times Square moviegoers on March 21, 1973, only a handful of Black and Asian American audience members knew the difference between an Iron Fist and an Eagle's Claw. That changed overnight as kung fu movies kicked off a craze that would earn millions at the box office, send TV ratings soaring, sell hundreds of thousands of video tapes, influence the birth of hip hop, reshape the style of action we see in movies today, and introduce America to some of the biggest non-White stars to ever hit motion-picture screens.
This book tells the bone-blasting, spine-shattering story of how these films of fury - spawned in anti-colonial protests on the streets of Hong Kong - came to America and raised hell for 15 years before greed, infomercials, and racist fearmongering shut them down. You'll meet Japanese judo coaches battling American wrestlers in backwoods MMA bouts at county fairs, Black teenagers with razor sharp kung fu skills heading to Hong Kong to star in movies shot super fast so they can make it back to the States in time to start 10th grade, and Puerto Rican karate coaches making their way in this world with nothing but their own two fists. It's about an 11-year-old boy who not only created the first fan edit but somehow turned it into a worldwide moneymaker, CIA agents secretly funding a karate movie, the New York Times fabricating a fear campaign about Black "karate gangs" out to kill White people, the history of Black martial arts in America ("Why does judo or karate suddenly get so ominous because Black men study it?," wondered Malcolm X), the death of Bruce Lee and the onslaught of imitators that followed, and how a fight that started in Japanese internment camps during World War II ended in a ninja movie some 40 years later. It's a battle for recognition and respect that started a long, long time ago and continues today in movies like The Matrix, Kill Bill, and Black Panther and here, for the first time, is the full uncensored story.
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Excellent history, excellent narrator
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Stop what you are doing, and read this book!!!
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Kung Fu movie history masterpiece.
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awesome
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Oh the memories
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After Bruce’s death and the explanation of Bruceploitation and the various followers and intimaters, Hendrix is just basically naming famous and minor movie stars that were either Bruce Lee intimaters or just did some sort of martial art in a movie once. The 1980s-2010s are breezed through because Hendrix just names names and movie titles after several chapters worth of Bruceploitation stories.
The book is easy to follow and this is good since many Bruceploitation actors have variations on Bruce Lee’s name. Hendrix gives emphasis on minority communities that were many times early adaptors and students of martial arts, especially before Bruce Lee made it famous.
But I hate the narrator of the book, which is the author Hendrix. He makes the people he is quoting have voices and every start of a chapter he adds unnecessary special effects and loud volume to his voice. It is super annoying.
The story of martial arts in popular culture
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Pretty entertaining, but lacks the depth I was hoping for.
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