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| Bruce fending off the demon and keeping it at bay from Brandon? |
Year of the Synchromystic Dragon
(Part Three)
Before I get started on part 4 of this movie post, I just wanted to say "key" symbols have been hitting my consciousness from every direction lately.
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| The key symbol on the DVD menu of Dragon |
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| My Tibetan lock and keys that I purchased from the Woodford Folkfest |
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| Gold Key/Dragons? Interesting cover ... don't you think? |
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| Enter the Dragon scene from Dragon |
The last full movie Bruce would make was Enter the Dragon for Warner Bros.Pictures.
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| Bruce's real jacket worn by the actor Jason Scott Lee in the movie |
It reminds me of Micheal Jackson's red leather jacket from the Thriller days.
Rob Cohen did produce The Wiz, so there is a connection between Jackson, Cohen and the Lee's.
There are rumours that the winds that day blew away
Bruce's protective mirrors letting the demon in to Bruce's world ... or so Bruce thought.
How true this is I don't know?
Rob Cohen admits in the commentary on the DVD that
How true this is I don't know?
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| Man in the Mirror??? |
Brandon's death soon after this film was completed
really spooked him, because he made up the final fight scene between Bruce and the demon with the demon going after Brandon, who can be seen behind Bruce in the cemetery, in the very top photo in this post.
The demon in the movie Dragon wasn't the demon Bruce was seeing in his visions.
This demon is the invention of Rob's, so he could pit Bruce in battle with this demon on screen.
Rob said he used a Siberian Bear Hunter's mask in the photo above, but I think he was really trying to combine the characters of Darth Vader and Pinhead from the Hell-raiser films to give his demon a more main-stream cinema approach to a demonic entity?-)
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| Darth Vader??? |
This demon is the invention of Rob's, so he could pit Bruce in battle with this demon on screen.
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| ... or Pinhead from Hell-raiser??? |
What used to spook me when I first saw this film, was where the demon grabs Bruce and shows him his headstone.
Rob says they reproduced Bruce's actual grave for this scene above.
The photo on the grave must have since been changed, because if you Google up an image of Bruce's current headstone, he isn't wearing the sunglasses.
In fact, it is a totally different photo altogether.
When I saw the shot above I couldn't help but think the demon is showing Bruce not only his grave but the Monolith from 2001.
I couldn't help thinking of this same demon showing someone like Douglas Adams (author of The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy) his grave, since Adams died tragically young in the year 2001.
"In the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, one of the opening scenes show a group of cavemen shrieking and yelling at a black stone monolith that also appears at the end of the film, appearing to a man on his deathbed.
When I first saw this film, at the time I never looked for any deeper meaning behind symbols in popular media, and I found the appearance of the monolith to be strange and out of place. Later I came to understand that the monoliths appear just before a great revelation to or jump in the evolution of mankind.
It's pretty well agreed upon that Kubrick made the Monolith the dimensions of the cinema screens of 1968 that the film would be shown on.
That's why the film starts with the music playing for ages, while the audience stare at a black screen ... or Monolith?
Just a thought to all the Synchromystics out there, that maybe
The photo on the grave must have since been changed, because if you Google up an image of Bruce's current headstone, he isn't wearing the sunglasses.
In fact, it is a totally different photo altogether.
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| Monolith??? |
I couldn't help thinking of this same demon showing someone like Douglas Adams (author of The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy) his grave, since Adams died tragically young in the year 2001.
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| Adams', Monolithic headstone |
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| Millennium Hilton Hotel. Monolith!!! |
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| Millennium Hilton Hotel (bottom left on 2001) |
When I first saw this film, at the time I never looked for any deeper meaning behind symbols in popular media, and I found the appearance of the monolith to be strange and out of place. Later I came to understand that the monoliths appear just before a great revelation to or jump in the evolution of mankind.
The movie was made in 1968. On a quick side note, a monolith showed up in a park in Seattle on New Year’s Day 2001, only to mysteriously disappear three days later.
Years before this mysterious event (1992), the Millennium Hilton Hotel was opened.
It faced adjacent to the WTC, and anyone who followed synchromysticism at the time would be inclined to think it would bear witness to a revelation in the year 2001.
It faced adjacent to the WTC, and anyone who followed synchromysticism at the time would be inclined to think it would bear witness to a revelation in the year 2001.
The year 2001 will forever be remembered for the attacks of 911.
The television brought us horrible images of falling towers and people running from debris."
The television brought us horrible images of falling towers and people running from debris."
That's why the film starts with the music playing for ages, while the audience stare at a black screen ... or Monolith?
Just a thought to all the Synchromystics out there, that maybe
the cinema screen is the modern scrying tool after all?-)
Here's one for the conspiracy theorists out there.
In the above scene Rob explains that they had to use tempered glass, and as the stunt man is about to hit the glass they had to blow it with little explosive squibs to make it look like the stunt-man's impact breaks the glass.
Hmm ... where have I heard something like that before?
Rob also says they had to hide the camera in a mirrored box, so it wouldn't be picked up in the other mirrors as they were filming.
On the DVD scene selection chapter 32 is titled "Game of Death" this is the final battle between Bruce and the demon.
Bruce would die at 32 and in this chapter he is shown the date of his death.
He ends up defeating the demon with his favorite weapon "nunchucks".
Which interestingly when you go to Wikipedia;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunchaku
We are told that,"nunchaku were originally a short Southeast Asian flail used to thresh rice or soybeans (that is, separate the grain from the husk).
It is possible that it was developed in response to the moratorium on edged weaponry under the Satsuma daimyo after invading Okinawa in the 17th century, and that the weapon was most likely conceived and used exclusively for that end, as the configuration of actual flails and bits are unwieldy for use as a weapon.
Also, peasant farmers were forbidden conventional weaponry such as arrows or blades so they improvised using only what they had available say, farm tools such as the sickle."
Sickle?
So, the grim reaper is seemingly defeated by his own weapon in a roundabout way.
In this scene Rob says they had two days to shoot in this part of Hong Kong, but their lives were threatened by the Triads, so they had to shoot around the clock and then leave as fast as they could.
The film finishes with Bruce climbing the "Stairway to Heaven"
on the set of "Enter the Dragon" and then shadow boxing with in the sun.
And with this dedication to Brandon;
"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering"
who would die on the set of The Crow in a freak accident, after this film was all put together and ready for cinema release.
And since I mentioned the key symbol at the top of this post, along with mention of Whitley Strieber's book The Key.
I thought it was interesting that Mike Clelland should direct me through his blog to this link:
An Interview with Whitley Strieber
Where Whitley talks about Bruce Lee's encounter an nonhuman presence in a bookshop on page 2 of the above document.
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| Little explosive squibs make the glass look like it's the impact that fells it |
In the above scene Rob explains that they had to use tempered glass, and as the stunt man is about to hit the glass they had to blow it with little explosive squibs to make it look like the stunt-man's impact breaks the glass.
Hmm ... where have I heard something like that before?
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| Where's the camera??? |
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| 32? |
Bruce would die at 32 and in this chapter he is shown the date of his death.
He ends up defeating the demon with his favorite weapon "nunchucks".
Which interestingly when you go to Wikipedia;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunchaku
We are told that,"nunchaku were originally a short Southeast Asian flail used to thresh rice or soybeans (that is, separate the grain from the husk).
It is possible that it was developed in response to the moratorium on edged weaponry under the Satsuma daimyo after invading Okinawa in the 17th century, and that the weapon was most likely conceived and used exclusively for that end, as the configuration of actual flails and bits are unwieldy for use as a weapon.
Also, peasant farmers were forbidden conventional weaponry such as arrows or blades so they improvised using only what they had available say, farm tools such as the sickle."
Sickle?
So, the grim reaper is seemingly defeated by his own weapon in a roundabout way.
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| Do I see a triad in the background? |
on the set of "Enter the Dragon" and then shadow boxing with in the sun.
And with this dedication to Brandon;
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF
BRANDON BRUCE LEE.
FEB 1ST 1965 - MARCH 31ST 1993"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering"
who would die on the set of The Crow in a freak accident, after this film was all put together and ready for cinema release.
I thought it was interesting that Mike Clelland should direct me through his blog to this link:
An Interview with Whitley Strieber
Where Whitley talks about Bruce Lee's encounter an nonhuman presence in a bookshop on page 2 of the above document.
Respect for your Synchromystic Dragon posts. Great dedication to write such detail.
ReplyDeleteWasn't aware that "monoliths appear just before a great revelation to or jump in the evolution of mankind" must find out more about this.