《李小龙&李连杰bruce lee and jet li》由会员分享，可在线阅读，更多相关《李小龙&李连杰bruce lee and jet li（8页珍藏版）》请在金锄头文库上搜索。
1、Outline Intro + Thesis BackgroundA. Bruce LeeB. Jet Li PhilosophyA. Bruce LeeB. Jet LiC. Analysis of contrasts Acting CareerA. Bruce LeeB. Jet Li ConclusionDing SunEng 101Comparison/Contrast EssayBruce Lee and Jet LiWatching Chinese Martial Arts movies during my free time is my favourite past time.
2、Chinese Wushu gave me to understand how to be unobtrusive, to be sincere, to be polite, to be loyal, and to be trustful. It also taught me how to be a courageous, patient, enduring, persevering, and determined person. Form movies, I slowly realized two actors which are Bruce Lee and Jet Li, and I ex
3、tremely worship them because they totally express Chinese martial morality which is an important concept in Chinese martial arts referring to a general set of principles that a martial artist should follow. Although frequently lumped together, Bruce Lee and Jet Li intensely differ in background, phi
4、losophy, and acting career.Bruce Lee was born as Lee Junfan in San Francisco, California and grew up in Hong Kong. His father, Lee Hoichuen, was one of the leading Cantonese opera and film actors at that time. His mother, Grace Ho, was from one of the wealthiest and most powerful clans in Hong Kong.
5、 As such, the young Bruce Lee grew up in an affluent and privileged environment. However, post-war Hong Kong was a tough place to grow up, and gangs ruled the city streets and Lee was often forced to fight them. After being involved in several street fights, Lees parents decided that he needed to be
6、 trained in the martial arts; therefore, he began training in Wing Chun at the age of 13 under the Wing Chun teacher Yip Man in 1954, after losing a fight with rival gang members. At the age of 18, Lee returned to the United States with $100 in his pocket. He finished his high school at Edison Techn
7、ical School (now Seattle Central Community College) and was majoring philosophy at University of Washington.Jet Lis background is totally different with Bruce Lees. Jet Li was born as Li Lianjie in Beijing, Peoples Republic of China. His father died when he was two years old, and his mother was a ti
8、cket seller. He began training in Chinese martial arts at the age of 8 on the Beijing Wushu Team which is an athletic group organized to perform martial arts forms with his first coach Wu Bin. According to Li, once, as a child, when the Chinese National Wushu Team went to perform for President Richa
9、rd Nixon in the United States, he was asked by Nixon to be his personal bodyguard. Li replied, I dont want to protect any individual. When I grow up, I want to defend my one billion Chinese countrymen! (Li, life essay: part 7) Unfortunately, Li never finished his elementary school because his family
10、 did not have enough money supporting him.Different lives and experiences give these two great warriors absolutely different thoughts and inspiration; therefore, they held intensely contrasting philosophies. Jeet Kung Do is a form of expression for Lees philosophy, and he think it is refined as a pr
11、oduct, not a process. He believed that simplicity is the key to be brilliant. Therefore, in his annotations of Jeet Kung Do, he said, My movement are simple, direct and no classical. Every movement in Jeet Kung Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the
12、 easy way is the right way. (The Legend of Bruce Lee) Lee also adhere that martial systems should be as flexible as possible, and he often used water as an analogy for describing why flexibility is a desired trait in martial arts because water is infinitely flexible. It can be floating, be ceaseless
13、, or be all-pervasive. It also can erode the hardest rocks by gently lapping away at them or it can flow past the tiniest pebble. In an interview, Lee told reporter, Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and
14、it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow, creep, drip or it can crash. Be water my friend.(The Legend of Bruce Lee)As a loyal Buddhist, Li believes that religious philosophies can help people overcome the difficulties in everyday life, and fame is not
15、something he can control; therefore, he does not care about it. According to Li, his philosophy and sense of worth can be found in three of his movies: Hero wants to tell us the interests of the individual can never take precedence over the interests of the state or social group; Unleashed shows tha
16、t violence is a worst way to solve problems; Fearless reminds that the biggest enemy of a person is himself. (The Liberation of Jet Li) He thinks that the a smile is a greatest weapon, and love is a most powerful militaries. I never say to myself Im the best fighter in the world. If someone learns martial arts solely to pick fight on the street, to learn on it as a keystone weapon in conflicts, to use it to bully and intimidate others. Then that person, in my
