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When the opponent expands, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And when the opportunity presents itself, I do not hit. It hits all by itself.

No 474 - Enter The Dragon Director - Robert Clouse HI- YAH .... And other such noises. When watching Enter the Drago , you have to remember what a genre defining film it was, specifically in the whole 'Exploitation Cinema' movement as it was the first American martial arts film. It is because of this that the film feels clichéd - with the gloriously 70s framing, including crash zooms and brilliant brilliant damn near iconic score . What made this film even better is that I had no option to watch it in Cantonese. The only option available to me was bad English dubbing, which really enriches the whole experience... Especially when the Engish people are speaking English with terribly dubbed English accents. It is just a beautiful sense of ludicrousness. This is not Martial Arthouse . This is good old stupid chopsocky . And it is good. And your socky will be chopped. Whilst the film itself was directed by Mr Robert Clouse , the fight scenes are what really matter an they were ...