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Bruce Lee remix

David Pescovitz at 2:49 pm Wed, Aug 29, 2012

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The one and only Bruce Lee, remixed by melodysheep.

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"Be Water My Friend! Bruce Lee Remix"

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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  • http://www.youtube.com/user/ziccup akbar56

    Eclectic Method did a grand remix with Enter the Dragon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ9Ms4–5NE

    • Lexicat

      As did Colourbox in their song “Edit the Dragon.”

  • Ramone

    Also, juice your veggies and do 10,000 sit-ups.

  • robdobbs

    That was pretty good. A little too auto-tuned though.
    Here’s an Underworld Video inspired by a Bruce Lee essay; ’Living: The Oneness of Things’ 

    http://youtu.be/R8Yq5FVofZQ

    • http://twitter.com/ChrisBellNZ Chris Bell

       And there’s also this (Underworld ‘Bruce Lee’):

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXNwmwvASac

  • Antinous / Moderator

    Mostly it just made me want to have a threesome with young (and live) Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris.

    • LogrusZed

       Walker “Texas Birther” wouldn’t go for that.

      • Antinous / Moderator

        Maybe if someone had gotten to him before his brain calcified, he wouldn’t have turned out that way.

    • Guido

      A furry one and a smooth one. Good taste.

  • Kludgegrrl

    Somehow that seems like a cross between the Bruce Lee Remix and the (autotuned) remix of Carl Sagan’s Glorious Dawn

    • flosofl

      Same dude did both.

  • earthandstaplesthat

    My favorite Bruce Lee Youtubes are Miracle Jone’s Bruce Lee poetry (yup, he wrote poetry) clips. For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmhAzGpxE2U. 

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/NIWXVSBOYVCTJDYPE227MJDJO4 chuck

    This reminds me of that Mr. Rogers remix….really similar

    • oasisob1

       Yeah, same guy.

      • Benjamin Palmer

        Indeed. I really enjoy all the remixes I’ve heard of theirs so far. If you liked the Mr. Rogers one, do check out the Julia Childs and Bob Ross remixes at the least!

        • ChickieD

          He also did the Bob Ross remix and I kept hearing “happy little trees” while I was watching the Bruce Lee thing. For Bob Ross, I felt this overly autotuned treatment was appropriate. He was not a good painter but  a sweet, encouraging guy who brought a smile to your face. But, to me, this approach was completely barf for Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee was such a skilled, impressive martial artist, quick as a bird.   I felt like this approach belittled his work, reducing years of training to a fortune cookie message. 

  • sebastian6

    How do you get it to play without the commercial at the beginning? I watched it on YT and there was a commercial first. I embedded it on my FB from your link and again there was a commercial first. Weird.

    • Antinous / Moderator

      AdBlock? I didn’t get an ad.

  • dvdsweeney

    Watching this made me want to go look for a Cato vs. Clouseau remix.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA8QrOAghZ0

    Found a Birdy Num Num remix instead. Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU-4C9lN7XQ

    • Antinous / Moderator

      I was expecting Marcus Porcius Cato.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=4405255 Kristofor Langlais

    I finally understand why Bruce Lee was so awesome. Thanks. 

    • http://twitter.com/anderalert Pat Eisel

      Now watch everything he shows up in. All movies. All documentaries. All interviews. We are humans. Bruce Lee is something else.

      • ChickieD

        A few years back I got into Bruce Lee and bought a box set of all his movies. If you want to really see how great he is, his last movie Game of Death is an interesting watch. He only shot four of the fight scenes before he died; the rest of the movie was shot with two doubles. The doubles were world class fighters, chosen for their skill not their similarity in appearance or acting abilities. It’s obvious when Lee is on the screen and when it’s a double. For one thing, the double is always wearing hilariously large sunglasses. But, what’s amazing to see is that these two fighters look so slow compared to Lee. 

        This movie also has a fight scene with Lee’s student Kareen Abdul-Jabbar, who is around 7 feet tall. The scene alone is worth the price of admission, especially for the moment when Bruce Lee seems to levitate, balanced only on his hands, straight as a board, feet floating off the floor, then he pops up to fight with great force.
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsSoX6qB9N0

  • pepik

    Best part was Bruce Lee kicking Chuck Norris’s ass. That needs to happen more often.

    • huskerdont

      100 likes for this…

  • TheMudshark

    Masta Killa from Wu Tang Clan has used the water speech sample in a pretty cool track in 2004:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjOYp0S4Z3w

  • Benjamin Brown

    Heh I also sampled this little speech: http://soundcloud.com/ajnachakra/ajnachakra-dirty-like-water