Various Bruce Lee biopics have been filmed over the years, with the two most famous being Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth and Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story.
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Jackie Chan portrayed the protagonist, Meng Yi, in the 2005 Hong Kong film The Myth.
Through eight years of growth, the company has distributed over 120 domestic and foreign films, including Confession of Pain, Protégé, The Myth, Initial D, and Dragon Tiger Gate, generating over RMB 1 billion (approximately US$ 130 million) in box office revenue, capturing over 20% of the overall market share for five years running.
On October 1, 2006, the world final was televised in a four-hour live broadcast judged by action star and former Beijing Wushu Team Member Jacky Wu Jing (Sha Po Lang, Tai Chi Master, Legend of Zu) Director Stanley Tong (The Myth, Martial Law, Mr. Magoo) and Director Wang Xiaoshuai (Frozen).
He is best known for his collaboration with Vikram Seth to produce the opera Arion and the Dolphin in 1994 based on the myth of Arion.
In Germany, Heinrich von Kleist's Amphitryon (1807) remains the most frequently performed version of the myth, with Kleist using Alkmene's inability to distinguish between Jupiter and her husband to explore metaphysical issues; Giselher Klebe wrote in 1961 his opera Alkmene based on this play.
Autobiography of Red (1998) is a verse novel by Anne Carson, based loosely on the myth of Geryon and the Tenth Labor of Herakles, especially on surviving fragments of the lyric poet Stesichorus' poem Geryoneis.
In 1939, Salvador Dalí designed the set and wrote the libretto for a ballet entitled Bacchanale, based on Wagner's Tannhäuser and the myth of Leda and the Swan.
In 2007, the Institute was part in the organization of a DEFA/GDR film festival relating to the topic "German Cinema from behind the Iron Curtain" and, in 2008, hosted a musical drama with the title "The Myth and the Real Life of Marlene Dietrich".
In 2004, the Discovery Channel series Mythbusters tested the myth that a ceiling fan is capable of decapitation if an unwary individual was to step headfirst into the path of the blades.
The author had been recently propelled from obscurity to fame with his novel Rockwood which popularised the myth of Dick Turpin and his mare Black Bess.
Deadblow has been used on MythBusters several times, most notably in the myth that you can smuggle things across the Canadian Border by turning off your headlights, in which he was temporarily renamed Blinky (after Jessi Combs asked the robot's name), where he played the role of an oncoming car's headlights.
The introduction of the myth of the mountain nymph Echo into the story of Narcissus, the beautiful youth who rejected sexuality and falls in love with his own reflection, appears to have been Ovid's invention.
It features guest contributions, and is a concept album about the myth of Labyrinth of Knossos and its analogies to modern times.
In 2003 he received the National Press Club's "Arthur Rouse Award for Press Criticism" for the book Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press (Prometheus Books, 2002) that was edited by the co-award winner Kristina Borjesson.
The myth was put into poetical form by the novelist and poet Jens Peter Jacobsen; a German translation of his poems forms the text of the huge cantata Gurrelieder by Arnold Schoenberg.
Variations of the myth abound within the Kwakwaka'wakw culture, but this man-eating giant was aided by an old hag, Qominoqa (possibly Dzunukwa), who gathered bodies for him to consume.
History Upside Down: The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression, is a book by author David Meir-Levi, published by Encounter Books in 2007.
Some other works that he translated are: Pre-Philosophy by Henry Frankfurt and Others; Sight and Insights by Alexander Elliot; The Author and His Profession by 10 American critics; The Life in Drama by Eric Bentley; The Myth and the Symbol by several critics; Axel's Castle by Edmund Wilson; Articles by 14 American critics about poet Dylan Thomas; Albert Camus by Germen Perry; and The Tower of Babel by André Barot.
Mighton also advised Gus Van Sant, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck on the script for Good Will Hunting; and as an actor in the film, his one major line is a reference to his main idea in The Myth of Ability: that most people never get a chance because a teacher doesn't take the time to show them how to learn.
The myth is probably based on legless lizards that can regenerate their tails after they are broken off.
His most famous bridge, El Puente de Piedra in Lima is known as the Bridge of Eggs because the myth is that it was constructed using over 10,000 sea bird egg whites mixed with stone.
Many abstract concepts are similarly personified, including Death, Hospital, the (London) Underground (which is associated with the myth of Orpheus), Action and God.
The myth, however, is most important one and throws significant light on the socio-economic and political history as well as culture of Kosal region during the eighteenth century AD.
It is generally believed to be the fish the swallowed the phallus of the Egyptian god Osiris in the myth regarding his death at the hands of his brother Seth.
It repeated the myth of the town's being named for Lillie Langtry.
It was this claim to this ancient Brittonic lineage by a British monarch that led to a widepread feeling of the fulfilment of the myth of the Mab Darogan, a messianic figure of Welsh legend destined to reclaim Britain for the Celtic inhabitants.
K. Paul Johnson The Masters Revealed: Madame Blavatsky and the Myth of the Great White Lodge, SUNY Press,
Among them, Lucian Blaga (in his Meşterul Manole theatre play) brought forth a modern take on the myth.
An episode of the Discovery Channel TV show MythBusters used one of the smaller hangars to disprove the myth that it is not possible to fold a sheet of paper in half more than seven times.
Adrian appeared in episode 5 of the 2009 season of the Discovery Channel series, MythBusters, to assist hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman in testing the myth that it is possible to swim as fast in syrup as in water.
According to one version of the myth, the Nemean lion took women as hostages to its lair in a cave near Nemea, luring warriors from nearby towns to save the damsel in distress.
Daphne, in an Arcadian version of the myth, was, instead, the daughter of the river god Ladon.
William Poundstone, Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It) Hill and Wang, 2010
Roxy Hunter and the Myth of the Mermaid is a 2008 Nickelodeon Original Movies that aired on July 13, 2008, and is the third edition to the Roxy Hunter movies, plus a direct sequel to the previous movie Roxy Hunter and the Secret of the Shaman.
7 features in much German wartime propaganda footage, contributing to the myth of the mechanized Blitzkrieg.
An episode of the Discovery Channel TV show MythBusters used one these smaller hangars to disprove the myth that it is not possible to fold a sheet of paper in half more than seven times.
On November 17, 2008, a mural by Tarō Okamoto, "The Myth of Tomorrow", depicting a human figure being hit by an atomic bomb, was unveiled in its new permanent location at the station, in the connecting passage to the Keio Inokashira Line entrance.
Building down the myth of the overgifted criminal, that was popularized by The Silence of the Lambs, Basic Instinct or Dexter, this book suggests the innovative concept of “psychopathological fortress”, through which the criminal phenomenon is analyzed.
The myth about the origin of these families dates back to the time of Sage Parasurama.
Inspired by the story of the Theban soothsayer Teiresias, the author inverted the myth to produce a provocative interpretation with feminist and pacifist elements.
The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and The Myth of Jewish Control (ISBN 9781403984920, 2007) is a book written by Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League.
It is considered one of the classic fictional retellings of the story of the drowning of Atlantis, combining elements of the myth told by Plato with the earlier Greek myth concerning the survival of a universal flood and restoration of the human race by Deucalion.
The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm is a classic feminist work on women's sexuality, written by Anne Koedt, an American feminist, in 1968.
The name Hellenes, which was originally the name of a Boeotian tribe in Thessalic Phthia, (Achaea Phthiotis) may be related to the members of the league and may have been broadened to refer to all Greeks when the myth of their patriarch Hellen was invented.
Steinbeck often used myths and themes or biblical stories in his novels: Cup of Gold is a retelling of the myth of Henry Morgan the pirate; Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row employ the King Arthur fables.
In the 2009 novel Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, the narrator of the Book One mentions hearing of the myth of "thirty-six hidden saints" while in college and compares the actions of his Christian brother Corrigan to one of the saints.
It is Zarate's first work published and also the first novel of his trilogy the phases of the myth, where he reinvents a part of the life of some characters: El Santo, a Mexican wrestler, Dracula and Super Man.
Several classical authors of antiquity reproduce the myth of the loss of memory connected to crossing the Límia River, referred by them as Lethes or Oblivionis (compare the river Lethe of Greek mythology).
In a 1964 seminar, the psychoanalyst and theorist Jacques Lacan observed that the myth reveals an interesting aspect of human cognition: While animals are attracted to superficial appearances, humans are enticed by the idea of that which is hidden.