Inosanto filmed an insanely exciting fight scene with Lee in “Game of Death” where both battled one another using Lee’s signature weapon, nunchakus, a weapon that consists of two sticks connected by a short chain. “He told me that he could educate people about the East more in films than in books,” says Dan Inosanto, one of Lee’s closest friends and his training partner. He wanted to show Americans the beauty of Chinese philosophy and its culture, his friends and biographers say. ![]() Lee, too, saw himself as bridge between the East and the West. Lee would tape Watts’ lectures and play them back to his martial arts students in class. Lee was a devotee of Alan Watts, a 20th century British philosopher who introduced Eastern thought to Western audiences. ![]() Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images Watts was such a favorite of Bruce Lee that he required his martial arts students to listen to Watts' lectures.
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