8 Gone Too Soon

Chapter 7 Gone Too Soon In the fall of 1972, Bruce was working on another movie in Hong Kong called Game of Death (with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the basketball star) when he was contacted by Warner Brothers. The big Hollywood studio wanted Bruce, who was then thirty-one years old, to make a motion picture called Enter the Dragon. It would be the first time Hollywood and Hong Kong worked together to produce a movie. Bruce's dream of bringing Chinese culture to Americans was coming true. Bruce believed that people would learn to appreciate the martial arts from his movies, and if they appreciated the martial arts, they also would appreciate Chinese culture. That made Bruce a hero to the Chinese people. Even though Bruce was living in the United

1972年秋天，布鲁斯正在香港拍摄另一部电影《死亡游戏》（与篮球明星卡里姆·阿卜杜勒·贾巴尔（Kareem Abdul-Jabbar）合作），华纳兄弟与他联系。 好莱坞的大制片厂想让当时31岁的布鲁斯拍摄一部名为《龙争虎斗》的电影。 这将是好莱坞和香港首次合作制作电影。 布鲁斯把中国文化带给美国人的梦想实现了 布鲁斯相信人们会从他的电影中学会欣赏武术，如果他们欣赏武术，他们也会欣赏中国文化。 这使布鲁斯成为中国人民心目中的英雄。 尽管布鲁斯住在美国

States, his Chinese heritage was still very important to him. He remained close to his family, too. Bruce's father died shortly after Brandon was born in 1965. His mother moved to Los Angeles several years after that to be near Bruce and his family. Bruce's older brothers and sisters were already living in the United States. His younger brother, Robert, was a popular musician in Hong Kong before he, too, moved to Los Angeles. Bruce knew that Enter the Dragon was a great opportunity to "let the outside world in on some of our Chinese culture." He felt an awesome sense of responsibility because of it. If Enter the Dragon was going to showcase Chinese traditions and customs, he felt he had to honor them. Bruce always had worked hard, putting all his boundless energy into his training and films. But now his schedule was incredibly hectic. He was working around the clock. He was writing the Enter the Dragon script, acting, training, and choreographing fight scenes.

在美国，他的中国血统对他来说仍然非常重要。 他也和家人保持着亲密的关系。 布鲁斯的父亲在1965年布兰登出生后不久就去世了。 几年后，他的母亲搬到了洛杉矶，离布鲁斯和他的家人更近。 布鲁斯的哥哥姐姐们已经住在美国了。 他的弟弟罗伯特（Robert）在搬到洛杉矶之前是香港的一名流行音乐家。 布鲁斯知道《龙争虎斗》是一个“让外界了解中国文化”的好机会。 他因此感到一种可怕的责任感。 如果《龙争虎斗》要展示中国的传统和习俗，他觉得他必须尊重它们。 布鲁斯一直很努力，把他无限的精力都投入到训练和电影中。 但现在他的日程安排异常繁忙。 他夜以继日地工作。 他在写《龙争虎斗》的剧本、表演、训练和打斗场面的编舞。

In May 1973, when working in Hong Kong on the sound for Enter the Dragon, Bruce collapsed. He was exhausted. It was a scary incident, but he recovered. Then, on July 20, while working on the script for his next movie, Game of Death, Bruce complained of a headache. So he took some medicine and went to sleep.

1973年5月，在香港为《龙争虎斗》配音时，布鲁斯崩溃了。 他筋疲力尽。这是一个可怕的事件，但他恢复了。 7月20日，在为他的下一部电影《死亡游戏》写剧本时，布鲁斯抱怨头痛。 所以他吃了一些药，然后就睡着了。

When it was time for dinner, one of his costars in Game of Death couldn't wake him up. Neither could Raymond Chow. They called an ambulance. The ambulance took Bruce to the hospital, and he was declared dead on arrival. He was only thirty-two years old. The cause of Bruce's death was a cerebral edema, or brain swelling. It was the result of a reaction to the pain medicine. The news was devastating to Bruce's fans in Hong Kong. Bruce was so popular that a reported twenty-five

到了吃晚饭的时间，他在《死亡游戏》中的一个搭档叫不醒他。 雷蒙德·周也不能。 他们叫了救护车。救护车把布鲁斯送到了医院，他一到医院就被宣布死亡。 他只有32岁。 布鲁斯的死因是脑水肿，也就是脑肿胀。 这是止痛药引起的反应。 新闻是毁灭性的布鲁斯在香港的粉丝。 布鲁斯非常受欢迎，据报道有25人

thousand people turned out for his funeral in Hong Kong. They crammed the city streets as his funeral procession drove past. They strained police barricades to get a glimpse of their fallen hero. Then they respectfully walked by his casket to pay their final respects.

数千人参加了他在香港的葬礼。 当他的送葬队伍驶过时，他们挤满了城市的街道。 他们冲破警察的路障，想看一眼他们死去的英雄。 然后，他们恭敬地走过他的灵柩，向他致以最后的敬意。

Bruce's widow, Linda, wanted him buried in Seattle. That's where she planned to live with their children, Brandon and Shannon. So another funeral was held in Seattle, Washington. Actors Steve McQueen and James Coburn helped carry his coffin. Thousands of people still visit Bruce's gravesite in Seattle each year.

布鲁斯的遗孀琳达想把他葬在西雅图。 她计划和他们的孩子布兰登和香农一起住在那里。 于是，另一场葬礼在华盛顿州的西雅图举行。 演员史蒂夫·麦奎因和詹姆斯·科伯恩帮忙抬着他的棺材。 每年仍有成千上万的人前往西雅图的布鲁斯墓地。