Between Fiction and Reality | Offscreen
"Game of Death" is a unique case: it is the last film of Bruce Lee, who died when the film was still in production. The film being unfinished, the story was changed: a famous karate movie star has to fake his death in order to exact revenge on a gang of criminals out to ruin his career. Bruce Lee resurrects on the screen via a mix of the latest rushes shot by the star ... and a lookalike. The latter images are legendary: Lee wears a yellow-black jumpsuit (which also returns to "Kill Bill") and the fighting is magical!
Alain Jessua, an outsider in the French cinema, joins the Belgian Guy Pellaert in "Jeu de massacre" (AKA "The Killing Game"), a "pop" movie in which comic strip and animation take the lead on reality.
Game of Death
Bruce Lee as Billy Lo, a movie star that survives an attempted murder on a set and takes revenge incognito following a cosmetic surgery operation. The latest fights of Bruce Lee are magnified by the superb music of John Barry.
Jeu de massacre
A husband-and-wife cartoonist team meet a wealthy playboy who has lived out the fantasies presented in their comic strip. The latter, however, no longer distinguishes fiction from reality.