Cohen's feature film debut was Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, a biopic about the martial arts master who met an untimely demise when he was aged just 32 years old. Starring Jason Scott Lee (no relation), the film was an often experimental depiction of Lee's life it opens with his dad having a nightmare about a black-clad samurai menacing his son, a phantom which Bruce defeats whilst filming Enter The Dragon, cos symbolism is easy from his early days in Hong Kong to his death. In fact the film wound up being dedicated both to the memory of Bruce and his son Brandon Lee, who died two months before Dragon was released, in the infamously lethal on-set accident whilst filming his last project, comic book adaptation The Crow. What's all that got to do with The Fast And The Furious? Well, Cohen came up with a devious way of getting that early effort of his to a wider audience. The movie that Vince rents out in the film, and is later seeing playing on a TV in Dom's house during the party scene, is none other than Dragon. Yes, apparently it wasn't enough for Cohen to be directing The Fast And The Furious, he had to dazzle you with another of his films within that film too.
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