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the opportunity of Chinese and American techniques of film making to be used together. Furthermore, with the American interest of Warner Brother, a large budget was funded for the epic project and therefore, the film had to successfully amaze the American audience of its time. In the end, the movie was a success, grossing "one hundred million at the box office" and it is the final conflict scene that illustrated why the narrative was such a sensation. The fact that the arch Villain has a deadly weapon in place of a hand symbolized the Bond image of villains and this is one of the influences the American director Robert Clouse depicted. On the other hand, the Lee's Martial Arts skills revolutionized the way fighting was portrayed in American cinema, the style of fisty cuffs' and unorganized fighting would seem obscure compared to the action indicated within Enter the Dragon.'

Criminal activity is explicitly expressed within the narrative. There are many images that depict Lee's stealth expertise as the character tries to find evidence of drug manufacturing at the tournament. There are pots of opium bubbling and stewing, and drug labs where victims are exposed to toxic chemicals. The scene connotes a sterile and remorseless environment where the rights of the human subjects are non existent. It is unsettling to think that this underground activity occurs all over the world and crosses the threshold between cultures.
On the contrary, Lee represents the dominant ideology of law by the American political Government. He has to expose the drug factories and he does this within the confounds of his unique Martial Arts skills and no guns. Therefore, dominant systems of law within every country are severe and punishment such as prison, and or death in the case of Han the arch villain is appropriate to apprehend such drug merchants.

The text was able to appeal to a mass audience upon its release due to the fact it consisted of characters from different ethnicities. The character Lee portrays the orient; his costume consists of a Chinese kung fu uniform that suggests Martial Arts experience and Chinese culture. On the contrary, the character Roper, another participant of the tournament is American. Consequently, the American audience is able to experience the essence that is Bruce Lee and his Chinese heritage, and while they relate to his American counter part. Roper is purposely expressed as another heroic figurehead along side Lee when the resolution of the narrative

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