Taking audiences by storm For Western audiences, displays of such physical skills proved not only stimulating but also novel. Veteran film critic Huang Jen notes that, in the early 1970s, given the audience appeal of Lee's flicks, countries that had never before shown Chinese films were developing channels to Hong Kong and Taiwan to purchase the rights to kungfu movies.
對於西方觀眾而言，這種令人目不暇給的體能展現，不但刺激也十分新鮮。資深影評人黃仁指出，由於李小龍電影的賣座，七○年代初期，從未上映過中國片的國家，都透過管道到香港、台灣搜購功夫片。