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Bruce Lee Playing Ping Pong with Nunchucks: Real or Fake?

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Bruce Lee Playing Ping Pong with Nunchucks: Real or Fake?
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A video allegedly shows Bruce Lee playing ping pong against two men while using nunchucks instead of paddles. Is this video real or fake?

IT’S NOT REAL.
The video, which has circulated on social media regularly since late 2012, was a promotional spot created in 2008 by Nokia for a limited edition Bruce Lee cell phone. An actor played the part of Bruce Lee.

HISTORY

The award-winning commercial was produced by JWT Shanghai, and was created to look as if it were filmed back in the late 1960s or early 1970s. A Bruce Lee lookalike was used. The three men playing ping pong mimicked the motions of an actual game, but did not actually use a ping pong ball. A “ball” was edited into the film after the fact. At first we see “Lee” beating a single opponent, then taking on two opponents at the same time. There is also video of “Lee” lighting a cigarette – with his nunchaku (“nunchucks”) – as it dangles from another man’s mouth.

Originally, only a 10-second teaser video teaser was released, and it amassed over 700,000 views in the first 24 hours. It was only after the full version of the spot was released that it became apparent that it was merely an advertisement for a limited edition Bruce Lee phone.

It’s interesting to note that the commercial only showed the phone for a few seconds at the very end.

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