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Birth of the Dragon- Bruce Lee biopic

Why did they stick in a blonde white dude in a movie about Bruce Lee?

Here's the line where the trailer lost me: "He teaches us to kick ass."

Just sounded awful. All the scenes with the white guy who appears to be the real main character look and sound awful.
 
Man...Bruce kinda seems like a chach in this trailer.
 
Ew. No thanks.

Unless Bruce Lee hooks up with him which is kind of hot
 
Finally watched the trailer, and one question is nagging my mind;
"Was Bruce Lee this arrogant and fond of violence?"
I think I saw something about him being part of a gang in China and violent before being trained by Yip Man, but the events of this movie take place after he moved to the United States.
 
Finally watched the trailer, and one question is nagging my mind;
"Was Bruce Lee this arrogant and fond of violence?"
I think I saw something about him being part of a gang in China and violent before being trained by Yip Man, but the events of this movie take place after he moved to the United States.

He was involved in many street fights AFTER being trained by Yip Man, too. He got into rooftop fights against students of other styles, and reportedly, was sent to the US as he way to keep him from further trouble. Even to do that, they had to get favors to even let him off the country as he was in a list of known troublemakers and was unlikely to be given clear exit.

He is said to have fought several challenge matches and a lot of his original evangelizing about HIS kung fu was how it was so much superior to karate.

He was VERY arrogant, though also thoughtful and kind to his friends.

One of his early girlfriends in the US apparently broke up with him because she could not stand him exclusively going on about his plans and his future and his kung-fu philosophies and himself, in short.

Most biographies kinda agree on this.

However, it is doubtful anyone without a lot of such self-assurance and ambition could have achieved all he did or demanded so much of himself.

I know a lot of martial arts champions and it is hard to be top dog at any hard competitive sport without a lot of self-confidence and pride in what you do. The ideal of the humble, self-effacing martial arts master would not have become a superstar and changed the perception of the martial arts across the world.

You read for example, sword master Miyamoto Musashi's GO RI NO SHO, or Book of Five Rings, and there is plenty of stating how much better his style is than anyone else's.

Comes with the territory.
 
Bruce had a quote about that...

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He was involved in many street fights AFTER being trained by Yip Man, too. He got into rooftop fights against students of other styles, and reportedly, was sent to the US as he way to keep him from further trouble. Even to do that, they had to get favors to even let him off the country as he was in a list of known troublemakers and was unlikely to be given clear exit.

He is said to have fought several challenge matches and a lot of his original evangelizing about HIS kung fu was how it was so much superior to karate.

He was VERY arrogant, though also thoughtful and kind to his friends.

One of his early girlfriends in the US apparently broke up with him because she could not stand him exclusively going on about his plans and his future and his kung-fu philosophies and himself, in short.

Most biographies kinda agree on this.

However, it is doubtful anyone without a lot of such self-assurance and ambition could have achieved all he did or demanded so much of himself.

I know a lot of martial arts champions and it is hard to be top dog at any hard competitive sport without a lot of self-confidence and pride in what you do. The ideal of the humble, self-effacing martial arts master would not have become a superstar and changed the perception of the martial arts across the world.

You read for example, sword master Miyamoto Musashi's GO RI NO SHO, or Book of Five Rings, and there is plenty of stating how much better his style is than anyone else's.

Comes with the territory.
I prefer the fictional Bruce Lee I saw in that dishonest biopic Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
 
I've had an interest in Bruce since I was young, kinda fizzled out as an active interest but it's still there to some extent. It's much easier now seeing different sides to my heroes through interviews available on YouTube. Bruce, Hendrix, and Lennon - Everything there is, you can find.

Even when I was younger, I had a feeling about him but after seeing more of him over the last ten years, yes he was very arrogant and even a little bit of a bully to some, but not all.

I went to his grave (next to Brandon's) in Seatle about '98, paid my respects (from England). It was a family holiday but after also visiting Hendrix's grave in Seatle and Graceland in Memphis it was almost a tour of the dead! :D
 

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