Where do you guys stand on the Bruce Lee drama in Tarantino's latest movie?

5  2019-09-04 by MasterLawlz

Surprised it wasn't posted here but there was a lot of controversy over how they portrayed Bruce Lee in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

Tbh, every Tarantino movie has the same cycle. Journalists intentionally provoke him over some controversy in his latest film, he overreacts because he's thin-skinned and emotional, the movie comes out and it ultimately is revealed to be a non-issue. Rinse and repeat every three to four years. If he ever released a movie that was universally acclaimed with no negative press, I would assume something has gone horribly wrong.

The latest controveries were how he portrayed Sharon Tate (people bitched that she had minimal lines but I thought it really worked in its execution) and Bruce Lee especially. The Bruce Lee one is funny to me because he managed to provoke a really passionate fandom that rarely gets provoked. He really didn't mock Lee IMO, he just called bullshit on the goddamn insane reputation that he has. People honest to god unironically think Bruce Lee is the best fighter to have ever walked the earth just because he made some cool movies and was a really great martial artist. To his diehard fans, claiming literally ANYONE could beat him would be blasphemy. I'm not saying he couldn't have probably handled himself well in most fights but if you put him up against another legit fighter that weighed more (dude was only 140) then he probably would have gotten beaten up. I once got downvoted a long time ago for claiming that Chuck Norris could have kicked his ass in his prime but come on, that's exactly what would have happened.

It's actually pretty incredible what kind of reputation Lee has considering he only made a few movies and then died. I think him not fighting professionally was pretty genius on his part because if he had an actual fighting record then people would be able to objectively say where he stands among other fighters. But since he had no career, it's all just conjecture since there are no numbers you could throw at his fans to prove he would lose to anyone.

26 comments

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1  MightiestEwok 2019-09-04

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1  Pipewrecker 2019-09-04

But since he had no career, it's all just conjecture since there are no numbers you could throw at his fans to prove he would lose to anyone.

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2  Chapo_Landlords 2019-09-04

Lawlz, The Undefeated

It really has a nice ring to it

1  Doctor-Pavel 2019-09-04

Undefeated because he still hasn’t lost his virginity

1  rsrfy 2019-09-04

nothing to show he would lose except the entire history of fighting. manlets are only sanctioned to fight each other for the same reason women are

1  Pipewrecker 2019-09-04

Size and weight are just social constructs used to keep us under the boot of capitalist pigs.

1  rsrfy 2019-09-04

Bruce Lee one is funny to me because he managed to provoke a really passionate fandom that rarely gets provoked

implying r/aznidentity isn't in a perpetual state of seething

1  Metatron58 2019-09-04

I thought it was just an idle dream of Brad Pitt's character and thus didn't actually happen so the Bruce Lee fans up in arms are IMO completely ignoring the context of the scene.

now gulag yourself for making me srspost (again)

1  Plexipus 2019-09-04

I'm pretty sure it was a setup for the ending of the film, showing that his character can throw down when shit gets real

1  somestupidname1 2019-09-04

Wow I just realized what srspost means I'm actually disabled

1  forcedhammerAlt 2019-09-04

He says "fair enough" on why he wasn't hired. It was real in the movie's logic

1  loli_esports 2019-09-04

nah m8 it tied into why that one guy hated him

1  15778047 2019-09-04

No, it was him remembering why the guy running the cowboy show that DiCaprio was acting in wouldn't let him on set, because he fucked him over with Lee (and fucked up his car). That's why at the end of the flashback he says something like "Fair enough".

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1  jewdanksdad 2019-09-04

No one cares, Lawlz

1  15778047 2019-09-04

*almost no one

1  jewdanksdad 2019-09-04

Well anyone who is worth being alive doesnt care.

1  SWIMsfriend 2019-09-04

Lee pretty much is the reason martial arts in this country took off. thats what he came to the US to do and thats what he did. but to make it happen he had to really stereotype and mystify himself.

He has no recorded fights, and the anecdotal fights have him going for the eyes and crotch immediately. If he could fight instead of just stunt fight, there is no way in hell he wouldn't have done it even an exhibition match just to increase people's hype for martial arts.

Honestly i love that that scene was included because it really showed the differences between Gen-X and boomer, like a lot of the rest of the film. Pitt's character called bulllshit six ways from Sunday and then kicked his ass. the same way you would expect John Wayne to have if some gook was saying that stuff in front of him.

Also the Lee fanboys are the most thin skinned fucks in all of martial arts. JKD and Whig Chun aren't even remotely good fighting styles. if Bruce Lee was challenged by literally anyone trained in MMA back in the 90s he would have gotten his ass kicked hands down. everyone else from the 60s and 70s has been taken down, Bruce Lee should have his reputation shit on too

1  cochnbahls 2019-09-04

No idea. I thought this was a Dave Chappelle subreddit.

1  Enrico_Motassa 2019-09-04

Ricecels are only mad about Bruce Lee because no other Asian in Hollywood has been as famous without being a Yellow-Fever-vector-foid.

Jackie Chan is a literal commie-loving joke, Lucy Liu is just a place people used to want to put their cock, and after them the only historically well-known Asian role is Mickey Rooney doing his best ching-chong-ping-pong impression.

Also Tarantino is exactly as thin-skinned and whiny as you'd expect anyone named "Quentin" to be. His fanboys are the worst and the Hateful Eight was all hype and no substance. I hope he gets strangled to death by a teenage prostitute, because if there was a "Who's the libertarian?" betting pool I'd put all my money on his ugly mug.

1  hi_0 2019-09-04

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1  forcedhammerAlt 2019-09-04

"Sharon Tate should talk non stop", because that's what defines characters, by how much they talk about themselves and about how strong they are. Like Bruce Lee did-- oh oops

1  loli_esports 2019-09-04

its stupid, on par with people mad brad pitt killed his wife. movie was fun.

1  amanrobbedofhisdrama 2019-09-04

The scene was weird because Quentin’s either saying Bruce lee was a bitch or he’s saying “my character is so cool and tough he could go toe to toe with Bruce lee” and both options are weird.

Even if Lee wasn’t actually good in a real fight it’s still a weird way to go about it because you’re not giving the audience any context. It’s like when sinead o Connor tore up a picture of the pope.

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