Bruce Lee’s Daughter on Tarantino: ‘I’m Really xxxxxx Tired of White Men’

New York Post ^ | July 2, 2021 | Hannah Frishberg

[nickcarraway]

Bruce Lee’s daughter has spoken up to say she finds Quentin Tarantino’s take on her father exhausting.

“I’m really xxxx tired of white men in Hollywood trying to tell me who Bruce Lee was,” Shannon Lee wrote in a Hollywood Reporter guest column response to the director’s comments about her dad made on Joe Rogan’s Spotify podcast.

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“I’m tired of hearing from white men in Hollywood that he was arrogant and an xxxx when they have no idea and cannot fathom what it might have taken to get work in 1960s and ’70s Hollywood as a Chinese man with (God forbid) an accent, or to try to express an opinion on a set as a perceived foreigner and person of color. I’m tired of white men in Hollywood mistaking his confidence, passion and skill for hubris and therefore finding it necessary to marginalize him and his contributions. I’m tired of white men in Hollywood finding it too challenging to believe that Bruce Lee might have really been good at what he did and maybe even knew how to do it better than them.”

[\/\/ayne]

That’s not arrogance, that’s confidence. And for good reason.

[voicereason]

Bruce wouldn't last long in a real MMA bout these days.

To be fair, MMA isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Honestly, the whole, "take them to the ground" is such a stupid idea in real life. Sure, it may work in the octagon, but the street doesn't care about rules. The one thing that will get you nowadays is your head stomped in. Just pick any number of videos and watch how stomping a person is a favorite move for people...and their buddies. MMA has a ton of rules governing the fights, otherwise it wouldn't be sanctioned.

By all accounts Bruce was extremely fast, and powerful. Joe Lewis, who was no slouch back in the day, certainly had a lot of respect for Bruce.

[Gay State Conservative]

Pulp Fiction was,despite being very,very weird at times,a surprisingly entertaining film. That’s all I know about Tarantino...and the fact that he’s white means nothing (good or bad) to me.

[The Right Edge]

oh boo hoo you racist witch! I’m sick of people like her blaming white men for everything. If she doesn’t like it here? Let her go to the orient and give us a damned break for crying out loud!

[Tennessee Nana]

When my husband and I were dating in the early 70s he liked to go to drive in movies with Bruce Lee and the Shaw Brothers movies...

Some of the choreography was amazing...

[max americana]

I know the Bruce Lee students here in L.A who worked with Bruce, the true practitioners of Jeet Kune Do. He was a gentleman overall BUT if you “try” to spar or pick a fight, that 5’ 6” dude will wipe the floor with ya’.

[ifinnegan]

“Didn’t Brad Pitt beat up a Chinese guy who looked like Bruce Lee in his last movie?”

I didn’t see it.

From what I heard I think it was Bruce Lee.

[Larry Lucido]

Better Call Saul: Mike Chimes In on Ali vs. Bruce Lee Debate

In the sneak peek video below, Mike is in the break room when two employees walk in arguing about martial arts and boxing. “Boxing is a sport, martial arts is life and death,” says one guy who clearly hasn’t participated in either. They go on to compare the talents of Bruce Lee to Muhammad Ali.

Mike rolls his eyes when the guy advocating Bruce Lee imagines Bruce Lee winning a fight against Ali. Mike asks, “Does he have a gun?” When the man asks “I’m sorry?” Mike says, “Because if he doesn’t, it’s Ali in three minutes or less.” That’s Mike’s way of trying to blend in.

https://2paragraphs.com/2018/08/better-call-saul-mike-chimes-in-on-ali-vs-bruce-lee-debate/

[shanover]

When I was a kid, we watched Kung Foo Theater and Charlie Chan. Things have certainly changed.

[No.6]

Title does not match quote. Are we easily triggered now?

Title says “Bruce Lee’s daughter hates whitey.”
Quote says “Arrogant leftist racist Hollywood types stereotype and dismiss others.”

[21twelve]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXwOU5HzTZQ

Short video of Bruce Lee giving a demonstration of his “One inch punch”.

[Clemenza]

And I’m really sick of half white half Asian chicks who can’t keep their traps shut like the woman in this article.

[FoxInSocks]

How would she know what he was like? He died when she was four years old.

[L.A.Justice]

She is half white herself, I believe.

There is a picture of Shannon Lee with her parents and her brother...Her father and brother passed away...Her brother, Brandon, was killed in an accident while filming a movie...

There was a movie about Bruce Lee...DRAGON: THE BRUCE LEE STORY...Jason Scott Lee played Bruce Lee...Lauren Holly played his wife, Linda...It came out in 1993...Shannon Lee actually played a party singer in that film...

Ms. Shannon Lee has a feud going on with Mr. Tarantino...Her comments, about white men, were unfortunate...She is just too angry with Mr. Tarantino...

Mr. Tarantino had no obligation to get her permission before thinking of a Bruce Lee scene in ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD...He has the right to make his movie in whatever way he wants...Even portraying Bruce Lee in a negative way...

I do like to wish Ms. Shannon Lee a good luck...I read about her before...

[L.A.Justice]

I know the Bruce Lee students here in L.A who worked with Bruce, the true practitioners of Jeet Kune Do. He was a gentleman overall BUT if you “try” to spar or pick a fight, that 5’ 6” dude will wipe the floor with ya’.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar knew Bruce Lee also...He was not happy with how Bruce Lee was portrayed in ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/kareem-abdul-jabbar-bruce-lee-was-my-friend-tarantinos-movie-disrespects-him-1232544/

Chuck Norris also knew Bruce Lee...

[Captain Rhino]

Yeah, Shannon Lee is right.

We white men should just stop talking about Bruce Lee. I’ll go her one better. I’ll just forget he ever existed. I solemnly promise that from this moment, I will never spend another second thinking about him.

There. Done.

[PghBaldy]

Apparently Bruce Lee was part white, as is his daughter and his deceased son. Shannon Lee’s mother is white. She didn’t need to bring up race the way she did, unless the purpose was to get media attention.

[RandallFlagg]

It was David Carradine. Not Keith.

[TalBlack]

I was a kid in the 60s and I never met any kid who didn’t think Bruce Lee was all that at first sight. Simply seeing him in the promos for a new show called The Green Hornet was enough. We would have nominated him for the lead in Kung Fu in a nano second. Those suits at the studios were clueless assholes.

[TheRake]

Don’t worry, most on FR don’t actually read the article these days. They read the headline, in this case very misleading (shame on NYP), then jump in with both guns blazing!