Bruce Lee’s daughter calls out Quentin Tarantino’s new movie for “caricature” of her father BruceLee OnceUponATimeInHollywood
also asks audiences for a little suspension of disbelief because it features a scene in which Cliff Booth, a stunt double played by Brad Pitt, is challenged to a fight by martial arts expert Bruce Lee. And he wins.The scene, which featured heavily in the original teaser trailer for the film, initially drew controversy from those who felt that Lee’s presence in the movie as a character was tantamount to mockery.
“[Bruce Lee] comes across as an arrogant asshole who was full of hot air, and not someone who had to fight triple as hard as any of those people did to accomplish what was naturally given to so many others,” Shannon told. The portrayal was all the more difficult to watch given that, according to Shannon, her father was known to avoid fighting anyone without proper martial arts training.
“It was really uncomfortable to sit in the theatre and listen to people laugh at my father,” she said.Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood like a “caricature”. “I understand that the two [lead] characters are antiheroes, and this is sort of like a rage fantasy of what would happen… And they’re portraying a period that clearly had a lot of racism and exclusion,” Shannon said. “I understand they want to make the Brad Pitt character this super-badass who could beat up Bruce Lee. But they didn’t need to treat him in the way that white Hollywood did when he was alive.
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