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8If someone says, "I can't watch
9a Bruce Lee film," I can't talk to 'em.
10
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13Bruce Lee is a worldwide fighting icon.
14
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17He was a 130-something-pound
18lethal weapon.
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22Bruce and his fighting style
23changed the game.
24
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27In the beginning I had no intention
28that what I was practising,
29
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32and what I am still practising now,
33would lead to this.
34
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37(man) Bruce Lee, Bob Dylan, Ali,
38Jay-Z, Tiger, Kobe, Jordan,
39
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42they all have the same spirit.
43
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46No stunt coordinator coordinated
47his shit. He did it himself.
48
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51The guy you see in Bruce's films
52is the way Bruce was in person.
53
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56He could lose his temper.
57
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60Bruce Lee is my idol. Wha-aa!
61
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64He was directing, writing, acting.
65
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68(man) I don't even look at him
69as being Asian. He's my idol.
70
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73When you think of Bruce Lee, you don't
74think about the Asian karate guy.
75
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78You think about a legacy.
79
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82The moves that he could do,
83
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86you were wondering
87if they were speeding up the camera.
88
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91(man) Bruce Lee was like the superhero
92of the Asian community.
93
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96You had Muhammad Ali.
97You had Malcolm X.
98
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101Bruce Lee represented
102that same kind of radicalism.
103
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106Technically brilliant choreography.
107
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110You get mysticism, hyper-masculinity.
111This guy is like, bang!
112
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115He's put balls on Chinese men.
116
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119There's some cool stuff.
120
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123You're like, "Wow.
124That supercool guy is my dad."
125
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128- There'll never be another Bruce Lee.
129- Baby, here I am, man.
130
13129
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133How does a small Chinese guy become
134the greatest martial artist of all time?
135
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138(man) Production 263-05-224-10.
139Test X1, take 1.
140
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143(interviewer) Bruce,
144just look right into the camera
145
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148and tell us your name,
149your age and where you were born.
150
15133
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153My last name is Lee, Bruce Lee.
154
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157I was born in San Francisco
158in 1940. I'm 24 right now.
159
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162There was controversy about me
163taking him back to the United States.
164
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167But he loved his time that he lived
168in Seattle before all of this.
169
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172It was important for my children
173to know where their father was.
174
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177I just intimately just started crying.
178
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181I think I literally cried after
182the funeral all the way from Seattle,
183
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186all the way to the California border,
187all the way up to Sacramento.
188
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191That was a very difficult time
192to leave Hong Kong
193
19442
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196and... take their favourite son away.
197
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200Bruce's childhood
201is interesting to look at
202
20344
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205from the standpoint
206of where he ended up.
207
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210First of all, Hong Kong
211in the early '40s
212
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215was occupied by Japan
216during World War ll,
217
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220and this had an influence on Bruce.
221
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224It was very important to him as a child
225from the get-go to be self-sufficient,
226
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229and in doing that, you have to shoulder
230a lot of personal responsibility.
231
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234There's bad blood historically
235between China and Hong Kong and Japan.
236
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239His mother used to tell me how Bruce
240would hang over the side of the balcony
241
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244and shake his fist at the Japanese
245planes coming to land in Hong Kong.
246
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249If anyone said a word against
250the Chinese, he would rebel.
251
25254
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254(interviewer) And you work
255in motion pictures in Hong Kong?
256
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259Yes, since I was around six years old.
260
26156
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263Bruce became a child actor
264under his father's influence,
265
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268his father being an actor
269in the Chinese opera
270
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273and then in Cantonese films as well.
274
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277(interviewer) Tell the crew what time
278they shoot the pictures in Hong Kong.
279
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282Well, it's mostly in the morning
283because it's kind of noisy in Hong Kong,
284
28561
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287you know,
288around three million people there,
289
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292so every time when you have a picture,
293
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296it's mostly, say, around
29712am to 5am in the morning.
298
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301(man) A lot of people
302don't touch on this,
303
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306but he was the biggest childhood star
307in Hong Kong.
308
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311He made 20, 20-something movies
312as a child star.
313
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316(David) He was like
317the Macaulay Culkin of that era.
318
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321And then you have the fact that
322Hong Kong was governed by the British.
323
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326(Dan) They targeted the British.
327
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330You are crazy.
331
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334But there's a lot of competition
335between the British people living there
336
33772
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339and the Chinese living there.
340
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343(Shannon) He's also part Caucasian.
344
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347I think he saw
348a lot of adversity racially,
349
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352not only around him but within himself.
353
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356(Linda) And he had run-ins with English
357schoolboys and that kind of thing,
358
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361so there was always
362that feeling of resentment
363
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366of others dictating his future.
367
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370Then, of course, when he was 13,
371he went to study with Yip Man.
372
37380
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375As human beings, fighting's in our DNA.
376We get it and we like it.
377
37881
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380Yip Man trained Bruce in wing chun,
381
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384and Yip Man
385was a fabulous kung fu master.
386
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389(David) Bruce had many run-ins
390with the law
391
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394and other teenagers in Hong Kong,
395and he had fights.
396
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399He loved the street fights. He loved
400other people who can street-fight.
401
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404Bruce's style
405is made for street survival.
406
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409He grew up fighting fights
410in Hong Kong on the rooftop.
411
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414Bruce had some of the films, 8mm,
415that he used to show us,
416
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419where they get
420into the old traditional stance
421
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424and one guy would come in
425and throw a couple of punches
426
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429and the other guy would back up
430and fall down over the plant pot.
431
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434There were two clans usually,
435the choy li fut clan
436
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439and the wing chun clan
440
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443by Yip Man and his students,
444and they would have battles.
445
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448Although this stuff about the choy
449li fut and wing chun rooftop fights
450
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453is the stuff of legend, it is true.
454
45597
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457I was in Hong Kong.
458
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461The sentiment, the animosity between
462wing chun and choy li fut still exists.
463
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466(Linda) So Yip Man
467was a great influence on Bruce
468
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471and leaned him in the direction
472of philosophy.
473
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476Yip Man would not be a legend
477without Bruce Lee.
478
479102
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481Wing chun was
482a very, very minor martial art style,
483
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486and now it's global,
487and that's all because of Bruce Lee.
488
489104
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491Ultimately, martial art means
492honestly expressing yourself.
493
494105
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496Now, it is very difficult to do.
497
498106
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500A lot of that warrior spirit,
501to me, it's really honourable.
502
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505It's really pure.
506
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509It breaks through to every culture,
510every language, every colour.
511
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514It's all about getting respect back,
515you know.
516
517110
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519If you're gonna hurt me, you're gonna
520have to earn it, motherfucker.
521
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524(Stephan) I was the youngest
525of three boys.
526
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529I got obsessed
530with Bruce Lee and martial arts.
531
532113
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534I wanted to kick my brothers' asses
535and prove my worthiness.
536
537114
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539When a good fight breaks out,
540you can't help but be excited.
541
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544You can't help but show emotion.
545
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548It took a while, but as many times
549as each of my brothers beat me up,
550
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553each one of them got one ass-kicking
554from me and that was it.
555
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558I didn't do so well talking shit back,
559
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562so I don't see the point in talking
563about it. Let's just go there.
564
565120
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567But then you feel bad and embarrassed
568afterwards, "That was childish."
569
570121
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572"I could have handled that better."
573But you also feel good.
574
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577If you couldn't get laid,
578you got in a fight.
579
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582Let me punch this ugly motherfucker.
583
584124
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586In Youngstown.
587It was a nice place to live.
588
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591(man) Fighting has taken over
592my mind and my being.
593
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596It's not what I do. It's who I am.
597
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600My father told me fighters are born,
601not made. Bruce Lee was a born fighter.
602
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605When you do punch,
606now I'm leaning forward a little bit,
607
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610hoping not to hurt any camera angle.
611
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614I mean, you gotta put the whole hip
615into it and snap it
616
617131
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619and get all your energy in there,
620and make this into a weapon.
621
622132
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624When Bruce Lee was a young boy,
625maybe 13 or 14, training in wing chun,
626
627133
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629they found out that Bruce Lee
630had Caucasian blood.
631
632134
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634- I believe it's one fourth German.
635- Well?
636
637135
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639The other students said he shouldn't
640be allowed to learn wing chun
641
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644because he wasn't purely Chinese.
645
646137
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648When you're by yourself
649and no one wants to be there
650
651138
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653because they didn't wanna get beat up,
654it's the loneliest feeling in the world.
655
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658(Bruce) One thing I have
659definitely learned in my life
660
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663is that I do have a bad temper.
664
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667A violent temper, in fact.
668
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671(Shannon) His whole life is sort of
672this play between East and West.
673
674143
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676He hated the oppression
677of little people
678
679144
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681which he saw everywhere,
682in the Japanese occupation,
683
684145
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686the Boxer Rebellion,
687
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690the foreign powers going into China.
691
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694He just thought all of that was wrong.
695
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698(Shannon) To live the life he wanted
699to live, he had to fight for it.
700
701149
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703He really had to put it out there
704and really walk the walk.
705
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708I mean, it is easy for me
709to put on a show
710
711151
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713and be cocky
714and be flooded with a cocky feeling
715
716152
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718and then feel like pretty cool
719and all that.
720
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723Or I can make all kinds
724of phoney things, you see what I mean?
725
726154
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728Blinded by it. Or I can show you
729some really fancy movement.
730
731155
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733But to express oneself honestly,
734not lying to oneself,
735
736156
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738and to express myself honestly,
739
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742that, my friend, is...
743
744158
74500:10:13,960 --> 00:10:16,645
746In some ways
747it's the total opposite of anger.
748
749159
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751It's beauty, it's passion, it's art.
752
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755It's... It's painting a picture
756without tools.
757
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760(man) It was a surprise,
761but an understandable one,
762
763162
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765when I found out that Bruce Lee
766was a cha-cha champion,
767
768163
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770because you could see that reflected
771in his fighting style.
772
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775(man) He was the 1957
776Hong Kong cha-cha champion.
777
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780People don't know that. His footwork
781was impeccable. Incredible samba dancer.
782
783166
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785He didn't move like anybody else.
786He moved like himself.
787
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790In a fight you have footwork
791and you have form
792
793168
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795and you have stance and power
796that you interject,
797
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800and that's the way that dancing
801and martial arts go hand in hand.
802
803170
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805For him to be steeped into that rhythm
806reinforced why black people
807
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810have always identified with Bruce
811and his fighting style.
812
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815So what I got from Bruce
816as a performer is...
817
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820You know, most performers
821perform like this, right? Straight up.
822
823174
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825Me, perform from the side,
826
827175
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829sort of like how Bruce
830used to always, you know,
831
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834be ready for combat like this.
835
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838Honestly expressing yourself,
839like me being a dancer,
840
841178
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843that's what it's all about.
844
845179
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847That's another big, big philosophy from
848him that I take with me to this day.
849
850180
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852So I'll be performing like,
853"Bah, bah! Bah, bah, bah, bah!"
854
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857(Jose) I keep trying to dig deeper
858and deeper within myself
859
860182
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862and find that fluidity
863that no one can replicate.
864
865183
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867That's the vibe
868that Bruce Lee taught me.
869
870184
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872It's to always bring it.
873
874185
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876That's what I get from Bruce.
877
878186
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880- And when did you leave Hong Kong?
881- 1959, when I was 18.
882
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885(Shannon) It had gotten a little
886difficult with the police on one side
887
888188
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890and with gangs on the other side.
891
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894He beat this kid up,
895but he didn't know that the kid
896
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899was the son of a high-ranking
900police officer in Hong Kong.
901
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904He got into so many street fights
905that by 18, his father gave him $100
906
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909and sent him off to America.
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913(Shannon) If he wanted
914his immigration status to be US citizen,
915
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918then he had to return
919by the time he was 18.
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923(David) To go when you're still a star
924is very strange,
925
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928because he could have kept doing films,
929but they wanted him to go,
930
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933to make the right decision
934of where he's going next.
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938(Shannon) In Seattle, my father
939started teaching martial arts.
940
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943He didn't ever look at people because of
944their race or their stature in life.
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948If you had a sincere interest
949in martial arts, he would teach you.
950
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953Taky Kimura was really his best friend.
954
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957Taky became his first assistant
958instructor in his first school,
959
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962the Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute,
963in Seattle, Washington.
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967(Linda) Bruce used to come
968to my high school
969
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972and he used to teach
973in the Chinese philosophy class.
974
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977He was five years older than we were
978and I do remember my heart going,
979
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982"Pah, pah, pah", you know,
983"He is sure cute."
984
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987It wasn't long after that that I started
988taking gung fu lessons from him,
989
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992and my relationship with him
993changed more from just a student
994
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997to actually feeling that maybe, maybe
998there could be a connection between us.
999
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1002We both attended
1003the University of Washington.
1004
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1007We would get together on campus
1008
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1011and attend our classes,
1012
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1015occasionally, when we weren't doing
1016gung fu or something else.
1017
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1020And then when we were both done
1021with our classes,
1022
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1025we would rush back to his studio,
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1029which was just right there
1030in the university district,
1031
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1034and we'd turn on the TV
1035and watch General Hospital every day.
1036
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1039And it was like, "We have to get there.
1040It's almost three o'clock!"
1041
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1044(woman) In the '60s,
1045marriages were happening in California.
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1049In the rest of the country there were no
1050interracial marriages. It was difficult.
1051
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1054(Linda) My mother was not thrilled
1055when we decided to get married
1056
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1059and didn't want her daughter to have to
1060suffer any negativity from others.
1061
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1064(Diana) The ban on interracial marriage
1065was lifted in 1968.
1066
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1069That didn't mean
1070the ban lifted in people's hearts.
1071
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1074(Linda) Bruce was very strong in saying,
1075
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1078"I want to marry Linda.
1079I know that we are a good match."
1080
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1083And so we did get married.
1084It was really hard on my mother.
1085
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1088But it wasn't long
1089before she came to love Bruce very much.
1090
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1093It's so important to know that it was
1094his wife Linda that grounded him.
1095
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1098She was his rock.
1099
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1102(Linda) As a couple, we really did not
1103akumenang.com
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1107and I think this had a great deal to do
1108with Bruce's overwhelming personality.
1109
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1112I absolutely recognise
1113that my uncle was a gorgeous man.
1114
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1117He's got swagger. We love his style.
1118
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1121He had style the way
1122Muhammad Ali had style in the ring.
1123
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1126He was like the Elvis of martial arts.
1127He looked like a movie star.
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1131(Linda) He was always
1132such a snappy dresser and so handsome.
1133
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1136I've heard the term
1137that he's put balls on Chinese men.
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1141He's shown that the Chinese man can be,
1142you know, sexy and hot and enticing.
1143
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1146I'm trying to copy his hair.
1147
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1150That's why my hair is long.
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1154After Bruce Lee, my God, Chinese men,
1155they're a force to be reckoned with.
1156
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1159They're invincible.
1160So that's an amazing transformation.
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1164He's one of a kind
1165and extremely attractive.
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1169That would be for both straight women
1170and a lot of gay men that I know too.
1171
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1174Let's just put it this way.
1175
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1178I think the one thing that's missing
1179in my life right now is Bruce Lee.
1180
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1183A man like Bruce Lee.
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1187(Dan) The first internationals
1188were in Long Beach.
1189
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1192I was instructed to take out Bruce Lee.
1193He was the guest.
1194
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1197So I was sort of like
1198the tour guide for him.
1199
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1202He demonstrated his art
1203before he even demonstrated
1204
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1207in front of the black-belt audience.
1208
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1211In the hotel room he says, "You can
1212use everything, you can side-kick,
1213
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1216you can round-kick,
1217and I'll just use my jab."
1218
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1221When he knocked me out,
1222it was more like a hook.
1223
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1226It sort of came off the side like that.
1227The ease in which he did it,
1228
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1231and explaining
1232while he was doing it to me,
1233
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1236that was mind-boggling for me.
1237
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1240It was like a bad dream,
1241like the dreams where you can't run.
1242
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1245When Bruce Lee came up
1246and did his performance of his gung fu,
1247
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1250it was something
1251I had never seen before.
1252
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1255He said, "The individual is more
1256important in any style or system."
1257
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1260I said,
1261"I need to train with a man like this."
1262
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1265He was just so ahead of the times.
1266
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1269He'd go to Ed Parker's events in Long
1270Beach and they treated him like a god.
1271
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1274When he did his one-thumb push-ups,
1275you could hear a pin drop.
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1279(Dan) He showed his speed,
1280showed his power,
1281
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1284showed his one-inch punch.
1285
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1288People say, "Bruce Lee
1289is the fastest person on earth."
1290
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1293(Gene) He did these things
1294so realistically
1295
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1298that people didn't know if it was
1299show business or the real McCoy.
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1303(Linda) When Bruce
1304did the demonstration in 1964,
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1308before he had even come back to Oakland
1309where we lived at the time,
1310
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1313I had received a phone call
1314from William Dozier's office.
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1318(Shannon) Jay Sebring, the famous
1319hair stylist, happened to see my father
1320
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1323at the Long Beach internationals,
1324and he cut the hair of William Dozier.
1325
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1328He said, "You have to see this guy.
1329He's amazing."
1330
1331280
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1333When Bruce came home, I said to him,
1334
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133600:17:51,880 --> 00:17:54,281
1337"You need to call this guy back,
1338William Dozier."
1339
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1342"He's a producer in Hollywood
1343and he wants to see you."
1344
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1347That was the first inkling that,
1348
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1351"Wow, I might be able to do something
1352in Hollywood."
1353
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1356(interviewer)
1357Look directly into the camera.
1358
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1361Very dapper. He's got the suit
1362and the tie, you know, white shirt.
1363
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1366He's so elegant.
1367
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1370But he feels like a coiled cobra.
1371
1372289
137300:18:18,400 --> 00:18:20,880
1374- You've just had a baby boy?
1375- Yeah.
1376
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1379And you've lost a little sleep over it,
1380have you?
1381
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1384Three nights.
1385
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1388He was 24,
1389and he went in there, it's almost like,
1390
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139200:18:28,160 --> 00:18:30,766
1393"You're lucky that I'm here
1394auditioning for you."
1395
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1398There is the finger jab
1399There is the punch.
1400
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1403Just the poise he had said it all.
1404
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1407There is the back fist and elbow.
1408
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1411Even in conversation,
1412you could feel his explosive nature.
1413
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1416Of course, then they use legs,
1417straight to the groin or come up.
1418
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142000:18:46,280 --> 00:18:48,647
1421That's a special kind of star power.
1422
1423300
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1425Or, if I can back up a little bit,
1426
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142800:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,681
1429we stop at the...
1430and then come back.
1431
1432302
143300:18:54,720 --> 00:18:56,324
1434- Alright.
1435- This kind of works.
1436
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1439(Linda) He never had any intention
1440of going into show business.
1441
1442304
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1444His passion was his martial arts,
1445
1446305
144700:19:01,240 --> 00:19:04,847
1448so he had a school in Seattle
1449and a second school in Oakland.
1450
1451306
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1453His plan was to open many, many schools
1454all over the county.
1455
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1458Obviously he started with the classical
1459Chinese arts, which is wing chun.
1460
1461308
146200:19:13,960 --> 00:19:18,363
1463And then everyone knows about the fight
1464in 1964 in Oakland.
1465
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1468(Shannon) There's the famous story
1469about how he was challenged
1470
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1473by the Chinese community in Oakland,
1474
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1477and he had to defend the right
1478to teach his art to non-Chinese people.
1479
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1482You and this entire society are useless
1483in this country. You are archaic.
1484
1485313
148600:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,844
1487And you're a fool to think
1488that you can break away from us
1489
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1492merely because you choose to.
1493
1494315
149500:19:43,640 --> 00:19:46,803
1496To prove Bruce Lee was wrong,
1497he was a fake and a fraud,
1498
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1501the Chinese traditionalists
1502sent somebody over to fight him.
1503
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1506(Teri) The Chinese sent someone
1507to shut down the school.
1508
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1511Shut down or thrown down,
1512and Bruce chose throw down.
1513
1514319
151500:19:56,880 --> 00:19:59,281
1516The fight was to be held
1517at Bruce's school.
1518
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1521If Bruce lost the fight, he would have
1522to stop teaching non-Chinese people.
1523
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1526Anything that forces you
1527to review your dogmas,
1528
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1531most people don't respond
1532too well to it.
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1536(Linda) I was there,
1537eight months pregnant with Brandon,
1538
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1541and these elders arrived
1542from San Francisco,
1543
1544325
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1546led by Wong Jack Man, who was going
1547to be the opponent in this challenge.
1548
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1551They came and they had this big match.
1552
1553327
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1555I didn't have a shred of a doubt
1556about how this would come out.
1557
1558328
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1560Wong Jack Man started to run around
1561the room trying to get away from Bruce,
1562
1563329
156400:20:34,800 --> 00:20:39,408
1565and it took three minutes for Bruce
1566to get him down on the ground
1567
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1570and say, "Do you give UP?"
1571
1572331
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1574So Wong Jack Man
1575and those people all left.
1576
1577332
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1579And I remember so clearly
1580in my mind's eye
1581
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1584Bruce sitting on the steps
1585in the back of the studio
1586
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1589with his head in his hands.
1590
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1593And she said, "What's the matter?"
1594
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1597That was the fight that he realised the
1598classical arts were not working for him.
1599
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1602He should have
1603put that guy down sooner.
1604
1605338
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1607Bruce Lee doesn't beat him fast enough,
1608so he goes off to rethink it all,
1609
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1612and these tales all had the structure
1613of myth and fantasy.
1614
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1617Little parables about the master.
1618
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1621(Shannon) He said, "My training
1622in wing chun, my classical art,
1623
1624342
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1626didn't prepare me
1627for this kind of a battle."
1628
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1631That was the beginning of the evolution
1632of his own way of martial arts.
1633
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1636If you read the notes that he left
1637behind, 1965 he starts to write,
1638
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1641"My style is Western fencing,
1642
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164400:21:34,240 --> 00:21:35,969
1645Western boxing and wing chun."
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1649He said he owe our knowledge
1650to the wing chun,
1651
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1654but we're gonna go beyond the wing chun.
1655
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1658Bruce Lee took a lot from boxing.
1659
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1662He felt boxing was more realistic
1663in that you were trading blows.
1664
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1667He likes the boxing footwork.
1668It's alive, it's moving and it changes.
1669
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1672(Linda) He was totally invested
1673in watching boxing films,
1674
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1677going way back to Jack Johnson,
1678Gene Tunney, Dempsey.
1679
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1682(Teri) What he took from Dempsey
1683was the kinetic chain,
1684
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168600:22:04,880 --> 00:22:07,724
1687how to generate power,
1688the importance of a good jab.
1689
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1692There's a lot about the alignment
1693of the body.
1694
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1697Bruce had a huge collection
1698of boxing films
1699
1700358
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1702and he thought the world
1703of Muhammad Ali.
1704
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1707What he would do was very unique.
1708I once came in, lights were all out.
1709
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1712And he's watching this 8mm film
1713and he's watching it backwards.
1714
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1717(Linda) Ali had a left-foot forward
1718stance and Bruce a right foot forward.
1719
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172100:22:27,240 --> 00:22:29,846
1722So he would run the films backward
1723in the film editor
1724
1725363
172600:22:29,920 --> 00:22:32,446
1727and study them meticulously.
1728
1729364
173000:22:32,520 --> 00:22:34,727
1731He would stretch and read
1732
1733365
173400:22:34,800 --> 00:22:38,930
1735and review on 8mm film of a boxer
1736at the same time.
1737
1738366
173900:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,322
1740According to John Saxon,
1741his co-star on Enter the Dragon,
1742
1743367
174400:22:42,400 --> 00:22:45,449
1745John asked him, "Why do you have
1746all these boxing films on Ali?"
1747
1748368
174900:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,444
1750And Bruce said,
1751"Because one day I'm gonna fight him."
1752
1753369
175400:22:49,920 --> 00:22:53,606
1755If I was to fight Bruce Lee,
1756Bruce Lee was so quick, so smooth,
1757
1758370
175900:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,048
1760but the one thing that negates speed
1761on a fighter is pressure,
1762
1763371
176400:22:57,120 --> 00:22:59,441
1765and I was a pressure fighter.
1766
1767372
176800:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,285
1769(Mickey) With Bruce Lee,
1770you gotta go inside, smother him
1771
1772373
177300:23:02,360 --> 00:23:05,569
1774and outmuscle him. But you can't fight
1775a dude like that outside.
1776
1777374
177800:23:05,640 --> 00:23:09,167
1779I see Bruce leading off
1780with some long-ass kicks
1781
1782375
178300:23:09,240 --> 00:23:13,006
1784and Boom Boom gets pissed off
1785and tries to give him some body punches.
1786
1787376
178800:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,606
1789And when you get close,
1790then Bruce, I'm sure,
1791
1792377
179300:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,524
1794would be trying to bring knees
1795and high head kicks,
1796
1797378
179800:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,444
1799and I'd throw an upper cut,
1800bring the elbow across.
1801
1802379
180300:23:21,520 --> 00:23:26,208
1804And he's gonna be trying to counter me,
1805so I have to bob and weave inside.
1806
1807380
180800:23:26,280 --> 00:23:30,001
1809Bruce gets it to the ground
1810and arm-bars him or guillotines him.
1811
1812381
181300:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,444
1814It would have been a good time.
1815
1816382
181700:23:35,360 --> 00:23:39,524
1818People are watching this going,
1819"He took more shots than we thought."
1820
1821383
182200:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,329
1823"He absolutely has lost his mind
1824
1825384
182600:23:41,400 --> 00:23:43,801
1827thinking he can do that
1828against Bruce Lee."
1829
1830385
183100:23:45,080 --> 00:23:48,880
1832Ray was good to the body. Then
1833he'd eventually get that hook on you.
1834
1835386
183600:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,169
1837Bruce wouldn't know how to stop it.
1838Why? Because he never did it.
1839
1840387
184100:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,050
1842(Bruce Lee)
1843
1844388
184500:23:55,120 --> 00:23:57,930
1846People bring up the question:
1847Was Bruce Lee a real fighter?
1848
1849389
185000:24:03,120 --> 00:24:06,602
1851Bruce was a brilliant fighter. I saw him
1852beat up a guy on Enter the Dragon.
1853
1854390
185500:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,968
1856It was a gang banger, a tong member,
1857who started giving him a bad time.
1858
1859391
186000:24:10,040 --> 00:24:13,089
1861Pound for pound, I think
1862he's probably one of the best fighters.
1863
1864392
186500:24:13,160 --> 00:24:16,084
1866He had tons of street fights
1867and with that speed and footwork,
1868
1869393
187000:24:16,160 --> 00:24:17,889
1871he'd be a hell of a 135-pounder.
1872
1873394
187400:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,327
1875He was a 130-something-pound
1876lethal weapon.
1877
1878395
187900:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,689
1880(man) He has all the attributes
1881that make a good fighter:
1882
1883396
188400:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,969
1885The agility, the balance,
1886the coordination, the dexterity.
1887
1888397
188900:24:39,800 --> 00:24:43,088
1890(Gene) People say was he
1891the toughest man that ever lived?
1892
1893398
189400:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,527
1895He was 130, 135 pounds.
1896
1897399
189800:24:45,600 --> 00:24:49,047
1899You'd grab him
1900and, you know, out the window.
1901
1902400
190300:24:49,120 --> 00:24:51,600
1904And that isn't to put him down.
1905
1906401
190700:24:51,680 --> 00:24:54,604
1908He was an entertainer, and the best.
1909
1910402
191100:24:54,680 --> 00:24:57,286
1912If he wanted to become
1913an MMA fighter today,
1914
1915403
191600:24:57,360 --> 00:25:01,649
1917he would easily have been
1918that fighter that everyone fears.
1919
1920404
192100:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,121
1922His technique was beautiful,
1923perfect technique.
1924
1925405
192600:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,362
1927I don't care how good you are,
1928135lb wrestler,
1929
1930406
193100:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,523
1932you fight Brock Lesnar,
1933you're gonna lose.
1934
1935407
193600:25:09,600 --> 00:25:13,650
1937The bigger guy equally trained
1938is always gonna beat the littler guy.
1939
1940408
194100:25:13,720 --> 00:25:15,688
1942But the fact is, it wasn't about mass.
1943
1944409
194500:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,411
1946He would just put it down
1947no matter how big you were.
1948
1949410
195000:25:18,480 --> 00:25:22,007
1951But, then again,
1952everybody's chin is different, you know?
1953
1954411
195500:25:24,320 --> 00:25:28,006
1956Whether Bruce Lee was a great fighter
1957or wasn't a great fighter
1958
1959412
196000:25:28,080 --> 00:25:31,971
1961doesn't make any difference to
1962his cultural and historical importance,
1963
1964413
196500:25:32,040 --> 00:25:34,725
1966because his films changed the world.
1967
1968414
196900:25:36,640 --> 00:25:40,201
1970You got the job on The Green Hornet,
1971where you played Kato, the chauffeur,
1972
1973415
197400:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,806
1975mainly because
1976you're the only Chinese-looking guy
1977
1978416
197900:25:42,880 --> 00:25:46,521
1980who could pronounce the name
1981of the leading character, Britt Reid.
1982
1983417
198400:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,080
1985I made that as a joke, of course.
1986
1987418
198800:25:50,200 --> 00:25:51,884
1989And it's a heck of a name, man.
1990
1991419
199200:25:51,960 --> 00:25:55,442
1993Every time I said it at that time,
1994I was superconscious.
1995
1996420
199700:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,444
1998Mr Reid's residence.
1999
2000421
200100:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,091
2002As a kid,
2003we watched Green Hornet for him.
2004
2005422
200600:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,247
2007We could care less about Green Hornet.
2008
2009423
201000:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,800
2011He had a fly car,
2012I'll give him props for the car,
2013
2014424
201500:26:07,880 --> 00:26:09,723
2016but Kato was incredible.
2017
2018425
201900:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,724
2020Everybody in the neighbourhood
2021was fighting to be Bruce Lee,
2022
2023426
202400:26:12,800 --> 00:26:13,847
2025not the Green Hornet.
2026
2027427
202800:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,685
2029A lot of stunt guys
2030didn't know how to react.
2031
2032428
203300:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,810
2034You do the old John Wayne,
2035you throw a punch and the guy goes down.
2036
2037429
203800:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,089
2039With him, it's boom, boom, boom, boom,
2040lightning fast.
2041
2042430
204300:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,084
2044There's a shot of Bruce
2045and he's doing a kick,
2046
2047431
204800:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,801
2049and his thigh, his inner thigh,
2050is flat against his chest.
2051
2052432
205300:26:30,880 --> 00:26:34,362
2054And we would just look at that kick
2055like, "Are you kidding me?"
2056
2057433
205800:26:34,440 --> 00:26:36,841
2059"Look how incredible this guy can kick."
2060
2061434
206200:26:39,400 --> 00:26:43,564
2063(Shannon) I think about what my dad said
2064about his first foray into Hollywood.
2065
2066435
206700:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,803
2068There were all these seasoned actors
2069doing their thing,
2070
2071436
207200:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,531
2073and he felt like
2074the only robot in the room.
2075
2076437
207700:26:49,600 --> 00:26:53,082
2078That's something I can really relate to
2079in my life, back when I was acting,
2080
2081438
208200:26:53,160 --> 00:26:57,404
2083and I was trying so hard
2084to impress the right people.
2085
2086439
208700:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,245
2088(Bruce) When I did The Green Hornet,
2089I was not being myself
2090
2091440
209200:27:00,320 --> 00:27:03,881
2093and I'm trying to accumulate
2094external security,
2095
2096441
209700:27:03,960 --> 00:27:05,689
2098external technique,
2099
2100442
210100:27:05,760 --> 00:27:09,731
2102but never to ask
2103what Bruce Lee would have done.
2104
2105443
210600:27:09,800 --> 00:27:13,282
2107The beauty was that he immediately said,
2108"I'm not gonna do that any more."
2109
2110444
211100:27:13,360 --> 00:27:16,125
2112Sort of an awakening moment for him.
2113
2114445
211500:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,124
2116By the way, I did a really terrible job
2117in that, I have to say.
2118
2119446
212000:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,010
2121Really? You didn't like yourself?
2122I didn't see it.
2123
2124447
212500:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,164
2126He was always trying to be
2127a holistic person,
2128
2129448
213000:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,926
2131the fight, the philosophy,
2132the better human being.
2133
2134449
213500:27:35,000 --> 00:27:40,006
2136Martial art has a very, very deep
2137meaning as far as my life is concerned.
2138
2139450
214000:27:40,080 --> 00:27:41,525
2141And he was a very literate guy.
2142
2143451
214400:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,170
2145He really did read
2146
2147452
214800:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,481
2149and really did study
2150and really did think.
2151
2152453
215300:27:45,560 --> 00:27:49,565
2154All type of knowledge
2155ultimately means self-knowledge.
2156
2157454
215800:27:49,640 --> 00:27:54,726
2159He had a huge library of books in
2160his den from the ceiling to the floor.
2161
2162455
216300:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,929
2164Any book I'd pick up, there were
2165notations about what was good,
2166
2167456
216800:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,002
2169what was functional, what was no good.
2170
2171457
217200:28:00,080 --> 00:28:04,927
2173As an actor, as a martial artist,
2174as a human being,
2175
2176458
217700:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,721
2178all these I have learned
2179from martial art.
2180
2181459
218200:28:08,800 --> 00:28:12,850
2183(Teri) Most of the writings in the Tao
2184of Jeet Kune Do are Western influenced
2185
2186460
218700:28:12,920 --> 00:28:16,447
2188and they come directly
2189from fencing and boxing books.
2190
2191461
219200:28:16,520 --> 00:28:18,921
2193And you can take
2194most of the passages in that book
2195
2196462
219700:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,526
2198and trace them to their roots, verbatim.
2199
2200463
220100:28:21,600 --> 00:28:25,889
2202He might have changed "fighter" from
2203"fencer", but pretty much it's intact.
2204
2205464
220600:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,725
2207People will say,
2208"Hey, that's not Bruce's philosophy."
2209
2210465
221100:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,643
2212"That was this author or that author."
2213
2214466
221500:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,485
2216That doesn't matter.
2217These people are missing the point.
2218
2219467
222000:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,689
2221Bruce Lee's writings are very fun
2222to read, but they were notes.
2223
2224468
222500:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,206
2226You get these quotes
2227where he may change one word
2228
2229469
223000:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,931
2231and substitute jeet kune do for tao.
2232
2233470
223400:28:42,000 --> 00:28:46,642
2235So therefore it's not pure naturalness
2236or unnaturalness.
2237
2238471
223900:28:46,720 --> 00:28:51,647
2240The ideal is unnatural naturalness
2241or natural unnaturalness.
2242
2243472
224400:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,041
2245- Yin yang.
2246- You're right, man, that's it.
2247
2248473
224900:28:54,120 --> 00:28:57,647
2250Because of Bruce Lee,
2251now I read up on Alan Watts.
2252
2253474
225400:28:57,720 --> 00:29:01,088
2255JD Krishnamurti, of course Lao Tsu,
2256
2257475
225800:29:01,160 --> 00:29:02,924
2259Tao Te Ching.
2260
2261476
226200:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,367
2263Bruce Lee dissected those philosophies,
2264
2265477
226600:29:05,440 --> 00:29:07,966
2267making them straight and direct
2268and to the point.
2269
2270478
227100:29:08,040 --> 00:29:09,883
2272That's what real philosophy's about,
2273
2274479
227500:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,566
2276something that you can apply
2277to day-to-day living.
2278
2279480
228000:29:12,640 --> 00:29:13,971
2281That's what Bruce Lee did.
2282
2283481
228400:29:14,040 --> 00:29:15,769
2285This is where he was a genius.
2286
2287482
228800:29:15,840 --> 00:29:17,729
2289It might sound too philosophical,
2290
2291483
229200:29:17,800 --> 00:29:22,283
2293but it's unacting acting
2294or acting unacting if you...
2295
2296484
229700:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,045
2298- You've lost me.
2299- I have, huh?
2300
2301485
230200:29:25,120 --> 00:29:30,251
2303So Bruce Lee as a philosopher
2304introduces nothing new
2305
2306486
230700:29:30,320 --> 00:29:34,006
2308but introduces a radicalism
2309into martial art.
2310
2311487
231200:29:34,080 --> 00:29:37,050
2313He's speaking the ideology
2314of the counterculture.
2315
2316488
231700:29:37,120 --> 00:29:38,804
2318He speaks the zeitgeist.
2319
2320489
232100:29:38,880 --> 00:29:43,204
2322So you get an interest in Buddhism,
2323in yoga, in all things Eastern.
2324
2325490
232600:29:43,280 --> 00:29:45,806
2327Bruce Lee shows you
2328meditation in movement.
2329
2330491
233100:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,044
2332You set up a school in Hollywood
2333
2334492
233500:29:51,120 --> 00:29:54,408
2336for people like James Garner,
2337Steve McQueen and the others.
2338
2339493
234000:29:54,480 --> 00:29:58,883
2341Why would they want to learn Chinese
2342martial art? Because of a movie role?
2343
2344494
234500:29:58,960 --> 00:30:00,291
2346Not really.
2347
2348495
234900:30:00,360 --> 00:30:03,842
2350Most of them, you see, they are coming
2351in to ask me to teach them
2352
2353496
235400:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,207
2355not so much how to defend themselves,
2356
2357497
235800:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,647
2359they want to learn to express themselves
2360
2361498
236200:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,644
2363through some movement, be it anger,
2364
2365499
236600:30:11,720 --> 00:30:13,927
2367be it determination or whatsoever.
2368
2369500
237000:30:14,000 --> 00:30:18,085
2371He is paying me to show him
2372in combative form
2373
2374501
237500:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,606
2376the art of expressing the human body.
2377
2378502
237900:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,970
2380(Linda) Our back yard was always
2381a back yard school,
2382
2383503
238400:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,202
2385so for Jim Coburn to come over
2386
2387504
238800:30:27,280 --> 00:30:28,805
2389or Steve McQueen to come over
2390
2391505
239200:30:28,880 --> 00:30:30,609
2393was like not that big a deal.
2394
2395506
239600:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,763
2397Of all your students, famous,
2398James Garner, Steve McQueen,
2399
2400507
240100:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,286
2402James Coburn, Roman Polanski,
2403which was the best?
2404
2405508
240600:30:36,360 --> 00:30:42,003
2407Depending, OK? Now, as a fighter,
2408Steve McQueen, that son of a gun,
2409
2410509
241100:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,128
2412got the toughness in him.
2413
2414510
241500:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,487
2416Now, James Coburn is a peace-loving man.
2417
2418511
241900:30:46,560 --> 00:30:48,961
2420- (interviewer) I've met him.
2421- You've met him.
2422
2423512
242400:30:49,040 --> 00:30:50,769
2425He's really, really nice.
2426
2427513
242800:30:50,840 --> 00:30:54,287
2429Super mellow and all that,
2430you know what I mean?
2431
2432514
243300:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,170
2434Now, he appreciates
2435the philosophical part of it,
2436
2437515
243800:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,130
2439therefore his understanding of it
2440is deeper than Steve's.
2441
2442516
244300:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,646
2444He often told me,
2445"I would like to see Steve McQueen
2446
2447517
244800:31:02,720 --> 00:31:04,370
2449be a little bit more like Coburn
2450
2451518
245200:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,091
2453and Coburn to be
2454a little bit more like Steve McQueen."
2455
2456519
245700:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,891
2458Actually, you see,
2459it's a combination of both.
2460
2461520
246200:31:09,960 --> 00:31:14,443
2463I mean, here is the natural instinct
2464and here is control.
2465
2466521
246700:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,922
2468You are to combine the two in harmony.
2469
2470522
247100:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,685
2472Not if you have one to the extreme,
2473
2474523
247500:31:20,760 --> 00:31:22,922
2476you will be very unscientific.
2477
2478524
247900:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,082
2480If you have another to the extreme,
2481
2482525
248300:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,448
2484you become all of a sudden
2485a mechanical man.
2486
2487526
248800:31:32,080 --> 00:31:36,210
2489All the big, big names
2490in tournament fighting came to Bruce
2491
2492527
249300:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,487
2494because they wanted
2495to refine their skills.
2496
2497528
249800:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,881
2499Joe Lewis, Bob Wall, Chuck Norris.
2500
2501529
250200:31:40,960 --> 00:31:44,407
2503(Robert) Chuck Norris was probably
2504the greatest kicker I've ever seen.
2505
2506530
250700:31:44,480 --> 00:31:48,007
2508- Chuck Norris is unbelievable.
2509- Bruce didn't want to teach beginners.
2510
2511531
251200:31:48,080 --> 00:31:49,969
2513He did have some in his own schools.
2514
2515532
251600:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,487
2517But he took the top martial artists
2518and he felt he could make them better.
2519
2520533
252100:31:53,560 --> 00:31:56,404
2522"One more time. You don't get it,
2523we move to something else."
2524
2525534
252600:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,642
2527"You gonna get it?"
2528That's how he would teach.
2529
2530535
253100:31:58,720 --> 00:32:00,927
2532He knew a lot. He taught me gung fu.
2533
2534536
253500:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,810
2536(Dan) Joe Lewis
2537was highly influenced by Bruce Lee.
2538
2539537
254000:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,167
2541Joe Lewis was a world champion
2542when he met Bruce,
2543
2544538
254500:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,323
2546but it was a lot more of Bruce
2547being the instructor to Joe.
2548
2549539
255000:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,961
2551(Dan) I don't think he had boxing hands
2552until he met Bruce Lee,
2553
2554540
255500:32:13,040 --> 00:32:14,804
2556but his side kick was phenomenal.
2557
2558541
255900:32:14,880 --> 00:32:16,848
2560Joe would throw 1,000 side kicks a day.
2561
2562542
256300:32:16,920 --> 00:32:20,970
2564Listen, Joe Lewis, in today's world,
2565he would have learned all that shit
2566
2567543
256800:32:21,040 --> 00:32:24,647
2569and been just as bad as he was
2570back in the day.
2571
2572544
257300:32:24,720 --> 00:32:28,088
2574Bruce didn't think point karate,
2575point martial arts competition,
2576
2577545
257800:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,811
2579was valuable at all,
2580and I totally disagreed with him.
2581
2582546
258300:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,087
2584Bruce watched it
2585but didn't believe in it.
2586
2587547
258800:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,561
2589He always advocated
2590full-contact sparring.
2591
2592548
259300:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,849
2594Bruce Lee looked at all of that
2595and said, "This is not martial arts."
2596
2597549
259800:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,287
2599"This is nonsense.
2600Let's get rid of these rules."
2601
2602550
260300:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,204
2604I respect that he didn't feel like
2605he wanted to compete
2606
2607551
260800:32:44,280 --> 00:32:45,805
2609because it wasn't real combat.
2610
2611552
261200:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,487
2613He says you're not fighting
2614for yourself or expressing yourself.
2615
2616553
261700:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,404
2618You're fighting for the judges,
2619the referee, the rules.
2620
2621554
262200:32:52,480 --> 00:32:56,371
2623What's the reality of combat? There's
2624someone who wants to beat you down.
2625
2626555
262700:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,808
2628He said to learn to swim,
2629you cannot swim on land.
2630
2631556
263200:32:59,880 --> 00:33:01,166
2633You gotta get in the water.
2634
2635557
263600:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,129
2637To learn to fight, you gotta fight.
2638
2639558
264000:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,209
2641Can you break five or six pieces of wood
2642with your hand or your foot?
2643
2644559
264500:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,045
2646Boards don't hit back.
2647
2648560
264900:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,248
2650I'll probably break my hand and foot.
2651
2652561
265300:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,130
2654He had high regard
2655for those martial artists of the day
2656
2657562
265800:33:15,200 --> 00:33:16,770
2659that were winning tournaments.
2660
2661563
266200:33:16,840 --> 00:33:22,244
2663He just had a different philosophy
2664about martial arts and actual fighting.
2665
2666564
266700:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,211
2668I do not believe in styles any more.
2669
2670565
267100:33:28,280 --> 00:33:32,046
2672I mean, I do not believe
2673that there is such thing
2674
2675566
267600:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,771
2677as like a Chinese way of fighting
2678
2679567
268000:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,731
2681or the Japanese way of fighting
2682or whatever way of fighting.
2683
2684568
268500:33:38,800 --> 00:33:40,928
2686Because if you don't have styles,
2687
2688569
268900:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,800
2690if you just say, "Well, here I am,
2691you know, as a human being,
2692
2693570
269400:33:44,880 --> 00:33:49,169
2695how can I express myself
2696totally and completely?"
2697
2698571
269900:33:49,240 --> 00:33:55,122
2700Now, that way, you won't create a style,
2701because style is a crystallisation.
2702
2703572
270400:33:55,200 --> 00:33:59,410
2705I mean, that way it's a process
2706of continuing growth.
2707
2708573
270900:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,881
2710He called his institute
2711Jun Fan Gung Fu.
2712
2713574
271400:34:01,960 --> 00:34:06,090
2715We were riding in a car and he mentioned
2716what he enjoyed in fencing
2717
2718575
271900:34:06,160 --> 00:34:07,571
2720was the stop hit.
2721
2722576
272300:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,362
2724Bruce didn't have any passive blocks.
2725His blocks were a strike.
2726
2727577
272800:34:12,440 --> 00:34:16,968
2729Bruce took the stances from the stances
2730that you see in Western fencing.
2731
2732578
273300:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,921
2734Instead of just block and then hit,
2735it's done simultaneously.
2736
2737579
273800:34:22,720 --> 00:34:25,769
2739He says we wanna intercept
2740his physical motion and his thought.
2741
2742580
274300:34:25,840 --> 00:34:29,367
2744It's almost like fencing. You see
2745this capture? That's the capture.
2746
2747581
274800:34:31,160 --> 00:34:36,041
2749And that's why he said, "I'm gonna call
2750my new method the intercepting way
2751
2752582
275300:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,043
2754or the intercepting fist."
2755
2756583
275700:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,521
2758Come on, touch me. Any way you can.
2759
2760584
276100:34:42,240 --> 00:34:44,049
2762To reach me, you must move to me.
2763
2764585
276500:34:44,120 --> 00:34:47,124
2766Your attack offers me an opportunity
2767to intercept you.
2768
2769586
277000:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,123
2771And they said, "What do you call that?"
2772
2773587
277400:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,771
2775He says, "We call thatjeet kune do."
2776
2777588
277800:34:51,840 --> 00:34:53,842
2779In Cantonese, jeet kune do.
2780
2781589
278200:34:53,920 --> 00:34:57,720
2783Then it was Dan who says,
2784"Acronym would be JKD."
2785
2786590
278700:34:57,800 --> 00:34:59,529
2788And Bruce Lee said, "I like that."
2789
2790591
279100:34:59,600 --> 00:35:03,002
2792- The way of the intercepting fist.
2793- Intercepting fist?
2794
2795592
279600:35:03,080 --> 00:35:06,607
2797It sounds Chinese, but it's very much
2798an American martial art.
2799
2800593
280100:35:06,680 --> 00:35:08,045
2802Jeet kune do
2803
2804594
280500:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,124
2806was how can I most efficiently
2807
2808595
280900:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,409
2810directly end a moment of combat?
2811
2812596
281300:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,721
2814(Ed) The philosophy
2815Bruce Lee had was:
2816
2817597
281800:35:23,800 --> 00:35:26,849
2819The simpler the better,
2820the most effective, the direct line.
2821
2822598
282300:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,321
2824- The other stuff was Hollywood.
2825- It can be taught.
2826
2827599
282800:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,244
2829- Do you understand?
2830- But it cannot really be standardised.
2831
2832600
283300:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,726
2834And that's not to say
2835that it can't be passed on.
2836
2837601
283800:35:35,800 --> 00:35:37,882
2839But it was very personal to him.
2840
2841602
284200:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,804
2843All the wannabes, all the imposters
2844
2845603
284600:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,565
2847who put up jeet kune do signs
2848on their school building,
2849
2850604
285100:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,371
2852and they have no idea
2853whatjeet kune do is.
2854
2855605
285600:35:46,440 --> 00:35:47,726
2857They think it's a style.
2858
2859606
286000:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,566
2861I don't know if he'd be dojo-busting
2862in his days, but that would upset Bruce.
2863
2864607
286500:35:51,640 --> 00:35:53,642
2866(Bruce Lee)
2867
2868608
286900:35:59,480 --> 00:36:03,644
2870Bruce Lee has the big middle finger
2871raised toward any form of authority.
2872
2873609
287400:36:03,720 --> 00:36:06,121
2875All kinds of dogmas,
2876all kinds of traditions.
2877
2878610
287900:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,328
2880He's saying a big "screw you"
2881to all of them.
2882
2883611
288400:36:08,400 --> 00:36:12,166
2885This guy was preaching back in the '60s
2886you shouldn't stay to one style.
2887
2888612
288900:36:12,240 --> 00:36:14,766
2890No one style is the best.
2891Have a piece of everything.
2892
2893613
289400:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,322
2895In 1968 he says,
2896"JKD in '69 will be different."
2897
2898614
289900:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,051
2900I said, "This is really good stuff
2901we're doing now."
2902
2903615
290400:36:21,120 --> 00:36:25,489
2905He says, "JKD in '69 will be different.
2906JKD in 1970 will be different."
2907
2908616
290900:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,882
2910Martial arts has evolved more
2911in the last ten years
2912
2913617
291400:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,361
2915than it has in the last 10,000 years,
2916
2917618
291800:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,284
2919because all the stuff
2920that Bruce Lee talked about
2921
2922619
292300:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,682
2924and his philosophies and things
2925that he believed were finally proven
2926
2927620
292800:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,481
2929and now this new martial art
2930was able to start to grow and evolve.
2931
2932621
293300:36:42,040 --> 00:36:45,408
2934(announcer) Our main event,
2935for the light heavyweight title,
2936
2937622
293800:36:45,480 --> 00:36:46,766
2939here we go!
2940
2941623
294200:36:46,840 --> 00:36:51,243
2943You talk about Chinese boxing. How does
2944it differ from, say, our kind of boxing?
2945
2946624
294700:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,607
2948Well, first we use the feet.
2949
2950625
295100:36:56,280 --> 00:36:57,930
2952(commentator) Second to none.
2953
2954626
295500:36:58,000 --> 00:36:59,604
2956And then we use the elbow.
2957
2958627
295900:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,761
2960(commentator) Oh! Beautiful elbow!
2961
2962628
296300:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,571
2964- Do you use the thumb too?
2965- You name it, man, we use it.
2966
2967629
296800:37:06,640 --> 00:37:08,404
2969- You use it all.
2970- You have to.
2971
2972630
297300:37:08,480 --> 00:37:12,007
2974Because that is the expression
2975of the human body.
2976
2977631
297800:37:12,080 --> 00:37:15,323
2979I mean, the... everything,
2980I mean, not just the hand.
2981
2982632
298300:37:18,440 --> 00:37:22,604
2984The crazy thing about martial arts is
2985people debate and fight over this stuff.
2986
2987633
298800:37:22,680 --> 00:37:23,806
2989There's no debate.
2990
2991634
299200:37:23,880 --> 00:37:27,202
2993Bruce Lee is definitely the father
2994of mixed martial arts.
2995
2996635
299700:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,203
2998I do think there's a correlation there,
2999
3000636
300100:37:29,280 --> 00:37:31,886
3002but it's not that jeet kune do
3003is the same thing as MMA.
3004
3005637
300600:37:31,960 --> 00:37:35,043
3007If Dana White says Bruce Lee
3008is the father of mixed martial arts,
3009
3010638
301100:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,248
3012I would say
3013he's one of the earliest ones,
3014
3015639
301600:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,846
3017but Gene LeBell
3018is the father of mixed martial arts.
3019
3020640
302100:37:39,920 --> 00:37:43,447
3022In 1963 you'll see Gene defeating
3023Milo Savage, a professional boxer.
3024
3025641
302600:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,126
3027Well, Bruce wasn't into
3028mixed martial arts in 1963.
3029
3030642
303100:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,807
3032(Gene) As I was choking him,
3033he grabbed my hand and started to bite,
3034
3035643
303600:37:49,880 --> 00:37:53,805
3037and I said, "Milo, you bite my hand,
3038I'm gonna take your eye out."
3039
3040644
304100:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,724
3042He opened his mouth,
3043I pulled my hand out and I choked him.
3044
3045645
304600:37:56,800 --> 00:38:00,009
3047And he was out, like, for 22 minutes.
3048
3049646
305000:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,526
3051Gene LeBell taught Bruce Lee
3052grappling moves.
3053
3054647
305500:38:02,600 --> 00:38:06,286
3056I'd throw him and flip him
3057and he'd land on his feet.
3058
3059648
306000:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,330
3061Then he'd spin,
3062do a crescent kick on me
3063
3064649
306500:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,562
3066or do a judo throw.
3067
3068650
306900:38:11,640 --> 00:38:14,450
3070And he was a magnificent athlete.
3071
3072651
307300:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,922
3074If you're gonna say father
3075of mixed martial... it's gotta be Bruce.
3076
3077652
307800:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,411
3079He's before anyone else.
3080
3081653
308200:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,131
3083He's the first one who decided
3084to put it all together.
3085
3086654
308700:38:22,200 --> 00:38:23,884
3088He had the little shorts on, too.
3089
3090655
309100:38:23,960 --> 00:38:28,329
3092That's as close as he could get to what
3093the UFC and the MMA was 25 years later.
3094
3095656
309600:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,529
3097(Richard) In 1947,
3098kajukenbo was the first
3099
3100657
310100:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,570
3102to put all these different martial arts
3103in one title:
3104
3105658
310600:38:34,640 --> 00:38:37,849
3107Karate, judo, kenpo, boxing.
3108
3109659
311000:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,810
3111Like Bruce Lee, they put
3112all these practical things together
3113
3114660
311500:38:40,880 --> 00:38:42,928
3116but kajukenbo had it first.
3117
3118661
311900:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,445
3120I agree with Dana White.
3121
3122662
312300:38:44,520 --> 00:38:46,727
3124He is one of the pioneers
3125of mixed martial art.
3126
3127663
312800:38:46,800 --> 00:38:50,043
3129The reality is, everybody has been
3130a part of this evolution,
3131
3132664
313300:38:50,120 --> 00:38:53,203
3134from Benny "the Jet" Urquidez
3135to Joe Lewis to all these guys,
3136
3137665
313800:38:53,280 --> 00:38:56,443
3139to Joe Lewis the boxer, too,
3140and the list goes on and on and on.
3141
3142666
314300:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,844
3144When the UFC came in,
3145they weren't talking about Bruce Lee.
3146
3147667
314800:39:01,920 --> 00:39:05,402
3149- They were talking about Royce Gracie.
3150- (Commentator) Royce Gracie!
3151
3152668
315300:39:06,120 --> 00:39:10,808
3154The Gracies were a piece of that too, a
3155piece of the history of not only the UFC
3156
3157669
315800:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,087
3159but of the martial arts evolving.
3160
3161670
316200:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,482
3163For a while
3164they owned those competitions.
3165
3166671
316700:39:18,080 --> 00:39:19,730
3168(commentator) There's the tag.
3169
3170672
317100:39:19,800 --> 00:39:23,407
3172What the Gracies did was they took
3173the ground game, the submission game,
3174
3175673
317600:39:23,480 --> 00:39:26,290
3177and really refined it
3178to a whole other level.
3179
3180674
318100:39:26,360 --> 00:39:28,522
3182Bruce would have loved
3183Brazilian jiujitsu.
3184
3185675
318600:39:28,600 --> 00:39:31,080
3187I think if he saw the Gracies,
3188he would have studied.
3189
3190676
319100:39:31,160 --> 00:39:35,006
3192He really embraced wrestling
3193and he really embraced judo.
3194
3195677
319600:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,447
3197The difference
3198between the Gracies and Bruce Lee
3199
3200678
320100:39:37,520 --> 00:39:40,205
3202is Bruce Lee was never
3203stuck and married to one thing.
3204
3205679
320600:39:40,280 --> 00:39:43,204
3207I think once everybody
3208started to learn jiujitsu
3209
3210680
321100:39:43,280 --> 00:39:47,126
3212and then people started to do
3213more stand-up in there...
3214
3215681
321600:39:48,240 --> 00:39:50,447
3217(commentator) My goodness!
3218
3219682
322000:39:50,520 --> 00:39:53,205
3221Then I think they started talking
3222about Bruce Lee.
3223
3224683
322500:39:53,280 --> 00:39:56,489
3226(commentator) Oh, man.
3227That is the Karate Kid.
3228
3229684
323000:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,767
3231And when you're talking about combat...
3232
3233685
323400:39:58,840 --> 00:40:02,481
3235Well, I mean, if it is a sport,
3236now you're talking about something else.
3237
3238686
323900:40:02,560 --> 00:40:04,369
3240You have regulations. You have rules.
3241
3242687
324300:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,011
3244But when you're talking about fighting
3245as it is...
3246
3247688
324800:40:07,080 --> 00:40:08,491
3249- No rules?
3250- With no rules.
3251
3252689
325300:40:08,560 --> 00:40:09,561
3254Real fighting.
3255
3256690
325700:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,803
3258Well, then, baby, you'd better train
3259every part of your body.
3260
3261691
326200:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,843
3263Mixed martial art in the cage
3264is for a contest. It's a sport.
3265
3266692
326700:40:16,920 --> 00:40:20,606
3268I don't know that I would call him
3269exactly the father of mixed martial arts
3270
3271693
327200:40:20,680 --> 00:40:23,843
3273because, again, it is still sport,
3274there are still rules.
3275
3276694
327700:40:23,920 --> 00:40:28,130
3278Bruce Lee was strictly for the street,
3279taking guys out, not for competition.
3280
3281695
328200:40:28,200 --> 00:40:32,000
3283When they had these Vale Tudo fights
3284in Brazil, there were barely any rules.
3285
3286696
328700:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,562
3288You could head-butt, you could kick
3289in the groin, all kinds of things.
3290
3291697
329200:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,803
3293Bruce's favourite weapon
3294in the street fight was the fingerjab.
3295
3296698
329700:40:38,880 --> 00:40:42,089
3298This hand would block the vision,
3299so when he came up, like that.
3300
3301699
330200:40:42,160 --> 00:40:45,448
3303If you do that, it could be very serious
3304damage to his vision for life.
3305
3306700
330700:40:45,520 --> 00:40:48,763
3308Mixed martial art
3309is the purest form of combat
3310
3311701
331200:40:48,840 --> 00:40:52,162
3313that you can possibly have
3314in civilisation.
3315
3316702
331700:40:54,240 --> 00:40:56,971
3318(commentator) Oh! With a kick.
3319
3320703
332100:40:57,040 --> 00:41:01,045
3322I just always felt like it was
3323such a real raw sport
3324
3325704
332600:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,646
3327and that it was gonna
3328overtake boxing one day.
3329
3330705
333100:41:03,720 --> 00:41:05,165
3332It seems like that day's here.
3333
3334706
333500:41:05,240 --> 00:41:06,287
3336Let's fight!
3337
3338707
333900:41:06,360 --> 00:41:11,526
3340It's the most hardcore real form of
3341competition and honesty I could find,
3342
3343708
334400:41:11,600 --> 00:41:13,329
3345and that's the kind of thing I crave.
3346
3347709
334800:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,449
3349(commentator)
3350Carano, a big-time puncher.
3351
3352710
335300:41:16,520 --> 00:41:19,046
3354There is fear.
3355Sometimes you don't wanna go in there.
3356
3357711
335800:41:19,120 --> 00:41:20,963
3359It just teaches you to face the music,
3360
3361712
336200:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,407
3363that fear's something
3364that needs to be devoured.
3365
3366713
336700:41:23,480 --> 00:41:26,529
3368My biggest fear
3369is not that I'm gonna get hurt.
3370
3371714
337200:41:26,600 --> 00:41:29,206
3373(commentator) Carano getting pounded!
3374
3375715
337600:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,489
3377My biggest fear is that I'm not going
3378to be able to make it authentic
3379
3380716
338100:41:32,560 --> 00:41:34,289
3382and honestly express myself.
3383
3384717
338500:41:34,360 --> 00:41:38,570
3386You're not trying to express yourself in
3387real fighting. You're trying to survive.
3388
3389718
339000:41:38,640 --> 00:41:43,202
3391(Bruce) And you ask yourself
3392how can you honestly express yourself
3393
3394719
339500:41:43,280 --> 00:41:44,486
3396at that moment?
3397
3398720
339900:41:44,560 --> 00:41:47,609
3400If I want to punch, I'm gonna do it,
3401man, and I'm gonna do it.
3402
3403721
340400:41:47,680 --> 00:41:51,366
3405Not you want to punch because
3406you're trying to avoid getting hit
3407
3408722
340900:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,444
3410but to really be in with it
3411and express yourself.
3412
3413723
341400:41:54,520 --> 00:41:57,888
3415So that is the type of thing
3416you have to train yourself into it,
3417
3418724
341900:41:57,960 --> 00:42:01,123
3420to become one with the...
3421
3422725
342300:42:01,200 --> 00:42:02,565
3424This might sound different.
3425
3426726
342700:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,610
3428I feel as if I'm helping people
3429as I'm punching them in the face.
3430
3431727
343200:42:05,680 --> 00:42:08,524
3433- (commentator) Shogun's badly hurt.
3434- Jon Jones!
3435
3436728
343700:42:08,600 --> 00:42:11,649
3438I'm beating weakness out of them,
3439making them a better person.
3440
3441729
344200:42:11,720 --> 00:42:14,166
3443In my opinion
3444it's the highest art of expression
3445
3446730
344700:42:14,240 --> 00:42:16,686
3448and that's what
3449honestly expressing yourself is.
3450
3451731
345200:42:16,760 --> 00:42:18,250
3453(commentator) To the body.
3454
3455732
345600:42:18,320 --> 00:42:20,402
3457And it is all over!
3458
3459733
346000:42:20,480 --> 00:42:23,006
3461(Ed) Jon Jones, look, guys like this,
3462
3463734
346400:42:23,080 --> 00:42:26,562
3465it's important for them
3466to have this kind of confidence.
3467
3468735
346900:42:26,640 --> 00:42:30,008
3470I don't look at it
3471as if I'm hurting my opponent, my enemy.
3472
3473736
347400:42:30,080 --> 00:42:33,050
3475It's like we're brothers
3476painting this picture together.
3477
3478737
347900:42:33,120 --> 00:42:37,125
3480It helps them,
3481until, of course, it doesn't,
3482
3483738
348400:42:37,200 --> 00:42:40,682
3485which, as we know historically,
3486always happens,
3487
3488739
348900:42:40,760 --> 00:42:44,287
3490where they run into that guy
3491where, "Oh, this isn't fun."
3492
3493740
349400:42:44,360 --> 00:42:47,569
3495"This is reality.
3496You can get hurt in there."
3497
3498741
349900:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,008
3500What happens
3501is after several years of that,
3502
3503742
350400:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,811
3505it takes its effect, you know?
3506
3507743
350800:42:57,880 --> 00:42:59,882
3509Like when I had to go take
3510my neurological
3511
3512744
351300:42:59,960 --> 00:43:01,200
3514and my hands were going,
3515
3516745
351700:43:01,280 --> 00:43:05,171
3518and I couldn't remember
3519where I parked my car in the morning.
3520
3521746
352200:43:05,240 --> 00:43:09,245
3523It should be regulated. There should be
3524judges and medical staff there.
3525
3526747
352700:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,607
3528You don't wanna see people get injured.
3529
3530748
353100:43:11,680 --> 00:43:15,446
3532I think my father,
3533from a pure martial arts interest
3534
3535749
353600:43:15,520 --> 00:43:19,081
3537and combat interest standpoint,
3538would have loved to watch the UFC.
3539
3540750
354100:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,322
3542I believe that Bruce Lee
3543was a huge fight fan.
3544
3545751
354600:43:21,400 --> 00:43:24,722
3547He'd have been jumping out of his seat,
3548getting as excited as any of us.
3549
3550752
355100:43:24,800 --> 00:43:28,361
3552I think he'd have been proud to be
3553called the father of mixed martial arts.
3554
3555753
355600:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,444
3557OK, there's people out there,
3558they got it.
3559
3560754
356100:43:32,320 --> 00:43:36,564
3562They say that Bruce Lee
3563was the father of mixed martial arts.
3564
3565755
356600:43:36,640 --> 00:43:38,483
3567That bothers me.
3568
3569756
357000:43:38,560 --> 00:43:40,528
3571If he's the father
3572of mixed martial arts,
3573
3574757
357500:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,285
3576I'm the grandfather
3577of mixed martial arts,
3578
3579758
358000:43:43,360 --> 00:43:47,331
3581And if you don't believe me,
3582I'll choke you,
3583
3584759
358500:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,404
3586cos you got a nice neck for choking.
3587
3588760
358900:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,801
3590When you get into
3591this whole martial arts thing
3592
3593761
359400:43:52,880 --> 00:43:56,168
3595and you start talking about Bruce Lee,
3596a lot of people get offended.
3597
3598762
359900:43:56,240 --> 00:43:59,244
3600People get pissed off and bombed out
3601and everything else.
3602
3603763
360400:43:59,320 --> 00:44:03,723
3605But Bruce Lee is 100 percent
3606the father of mixed martial arts.
3607
3608764
360900:44:10,080 --> 00:44:15,530
3610He was so directed and so concrete
3611about his thoughts and his beliefs
3612
3613765
361400:44:15,600 --> 00:44:18,604
3615that he actually went out
3616and had his friend George
3617
3618766
361900:44:18,680 --> 00:44:21,286
3620make a little miniature tombstone.
3621
3622767
362300:44:21,360 --> 00:44:24,842
3624It's really heavy and it says,
3625"In memory of a once fluid man
3626
3627768
362800:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,161
3629crammed and distorted
3630by the classical mess."
3631
3632769
363300:44:27,240 --> 00:44:32,770
3634The classical mess meant that all these
3635traditions were a classical mess.
3636
3637770
363800:44:32,840 --> 00:44:36,049
3639"Right punch comes.
3640I'll move out to a 30-degree angle."
3641
3642771
364300:44:36,120 --> 00:44:38,885
3644"Then I'll bend my..."
3645It's too complicated.
3646
3647772
364800:44:38,960 --> 00:44:40,530
3649It's not gonna work in real life.
3650
3651773
365200:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,171
3653(Shannon) So here was
3654this tombstone he created
3655
3656774
365700:44:43,240 --> 00:44:46,881
3658to essentially remind himself
3659to go back to fluidity.
3660
3661775
366200:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,325
3663(Linda) Bruce had a vast library
3664of motivational books
3665
3666776
366700:44:51,400 --> 00:44:53,971
3668and wrote motivational thoughts
3669every day
3670
3671777
367200:44:54,040 --> 00:44:56,646
3673and had a little diary
3674that he kept every day.
3675
3676778
367700:44:56,720 --> 00:45:00,167
3678Always they would say you've got to
3679have the plan and work the plan
3680
3681779
368200:45:00,240 --> 00:45:02,766
3683and write down your goals,
3684which he did.
3685
3686780
368700:45:02,840 --> 00:45:06,606
3688You know, his famous paper he wrote,
3689My Definite Chief Aim.
3690
3691781
369200:45:39,600 --> 00:45:42,763
36931969 was a very difficult time for him.
3694
3695782
369600:45:42,840 --> 00:45:45,286
3697A lot of things
3698were going through his life.
3699
3700783
370100:45:45,360 --> 00:45:48,204
3702As I recall, money was short.
3703
3704784
370500:45:48,280 --> 00:45:52,444
3706Bruce was very traditionalist and very
3707ashamed that I had to go to work.
3708
3709785
371000:45:52,520 --> 00:45:55,524
3711This was not in his way of thinking.
3712
3713786
371400:45:55,600 --> 00:45:59,650
3715He contemplated maybe going back
3716to Hong Kong at that time period.
3717
3718787
371900:45:59,720 --> 00:46:04,169
3720And then in the summer of '69
3721these horrific murders happened.
3722
3723788
372400:46:05,360 --> 00:46:08,250
3725We have a weird homicide.
3726
3727789
372800:46:08,320 --> 00:46:13,406
3729When the Manson murders happened,
3730it was horrible, it was horrifying.
3731
3732790
373300:46:13,480 --> 00:46:16,086
3734(reporter) The scene described
3735by one investigator
3736
3737791
373800:46:16,160 --> 00:46:18,640
3739as reminiscent
3740of a weird religious rite.
3741
3742792
374300:46:18,720 --> 00:46:22,406
3744Bruce was a very good friend
3745of Jay Sebring and of Sharon Tate.
3746
3747793
374800:46:22,480 --> 00:46:26,007
3749(reporter) Five persons, including
3750actress Sharon Tate, were found dead
3751
3752794
375300:46:26,080 --> 00:46:29,721
3754at the home of Miss Tate and her
3755husband, screen director Roman Polanski.
3756
3757795
375800:46:29,800 --> 00:46:33,122
3759My father worked with Sharon Tate
3760the summer before the murders
3761
3762796
376300:46:33,200 --> 00:46:34,770
3764on the film The Wrecking Crew.
3765
3766797
376700:46:34,840 --> 00:46:37,684
3768(reporter) Miss Tate
3769was eight months pregnant.
3770
3771798
377200:46:37,760 --> 00:46:41,242
3773Among the other victims were
3774Hollywood hair stylist Jay Sebring...
3775
3776799
377700:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,529
3778Jay Sebring introduced my father
3779to William Dozier,
3780
3781800
378200:46:44,600 --> 00:46:48,491
3783who was the producer of Batman
3784and also produced The Green Hornet.
3785
3786801
378700:46:48,560 --> 00:46:53,122
3788The murders were then followed up
3789the very next night by more murders.
3790
3791802
379200:46:53,200 --> 00:46:58,445
3793It was just a nightmare
3794and very scary for Bruce, too,
3795
3796803
379700:46:58,520 --> 00:47:03,401
3798because Bruce's whole mentality
3799was protection, to take care of us.
3800
3801804
380200:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,926
3803(reporter)
3804One officer summed up the murders:
3805
3806805
380700:47:06,000 --> 00:47:10,528
3808"In all my years I have never seen
3809anything like this before."
3810
3811806
381200:47:15,400 --> 00:47:18,882
3813(Shannon) Those were tough times,
3814going out of the '60s and into the '70s.
3815
3816807
381700:47:18,960 --> 00:47:23,045
3818And every day, I practise martial arts.
3819
3820808
382100:47:23,120 --> 00:47:25,964
3822We were really struggling financially
3823to make it,
3824
3825809
382600:47:26,040 --> 00:47:30,250
3827and we had bought our first house which
3828we ended up not being able to afford.
3829
3830810
383100:47:30,320 --> 00:47:32,891
3832And right in the middle of that
3833he hurt his back.
3834
3835811
383600:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,601
3837He was doing a good morning stretch
3838exercise which can be very dangerous.
3839
3840812
384100:47:36,680 --> 00:47:38,728
3842Chiropractors like that exercise.
3843
3844813
384500:47:38,800 --> 00:47:40,290
3846- You see?
3847- Watch out.
3848
3849814
385000:47:40,360 --> 00:47:43,443
3851For whatever reason, he did not warm up
3852and just... that was it.
3853
3854815
385500:47:43,520 --> 00:47:45,284
3856He was in excruciating pain.
3857
3858816
385900:47:45,360 --> 00:47:48,967
3860I said, "Where's Bruce?" They never
3861wanted to say he hurt his back,
3862
3863817
386400:47:49,040 --> 00:47:51,611
3865because I knew he was working
3866on the screen scripts.
3867
3868818
386900:47:51,680 --> 00:47:55,082
3870They told him that he was never
3871going to walk properly,
3872
3873819
387400:47:55,160 --> 00:47:57,845
3875and forget doing any gung fu.
3876
3877820
387800:47:57,920 --> 00:48:01,561
3879On the back of his business card
3880he wrote the words "Walk on".
3881
3882821
388300:48:01,640 --> 00:48:06,806
3884He used to put the card on his bathroom
3885mirror and his doors and walls,
3886
3887822
388800:48:06,880 --> 00:48:09,770
3889so everywhere he went in his room,
3890he'd see "Walk on".
3891
3892823
389300:48:09,840 --> 00:48:12,207
3894So he'd get down
3895and start doing his stretching.
3896
3897824
389800:48:12,280 --> 00:48:16,205
3899Bruce brought himself back
3900through rigorous rehabilitation.
3901
3902825
390300:48:16,280 --> 00:48:17,566
3904I had a similar expression
3905
3906826
390700:48:17,640 --> 00:48:21,440
3908when I would drive down to Torrance
3909to do my jiujitsu class every week.
3910
3911827
391200:48:21,520 --> 00:48:25,650
3913His expression was "Walk on"
3914and mine was "Walk in the front door".
3915
3916828
391700:48:25,720 --> 00:48:28,166
3918I had every excuse on the way down
3919to go back.
3920
3921829
392200:48:28,240 --> 00:48:31,210
3923My stomach hurts. My arm hurts.
3924My knee's aching.
3925
3926830
392700:48:31,280 --> 00:48:35,205
3928And I used to say, "Walk in
3929the front door. Walk in the front door."
3930
3931831
393200:48:35,280 --> 00:48:39,604
3933The end result of walking in that front
3934door 16 years was I got my black belt,
3935
3936832
393700:48:39,680 --> 00:48:42,843
3938which I consider
3939the greatest achievement of my life,
3940
3941833
394200:48:42,920 --> 00:48:45,127
3943apart from my children.
3944
3945834
394600:48:45,200 --> 00:48:48,124
3947The back problem
3948was a constant problem in his filming
3949
3950835
395100:48:48,200 --> 00:48:50,009
3952from day one after the injury.
3953
3954836
395500:48:50,080 --> 00:48:52,128
3956Something he had to be careful about
3957
3958837
395900:48:52,200 --> 00:48:56,489
3960and nurse each day
3961when he finished working.
3962
3963838
396400:48:56,560 --> 00:49:00,610
3965And you push it out, but all the time
3966you are keeping the continuity going.
3967
3968839
396900:49:00,680 --> 00:49:03,650
3970Bending, stretching.
3971
3972840
397300:49:03,720 --> 00:49:05,848
3974He worked extremely hard.
3975
3976841
397700:49:05,920 --> 00:49:10,005
3978Most of us, I think, don't know
3979what it is to work that hard.
3980
3981842
398200:49:12,880 --> 00:49:14,962
3983(Shannon) My father went to India
3984
3985843
398600:49:15,040 --> 00:49:18,123
3987with James Coburn
3988and the writer Stirling Silliphant.
3989
3990844
399100:49:18,200 --> 00:49:21,249
3992They were scouting locations for a film,
3993The Silent Flute,
3994
3995845
399600:49:21,320 --> 00:49:23,448
3997that my father had written
3998the treatment for
3999
4000846
400100:49:23,520 --> 00:49:26,649
4002that he was really hoping
4003would come together,
4004
4005847
400600:49:26,720 --> 00:49:30,088
4007because he was struggling at that point
4008in time to get a project going.
4009
4010848
401100:49:30,160 --> 00:49:34,324
4012The Silent Flute could have
4013blasted Bruce into Hollywood big time.
4014
4015849
401600:49:34,400 --> 00:49:37,563
4017This was going to be
4018the big breakthrough project.
4019
4020850
402100:49:37,640 --> 00:49:41,042
4022This was going to put money in the bank
4023to pay the mortgage and all that.
4024
4025851
402600:49:41,120 --> 00:49:44,169
4027But they couldn't find
4028the locations that they wanted.
4029
4030852
403100:49:44,240 --> 00:49:47,562
4032(Linda) Stirling and Jim
4033came back to Warner Bros
4034
4035853
403600:49:47,640 --> 00:49:51,486
4037and said, "This is just not
4038what we're looking for in location."
4039
4040854
404100:49:51,560 --> 00:49:53,483
4042And then it all came crashing down.
4043
4044855
404500:49:56,840 --> 00:49:59,047
4046That was such a disappointment to Bruce
4047
4048856
404900:49:59,120 --> 00:50:02,841
4050because we were
4051banking on it, literally.
4052
4053857
405400:50:02,920 --> 00:50:04,809
4055(Bruce Lee)
4056
4057858
405800:50:19,880 --> 00:50:22,645
4059(Linda) Bruce took a trip
4060back to Hong Kong to help his mom
4061
4062859
406300:50:22,720 --> 00:50:24,848
4064with immigration into the United States.
4065
4066860
406700:50:24,920 --> 00:50:27,764
4068He took Brandon took with him.
4069Brandon was five years old.
4070
4071861
407200:50:27,840 --> 00:50:31,049
4073(Richard) He wasn't working,
4074had no money. He dropped everything.
4075
4076862
407700:50:31,120 --> 00:50:33,327
4078Closed his schools.
4079"I'm going to Hong Kong."
4080
4081863
408200:50:33,400 --> 00:50:37,041
4083The Green Hornet was at that time
4084showing on TV in Hong Kong,
4085
4086864
408700:50:37,120 --> 00:50:39,327
4088only the people were calling it
4089The Kato Show.
4090
4091865
409200:50:39,400 --> 00:50:42,688
4093They didn't care about Van Williams.
4094He was the biggest thing there.
4095
4096866
409700:50:42,760 --> 00:50:46,685
4098He was greeted there
4099as a returning star.
4100
4101867
410200:50:46,760 --> 00:50:50,242
4103That was the first time he thought,
4104"Wow. People recognise me here."
4105
4106868
410700:50:50,320 --> 00:50:51,731
4108"They remember me."
4109
4110869
411100:50:51,800 --> 00:50:54,371
4112He did a couple of interviews
4113on television shows.
4114
4115870
411600:50:54,440 --> 00:50:57,330
4117Oh, yeah, that kid.
4118Now he's a big star in Hollywood.
4119
4120871
412100:50:59,280 --> 00:51:01,089
4122So that was the first inkling
4123
4124872
412500:51:01,160 --> 00:51:04,767
4126that maybe there would be
4127a future there in Hong Kong.
4128
4129873
413000:51:04,840 --> 00:51:07,286
4131But he wasn't quite ready
4132to follow up on that.
4133
4134874
413500:51:09,880 --> 00:51:13,851
4136Bruce Lee had a bit part,
4137or a supporting role,
4138
4139875
414000:51:13,920 --> 00:51:15,922
4141in the Longstreet series.
4142
4143876
414400:51:16,000 --> 00:51:19,163
4145And this had an enormous effect
4146on the audience. What was it?
4147
4148877
414900:51:19,240 --> 00:51:23,040
4150I think the successful ingredient in it
4151
4152878
415300:51:23,120 --> 00:51:26,567
4154was because I was being Bruce Lee.
4155
4156879
415700:51:26,640 --> 00:51:28,563
4158- Yourself?
4159- Myself, right.
4160
4161880
416200:51:28,640 --> 00:51:31,928
4163And did that part,
4164just expressed myself, like I say,
4165
4166881
416700:51:32,000 --> 00:51:34,082
4168honestly expressed myself at that time.
4169
4170882
417100:51:34,160 --> 00:51:37,562
4172He was very proud of Longstreet,
4173and it was very much from him
4174
4175883
417600:51:37,640 --> 00:51:39,483
4177and his art and his thoughts.
4178
4179884
418000:51:39,560 --> 00:51:42,928
4181Can you remember the lines
4182by Stirling Silliphant to...
4183
4184885
418500:51:43,000 --> 00:51:44,809
4186- He's one of my students.
4187- Was he, too?
4188
4189886
419000:51:44,880 --> 00:51:48,248
4191- Yes.
4192- You've had everybody as your student.
4193
4194887
419500:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,641
4196But some lines there
4197expressed your philosophy.
4198
4199888
420000:51:50,720 --> 00:51:53,007
4201- I don't know if you remember them.
4202- I remember.
4203
4204889
420500:51:53,080 --> 00:51:55,765
4206I said... This is what it is, OK?
4207
4208890
420900:51:55,840 --> 00:51:58,525
4210If you try to remember, you will lose.
4211
4212891
421300:51:58,600 --> 00:52:01,331
4214I said empty your mind.
4215
4216892
421700:52:01,400 --> 00:52:03,926
4218Be formless, shapeless.
4219
4220893
422100:52:04,000 --> 00:52:05,650
4222Like water.
4223
4224894
422500:52:06,680 --> 00:52:08,330
4226Now, you put water into a cup,
4227
4228895
422900:52:08,400 --> 00:52:10,528
4230it becomes the cup.
4231
4232896
423300:52:10,600 --> 00:52:12,841
4234Put water into a bottle,
4235it becomes the bottle.
4236
4237897
423800:52:12,920 --> 00:52:15,651
4239You put it in a teapot,
4240it becomes the teapot.
4241
4242898
424300:52:15,720 --> 00:52:20,806
4244Now, water can flow or creep
4245or drip or crash.
4246
4247899
424800:52:20,880 --> 00:52:23,087
4249Be water, my friend.
4250
4251900
425200:52:23,160 --> 00:52:25,401
4253- Like that. You see?
4254- I see. I get the idea.
4255
4256901
425700:52:25,480 --> 00:52:28,051
4258- A-ha.
4259- I get the power behind it.
4260
4261902
426200:52:28,120 --> 00:52:30,726
4263The thing that I
4264got off him the most is the trust,
4265
4266903
426700:52:30,800 --> 00:52:34,885
4268being able to trust your abilities
4269in each situation.
4270
4271904
427200:52:34,960 --> 00:52:37,964
4273A lot of times
4274the game becomes too scripted.
4275
4276905
427700:52:38,040 --> 00:52:39,485
4278When it's too scripted
4279
4280906
428100:52:39,560 --> 00:52:42,325
4282and you start planning
4283for certain things to take place,
4284
4285907
428600:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,370
4287that's when I believe you're weak.
4288
4289908
429000:52:45,440 --> 00:52:47,602
4291What he's saying
4292is that you have to adapt
4293
4294909
429500:52:47,680 --> 00:52:49,728
4296to your surroundings, your environment.
4297
4298910
429900:52:49,800 --> 00:52:52,724
4300James Coburn said,
4301"Look, man, the best thing you can do,
4302
4303911
430400:52:52,800 --> 00:52:56,725
4305go back to Hong Kong, do what you do
4306best, come back, rock the world."
4307
4308912
430900:52:56,800 --> 00:53:02,011
4310James Coburn did tell Bruce
4311that he shouldn't keep doing TV,
4312
4313913
431400:53:02,080 --> 00:53:05,050
4315that it would eat up his genius.
4316
4317914
431800:53:05,120 --> 00:53:09,489
4319He had much more to offer the world and
4320he should hold out for starring roles.
4321
4322915
432300:53:09,560 --> 00:53:13,406
4324Jimi Hendrix had to break away
4325and go to England to be recognised
4326
4327916
432800:53:13,480 --> 00:53:15,369
4329as the rock star that he was.
4330
4331917
433200:53:15,440 --> 00:53:17,761
4333Clint Eastwood,
4334he had a career out of Rawhide,
4335
4336918
433700:53:17,840 --> 00:53:20,764
4338but it was the Italian Westerns
4339that really made his career.
4340
4341919
434200:53:20,840 --> 00:53:23,571
4343Bruce ultimately had to go back
4344to Hong Kong
4345
4346920
434700:53:23,640 --> 00:53:25,847
4348to be recognised
4349as the movie star he was.
4350
4351921
435200:53:25,920 --> 00:53:30,130
4353Here's a plane ticket. Just go back
4354to Hong Kong for a few years.
4355
4356922
435700:53:30,200 --> 00:53:33,124
4358You wouldn't want any trouble, huh?
4359
4360923
436100:53:33,200 --> 00:53:35,487
4362That's one of the things
4363I admire most about him.
4364
4365924
436600:53:35,560 --> 00:53:38,211
4367He said, "OK, the institution's
4368not gonna work for me."
4369
4370925
437100:53:38,280 --> 00:53:39,964
4372"I'll figure something else out."
4373
4374926
437500:53:40,040 --> 00:53:42,407
4376He just went to through back door.
4377
4378927
437900:53:51,920 --> 00:53:56,562
4380Bruce made the first two pictures with
4381independent producer Raymond Chow
4382
4383928
438400:53:56,640 --> 00:53:58,608
4385for $15,000 each.
4386
4387929
438800:53:58,680 --> 00:54:03,242
4389That was... It was made in Thailand
4390in a small village in Thailand.
4391
4392930
439300:54:03,320 --> 00:54:06,290
4394Bruce Lee plays a working-class hero.
4395
4396931
439700:54:06,360 --> 00:54:08,328
4398He's from the land.
4399He's one of the folk.
4400
4401932
440200:54:08,400 --> 00:54:11,688
4403But at the same time as that,
4404he's never one of the guys.
4405
4406933
440700:54:11,760 --> 00:54:15,765
4408And this is why it was so successful,
4409as well as the brilliant choreography.
4410
4411934
441200:54:17,880 --> 00:54:21,771
4413Bruce Lee completely changed the way
4414action scenes look today in cinema.
4415
4416935
441700:54:21,840 --> 00:54:24,047
4418It's about making violence
4419look beautiful,
4420
4421936
442200:54:24,120 --> 00:54:26,441
4423which may sound like a paradox,
4424it probably is,
4425
4426937
442700:54:26,520 --> 00:54:30,241
4428but a director like John Woo,
4429he shoots a gunfight like martial arts.
4430
4431938
443200:54:30,320 --> 00:54:35,850
4433It's a ballet. In terms of the craft
4434of filmmaking, that's a huge change.
4435
4436939
443700:54:35,920 --> 00:54:40,926
4438But the Western movies really piss me
4439off. They chop 'em up so much.
4440
4441940
444200:54:41,000 --> 00:54:44,004
4443Most of the scenes overzoom,
4444so you can't see what's going on.
4445
4446941
444700:54:44,080 --> 00:54:46,606
4448Those guys have to go back
4449and watch Bruce Lee movies.
4450
4451942
445200:54:46,680 --> 00:54:49,843
4453You can see these awesome moves
4454he's doing in their entirety.
4455
4456943
445700:54:49,920 --> 00:54:53,561
4458You can have a shot that doesn't
4459have to last only a half-second long.
4460
4461944
446200:54:53,640 --> 00:54:56,530
4463I never even thought about it
4464until I did this movie Haywire.
4465
4466945
446700:54:56,600 --> 00:54:59,490
4468Now every time I see a movie, I'm like,
4469"Stop cutting away."
4470
4471946
447200:54:59,560 --> 00:55:01,130
4473"Oh, that's a stunt double."
4474
4475947
447600:55:01,200 --> 00:55:05,410
4477(Ray) They were wonderful to watch.
4478No wires, no gimmicks, no quick cuts.
4479
4480948
448100:55:05,480 --> 00:55:08,723
4482You get an actor to portray that,
4483you're gonna have to do quick cuts.
4484
4485949
448600:55:08,800 --> 00:55:10,882
4487(Paul)
4488Bruce Lee set a new baseline.
4489
4490950
449100:55:10,960 --> 00:55:15,124
4492Every piece of film fight choreography
4493has been influenced by Bruce Lee,
4494
4495951
449600:55:15,200 --> 00:55:17,487
4497whether the people involved
4498know it or not.
4499
4500952
450100:55:17,560 --> 00:55:19,767
4502- A motion picture is motion.
4503- Yeah.
4504
4505953
450600:55:19,840 --> 00:55:23,287
4507I mean, you gotta keep
4508the dialogue down.
4509
4510954
451100:55:25,320 --> 00:55:27,561
4512(Linda) We came over to Hong Kong
4513
4514955
451500:55:27,640 --> 00:55:30,769
4516and that was when they showed
4517the premiere of The Big Boss.
4518
4519956
452000:55:32,080 --> 00:55:34,765
4521The theatre was packed.
4522
4523957
452400:55:34,840 --> 00:55:36,922
4525Bruce and I sat there towards the back.
4526
4527958
452800:55:38,440 --> 00:55:41,603
4529(Richard) When Bruce Lee's first movie
4530showed in Hollywood,
4531
4532959
453300:55:41,680 --> 00:55:43,762
4534I was so elated, I was so emotional,
4535
4536960
453700:55:43,840 --> 00:55:46,081
4538seeing my friend, my teacher,
4539on the screen.
4540
4541961
454200:55:49,720 --> 00:55:53,566
4543When the movie finishes,
4544it is so quiet...
4545
4546962
454700:55:56,360 --> 00:55:58,203
4548you could hear a pin drop.
4549
4550963
455100:55:58,280 --> 00:56:01,124
4552And Bruce is like,
4553"Oh, no. They hate it." You know.
4554
4555964
455600:56:01,200 --> 00:56:03,202
4557And all of a sudden...
4558
4559965
456000:56:04,880 --> 00:56:06,882
4561a huge roar goes up.
4562
4563966
456400:56:06,960 --> 00:56:12,126
4565And they're cheering and laughing
4566and clapping. It was wonderful.
4567
4568967
456900:56:12,200 --> 00:56:15,966
4570(Richard) Every time he came on and did
4571his fight scene, everybody applauded.
4572
4573968
457400:56:16,040 --> 00:56:20,284
4575That's when we knew
4576he was a movie star now.
4577
4578969
457900:56:20,360 --> 00:56:23,250
4580And then they started to spot Bruce
4581in the audience.
4582
4583970
458400:56:28,200 --> 00:56:30,646
4585They carried him out on their shoulders.
4586
4587971
458800:56:30,720 --> 00:56:34,520
4589Oh, it was thrilling.
4590It was thrilling to him.
4591
4592972
459300:56:34,600 --> 00:56:37,843
4594"Finally I have been appreciated
4595in my work."
4596
4597973
459800:56:38,480 --> 00:56:42,849
4599It was wonderful,
4600a very high moment in his life.
4601
4602974
460300:56:43,840 --> 00:56:45,922
4604(announcer) It's The Pierre Berton Show,
4605
4606975
460700:56:46,000 --> 00:56:49,402
4608the programme that comes to you
4609from the major capitals of the world.
4610
4611976
461200:56:49,480 --> 00:56:52,689
4613This edition comes to you
4614from Hong Kong.
4615
4616977
461700:56:52,760 --> 00:56:55,923
4618And Pierre's guest,
4619the newest Mandarin superstar.
4620
4621978
462200:56:56,000 --> 00:57:00,369
4623His name is Bruce Lee
4624and he doesn't even speak Mandarin.
4625
4626979
462700:57:00,440 --> 00:57:02,090
4628Here's Pierre.
4629
4630980
463100:57:02,160 --> 00:57:03,844
4632There's a pretty good chance
4633
4634981
463500:57:03,920 --> 00:57:06,764
4636that you'll get a TV series
4637in the States called The Warrior
4638
4639982
464000:57:06,840 --> 00:57:11,323
4641in which you use, what,
4642the martial arts in a Western setting?
4643
4644983
464500:57:11,400 --> 00:57:13,129
4646That was the original idea.
4647
4648984
464900:57:13,200 --> 00:57:15,726
4650Bruce Lee had an idea for a TV show
4651called The Warrior,
4652
4653985
465400:57:15,800 --> 00:57:19,282
4655which later became the series Kung Fu,
4656which we all know and love.
4657
4658986
465900:57:19,360 --> 00:57:20,850
4660David Carradine did a good job,
4661
4662987
466300:57:20,920 --> 00:57:24,129
4664but Kung Fu, the TV series,
4665was Bruce Lee's role.
4666
4667988
466800:57:24,200 --> 00:57:27,249
4669The better guy doesn't always
4670get the job in the movie business.
4671
4672989
467300:57:27,320 --> 00:57:29,288
4674There's a lot of politics involved.
4675
4676990
467700:57:29,360 --> 00:57:31,647
4678Have people come up in the industry
4679and said,
4680
4681991
468200:57:31,720 --> 00:57:35,327
4683"We don't know how the audience
4684are going to take a non-American?"
4685
4686992
468700:57:37,040 --> 00:57:40,044
4688Well, such question has been raised.
4689
4690993
469100:57:40,120 --> 00:57:42,282
4692In fact, it is being discussed,
4693
4694994
469500:57:42,360 --> 00:57:45,967
4696and that is why The Warrior
4697probably is not gonna be on.
4698
4699995
470000:57:46,040 --> 00:57:47,121
4701- I see.
4702- You see?
4703
4704996
470500:57:47,200 --> 00:57:53,560
4706Because unfortunately
4707such thing does exist in this world.
4708
4709997
471000:57:53,640 --> 00:57:56,849
4711Bruce Lee was a bigger star,
4712both in Asia and America.
4713
4714998
471500:57:56,920 --> 00:57:59,400
4716He was a world-class martial artist.
4717
4718999
471900:57:59,480 --> 00:58:01,608
4720He had already done The Green Hornet.
4721
47221000
472300:58:01,680 --> 00:58:04,570
4724And then he did not get the role
4725for being too Asian.
4726
47271001
472800:58:04,640 --> 00:58:08,247
4729He had such disdain for Hollywood
4730
47311002
473200:58:08,320 --> 00:58:10,129
4733and all those old movies
4734
47351003
473600:58:10,200 --> 00:58:14,922
4737having Caucasian people
4738play the parts of Chinese characters.
4739
47401004
474100:58:19,440 --> 00:58:21,966
4742I have already made up my mind
4743
47441005
474500:58:22,040 --> 00:58:26,045
4746that in the United States
4747I think something about the Oriental,
4748
47491006
475000:58:26,120 --> 00:58:30,569
4751I mean, the true Oriental,
4752should be shown.
4753
47541007
475500:58:30,640 --> 00:58:33,564
4756- Hollywood sure as heck hasn't.
4757- You better believe it, man.
4758
47591008
476000:58:33,640 --> 00:58:36,723
4761It's always the pigtail
4762and bouncing around, chop-chop,
4763
47641009
476500:58:36,800 --> 00:58:38,848
4766with the eyes slanted and all of that.
4767
47681010
476900:58:38,920 --> 00:58:42,527
4770(Reginald) There's nothing worse
4771in a movie than when all of a sudden
4772
47731011
477400:58:42,600 --> 00:58:44,409
4775some horrific stereotype shows up.
4776
47771012
477800:58:44,480 --> 00:58:47,290
4779You're like, "Why? Just leave us out.
4780Just leave us out."
4781
47821013
478300:58:47,360 --> 00:58:50,125
4784"We'd rather not exist in your world
4785
47861014
478700:58:50,200 --> 00:58:53,761
4788than exist in your world
4789in some buffoonery coonery."
4790
47911015
479200:58:53,840 --> 00:58:55,569
4793He had a lot of celebrity students
4794
47951016
479600:58:55,640 --> 00:58:58,450
4797and he was teaching them
4798philosophy and martial arts,
4799
48001017
480100:58:58,520 --> 00:58:59,726
4802so he sold them.
4803
48041018
480500:58:59,800 --> 00:59:03,486
4806But when it came down to it for Bruce
4807and Hollywood, they didn't get it.
4808
48091019
481000:59:03,560 --> 00:59:05,961
4811They didn't take the time
4812to know who Bruce was.
4813
48141020
481500:59:06,040 --> 00:59:07,530
4816This was his struggle.
4817
48181021
481900:59:07,600 --> 00:59:08,761
4820You want to get ahead?
4821
48221022
482300:59:08,840 --> 00:59:12,481
4824Here you have a bright future,
4825if you apply yourself.
4826
48271023
482800:59:12,560 --> 00:59:13,641
4829I will, sir.
4830
48311024
483200:59:13,720 --> 00:59:16,485
4833Hollywood was
4834a terrible disappointment to him,
4835
48361025
483700:59:16,560 --> 00:59:20,849
4838especially because then you throw in
4839the racial factor as well,
4840
48411026
484200:59:20,920 --> 00:59:24,208
4843that studios did not want to back
4844a major Chinese star.
4845
48461027
484700:59:24,280 --> 00:59:28,171
4848Asian stereotypes for women
4849are pretty bad. For men it's much worse.
4850
48511028
485200:59:28,240 --> 00:59:31,323
4853And I think he was railing against that
4854his whole life.
4855
48561029
485700:59:31,400 --> 00:59:36,440
4858When that little thing of disrespect
4859crept into my life again,
4860
48611030
486200:59:36,520 --> 00:59:39,126
4863which was the movie business,
4864I got really angry.
4865
48661031
486700:59:39,200 --> 00:59:44,001
4868It is kind of shocking, isn't it,
4869that that much time, 40 years,
4870
48711032
487200:59:44,080 --> 00:59:50,122
4873has passed and there hasn't been
4874one Asian-American romantic lead,
4875
48761033
487700:59:50,200 --> 00:59:55,206
4878or even just a movie star on that scale,
4879an Asian-American movie star?
4880
48811034
488200:59:57,480 --> 00:59:59,482
4883Not one.
4884
48851035
488601:00:02,400 --> 01:00:03,401
4887I don't think
4888
48891036
489001:00:03,480 --> 01:00:07,849
4891I could name
4892an Asian romantic lead male.
4893
48941037
489501:00:07,920 --> 01:00:12,403
4896There hasn't really been anyone since my
4897uncle here, particularly in Hollywood.
4898
48991038
490001:00:12,480 --> 01:00:16,007
4901Obviously out of China you have Jet Li,
4902you have Donnie Yen.
4903
49041039
490501:00:16,080 --> 01:00:22,690
4906There have been no great Asian male
4907leads in Hollywood who are sexy.
4908
49091040
491001:00:22,760 --> 01:00:25,843
4911Er, a lead male, Asian-American?
4912
49131041
491401:00:25,920 --> 01:00:27,331
4915Erm...
4916
49171042
491801:00:27,400 --> 01:00:31,849
4919I don't even look at him as being Asian.
4920He's like Bruce Lee. He's like my idol.
4921
49221043
492301:00:31,920 --> 01:00:35,288
4924And that's something I guess I don't
4925think of so much, but I guess, yeah.
4926
49271044
492801:00:35,360 --> 01:00:36,805
4929(Paul) A Chinese nationalist
4930
49311045
493201:00:36,880 --> 01:00:39,645
4933watching Bruce Lee films
4934will see Chinese nationalism.
4935
49361046
493701:00:39,720 --> 01:00:42,530
4938A white Westerner
4939may not even notice the ethnicity.
4940
49411047
494201:00:42,600 --> 01:00:45,490
4943Maybe Dean Cain, right?
4944
49451048
494601:00:45,560 --> 01:00:47,403
4947Isn't he part Asian?
4948
49491049
495001:00:48,640 --> 01:00:52,008
4951(Richard) At certain times
4952akumenang.com
4953
49541050
495501:00:52,080 --> 01:00:55,687
4956but I never let it bother me, because
4957in the back of my mind I used to think,
4958
49591051
496001:00:55,760 --> 01:00:59,082
4961"I'll take care out in the parking lot
4962and I'll beat your head in."
4963
49641052
496501:00:59,160 --> 01:01:04,121
4966(Reginald) Bruce Lee became a complete
4967star making films in his own country.
4968
49691053
497001:01:04,200 --> 01:01:06,202
497140 years later, things haven't changed.
4972
49731054
497401:01:06,280 --> 01:01:08,521
4975So if you wanna see
4976another star like that,
4977
49781055
497901:01:08,600 --> 01:01:11,649
4980it has to happen
4981in films made outside of the system.
4982
49831056
498401:01:15,560 --> 01:01:18,769
4985My first memory of Bruce Lee
4986is in the movie Chinese Connection.
4987
49881057
498901:01:18,840 --> 01:01:22,322
4990The last scene in the movie
4991there's a firing squad.
4992
49931058
499401:01:24,000 --> 01:01:27,527
4995When he came out and ran up
4996and jumped and they froze it.
4997
49981059
499901:01:31,040 --> 01:01:33,725
5000I was like, "Mom, what happened?"
5001
50021060
500301:01:33,800 --> 01:01:37,441
5004And she said,
5005"He wanted to go that way."
5006
50071061
500801:01:37,520 --> 01:01:41,081
5009And that just...
5010that just stuck with me.
5011
50121062
501301:01:41,160 --> 01:01:44,209
5014If you look at Chinese Connection,
5015
50161063
501701:01:44,280 --> 01:01:47,443
5018it's a movie about cultural nationalism,
5019
50201064
502101:01:47,520 --> 01:01:52,686
5022as expressed through action sequences,
5023but that's no different than Swan Lake.
5024
50251065
502601:01:52,760 --> 01:01:56,242
5027There's no difference between a ballet
5028and a kung fu movie,
5029
50301066
503101:01:56,320 --> 01:01:59,403
5032expressing the ideas and the emotion
5033through movement.
5034
50351067
503601:02:02,360 --> 01:02:07,002
5037When the Japanese bring
5038the sick man of Asia framed picture,
5039
50401068
504101:02:07,080 --> 01:02:11,210
5042this is speaking to a long period
5043of Chinese suppression and subordination
5044
50451069
504601:02:11,280 --> 01:02:14,887
5047that was within living memory of those
50481970s Hong Kong Bruce Lee films.
5049
50501070
505101:02:17,440 --> 01:02:19,727
5052If you play the film
5053with the dubbed English
5054
50551071
505601:02:19,800 --> 01:02:21,723
5057and then in the original Cantonese,
5058
50591072
506001:02:21,800 --> 01:02:24,485
5061you see that they're essentially
5062different films.
5063
50641073
506501:02:24,560 --> 01:02:28,724
5066So, for example, one of the characters
5067goes up to Mr Wu, the translator,
5068
50691074
507001:02:28,800 --> 01:02:31,167
5071and in the English dubbed version
5072he says:
5073
50741075
507501:02:31,240 --> 01:02:33,527
5076Look, here,
5077now what's the point of this?
5078
50791076
508001:02:33,600 --> 01:02:34,726
5081The translator goes:
5082
50831077
508401:02:40,960 --> 01:02:43,008
5085In the Cantonese version he says:
5086
50871078
508801:02:49,640 --> 01:02:52,041
5089So in the English version
5090he's not Chinese,
5091
50921079
509301:02:52,120 --> 01:02:57,286
5094but in the subtitled Cantonese version,
5095he says, "Yes, I'm Chinese,
5096
50971080
509801:02:57,360 --> 01:03:00,011
5099but I've chosen to go with the Japanese,
5100the powerful."
5101
51021081
510301:03:00,080 --> 01:03:01,969
5104So there's a world of difference.
5105
51061082
510701:03:02,040 --> 01:03:03,690
5108We're consuming different films
5109
51101083
511101:03:03,760 --> 01:03:07,003
5112depending on the nature of the decisions
5113they make in translating.
5114
51151084
511601:03:07,080 --> 01:03:09,481
5117Westerners have thought
5118that they're slapstick,
5119
51201085
512101:03:09,560 --> 01:03:13,451
5122but the Chinese audience are watching
5123highly politically charged films
5124
51251086
512601:03:13,520 --> 01:03:17,730
5127with quite recent history, animosities
5128and resentments coursing through them.
5129
51301087
513101:03:17,800 --> 01:03:22,681
5132Now, you listen to me,
5133and I'll only say it once.
5134
51351088
513601:03:22,760 --> 01:03:24,046
5137We are not sick men.
5138
51391089
514001:03:24,120 --> 01:03:26,202
5141(David)
5142What he gave was so real and so raw
5143
51441090
514501:03:26,280 --> 01:03:29,045
5146because he lived it
5147every day of his life.
5148
51491091
515001:03:29,120 --> 01:03:33,808
5151Bruce did not get along well with the
5152director of the first two films, Lo Wei.
5153
51541092
515501:03:33,880 --> 01:03:36,326
5156Lo Wei thought that
5157he could put his thumb on Bruce
5158
51591093
516001:03:36,400 --> 01:03:39,131
5161as one of his simple actors.
5162
51631094
516401:03:39,200 --> 01:03:43,649
5165Well, he was old school and wouldn't
5166listen to any ideas Bruce had.
5167
51681095
516901:03:43,720 --> 01:03:48,965
5170(David) The bottom line is Bruce still
5171didn't feel the freedom that he wanted.
5172
51731096
517401:03:51,800 --> 01:03:54,849
5175He said to Raymond Chow,
5176
51771097
517801:03:54,920 --> 01:03:57,844
5179"I want to make this film,
5180The Way of the Dragon."
5181
51821098
518301:03:57,920 --> 01:04:01,003
5184I want to write it, I want
5185to produce it, I want to direct it
5186
51871099
518801:04:01,080 --> 01:04:03,003
5189and I can do this and act in it.
5190
51911100
519201:04:03,080 --> 01:04:05,731
5193(Bruce) It's really a simple plot
5194of a country boy
5195
51961101
519701:04:05,800 --> 01:04:08,451
5198going to a place
5199where he cannot speak the language
5200
52011102
520201:04:08,520 --> 01:04:11,126
5203but somehow he came out on top.
5204
52051103
520601:04:16,000 --> 01:04:18,367
5207He goes to Italy
5208and the mafia can't beat him,
5209
52101104
521101:04:18,440 --> 01:04:21,410
5212so they call America
5213and America sends over Colt.
5214
52151105
521601:04:21,480 --> 01:04:23,960
5217We must call America for Colt.
5218
52191106
522001:04:24,040 --> 01:04:28,204
5221- Is this Colt good?
5222- Is Colt good?
5223
52241107
522501:04:28,280 --> 01:04:30,408
5226(Paul) And Colt is Chuck Norris.
5227
52281108
522901:04:30,480 --> 01:04:33,927
5230Bruce Lee is fighting a real American,
5231you know.
5232
52331109
523401:04:34,000 --> 01:04:37,607
5235He's strawberry blond.
5236He's got hair all over his body.
5237
52381110
523901:04:37,680 --> 01:04:39,569
5240In fact, he uses that hair against him.
5241
52421111
524301:04:39,640 --> 01:04:41,768
5244So when he fought Chuck Norris...
5245
52461112
524701:04:44,200 --> 01:04:48,649
5248He represented all people of colour
5249fighting the Western oppressor.
5250
52511113
525201:04:52,640 --> 01:04:54,324
5253(speaks Spanish)
5254
52551114
525601:05:02,920 --> 01:05:06,447
5257If you're a non-white viewer,
5258this is a big deal.
5259
52601115
526101:05:06,520 --> 01:05:10,844
5262The little guy is beating
5263the best that America can provide.
5264
52651116
526601:05:10,920 --> 01:05:13,048
5267I can tell you,
5268at the Fox Theatre in St Louis,
5269
52701117
527101:05:13,120 --> 01:05:17,444
5272which was 100 percent all black,
5273we cheered for him.
5274
52751118
527601:05:17,520 --> 01:05:19,966
5277Some of us were
5278more politically aware than others,
5279
52801119
528101:05:20,040 --> 01:05:21,280
5282but everyone got the joke.
5283
52841120
528501:05:26,200 --> 01:05:29,204
5286He was very appealing to anybody
5287who's ever been oppressed
5288
52891121
529001:05:29,280 --> 01:05:31,487
5291because of ethnic reasons
5292or other reason.
5293
52941122
529501:05:31,560 --> 01:05:35,531
5296That time when Bruce was on the rise, we
5297were looking for countercultural heroes
5298
52991123
530001:05:35,600 --> 01:05:37,250
5301to fight the establishment.
5302
53031124
530401:05:37,320 --> 01:05:40,722
5305(Teri) It's 40 years. Wouldn't have
5306people forgotten him by now?
5307
53081125
530901:05:40,800 --> 01:05:45,124
5310No, I think a lot of cultures have
5311picked him up as sort of their hero.
5312
53131126
531401:05:45,200 --> 01:05:48,409
5315You had Muhammad Ali. You had
5316Malcolm X. You had the Black Panthers.
5317
53181127
531901:05:48,480 --> 01:05:50,960
5320You had a lot of radicalism going on.
5321
53221128
532301:05:51,040 --> 01:05:53,646
5324Bruce Lee represented
5325that same kind of radicalism.
5326
53271129
532801:05:53,720 --> 01:05:57,361
5329Bruce Lee emerges when America
5330is having a very bad time in Vietnam
5331
53321130
533301:05:57,440 --> 01:06:00,205
5334and cannot beat the Viet Cong,
5335
53361131
533701:06:00,280 --> 01:06:02,681
5338these little yellow guys in pyjamas,
5339
53401132
534101:06:02,760 --> 01:06:05,161
5342so Bruce Lee speaks to that.
5343
53441133
534501:06:05,240 --> 01:06:09,723
5346Anywhere you go, everybody is
5347about Bruce Lee and rallies behind him.
5348
53491134
535001:06:09,800 --> 01:06:10,801
5351He's the underdog.
5352
53531135
535401:06:10,880 --> 01:06:14,089
5355(Paul) You don't have to
5356start shouting political declarations
5357
53581136
535901:06:14,160 --> 01:06:16,527
5360to be culturally
5361and politically significant.
5362
53631137
536401:06:16,600 --> 01:06:20,571
5365That Colosseum fight was very accurate.
5366Taking nothing away from Chuck Norris,
5367
53681138
536901:06:20,640 --> 01:06:22,642
5370but I think Bruce Lee
5371would be victorious.
5372
53731139
537401:06:22,720 --> 01:06:26,042
5375That fight scene gave Chuck Norris
5376pretty much a career.
5377
53781140
537901:06:26,120 --> 01:06:28,441
5380If they said Bruce
5381could have beat Chuck Norris,
5382
53831141
538401:06:28,520 --> 01:06:31,000
5385I'd say, "How much do you wanna bet?"
5386
53871142
538801:06:31,080 --> 01:06:33,890
5389I got a fistful of green backs
5390in my pocket.
5391
53921143
539301:06:35,320 --> 01:06:38,130
5394Chuck got chucked out
5395right there in that movie.
5396
53971144
539801:06:38,200 --> 01:06:42,205
5399That's one of my favourites. Boom.
5400Guillotine choke in the '70s. Hello.
5401
54021145
540301:06:42,280 --> 01:06:44,282
5404That's being ahead of your time.
5405
54061146
540701:06:45,680 --> 01:06:48,729
5408When Bruce started doing the film
5409Way of the Dragon
5410
54111147
541201:06:48,800 --> 01:06:50,962
5413and he was this huge star on the rise,
5414
54151148
541601:06:51,040 --> 01:06:53,168
5417things were changing.
5418
54191149
542001:06:53,240 --> 01:06:56,483
5421I think he started having a hard time
5422trusting people around him.
5423
54241150
542501:06:56,560 --> 01:06:58,483
5426You bastard!
5427
54281151
542901:07:01,400 --> 01:07:04,165
5430Fame is a killer, literally.
5431
54321152
543301:07:04,240 --> 01:07:06,447
5434Put money on top of that.
5435
54361153
543701:07:06,520 --> 01:07:09,808
5438Suddenly you distrust people's motives,
5439for very good reason.
5440
54411154
544201:07:15,960 --> 01:07:19,726
5443He had told me that he doesn't know
5444who his friends were.
5445
54461155
544701:07:19,800 --> 01:07:22,087
5448He says he doesn't know who to trust.
5449
54501156
545101:07:22,160 --> 01:07:26,882
5452It was eye-opening
5453to know what the price of fame was.
5454
54551157
545601:07:26,960 --> 01:07:29,008
5457(Bruce Lee)
5458
54591158
546001:07:36,960 --> 01:07:40,681
5461You can't go to school for it.
5462You deal with it on a day-to-day basis.
5463
54641159
546501:07:40,760 --> 01:07:42,762
5466(Bruce Lee)
5467
54681160
546901:07:50,200 --> 01:07:52,441
5470Fame took over my mind.
5471
54721161
547301:07:52,520 --> 01:07:54,807
5474It almost destroyed my career,
5475my family.
5476
54771162
547801:07:54,880 --> 01:07:56,484
5479I was caught up in my own hype.
5480
54811163
548201:07:56,560 --> 01:07:59,769
5483I thought the only way
5484to save myself from myself
5485
54861164
548701:07:59,840 --> 01:08:04,209
5488was to do something
5489where I could get hit and hit back.
5490
54911165
549201:08:04,280 --> 01:08:06,248
5493And I thought I'd made a healthy choice
5494
54951166
549601:08:06,320 --> 01:08:10,644
5497because it was better than a whisky
5498bottle or, you know, whatever the fuck.
5499
55001167
550101:08:10,720 --> 01:08:11,721
5502It got to the point
5503
55041168
550501:08:11,800 --> 01:08:15,361
5506where he could hardly go out of
5507the house without people following him.
5508
55091169
551001:08:15,440 --> 01:08:18,649
5511He craved on sort of a soul level
5512
55131170
551401:08:18,720 --> 01:08:21,564
5515to be a little bit more peaceful.
5516
55171171
551801:08:21,640 --> 01:08:23,642
5519(Bruce Lee)
5520
55211172
552201:08:30,400 --> 01:08:32,880
5523Well, you can't have a normal life
5524
55251173
552601:08:32,960 --> 01:08:34,564
5527or make normal mistakes
5528
55291174
553001:08:34,640 --> 01:08:38,167
5531because everybody's constantly,
5532you know, looking in.
5533
55341175
553501:08:40,120 --> 01:08:43,124
5536And it was just like a smorgasbord.
5537
55381176
553901:08:43,200 --> 01:08:46,249
5540He could have had ten at a time
5541if he even remotely wanted to.
5542
55431177
554401:08:46,320 --> 01:08:50,166
5545The word superstar really turned me off
5546and I'll tell you why.
5547
55481178
554901:08:50,240 --> 01:08:54,086
5550Because the word star, man,
5551it's an illusion.
5552
55531179
555401:08:54,160 --> 01:08:56,891
5555It's something
5556what the public calls you.
5557
55581180
555901:09:02,120 --> 01:09:04,521
5560I really loved... I might get
5561
55621181
556301:09:04,600 --> 01:09:07,763
5564a lot of crap for this,
5565but Game of Death,
5566
55671182
556801:09:07,840 --> 01:09:10,047
5569and to have like no way is the way.
5570
55711183
557201:09:10,120 --> 01:09:13,761
5573He's fighting each opponent that brings
5574a different problem to the table
5575
55761184
557701:09:13,840 --> 01:09:15,046
5578and he's gotta adapt.
5579
55801185
558101:09:15,120 --> 01:09:19,967
5582Kareem Abdul-Jabbar came to Hong Kong
5583to visit and Bruce had this great idea.
5584
55851186
558601:09:20,040 --> 01:09:24,329
5587"Let's do a scene together. It'll be
5588great, a great fighting sequence."
5589
55901187
559101:09:24,400 --> 01:09:27,563
5592I'd speak to Kareem about his sessions
5593with Bruce and he said,
5594
55951188
559601:09:27,640 --> 01:09:30,041
5597"I sparred with him
5598and like he was just so quick."
5599
56001189
560101:09:30,120 --> 01:09:32,851
5602"I'd turn this way
5603and then he's not there."
5604
56051190
560601:09:32,920 --> 01:09:35,082
5607"He's kicking you
5608in the back of the head."
5609
56101191
561101:09:35,160 --> 01:09:37,606
5612"Then I turn this way
5613and he's over here."
5614
56151192
561601:09:37,680 --> 01:09:41,890
5617He said he couldn't catch him. There was
5618just no way he could lock in on him.
5619
56201193
562101:09:41,960 --> 01:09:44,088
5622He was just like a rabbit.
5623
56241194
562501:09:44,160 --> 01:09:49,929
5626I really love the idea of the levels
5627and getting to the next level,
5628
56291195
563001:09:50,000 --> 01:09:52,571
5631and fighting different styles.
5632
56331196
563401:09:52,640 --> 01:09:56,725
5635As a dancer who battled other dancers,
5636that was like the whole mentality.
5637
56381197
563901:09:56,800 --> 01:10:01,010
5640And on the third level, it's supposed to
5641be a person who is trained in weaponry,
5642
56431198
564401:10:01,080 --> 01:10:03,321
5645and so he chose me to do the part.
5646
56471199
564801:10:03,680 --> 01:10:06,889
5649Dan lnosanto, being one of the freshest
5650Filipinos on the planet,
5651
56521200
565301:10:06,960 --> 01:10:10,043
5654was actually the person that brought
5655the nunchucks to Bruce Lee.
5656
56571201
565801:10:10,120 --> 01:10:13,681
56591964, I introduced the nunchucks
5660to Bruce Lee.
5661
56621202
566301:10:14,520 --> 01:10:18,411
5664And at the time he thought
5665this was a worthless piece of junk.
5666
56671203
566801:10:30,560 --> 01:10:33,769
5669When he moved into the LA area,
5670I taught him how to use it.
5671
56721204
567301:10:33,840 --> 01:10:36,923
5674He said, "I'm gonna use this
5675on The Green Hornet."
5676
56771205
567801:10:37,880 --> 01:10:41,965
5679Nunchucks was always
5680some mother's broom getting sacrificed,
5681
56821206
568301:10:42,040 --> 01:10:45,487
5684which would then turn into
5685someone's groin being sacrificed.
5686
56871207
568801:10:45,560 --> 01:10:49,360
5689In three months he was swinging it like
5690he had been doing it for a lifetime.
5691
56921208
569301:10:49,440 --> 01:10:51,363
5694I was living in Miami
5695when they came out.
5696
56971209
569801:10:51,440 --> 01:10:54,842
5699Every gangster in town had nunchucks,
5700and couldn't use 'em worth a shit.
5701
57021210
570301:10:54,920 --> 01:10:59,369
5704I would spend hours whipping 'em around
5705and trying to learn the moves,
5706
57071211
570801:10:59,440 --> 01:11:02,569
5709trying to copy how he'd have it
5710under his shoulder right here
5711
57121212
571301:11:02,640 --> 01:11:03,687
5714and have the hand out.
5715
57161213
571701:11:03,760 --> 01:11:07,003
5718In a short time I think
5719almost every child is using this.
5720
57211214
572201:11:07,080 --> 01:11:10,562
5723It became like a household product.
5724It's outlawed now in California.
5725
57261215
572701:11:12,600 --> 01:11:16,207
5728After I watched this movie,
5729I used to use that.
5730
57311216
573201:11:17,320 --> 01:11:19,846
5733But I always hit my elbow.
5734
57351217
573601:11:20,760 --> 01:11:22,285
5737Whaaa!
5738
57391218
574001:11:22,360 --> 01:11:25,762
5741Right out of the gate I swung real hard
5742and I even made the Bruce Lee noise.
5743
57441219
574501:11:25,840 --> 01:11:28,650
5746I went, "Whoo!" and I hit my head
5747
57481220
574901:11:28,720 --> 01:11:31,803
5750and there was this big nut
5751that came out maybe an inch.
5752
57531221
575401:11:31,880 --> 01:11:33,928
5755And after that
5756I stopped making the noise
5757
57581222
575901:11:34,000 --> 01:11:36,401
5760and I stopped playing
5761with the nunchucks.
5762
57631223
576401:11:36,880 --> 01:11:40,202
5765I tried to make my parents buy me
5766some real ones. Thank God they didn't.
5767
57681224
576901:11:40,280 --> 01:11:43,170
5770I'm nunchucking,
5771I'm busting myself all in the head.
5772
57731225
577401:11:43,240 --> 01:11:45,049
5775I had the rubber ones, so I'm good.
5776
57771226
577801:11:47,120 --> 01:11:50,966
5779I got into it because I stopped carrying
5780a gun. I carried a gun for years.
5781
57821227
578301:11:51,040 --> 01:11:52,610
5784I'm not ashamed to admit it.
5785
57861228
578701:11:52,680 --> 01:11:56,480
5788I think I went into therapy and I
5789thought, "Let me carry something else."
5790
57911229
579201:11:57,120 --> 01:11:59,441
5793This one particularly
5794is sentimental for me.
5795
57961230
579701:11:59,520 --> 01:12:03,320
5798These are the same nunchucks
5799that we used in The Game of Death.
5800
58011231
580201:12:04,320 --> 01:12:06,049
5803He gave me these to keep in the house.
5804
58051232
580601:12:06,120 --> 01:12:08,521
5807It brings out
5808really fond memories for me.
5809
58101233
581101:12:16,920 --> 01:12:19,969
5812(David) Fred Weintraub,
5813who was an executive at Warner Bros,
5814
58151234
581601:12:20,040 --> 01:12:23,362
5817comes to visit him in Hong Kong
5818on the set of Game of Death,
5819
58201235
582101:12:23,440 --> 01:12:25,841
5822says, "Hey, man,
5823we've seen what you can do."
5824
58251236
582601:12:25,920 --> 01:12:30,403
5827"We wanna do a film with you and we
5828wanna do it with Warner Bros." Boom.
5829
58301237
583101:12:30,480 --> 01:12:33,882
5832It was a time
5833when Bruce had so much opportunity
5834
58351238
583601:12:33,960 --> 01:12:37,806
5837and he was so thrilled
5838to co-produce Enter the Dragon.
5839
58401239
584101:12:37,880 --> 01:12:42,363
5842He said, "This is my opening
5843back into Hollywood."
5844
58451240
584601:12:50,480 --> 01:12:52,050
5847They were all there in Hong Kong,
5848
58491241
585001:12:52,120 --> 01:12:55,488
5851the producers,
5852Fred Weintraub, Paul Heller.
5853
58541242
585501:12:55,560 --> 01:13:00,407
5856They're ready to film, have all this
5857crew, Western crew, Chinese crew,
5858
58591243
586001:13:00,480 --> 01:13:04,565
5861which was
5862a very difficult situation in itself,
5863
58641244
586501:13:04,640 --> 01:13:07,803
5866and sets are built,
5867and Bruce won't come to work.
5868
58691245
587001:13:09,920 --> 01:13:14,369
5871He wants to put a little more Chinese
5872philosophy that fits in with the story.
5873
58741246
587501:13:14,440 --> 01:13:16,522
5876(Bob) Bruce knew
5877what he wanted Dragon to be,
5878
58791247
588001:13:16,600 --> 01:13:19,444
5881but had problems with folks
5882who didn't share his vision.
5883
58841248
588501:13:19,520 --> 01:13:22,046
5886(Linda) And he was adamant
5887he was not going to the set.
5888
58891249
589001:13:22,120 --> 01:13:27,160
5891It was kind of hard around our house
5892because was Bruce was so frustrated.
5893
58941250
589501:13:27,240 --> 01:13:28,730
5896He could lose his temper.
5897
58981251
589901:13:28,800 --> 01:13:31,451
5900If he didn't like anything you did,
5901he would tell you.
5902
59031252
590401:13:31,520 --> 01:13:33,761
5905Linda was that fabulous wife.
5906
59071253
590801:13:33,840 --> 01:13:36,047
5909She knew how to talk to him
5910and counsel him.
5911
59121254
591301:13:36,120 --> 01:13:40,489
5914I was talking behind the scenes
5915to Fred and Paul and the other people,
5916
59171255
591801:13:40,560 --> 01:13:46,249
5919saying, "You need to listen to what
5920he has to say because he is right."
5921
59221256
592301:13:46,320 --> 01:13:48,607
5924He was fighting for his career.
5925
59261257
592701:13:48,680 --> 01:13:54,084
5928It was a coming together, and, yes,
5929Bruce did get things in that film.
5930
59311258
593201:13:54,160 --> 01:13:56,447
5933Let me think.
5934
59351259
593601:13:56,520 --> 01:13:59,729
5937Don't think. Feel.
5938
59391260
594001:13:59,800 --> 01:14:03,009
5941And they're all better off,
5942the world is better off,
5943
59441261
594501:14:03,080 --> 01:14:05,526
5946for the stand that he took that time.
5947
59481262
594901:14:08,240 --> 01:14:09,207
5950Action.
5951
59521263
595301:14:11,440 --> 01:14:14,444
5954Enter the Dragon
5955was Hollywood's first dipping its toe
5956
59571264
595801:14:14,520 --> 01:14:16,761
5959into the water of the martial art genre.
5960
59611265
596201:14:17,600 --> 01:14:20,843
5963Bruce Lee is explosive in a way
5964that no one had seen before.
5965
59661266
596701:14:25,680 --> 01:14:30,641
5968The opening scene, Bruce Lee basically
5969put the mixed martial arts in his film.
5970
59711267
597201:14:31,520 --> 01:14:33,249
5973Fighting in the kenpo gloves.
5974
59751268
597601:14:33,320 --> 01:14:36,563
5977The mixed martial arts gloves
5978with the open fingers.
5979
59801269
598101:14:36,640 --> 01:14:37,641
5982And he used arm bars.
5983
59841270
598501:14:37,720 --> 01:14:41,645
5986(Ray) There's not a lot of charisma
5987in a straight arm bar.
5988
59891271
599001:14:41,720 --> 01:14:42,642
5991He was the man.
5992
59931272
599401:14:45,160 --> 01:14:48,209
5995When he stomps out Bob Wall
5996and kills him...
5997
59981273
599901:14:49,760 --> 01:14:53,845
6000you see a lot of complex emotions
6001all going on at once.
6002
60031274
600401:14:53,920 --> 01:14:57,003
6005I haven't seen any actor
6006in an action film
6007
60081275
600901:14:57,080 --> 01:15:01,369
6010match all those levels and nuances
6011in the middle of a fight scene.
6012
60131276
601401:15:02,640 --> 01:15:06,167
6015The mirror scene was just, you know,
6016when he's walking around
6017
60181277
601901:15:06,240 --> 01:15:11,406
6020and he's cut up and all of a sudden
6021he hears his master in his head
6022
60231278
602401:15:11,480 --> 01:15:13,642
6025saying if you destroy the image...
6026
60271279
602801:15:13,720 --> 01:15:17,520
6029(master) Destroy the image
6030and you will break the enemy.
6031
60321280
603301:15:17,600 --> 01:15:19,011
6034You defeat the enemy,
6035
60361281
603701:15:19,080 --> 01:15:20,923
6038he was just... It had a tension
6039
60401282
604101:15:21,000 --> 01:15:26,166
6042that to me resonates because
6043it's cutting through all illusions.
6044
60451283
604601:15:26,240 --> 01:15:28,447
6047This is the moment
6048that he was waiting for.
6049
60501284
605101:15:28,520 --> 01:15:31,000
6052This was Bruce Lee's film in Hollywood.
6053
60541285
605501:15:35,080 --> 01:15:38,050
6056Bruce was in a studio
6057doing dubbing for Enter the Dragon
6058
60591286
606001:15:38,120 --> 01:15:41,442
6061and he went to the restroom
6062and he collapsed.
6063
60641287
606501:15:41,520 --> 01:15:43,966
6066I was called and came to the hospital.
6067
60681288
606901:15:44,040 --> 01:15:49,410
6070And he was unconscious
6071and I was talking to him,
6072
60731289
607401:15:49,480 --> 01:15:54,088
6075and he told me later
6076that he was like in the bottom of a well
6077
60781290
607901:15:54,160 --> 01:15:57,960
6080and he could hear me calling him,
6081"Come back, come back."
6082
60831291
608401:15:58,040 --> 01:16:00,042
6085And he did recover from that.
6086
60871292
608801:16:00,120 --> 01:16:05,047
6089It was a cerebral oedema,
6090a pressing of fluid on the brain,
6091
60921293
609301:16:05,120 --> 01:16:07,009
6094but they never found the cause of it.
6095
60961294
609701:16:07,080 --> 01:16:10,971
6098Ted Wong used to always tell me,
6099"Bruce Lee was never afraid of anything,
6100
61011295
610201:16:11,040 --> 01:16:13,247
6103except one thing,
6104and that's getting older."
6105
61061296
610701:16:13,320 --> 01:16:16,369
6108(Linda) He came to the United States
6109and had a complete physical
6110
61111297
611201:16:16,440 --> 01:16:19,205
6113and they pronounced him
6114in perfect health
6115
61161298
611701:16:19,280 --> 01:16:21,089
6118with the body of an 18-year-old.
6119
61201299
612101:16:21,160 --> 01:16:23,970
6122The doctors were very reassuring.
6123
61241300
612501:16:24,040 --> 01:16:28,045
6126He had just had a collapse.
6127He didn't have frequent headaches.
6128
61291301
613001:16:28,120 --> 01:16:30,168
6131Of course, they didn't have MRls then
6132
61331302
613401:16:30,240 --> 01:16:32,766
6135to see what his brain tissue
6136was looking like.
6137
61381303
613901:16:32,840 --> 01:16:34,968
6140I had seen him in June.
6141
61421304
614301:16:35,040 --> 01:16:38,442
6144He told me that he'd had an OK from UCLA
6145that his body was fit.
6146
61471305
614801:16:38,520 --> 01:16:42,286
6149He was not worried about himself
6150and he was taking good care of himself.
6151
61521306
615301:16:42,360 --> 01:16:44,727
6154(Pierre) Bruce Lee faces a real dilemma.
6155
61561307
615701:16:44,800 --> 01:16:47,371
6158He's on the verge of stardom
6159in the United States,
6160
61611308
616201:16:47,440 --> 01:16:51,331
6163but he's just achieved superstardom
6164as a film actor here in Hong Kong.
6165
61661309
616701:16:51,400 --> 01:16:53,846
6168So what does he chose,
6169the East or the West?
6170
61711310
617201:16:53,920 --> 01:16:57,561
6173It's the kind of problem most
6174budding movie actors would welcome.
6175
61761311
617701:17:03,000 --> 01:17:07,130
6178I was called and told by Raymond Chow,
6179"You should get to the hospital."
6180
61811312
618201:17:07,200 --> 01:17:09,646
6183"They're taking Bruce to the hospital."
6184
61851313
618601:17:09,720 --> 01:17:13,361
6187And I was there
6188way before Bruce got there.
6189
61901314
619101:17:13,440 --> 01:17:19,004
6192So eventually the ambulance arrived.
6193It took a long time.
6194
61951315
619601:17:19,080 --> 01:17:20,969
6197Everything took too long a time.
6198
61991316
620001:17:21,040 --> 01:17:24,328
6201He got to the hospital
6202and I saw him laying there
6203
62041317
620501:17:24,400 --> 01:17:29,440
6206and I saw them do a big injection
6207of something right into his heart.
6208
62091318
621001:17:32,840 --> 01:17:39,121
6211And I remember turning to a medical
6212person standing there and saying...
6213
62141319
621501:17:39,200 --> 01:17:41,248
6216I couldn't say, "Is he dead?"
6217
62181320
621901:17:41,320 --> 01:17:44,403
6220I said, "Is he alive?
6221
62221321
622301:17:44,480 --> 01:17:48,087
6224And they shook their heads
6225and said, "No."
6226
62271322
622801:17:48,160 --> 01:17:52,802
6229And that was just unbelievable.
6230
62311323
623201:17:52,880 --> 01:17:56,805
6233It must be a mistake,
6234you know, it's not real.
6235
62361324
623701:17:57,800 --> 01:18:01,646
6238What can I say? It was.
6239
62401325
624101:18:39,640 --> 01:18:46,330
6242(Diana) You can see how
6243when he passed away, you know, how...
6244
62451326
624601:18:47,720 --> 01:18:52,851
6247how difficult that was and, you know,
6248how difficult that was for my dad.
6249
62501327
625101:18:52,920 --> 01:18:55,446
6252It's the first time
6253I saw my dad ever cry.
6254
62551328
625601:18:55,520 --> 01:18:57,522
6257Yeah, that's true.
6258
62591329
626001:19:01,960 --> 01:19:03,689
6261It was really rough.
6262
62631330
626401:19:05,800 --> 01:19:07,802
6265Well, yeah.
6266
62671331
626801:19:09,960 --> 01:19:13,328
6269I said, "Dan, is it true?
6270Ls Bruce Lee dead?"
6271
62721332
627301:19:13,400 --> 01:19:16,609
6274"I got a lot of calls."
6275And he says, "Yeah, Rich."
6276
62771333
627801:19:16,680 --> 01:19:19,206
6279Linda called him from Hong Kong,
6280
62811334
628201:19:19,280 --> 01:19:23,001
6283and he was in a trance on his own
6284and talking about Bruce Lee.
6285
62861335
628701:19:23,080 --> 01:19:26,402
6288He was so in grief,
6289so in mourning about Bruce's death.
6290
62911336
629201:19:26,480 --> 01:19:30,201
6293He was just really uniquely different
6294from everybody else.
6295
62961337
629701:19:31,120 --> 01:19:34,761
6298(Shannon) My memories,
6299they're more like glimpses.
6300
63011338
630201:19:34,840 --> 01:19:38,970
6303But I remember primarily
6304the funeral in Hong Kong,
6305
63061339
630701:19:39,040 --> 01:19:42,965
6308because it was so massive,
6309and sort of being dragged through that,
6310
63111340
631201:19:43,040 --> 01:19:45,691
6313because it was chaotic.
6314
63151341
631601:19:45,760 --> 01:19:50,926
6317And I remember my dad's mom
6318taking us to get candy
6319
63201342
632101:19:51,000 --> 01:19:54,561
6322and feeling really happy about that.
6323
63241343
632501:19:56,840 --> 01:20:00,890
6326(Mickey) I was in class, actually,
6327when Bruce Lee died.
6328
63291344
633001:20:00,960 --> 01:20:03,645
6331There were guys in there
6332crying, sobbing, just...
6333
63341345
633501:20:03,720 --> 01:20:05,882
6336I mean, Bruce Lee, you know...
6337
63381346
633901:20:07,920 --> 01:20:09,490
6340He was just... he was it.
6341
63421347
634301:20:13,640 --> 01:20:16,325
6344Will you tell me what Teacher died of?
6345
63461348
634701:20:16,400 --> 01:20:20,610
6348Forensic scientists from around
6349the world came up with the conclusion
6350
63511349
635201:20:20,680 --> 01:20:23,251
6353that he had had
6354a hypersensitive reaction
6355
63561350
635701:20:23,320 --> 01:20:26,688
6358to this medication
6359that he had been given for a headache
6360
63611351
636201:20:26,760 --> 01:20:30,651
6363and that that had caused
6364the fluid on his brain
6365
63661352
636701:20:30,720 --> 01:20:34,486
6368and that he had succumbed to that.
6369
63701353
637101:20:36,400 --> 01:20:39,404
6372It's still something
6373that people cannot believe.
6374
63751354
637601:20:39,480 --> 01:20:43,371
6377He was well. There was nothing wrong.
6378How could a healthy man die?
6379
63801355
638101:20:43,440 --> 01:20:47,889
6382And then there's all this stuff about,
6383you know, how he died,
6384
63851356
638601:20:47,960 --> 01:20:49,644
6387the sinister way in which he died.
6388
63891357
639001:20:49,720 --> 01:20:53,281
6391He had an aneurysm
6392
63931358
639401:20:53,360 --> 01:20:56,648
6395or the death hands got him
6396or, you know...
6397
63981359
639901:20:56,720 --> 01:20:57,721
6400He was murdered.
6401
64021360
640301:20:57,800 --> 01:21:00,724
6404They gave him the dim mak,
6405they gave him a death touch.
6406
64071361
640801:21:01,440 --> 01:21:04,410
6409There's absolutely positively
6410something a little shady
6411
64121362
641301:21:04,480 --> 01:21:06,164
6414about the way that it all went down.
6415
64161363
641701:21:06,240 --> 01:21:10,928
6418How he could pass away at that age,
6419you know, but it does happen,
6420
64211364
642201:21:11,000 --> 01:21:14,891
6423so I've learned to cope with it
6424and deal with it.
6425
64261365
642701:21:14,960 --> 01:21:16,530
6428But it always puzzled me.
6429
64301366
643101:21:16,600 --> 01:21:18,648
6432The fact that my family is cursed
6433
64341367
643501:21:18,720 --> 01:21:23,601
6436and the very sad and tragic circumstance
6437that my brother died,
6438
64391368
644001:21:23,680 --> 01:21:25,808
6441those are sort of the themes
6442that pop up.
6443
64441369
644501:21:25,880 --> 01:21:30,329
6446They wrote so many stupid stories, the
6447tong killing him and all that bullshit,
6448
64491370
645001:21:30,400 --> 01:21:33,051
6451and he died of drugs,
6452that sold magazines.
6453
64541371
645501:21:33,800 --> 01:21:37,282
6456He died in Betty Ting Pei's apartment,
6457so there's no denying that.
6458
64591372
646001:21:37,360 --> 01:21:42,207
6461The decision was made by the producers
6462to say that he had died at home.
6463
64641373
646501:21:42,280 --> 01:21:45,363
6466When that news got out
6467that he had not died at home,
6468
64691374
647001:21:45,440 --> 01:21:46,885
6471the tabloid press went crazy.
6472
64731375
647401:21:46,960 --> 01:21:51,170
6475But my mom knew he had been
6476at a meeting and doing his films.
6477
64781376
647901:21:51,240 --> 01:21:55,006
6480She was dealing with his death
6481and taking care of her kids,
6482
64831377
648401:21:55,080 --> 01:21:57,845
6485and all of that gossip
6486was just the tabloid press
6487
64881378
648901:21:57,920 --> 01:22:03,643
6490trying to make it bigger and crazier
6491than it needed to be.
6492
64931379
649401:22:06,280 --> 01:22:10,171
6495It is my wish that the newspapers
6496and the people of Hong Kong
6497
64981380
649901:22:10,240 --> 01:22:12,607
6500will stop speculating
6501on the circumstances
6502
65031381
650401:22:12,680 --> 01:22:14,444
6505surrounding my husband's death.
6506
65071382
650801:22:14,520 --> 01:22:17,524
6509Please remember him
6510for his genius, his art
6511
65121383
651301:22:17,600 --> 01:22:20,649
6514and the magic he brought
6515to every one of us.
6516
65171384
651801:22:30,280 --> 01:22:34,330
6519(Linda) Of course I was going to go
6520and see his film and applaud him
6521
65221385
652301:22:34,400 --> 01:22:36,926
6524and be with people who admired him.
6525
65261386
652701:22:37,000 --> 01:22:42,769
6528That was always my thought in my head,
6529is, "I need to do this for Bruce."
6530
65311387
653201:22:42,840 --> 01:22:45,286
6533She really is this incredible woman
6534
65351388
653601:22:45,360 --> 01:22:49,046
6537with just great dignity
6538and grace under fire.
6539
65401389
654101:22:50,960 --> 01:22:53,167
6542(Linda) It was great to see Bruce again,
6543
65441390
654501:22:53,240 --> 01:22:57,848
6546but only a month later my memories
6547were very fresh anyway, you know.
6548
65491391
655001:23:00,120 --> 01:23:03,363
6551It was more pain than joy at the time.
6552
65531392
655401:23:11,560 --> 01:23:13,722
6555Everybody said all these years,
6556you know,
6557
65581393
655901:23:13,800 --> 01:23:17,930
6560he had an allergic reaction
6561to marijuana, he had a brain aneurysm.
6562
65631394
656401:23:18,000 --> 01:23:21,083
6565The most important thing
6566is how he lived.
6567
65681395
656901:23:22,600 --> 01:23:25,570
6570Every time you see him,
6571it's still emotional.
6572
65731396
657401:23:26,640 --> 01:23:28,563
6575We miss the friend.
6576
65771397
657801:23:28,640 --> 01:23:32,281
6579I'm now 74, but there really
6580has not ever been a day
6581
65821398
658301:23:32,360 --> 01:23:36,410
6584that I haven't thought about him
6585at least once, maybe twice
6586
65871399
658801:23:36,480 --> 01:23:39,370
6589or three times or four times
6590or five times through the day.
6591
65921400
659301:23:39,440 --> 01:23:43,161
6594There's nobody who's gonna replace
6595Bruce Lee, not while you or I are alive.
6596
65971401
659801:23:43,240 --> 01:23:44,605
6599It just ain't gonna happen.
6600
66011402
660201:23:44,680 --> 01:23:47,729
6603This genius passes away
6604way before his time.
6605
66061403
660701:23:47,800 --> 01:23:49,928
6608We have to be thankful
6609we had him for 32 years.
6610
66111404
661201:23:51,640 --> 01:23:53,449
6613(Paul) Bruce Lee was just a symbol
6614
66151405
661601:23:53,520 --> 01:23:55,887
6617of everything
6618that every little boy wanted to be.
6619
66201406
662101:23:55,960 --> 01:23:59,328
6622You have offended my family
6623and you have...
6624
66251407
662601:23:59,400 --> 01:24:02,085
6627Disgraced the Shaolin temple.
6628
66291408
663001:24:02,160 --> 01:24:04,049
6631Whoo!
6632
66331409
663401:24:04,760 --> 01:24:07,969
6635(David) The most important thing
6636he's ever done and accomplished
6637
66381410
663901:24:08,040 --> 01:24:09,849
6640is bringing people together.
6641
66421411
664301:24:09,920 --> 01:24:12,810
6644Bruce brought...
6645he brought cultures together.
6646
66471412
664801:24:12,880 --> 01:24:16,248
6649(Jones) People remember him
6650for being powerful beyond measure,
6651
66521413
665301:24:16,320 --> 01:24:18,129
6654you know, for being limitless,
6655
66561414
665701:24:18,200 --> 01:24:21,522
6658for standing for things
6659when people crucified him.
6660
66611415
666201:24:21,600 --> 01:24:24,683
6663It didn't matter what colour you are,
6664what country you came from,
6665
66661416
666701:24:24,760 --> 01:24:26,091
6668you were a Bruce Lee fan.
6669
66701417
667101:24:26,160 --> 01:24:28,288
6672He's the man. He's the truth.
6673
66741418
667501:24:29,160 --> 01:24:31,891
6676And it was amazing
6677how he connected so many people.
6678
66791419
668001:24:31,960 --> 01:24:36,010
6681Not just martial arts,
6682but people from all walks of life.
6683
66841420
668501:24:36,080 --> 01:24:38,765
6686If Bruce was here today,
6687he'd be on Dancing with the Stars
6688
66891421
669001:24:38,840 --> 01:24:40,205
6691and he'd win it, hands down.
6692
66931422
669401:24:40,280 --> 01:24:43,090
6695(Bruce) Doggone it,
6696such is the basic need of a human being,
6697
66981423
669901:24:43,160 --> 01:24:46,243
6700I might as well enjoy it
6701before I kick the bucket,
6702
67031424
670401:24:46,320 --> 01:24:48,129
6705like that type of an attitude.
6706
67071425
670801:24:48,200 --> 01:24:52,364
6709We remember Bruce Lee today
6710because he was so much fun to watch.
6711
67121426
671301:24:52,440 --> 01:24:55,250
6714He was like a mythological hero.
6715
67161427
671701:24:56,160 --> 01:25:00,051
6718My strength flowed
6719through Bruce to me, so...
6720
67211428
672201:25:00,120 --> 01:25:02,043
6723He left me with that gift.
6724
67251429
672601:25:02,120 --> 01:25:05,010
6727The idea is running water
6728never grows stale,
6729
67301430
673101:25:05,080 --> 01:25:08,289
6732so you gotta just keep on flowing.
6733
67341431
673501:25:08,360 --> 01:25:09,805
6736He didn't compromise.
6737
67381432
673901:25:09,880 --> 01:25:13,680
6740People really felt that presence about
6741him and felt that influence from him
6742
67431433
674401:25:13,760 --> 01:25:17,924
6745and they just wanna somehow
6746connect with him.
6747
67481434
674901:25:18,000 --> 01:25:20,446
6750When people try to relate to him,
6751they do say,
6752
67531435
675401:25:20,520 --> 01:25:23,569
6755"That's my Bruce Lee.
6756That's what I connect with."
6757
67581436
675901:25:23,640 --> 01:25:26,484
6760When I watch Bruce Lee, I am Bruce Lee.
6761
67621437
676301:25:30,400 --> 01:25:33,404
6764- Dragon whips his tail.
6765- Dragon whips his tail.
6766
67671438
676801:25:34,560 --> 01:25:37,882
6769I watch Bruce Lee, you watch Bruce Lee
6770and we're both being Bruce Lee.
6771
67721439
677301:25:37,960 --> 01:25:41,442
6774Bruce would want us to recognise
6775
67761440
677701:25:41,520 --> 01:25:45,241
6778that he honestly expressed himself,
6779
67801441
678101:25:45,320 --> 01:25:48,403
6782that he did not bow down
6783to any sacred cows.
6784
67851442
678601:25:48,480 --> 01:25:53,168
6787To express oneself honestly,
6788not lying to oneself,
6789
67901443
679101:25:53,240 --> 01:25:55,004
6792and to express myself honestly,
6793
67941444
679501:25:55,080 --> 01:25:58,926
6796that, my friend, is very hard to do.
6797
67981445
679901:25:59,000 --> 01:26:02,971
6800He would urge others
6801to examine your life, you know,
6802
68031446
680401:26:03,040 --> 01:26:06,283
6805see how things fit you personally,
6806
68071447
680801:26:06,360 --> 01:26:09,330
6809find your strength, take a stab at life,
6810
68111448
681201:26:09,400 --> 01:26:12,404
6813don't just sit back
6814and take it easy, you know?
6815
68161449
681701:26:12,480 --> 01:26:15,165
6818That's not what life is about.
6819
68201450
682101:26:20,400 --> 01:26:24,530
6822It's even more fun to see him now
6823when I look back, you know.
6824
68251451
682601:26:24,600 --> 01:26:28,047
6827Oh! What an amazing young man he was.
6828
68291452
683001:26:39,080 --> 01:26:42,766
6831(Pierre) Do you think of yourself
6832as Chinese or North American?
6833
68341453
683501:26:42,840 --> 01:26:45,571
6836You know what I want to think of myself?
6837
68381454
683901:26:46,680 --> 01:26:48,603
6840As a human being.
6841
68421455
684301:26:48,680 --> 01:26:52,571
6844Because, I mean, I don't wanna
6845sound like "as Confucius say",
6846
68471456
684801:26:52,640 --> 01:26:56,565
6849but under the sky, under the heaven,
6850man, there is but one family.
6851
68521457
685301:26:56,640 --> 01:27:00,201
6854It just so happened, man,
6855that people are different.
6856
68571458
685801:29:36,960 --> 01:29:41,921
6859Empty your mind.
6860Be formless, shapeless.
6861
68621459
686301:29:42,000 --> 01:29:43,684
6864Like water.
6865
68661460
686701:29:43,760 --> 01:29:46,240
6868Now, you put water into a cup,
6869
68701461
687101:29:46,320 --> 01:29:47,526
6872it becomes the cup.
6873
68741462
687501:29:47,600 --> 01:29:49,887
6876Put water into a bottle,
6877it becomes the bottle.
6878
68791463
688001:29:49,960 --> 01:29:52,884
6881You put it in a teapot,
6882it becomes the teapot.
6883
68841464
688501:29:52,960 --> 01:29:56,851
6886Now, water can flow or it can crash.
6887
68881465
688901:29:56,920 --> 01:29:58,922
6890Be water, my friend.