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If someone says, "I can't watch a
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Bruce Lee film," I
can't talk to 'em.
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Bruce Lee is a worldwide
fighting icon.
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He was a 130-something-pound
lethal weapon.
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Bruce and his fighting
style changed the game.
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In the beginning I
had no intention
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that what I was practising,
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and what I am still practising
now, would lead to this.
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Bruce Lee, Bob Dylan, Ali,
Jay-Z, Tiger, Kobe, Jordan,
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they all have the same spirit.
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No stunt coordinator coordinated
his shit. He did it himself.
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The guy you see in Bruce's films
is the way Bruce was in person.
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He could lose his temper.
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Bruce Lee is my idol.
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He was directing, writing, acting.
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I don't even look at him as
being Asian. He's my idol.
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When you think of
Bruce Lee, you don't
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think about the Asian karate guy.
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You think about a legacy.
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The moves that he could do,
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you were wondering if they
were speeding up the camera.
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Bruce Lee was like the superhero
of the Asian community.
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You had Muhammad Ali.
You had Malcolm X.
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Bruce Lee represented that
same kind of radicalism.
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Technically brilliant
choreography.
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You get mysticism,
hyper-masculinity.
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This guy is like, bang.
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He's put balls on Chinese men.
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There's some cool stuff.
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You're like, "Wow. That
super cool guy is my dad."
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There'll never be
another Bruce Lee.
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Baby, here I am, man.
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How does a small
Chinese guy become the
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greatest martial
artist of all time?
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Production 263-05-224-10.
Test X1, take 1.
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Bruce, just look right
into the camera
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and tell us your name, your
age and where you were born.
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My last name is Lee, Bruce Lee.
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I was born in San Francisco
in 1940. I'm 24 right now.
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There was controversy
about me taking
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him back to the United States.
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But he loved his
time that he lived
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in Seattle before all of this.
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It was important for my children
to know where their father was.
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I just intimately
just started crying.
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I think I literally
cried after the
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funeral all the way from Seattle,
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all the way to the
California border,
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all the way up to Sacramento.
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That was a very difficult
time to leave Hong Kong
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and... take their
favourite son away.
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Bruce's childhood is
interesting to look at
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from the standpoint
of where he ended up.
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First of all, Hong
Kong in the early '40s
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was occupied by Japan
during World War ll,
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and this had an
influence on Bruce.
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It was very important
to him as a child
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from the get-go to
be self-sufficient,
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and in doing that,
you have to shoulder
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a lot of personal responsibility.
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There's bad blood
historically between
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China and Hong Kong and Japan.
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His mother used to
tell me how Bruce
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would hang over the
side of the balcony
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and shake his fist at the Japanese
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planes coming to
land in Hong Kong.
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If anyone said a word against
the Chinese, he would rebel.
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And you work in motion
pictures in Hong Kong?
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Yes, since I was
around six years old.
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Bruce became a child actor
under his father's influence,
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his father being an actor
in the Chinese opera
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and then in Cantonese
films as well.
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Tell the crew what time they
shoot the pictures in Hong Kong.
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Well, it's mostly in
the morning because
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it's kind of noisy in Hong Kong,
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you know, around three
million people there,
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so every time when
you have a picture,
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it's mostly, say, around
12am to 5am in the morning.
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A lot of people don't
touch on this,
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but he was the biggest
childhood star in Hong Kong.
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He made 20, 20-something
movies as a child star.
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He was like the Macaulay
Culkin of that era.
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And then you have
the fact that Hong
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Kong was governed by the British.
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They targeted the British.
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You are crazy.
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But there's a lot of
competition between
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the British people living there
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and the Chinese living there.
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He's also part Caucasian.
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I think he saw a lot
of adversity racially,
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not only around him
but within himself.
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And he had run-ins with English
schoolboys and that kind of thing,
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so there was always that
feeling of resentment
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of others dictating his future.
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Then, of course, when he was 13,
he went to study with Yip Man.
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As human beings, fighting's in our
DNA. We get it and we like it.
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Yip Man trained
Bruce in Wing Chun,
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and Yip Man was a
fabulous kung fu master.
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Bruce had many
run-ins with the law
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and other teenagers in Hong
Kong, and he had fights.
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He loved the street
fights. He loved
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other people who can street-fight.
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Bruce's style is made
for street survival.
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He grew up fighting fights
in Hong Kong on the rooftop.
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Bruce had some of the films,
8mm, that he used to show us,
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where they get into the
old traditional stance
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and one guy would come in and
throw a couple of punches
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and the other guy would back up
and fall down over the plant pot.
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There were two clans usually,
the Choy Li Fut clan
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and the Wing Chun clan
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by Yip Man and his students,
and they would have battles.
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Although this stuff about the Choy
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Li Fut and Wing
Chun rooftop fights
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is the stuff of
legend, it is true.
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I was in Hong Kong.
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The sentiment, the
animosity between
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Wing Chun and Choy
Li Fut still exists.
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So Yip Man was a great
influence on Bruce
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and leaned him in the
direction of philosophy.
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Yip Man would not be a
legend without Bruce Lee.
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Wing Chun was a very, very
minor martial art style,
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and now it's global, and that's
all because of Bruce Lee.
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Ultimately, martial art means
honestly expressing yourself.
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Now, it is very difficult to do.
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A lot of that warrior spirit,
to me, it's really honourable.
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It's really pure.
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It breaks through
to every culture,
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every language, every colour.
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It's all about getting
respect back, you know.
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If you're gonna hurt
me, you're gonna
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have to earn it, motherfucker.
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I was the youngest of three boys.
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I got obsessed with Bruce
Lee and martial arts.
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I wanted to kick my brothers'
asses and prove my worthiness.
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When a good fight breaks out,
you can't help but be excited.
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You can't help but show emotion.
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It took a while, but as many times
as each of my brothers beat me up,
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each one of them got
one ass-kicking
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from me and that was it.
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I didn't do so well
talking shit back,
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so I don't see the
point in talking
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about it. Let's just go there.
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But then you feel
bad and embarrassed
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afterwards, "That was childish."
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"I could have handled that
better." But you also feel good.
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If you couldn't get laid,
you got in a fight.
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Let me punch this
ugly motherfucker.
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In Youngstown. It was
a nice place to live.
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Fighting has taken over
my mind and my being.
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It's not what I do. It's who I am.
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My father told me
fighters are born, not
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made. Bruce Lee was
a born fighter.
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When you do punch, now I'm
leaning forward a little bit,
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hoping not to hurt
any camera angle.
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I mean, you gotta put the
whole hip into it and snap it
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and get all your energy in there,
and make this into a weapon.
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When Bruce Lee was
a young boy, maybe
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13 or 14, training in Wing Chun,
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they found out that Bruce
Lee had Caucasian blood.
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I believe it's one fourth German.
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Well?
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The other students
said he shouldn't
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be allowed to learn Wing Chun
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because he wasn't purely Chinese.
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When you're by yourself and
no one wants to be there
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because they didn't
wanna get beat up,
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it's the loneliest
feeling in the world.
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One thing I have definitely
learned in my life
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is that I do have a bad temper.
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A violent temper, in fact.
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His whole life is sort of this
play between East and West.
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He hated the oppression
of little people
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which he saw everywhere, in
the Japanese occupation,
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the Boxer Rebellion,
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the foreign powers
going into China.
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He just thought all
of that was wrong.
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To live the life he wanted to
live, he had to fight for it.
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He really had to put it out
there and really walk the walk.
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I mean, it is easy for
me to put on a show
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and be cocky and be flooded
with a cocky feeling
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and then feel like pretty
cool and all that.
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Or I can make all kinds of phoney
things, you see what I mean?
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Blinded by it. Or I can show you
some really fancy movement.
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But to express oneself honestly,
not lying to oneself,
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and to express myself honestly,
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that, my friend, is...
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In some ways it's the
total opposite of anger.
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It's beauty, it's
passion, it's art.
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It's painting a picture
without tools.
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It was a surprise, but
an understandable one,
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when I found out that Bruce
Lee was a cha-cha champion,
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because you could see that
reflected in his fighting style.
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He was the 1957 Hong
Kong cha-cha champion.
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People don't know that.
His footwork was
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impeccable. Incredible
samba dancer.
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He didn't move like anybody
else. He moved like himself.
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In a fight you have
footwork and you have form
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and you have stance and
power that you interject,
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and that's the way that dancing
and martial arts go hand in hand.
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For him to be steeped into that
rhythm reinforced why black people
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have always identified with
Bruce and his fighting style.
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So what I got from Bruce
as a performer is...
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You know, most performers perform
like this, right? Straight up.
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Me, perform from the side,
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sort of like how Bruce
used to always, you know,
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be ready for combat like this.
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Honestly expressing yourself,
like me being a dancer,
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that's what it's all about.
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That's another big,
big philosophy from
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him that I take with
me to this day.
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So I'll be performing like,
"Bah, bah. Bah, bah, bah, bah."
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I keep trying to dig deeper
and deeper within myself
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and find that fluidity
that no one can replicate.
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That's the vibe that
Bruce Lee taught me.
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It's to always bring it.
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That's what I get from Bruce.
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And when did you leave Hong Kong?
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1959, when I was 18.
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It had gotten a little difficult
with the police on one side
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and with gangs on the other side.
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He beat this kid up, but he
didn't know that the kid
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was the son of a high-ranking
police officer in Hong Kong.
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He got into so many street fights
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that by 18, his
father gave him $100
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and sent him off to America.
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If he wanted his immigration
status to be US citizen,
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then he had to return
by the time he was 18.
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To go when you're still
a star is very strange,
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because he could have kept doing
films, but they wanted him to go,
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to make the right decision
of where he's going next.
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In Seattle, my father started
teaching martial arts.
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He didn't ever look
at people because
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of their race or their
stature in life.
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If you had a sincere interest in
martial arts, he would teach you.
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Taky Kimura was really
his best friend.
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Taky became his first assistant
instructor in his first school,
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the Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute,
in Seattle, Washington.
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Bruce used to come
to my high school
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and he used to teach in the
Chinese philosophy class.
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He was five years
older than we were
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and I do remember my heart going,
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"Pah, Pah, Pah," you
know, "He is sure cute."
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It wasn't long after
that that I started
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taking gung fu lessons from him,
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and my relationship with him
changed more from just a student
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to actually feeling
that maybe, maybe
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there could be a
connection between us.
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We both attended the
University of Washington.
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We would get together on campus
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and attend our classes,
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occasionally, when we weren't
doing gung fu or something else.
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And then when we were both
done with our classes,
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we would rush back to his studio,
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which was just right there
in the university district,
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and we'd turn on the TV and watch
General Hospital every day.
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And it was like, "We have to get
there. It's almost three o'clock."
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In the '60s, marriages were
happening in California.
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In the rest of the
country there were no
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interracial marriages.
It was difficult.
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My mother was not thrilled
when we decided to get married
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and didn't want her
daughter to have
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to suffer any
negativity from others.
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The ban on interracial
marriage was lifted in 1968.
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That didn't mean the ban
lifted in people's hearts.
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Bruce was very strong in saying,
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"I want to marry Linda. I know
that we are a good match."
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And so we did get married. It
was really hard on my mother.
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But it wasn't long before she
came to love Bruce very much.
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It's so important
to know that it was
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his wife Linda that grounded him.
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She was his rock.
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As a couple, we really did not
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suffer any prejudice
from outsiders,
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and I think this had
a great deal to do
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with Bruce's overwhelming
personality.
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I absolutely recognise that
my uncle was a gorgeous man.
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He's got swagger.
We love his style.
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He had style the way Muhammad
Ali had style in the ring.
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He was like the Elvis of martial
arts. He looked like a movie star.
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He was always such a snappy
dresser and so handsome.
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I've heard the term that he's
put balls on Chinese men.
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He's shown that the
Chinese man can be,
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you know, sexy and
hot and enticing.
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I'm trying to copy his hair.
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That's why my hair is long.
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After Bruce Lee, my
God, Chinese men,
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they're a force to
be reckoned with.
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They're invincible. So that's
an amazing transformation.
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He's one of a kind and
extremely attractive.
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That would be for
both straight women
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and a lot of gay men
that I know too.
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Let's just put it this way.
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I think the one thing
that's missing
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in my life right now is Bruce Lee.
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A man like Bruce Lee.
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The first internationals
were in Long Beach.
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I was instructed to take out
Bruce Lee. He was the guest.
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So I was sort of like
the tour guide for him.
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He demonstrated his art
before he even demonstrated
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in front of the
black-belt audience.
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In the hotel room
he says, "You can
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use everything, you can side-kick,
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you can round-kick, and
I'll just use my jab."
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When he knocked me out,
it was more like a hook.
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It sort of came off the side like
that. The ease in which he did it,
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and explaining while
he was doing it to me,
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that was mind-boggling for me.
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It was like a bad dream, like
the dreams where you can't run.
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When Bruce Lee came up and did
his performance of his gung fu,
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it was something I had
never seen before.
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He said, "The individual is more
important in any style or system."
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I said, "I need to train
with a man like this."
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He was just so ahead of the times.
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He'd go to Ed Parker's
events in Long
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Beach and they treated
him like a god.
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When he did his
one-thumb push-ups,
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you could hear a pin drop.
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He showed his speed,
showed his power,
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showed his one-inch punch.
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People say, "Bruce Lee is the
fastest person on earth."
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He did these things
so realistically
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that people didn't know if it was
show business or the real McCoy.
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When Bruce did the
demonstration in 1964,
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before he had even come back to
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Oakland where we
lived at the time,
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I had received a phone call
from William Dozier's office.
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Jay Sebring, the famous hair
stylist, happened to see my father
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at the Long Beach
internationals, and
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he cut the hair of William Dozier.
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He said, "You have to see
this guy. He's amazing."
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When Bruce came home,
I said to him,
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"You need to call this guy
back, William Dozier."
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"He's a producer in Hollywood
and he wants to see you."
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That was the first inkling that,
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"Wow, I might be able to do
something in Hollywood."
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Look directly into the camera.
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Very dapper. He's got the suit and
the tie, you know, white shirt.
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He's so elegant.
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But he feels like a coiled cobra.
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- You've just had a baby boy?
- Yeah.
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And you've lost a little
sleep over it, have you?
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Three nights.
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He was 24, and he went in
there, it's almost like,
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"You're lucky that I'm
here auditioning for you."
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There is the finger jab
There is the punch.
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Just the poise he had said it all.
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There is the back fist and elbow.
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Even in conversation, you could
feel his explosive nature.
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Of course, then they use legs,
straight to the groin or come up.
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That's a special
kind of star power.
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Or, if I can back up a little bit,
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we stop at the...
and then come back.
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- Alright.
- This kind of works.
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He never had any intention
of going into show business.
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His passion was his martial arts,
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so he had a school in Seattle
and a second school in Oakland.
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His plan was to open many, many
schools all over the county.
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Obviously he started
with the classical
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Chinese arts, which is Wing Chun.
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And then everyone knows about
the fight in 1964 in Oakland.
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There's the famous story
about how he was challenged
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by the Chinese
community in Oakland,
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and he had to defend the right to
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teach his art to
non-Chinese people.
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You and this entire
society are useless
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in this country. You are archaic.
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And you're a fool to think that
you can break away from us
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merely because you choose to.
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To prove Bruce Lee was wrong,
he was a fake and a fraud,
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the Chinese traditionalists sent
somebody over to fight him.
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The Chinese sent someone
to shut down the school.
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Shut down or thrown down,
and Bruce chose throw down.
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The fight was to be
held at Bruce's school.
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If Bruce lost the
fight, he would have
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to stop teaching
non-Chinese people.
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Anything that forces you
to review your dogmas,
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most people don't
respond too well to it.
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I was there, eight months
pregnant with Brandon,
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and these elders arrived
from San Francisco,
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led by Wong Jack
Man, who was going
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to be the opponent
in this challenge.
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They came and they
had this big match.
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I didn't have a shred of a doubt
about how this would come out.
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Wong Jack Man started
to run around the
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room trying to get
away from Bruce,
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and it took three
minutes for Bruce
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to get him down on the ground
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and say, "Do you give UP?"
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So Wong Jack Man and
those people all left.
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And I remember so clearly
in my mind's eye
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Bruce sitting on the steps
in the back of the studio
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with his head in his hands.
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And she said, "What's the matter?"
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That was the fight
that he realised the
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classical arts were
not working for him.
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He should have put
that guy down sooner.
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Bruce Lee doesn't
beat him fast enough,
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so he goes off to rethink it all,
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and these tales all had the
structure of myth and fantasy.
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Little parables about the master.
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He said, "My training in
Wing Chun, my classical art,
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didn't prepare me for
this kind of a battle."
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That was the beginning
of the evolution
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of his own way of martial arts.
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If you read the notes that he left
behind, 1965 he starts to write,
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"My style is Western fencing,
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Western boxing and Wing Chun."
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He said he owe our knowledge
to the Wing Chun,
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but we're gonna go
beyond the Wing Chun.
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Bruce Lee took a lot from boxing.
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He felt boxing was more realistic
in that you were trading blows.
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He likes the boxing footwork. It's
alive, it's moving and it changes.
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He was totally invested
in watching boxing films,
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going way back to Jack
Johnson, Gene Tunney, Dempsey.
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What he took from Dempsey
was the kinetic chain,
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how to generate power, the
importance of a good jab.
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There's a lot about the
alignment of the body.
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Bruce had a huge
collection of boxing films
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and he thought the
world of Muhammad Ali.
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What he would do
was very unique. I
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once came in, lights were all out.
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And he's watching this 8mm film
and he's watching it backwards.
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Ali had a left-foot forward stance
and Bruce a right foot forward.
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So he would run the films
backward in the film editor
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and study them meticulously.
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He would stretch and read
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and review on 8mm film of
a boxer at the same time.
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According to John Saxon, his
co-star on Enter the Dragon,
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John asked him, "Why do you have
all these boxing films on Ali?"
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And Bruce said, "Because one
day I'm gonna fight him."
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If I was to fight Bruce Lee, Bruce
Lee was so quick, so smooth,
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but the one thing that negates
speed on a fighter is pressure,
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and I was a pressure fighter.
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With Bruce Lee, you gotta
go inside, smother him
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and outmuscle him. But you can't
fight a dude like that outside.
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I see Bruce leading off
with some long-ass kicks
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and Boom Boom gets pissed off and
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tries to give him
some body punches.
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And when you get close,
then Bruce, I'm sure,
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would be trying to bring
knees and high head kicks,
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and I'd throw an upper cut,
bring the elbow across.
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And he's gonna be
trying to counter me,
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so I have to bob and weave inside.
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Bruce gets it to the ground and
arm-bars him or guillotines him.
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It would have been a good time.
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People are watching
this going, "He
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took more shots than we thought."
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"He absolutely has lost his mind
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thinking he can do that
against Bruce Lee."
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Ray was good to the
body. Then he'd
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eventually get that hook on you.
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Bruce wouldn't know how to stop
it. Why? Because he never did it.
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(Bruce Lee)
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People bring up the question:
Was Bruce Lee a real fighter?
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Bruce was a brilliant
fighter. I saw
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him beat up a guy on
Enter the Dragon.
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It was a gang banger,
a tong member,
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who started giving him a bad time.
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Pound for pound, I think he's
probably one of the best fighters.
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He had tons of street fights and
with that speed and footwork,
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he'd be a hell of a 135-pounder.
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He was a 130-something-pound
lethal weapon.
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He has all the attributes
that make a good fighter:
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The agility, the balance, the
coordination, the dexterity.
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People say was he the
toughest man that ever lived?
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He was 130, 135 pounds.
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You'd grab him and, you
know, out the window.
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And that isn't to put him down.
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He was an entertainer,
and the best.
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If he wanted to become
an MMA fighter today,
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he would easily have been that
fighter that everyone fears.
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His technique was beautiful,
perfect technique.
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I don't care how good you
are, 135lb wrestler,
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you fight Brock Lesnar,
you're gonna lose.
477
00:26:14,574 --> 00:26:18,797
The bigger guy equally trained is
always gonna beat the littler guy.
478
00:26:18,870 --> 00:26:20,922
But the fact is, it
wasn't about mass.
479
00:26:20,997 --> 00:26:23,761
He would just put it down
no matter how big you were.
480
00:26:23,833 --> 00:26:27,511
But, then again, everybody's
chin is different, you know?
481
00:26:29,923 --> 00:26:33,766
Whether Bruce Lee was a great
fighter or wasn't a great fighter
482
00:26:33,843 --> 00:26:35,786
doesn't make any difference to his
483
00:26:35,787 --> 00:26:37,901
cultural and
historical importance,
484
00:26:37,972 --> 00:26:40,772
because his films
changed the world.
485
00:26:42,769 --> 00:26:44,601
You got the job on
The Green Hornet,
486
00:26:44,602 --> 00:26:46,482
where you played
Kato, the chauffeur,
487
00:26:46,564 --> 00:26:49,198
mainly because you're the
only Chinese-looking guy
488
00:26:49,275 --> 00:26:51,315
who could pronounce
the name of the
489
00:26:51,316 --> 00:26:53,072
leading character, Britt Reid.
490
00:26:53,154 --> 00:26:55,740
I made that as a joke, of course.
491
00:26:56,908 --> 00:26:58,664
And it's a heck of a name, man.
492
00:26:58,743 --> 00:27:02,374
Every time I said it at that
time, I was superconscious.
493
00:27:03,748 --> 00:27:05,504
Mr Reid's residence.
494
00:27:05,583 --> 00:27:08,264
As a kid, we watched
Green Hornet for him.
495
00:27:10,130 --> 00:27:12,598
We could care less
about Green Hornet.
496
00:27:12,674 --> 00:27:15,260
He had a fly car, I'll give
him props for the car,
497
00:27:15,343 --> 00:27:17,265
but Kato was incredible.
498
00:27:17,345 --> 00:27:20,394
Everybody in the neighbourhood
was fighting to be Bruce Lee,
499
00:27:20,473 --> 00:27:21,565
not the Green Hornet.
500
00:27:21,641 --> 00:27:24,524
A lot of stunt guys
didn't know how to react.
501
00:27:24,602 --> 00:27:26,900
You do the old John
Wayne, you throw
502
00:27:26,901 --> 00:27:28,825
a punch and the guy goes down.
503
00:27:28,898 --> 00:27:32,244
With him, it's boom, boom,
boom, boom, lightning fast.
504
00:27:32,318 --> 00:27:35,367
There's a shot of Bruce
and he's doing a kick,
505
00:27:35,447 --> 00:27:39,243
and his thigh, his inner thigh,
is flat against his chest.
506
00:27:39,325 --> 00:27:42,956
And we would just look at that
kick like, "Are you kidding me?"
507
00:27:43,038 --> 00:27:45,541
"Look how incredible
this guy can kick."
508
00:27:48,209 --> 00:27:50,538
I think about what
my dad said about
509
00:27:50,539 --> 00:27:52,551
his first foray into Hollywood.
510
00:27:52,630 --> 00:27:55,929
There were all these seasoned
actors doing their thing,
511
00:27:56,009 --> 00:27:58,773
and he felt like the
only robot in the room.
512
00:27:58,845 --> 00:28:00,613
That's something I
can really relate
513
00:28:00,614 --> 00:28:02,476
to in my life, back
when I was acting,
514
00:28:02,557 --> 00:28:06,982
and I was trying so hard to
impress the right people.
515
00:28:07,062 --> 00:28:09,945
When I did The Green Hornet,
I was not being myself
516
00:28:10,023 --> 00:28:13,736
and I'm trying to accumulate
external security,
517
00:28:13,818 --> 00:28:15,621
external technique,
518
00:28:15,695 --> 00:28:19,836
but never to ask what Bruce
Lee would have done.
519
00:28:19,908 --> 00:28:21,893
The beauty was that
he immediately said,
520
00:28:21,894 --> 00:28:23,538
"I'm not gonna do that any more."
521
00:28:23,620 --> 00:28:26,503
Sort of an awakening
moment for him.
522
00:28:26,581 --> 00:28:28,296
By the way, I did
a really terrible
523
00:28:28,297 --> 00:28:29,630
job in that, I have to say.
524
00:28:29,709 --> 00:28:32,639
Really? You didn't like
yourself? I didn't see it.
525
00:28:39,219 --> 00:28:42,184
He was always trying to
be a holistic person,
526
00:28:42,263 --> 00:28:46,107
the fight, the philosophy,
the better human being.
527
00:28:46,184 --> 00:28:48,512
Martial art has a very, very deep
528
00:28:48,513 --> 00:28:51,404
meaning as far as my
life is concerned.
529
00:28:51,481 --> 00:28:52,988
And he was a very literate guy.
530
00:28:53,066 --> 00:28:54,703
He really did read
531
00:28:54,776 --> 00:28:57,113
and really did study
and really did think.
532
00:28:57,195 --> 00:29:01,371
All type of knowledge ultimately
means self-knowledge.
533
00:29:01,449 --> 00:29:04,210
He had a huge library
of books in his
534
00:29:04,211 --> 00:29:06,753
den from the ceiling to the floor.
535
00:29:06,830 --> 00:29:10,092
Any book I'd pick up, there were
notations about what was good,
536
00:29:10,166 --> 00:29:12,254
what was functional,
what was no good.
537
00:29:12,335 --> 00:29:17,389
As an actor, as a martial
artist, as a human being,
538
00:29:17,465 --> 00:29:21,345
all these I have learned
from martial art.
539
00:29:21,428 --> 00:29:23,450
Most of the writings in the Tao of
540
00:29:23,451 --> 00:29:25,651
Jeet Kune Do are
Western influenced
541
00:29:25,724 --> 00:29:29,401
and they come directly from
fencing and boxing books.
542
00:29:29,477 --> 00:29:31,981
And you can take most of
the passages in that book
543
00:29:32,063 --> 00:29:34,697
and trace them to their
roots, verbatim.
544
00:29:34,774 --> 00:29:36,952
He might have changed
"fighter" from
545
00:29:36,953 --> 00:29:39,246
"fencer," but pretty
much it's intact.
546
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,204
People will say, "Hey, that's
not Bruce's philosophy."
547
00:29:42,282 --> 00:29:44,203
"That was this author
or that author."
548
00:29:44,284 --> 00:29:47,167
That doesn't matter. These
people are missing the point.
549
00:29:47,245 --> 00:29:50,508
Bruce Lee's writings are very fun
to read, but they were notes.
550
00:29:50,582 --> 00:29:53,132
You get these quotes where
he may change one word
551
00:29:53,209 --> 00:29:55,974
and substitute Jeet
Kune Do for Tao.
552
00:29:56,046 --> 00:30:00,886
So therefore it's not pure
naturalness or unnaturalness.
553
00:30:00,967 --> 00:30:06,105
The ideal is unnatural naturalness
or natural unnaturalness.
554
00:30:06,181 --> 00:30:08,601
- Yin yang.
- You're right, man, that's it.
555
00:30:08,683 --> 00:30:12,361
Because of Bruce Lee, now
I read up on Alan Watts.
556
00:30:12,437 --> 00:30:15,949
JD Krishnamurti,
of course Lao Tsu,
557
00:30:16,024 --> 00:30:17,863
Tao Te Ching.
558
00:30:17,942 --> 00:30:20,411
Bruce Lee dissected
those philosophies,
559
00:30:20,487 --> 00:30:23,121
making them straight and
direct and to the point.
560
00:30:23,198 --> 00:30:25,119
That's what real
philosophy's about,
561
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,917
something that you can apply
to day-to-day living.
562
00:30:27,994 --> 00:30:29,382
That's what Bruce Lee did.
563
00:30:29,454 --> 00:30:31,257
This is where he was a genius.
564
00:30:31,331 --> 00:30:33,301
It might sound too philosophical,
565
00:30:33,375 --> 00:30:38,049
but it's unacting acting or
acting unacting if you...
566
00:30:38,129 --> 00:30:40,929
- You've lost me.
- I have, huh?
567
00:30:41,007 --> 00:30:46,357
So Bruce Lee as a philosopher
introduces nothing new
568
00:30:46,429 --> 00:30:50,273
but introduces a radicalism
into martial art.
569
00:30:50,350 --> 00:30:53,447
He's speaking the ideology
of the counterculture.
570
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,276
He speaks the zeitgeist.
571
00:30:55,355 --> 00:30:57,742
So you get an
interest in Buddhism,
572
00:30:57,743 --> 00:30:59,864
in yoga, in all things Eastern.
573
00:30:59,943 --> 00:31:02,577
Bruce Lee shows you
meditation in movement.
574
00:31:06,199 --> 00:31:08,038
You set up a school in Hollywood
575
00:31:08,118 --> 00:31:11,546
for people like James Garner,
Steve McQueen and the others.
576
00:31:11,621 --> 00:31:13,886
Why would they want
to learn Chinese
577
00:31:13,887 --> 00:31:16,212
martial art? Because
of a movie role?
578
00:31:16,292 --> 00:31:17,680
Not really.
579
00:31:17,752 --> 00:31:21,383
Most of them, you see, they are
coming in to ask me to teach them
580
00:31:21,464 --> 00:31:23,849
not so much how to
defend themselves,
581
00:31:23,925 --> 00:31:26,393
they want to learn to
express themselves
582
00:31:26,469 --> 00:31:29,518
through some movement,
be it anger,
583
00:31:29,597 --> 00:31:31,899
be it determination or whatsoever.
584
00:31:31,975 --> 00:31:36,234
He is paying me to show
him in combative form
585
00:31:36,312 --> 00:31:38,863
the art of expressing
the human body.
586
00:31:40,483 --> 00:31:43,413
Our back yard was always
a back yard school,
587
00:31:43,486 --> 00:31:45,741
so for Jim Coburn to come over
588
00:31:45,822 --> 00:31:47,412
or Steve McQueen to come over
589
00:31:47,490 --> 00:31:49,293
was like not that big a deal.
590
00:31:49,367 --> 00:31:52,582
Of all your students, famous,
James Garner, Steve McQueen,
591
00:31:52,662 --> 00:31:55,213
James Coburn, Roman Polanski,
which was the best?
592
00:31:55,290 --> 00:32:01,174
Depending, ok? Now, as a fighter,
Steve McQueen, that son of a gun,
593
00:32:01,254 --> 00:32:03,390
got the toughness in him.
594
00:32:03,465 --> 00:32:05,849
Now, James Coburn is
a peace-loving man.
595
00:32:05,925 --> 00:32:08,429
- I've met him.
- You've met him.
596
00:32:08,511 --> 00:32:10,314
He's really, really nice.
597
00:32:10,388 --> 00:32:13,982
Super mellow and all that,
you know what I mean?
598
00:32:14,059 --> 00:32:16,989
Now, he appreciates the
philosophical part of it,
599
00:32:17,062 --> 00:32:20,075
therefore his understanding
of it is deeper than Steve's.
600
00:32:20,148 --> 00:32:22,698
He often told me, "I would
like to see Steve McQueen
601
00:32:22,776 --> 00:32:24,496
be a little bit more like Coburn
602
00:32:24,569 --> 00:32:27,333
and Coburn to be a little bit
more like Steve McQueen."
603
00:32:27,405 --> 00:32:30,253
Actually, you see, it's
a combination of both.
604
00:32:30,325 --> 00:32:34,999
I mean, here is the natural
instinct and here is control.
605
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,627
You are to combine
the two in harmony.
606
00:32:38,708 --> 00:32:41,508
Not if you have one
to the extreme,
607
00:32:41,586 --> 00:32:43,840
you will be very unscientific.
608
00:32:43,922 --> 00:32:46,093
If you have another
to the extreme,
609
00:32:46,174 --> 00:32:49,602
you become all of a
sudden a mechanical man.
610
00:32:53,390 --> 00:32:57,696
All the big, big names in
tournament fighting came to Bruce
611
00:32:57,769 --> 00:33:00,070
because they wanted to
refine their skills.
612
00:33:00,146 --> 00:33:02,566
Joe Lewis, Bob Wall, Chuck Norris.
613
00:33:02,649 --> 00:33:06,243
Chuck Norris was probably the
greatest kicker I've ever seen.
614
00:33:06,319 --> 00:33:07,903
Chuck Norris is unbelievable.
615
00:33:07,904 --> 00:33:09,997
Bruce didn't want
to teach beginners.
616
00:33:10,073 --> 00:33:12,043
He did have some in
his own schools.
617
00:33:12,117 --> 00:33:14,034
But he took the top
martial artists and
618
00:33:14,035 --> 00:33:15,711
he felt he could make them better.
619
00:33:15,787 --> 00:33:18,752
"One more time. You don't get
it, we move to something else."
620
00:33:18,832 --> 00:33:21,086
"You gonna get it?" That's
how he would teach.
621
00:33:21,167 --> 00:33:23,469
He knew a lot. He
taught me gung fu.
622
00:33:23,545 --> 00:33:26,475
Joe Lewis was highly
influenced by Bruce Lee.
623
00:33:26,548 --> 00:33:28,932
Joe Lewis was a world
champion when he met Bruce,
624
00:33:29,009 --> 00:33:32,223
but it was a lot more of Bruce
being the instructor to Joe.
625
00:33:32,303 --> 00:33:36,017
I don't think he had boxing
hands until he met Bruce Lee,
626
00:33:36,099 --> 00:33:37,938
but his side kick was phenomenal.
627
00:33:38,018 --> 00:33:40,070
Joe would throw 1,000
side kicks a day.
628
00:33:40,145 --> 00:33:42,285
Listen, Joe Lewis,
in today's world,
629
00:33:42,286 --> 00:33:44,368
he would have learned
all that shit
630
00:33:44,441 --> 00:33:48,202
and been just as bad as
he was back in the day.
631
00:33:48,278 --> 00:33:51,790
Bruce didn't think point karate,
point martial arts competition,
632
00:33:51,865 --> 00:33:54,629
was valuable at all, and I
totally disagreed with him.
633
00:33:54,701 --> 00:33:57,002
Bruce watched it but
didn't believe in it.
634
00:33:57,078 --> 00:33:59,582
He always advocated
full-contact sparring.
635
00:33:59,664 --> 00:34:01,385
Bruce Lee looked
at all of that and
636
00:34:01,386 --> 00:34:03,010
said, "This is not martial arts."
637
00:34:03,084 --> 00:34:05,552
"This is nonsense. Let's
get rid of these rules."
638
00:34:05,628 --> 00:34:08,594
I respect that he didn't feel
like he wanted to compete
639
00:34:08,673 --> 00:34:10,263
because it wasn't real combat.
640
00:34:10,342 --> 00:34:14,103
He says you're not fighting for
yourself or expressing yourself.
641
00:34:14,179 --> 00:34:17,144
You're fighting for the judges,
the referee, the rules.
642
00:34:17,223 --> 00:34:19,307
What's the reality
of combat? There's
643
00:34:19,308 --> 00:34:21,281
someone who wants
to beat you down.
644
00:34:21,353 --> 00:34:24,864
He said to learn to swim,
you cannot swim on land.
645
00:34:24,939 --> 00:34:26,280
You gotta get in the water.
646
00:34:26,358 --> 00:34:28,327
To learn to fight,
you gotta fight.
647
00:34:29,235 --> 00:34:30,956
Can you break five
or six pieces of
648
00:34:30,957 --> 00:34:32,581
wood with your hand or your foot?
649
00:34:32,655 --> 00:34:35,539
Boards don't hit back.
650
00:34:35,617 --> 00:34:37,836
I'll probably break
my hand and foot.
651
00:34:37,911 --> 00:34:40,841
He had high regard for those
martial artists of the day
652
00:34:40,914 --> 00:34:42,551
that were winning tournaments.
653
00:34:42,624 --> 00:34:45,704
He just had a different
philosophy about
654
00:34:45,705 --> 00:34:48,259
martial arts and actual fighting.
655
00:34:51,716 --> 00:34:54,480
I do not believe in
styles any more.
656
00:34:54,552 --> 00:34:58,479
I mean, I do not believe
that there is such thing
657
00:34:58,556 --> 00:35:01,321
as like a Chinese way of fighting
658
00:35:01,393 --> 00:35:05,450
or the Japanese way of fighting
or whatever way of fighting.
659
00:35:05,522 --> 00:35:07,741
Because if you don't have styles,
660
00:35:07,816 --> 00:35:11,778
if you just say, "Well, here I
am, you know, as a human being,
661
00:35:11,861 --> 00:35:16,334
how can I express myself
totally and completely?"
662
00:35:16,408 --> 00:35:19,673
Now, that way, you
won't create a style,
663
00:35:19,674 --> 00:35:22,541
because style is a
crystallisation.
664
00:35:22,622 --> 00:35:27,012
I mean, that way it's a
process of continuing growth.
665
00:35:27,085 --> 00:35:29,588
He called his institute
Jun Fan Gung Fu.
666
00:35:29,671 --> 00:35:31,571
We were riding in a car and he
667
00:35:31,572 --> 00:35:33,977
mentioned what he
enjoyed in fencing
668
00:35:34,050 --> 00:35:35,521
was the stop hit.
669
00:35:37,053 --> 00:35:40,517
Bruce didn't have any passive
blocks. His blocks were a strike.
670
00:35:40,598 --> 00:35:43,185
Bruce took the stances
from the stances
671
00:35:43,187 --> 00:35:45,320
that you see in Western fencing.
672
00:35:46,688 --> 00:35:50,484
Instead of just block and then
hit, it's done simultaneously.
673
00:35:51,317 --> 00:35:54,497
He says we wanna intercept his
physical motion and his thought.
674
00:35:54,571 --> 00:35:58,248
It's almost like fencing. You see
this capture? That's the capture.
675
00:36:00,118 --> 00:36:02,832
And that's why he
said, "I'm gonna call
676
00:36:02,833 --> 00:36:05,207
my new method the intercepting way
677
00:36:05,290 --> 00:36:07,295
or the intercepting fist."
678
00:36:07,375 --> 00:36:09,879
Come on, touch me.
Any way you can.
679
00:36:11,671 --> 00:36:13,557
To reach me, you must move to me.
680
00:36:13,631 --> 00:36:16,764
Your attack offers me an
opportunity to intercept you.
681
00:36:16,843 --> 00:36:18,848
And they said, "What
do you call that?"
682
00:36:18,928 --> 00:36:21,609
He says, "We call
that Jeet Kune Do."
683
00:36:21,681 --> 00:36:23,769
In Cantonese, Jeet Kune Do.
684
00:36:23,850 --> 00:36:27,812
Then it was Dan who says,
"Acronym would be JKD."
685
00:36:27,896 --> 00:36:29,699
And Bruce Lee said, "I like that."
686
00:36:29,773 --> 00:36:32,013
The way of the intercepting fist.
687
00:36:32,014 --> 00:36:33,320
Intercepting fist?
688
00:36:33,401 --> 00:36:37,079
It sounds Chinese, but it's very
much an American martial art.
689
00:36:37,155 --> 00:36:38,578
Jeet Kune Do
690
00:36:38,656 --> 00:36:41,789
was how can I most efficiently
691
00:36:41,868 --> 00:36:45,214
directly end a moment of combat?
692
00:36:52,420 --> 00:36:54,924
The philosophy Bruce Lee had was:
693
00:36:55,006 --> 00:36:58,185
The simpler the better, the most
effective, the direct line.
694
00:36:58,259 --> 00:37:00,763
- The other stuff was Hollywood.
- It can be taught.
695
00:37:00,775 --> 00:37:01,818
Do you understand?
696
00:37:01,819 --> 00:37:03,811
But it cannot really
be standardised.
697
00:37:04,808 --> 00:37:07,442
And that's not to say that
it can't be passed on.
698
00:37:07,519 --> 00:37:09,690
But it was very personal to him.
699
00:37:09,771 --> 00:37:12,736
All the wannabes,
all the imposters
700
00:37:12,816 --> 00:37:15,615
who put up Jeet Kune Do signs
on their school building,
701
00:37:15,694 --> 00:37:18,541
and they have no idea
what Jeet Kune Do is.
702
00:37:18,613 --> 00:37:19,954
They think it's a style.
703
00:37:20,031 --> 00:37:22,045
I don't know if he'd
be dojo-busting in
704
00:37:22,046 --> 00:37:23,958
his days, but that
would upset Bruce.
705
00:37:24,035 --> 00:37:26,123
(Bruce Lee)
706
00:37:32,210 --> 00:37:34,351
Bruce Lee has the
big middle finger
707
00:37:34,352 --> 00:37:36,552
raised toward any
form of authority.
708
00:37:36,631 --> 00:37:39,135
All kinds of dogmas, all
kinds of traditions.
709
00:37:39,217 --> 00:37:41,436
He's saying a big "screw
you" to all of them.
710
00:37:41,511 --> 00:37:43,340
This guy was preaching back in the
711
00:37:43,341 --> 00:37:45,438
'60s you shouldn't
stay to one style.
712
00:37:45,515 --> 00:37:48,149
No one style is the best.
Have a piece of everything.
713
00:37:48,226 --> 00:37:51,857
In 1968 he says, "JKD in
'69 will be different."
714
00:37:51,938 --> 00:37:54,702
I said, "This is really good
stuff we're doing now."
715
00:37:54,774 --> 00:37:57,305
He says, "JKD in '69
will be different.
716
00:37:57,306 --> 00:37:59,330
JKD in 1970 will be different."
717
00:37:59,404 --> 00:38:02,868
Martial arts has evolved
more in the last ten years
718
00:38:02,949 --> 00:38:05,453
than it has in the
last 10,000 years,
719
00:38:05,535 --> 00:38:08,501
because all the stuff that
Bruce Lee talked about
720
00:38:08,580 --> 00:38:10,437
and his philosophies
and things that
721
00:38:10,438 --> 00:38:12,044
he believed were finally proven
722
00:38:12,125 --> 00:38:16,005
and now this new martial art was
able to start to grow and evolve.
723
00:38:16,588 --> 00:38:20,100
Our main event, for the
light heavyweight title,
724
00:38:20,175 --> 00:38:21,516
here we go.
725
00:38:21,593 --> 00:38:23,860
You talk about Chinese
boxing. How does
726
00:38:23,861 --> 00:38:26,184
it differ from, say,
our kind of boxing?
727
00:38:26,264 --> 00:38:28,649
Well, first we use the feet.
728
00:38:31,436 --> 00:38:33,156
Second to none.
729
00:38:33,229 --> 00:38:34,902
And then we use the elbow.
730
00:38:36,733 --> 00:38:39,236
Oh. Beautiful elbow.
731
00:38:39,319 --> 00:38:42,166
- Do you use the thumb too?
- You name it, man, we use it.
732
00:38:42,238 --> 00:38:44,078
- You use it all.
- You have to.
733
00:38:44,157 --> 00:38:47,835
Because that is the
expression of the human body.
734
00:38:47,911 --> 00:38:51,292
I mean, the... everything,
I mean, not just the hand.
735
00:38:54,542 --> 00:38:56,631
The crazy thing about
martial arts is
736
00:38:56,632 --> 00:38:58,884
people debate and fight
over this stuff.
737
00:38:58,963 --> 00:39:00,138
There's no debate.
738
00:39:00,215 --> 00:39:03,679
Bruce Lee is definitely the
father of mixed martial arts.
739
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:05,765
I do think there's a
correlation there,
740
00:39:05,845 --> 00:39:08,563
but it's not that Jeet Kune
Do is the same thing as MMA.
741
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,854
If Dana White says Bruce Lee is
the father of mixed martial arts,
742
00:39:11,935 --> 00:39:14,154
I would say he's one
of the earliest ones,
743
00:39:14,229 --> 00:39:16,863
but Gene LeBell is the father
of mixed martial arts.
744
00:39:16,940 --> 00:39:20,617
In 1963 you'll see Gene defeating
Milo Savage, a professional boxer.
745
00:39:20,694 --> 00:39:23,411
Well, Bruce wasn't into
mixed martial arts in 1963.
746
00:39:23,488 --> 00:39:27,249
As I was choking him, he grabbed
my hand and started to bite,
747
00:39:27,325 --> 00:39:29,585
and I said, "Milo,
you bite my hand,
748
00:39:29,586 --> 00:39:31,418
I'm gonna take your eye out."
749
00:39:31,496 --> 00:39:34,461
He opened his mouth, I pulled
my hand out and I choked him.
750
00:39:34,541 --> 00:39:37,887
And he was out, like,
for 22 minutes.
751
00:39:37,961 --> 00:39:40,511
Gene LeBell taught Bruce
Lee grappling moves.
752
00:39:40,588 --> 00:39:44,432
I'd throw him and flip him
and he'd land on his feet.
753
00:39:44,509 --> 00:39:47,606
Then he'd spin, do a
crescent kick on me
754
00:39:47,679 --> 00:39:49,933
or do a Judo throw.
755
00:39:50,015 --> 00:39:52,945
And he was a magnificent athlete.
756
00:39:53,018 --> 00:39:54,895
If you're gonna say
father of mixed
757
00:39:54,897 --> 00:39:56,565
martial... it's gotta be Bruce.
758
00:39:56,646 --> 00:39:58,117
He's before anyone else.
759
00:39:58,189 --> 00:40:00,954
He's the first one who decided
to put it all together.
760
00:40:01,026 --> 00:40:02,781
He had the little shorts on, too.
761
00:40:02,861 --> 00:40:05,138
That's as close as
he could get to what
762
00:40:05,140 --> 00:40:07,416
the UFC and the MMA
was 25 years later.
763
00:40:07,490 --> 00:40:10,753
In 1947, Kajukenbo was the first
764
00:40:10,827 --> 00:40:13,924
to put all these different
martial arts in one title:
765
00:40:13,997 --> 00:40:17,343
Karate, Judo, Kenpo, Boxing.
766
00:40:17,417 --> 00:40:20,430
Like Bruce Lee, they put all
these practical things together
767
00:40:20,503 --> 00:40:22,639
but Kajukenbo had it first.
768
00:40:22,714 --> 00:40:24,221
I agree with Dana White.
769
00:40:24,299 --> 00:40:26,600
He is one of the pioneers
of mixed martial art.
770
00:40:26,676 --> 00:40:30,058
The reality is, everybody has
been a part of this evolution,
771
00:40:30,138 --> 00:40:33,353
from Benny "the Jet" Urquidez
to Joe Lewis to all these guys,
772
00:40:33,433 --> 00:40:36,731
to Joe Lewis the boxer, too, and
the list goes on and on and on.
773
00:40:39,397 --> 00:40:42,363
When the UFC came in, they
weren't talking about Bruce Lee.
774
00:40:42,442 --> 00:40:45,035
They were talking
about Royce Gracie.
775
00:40:45,036 --> 00:40:46,079
Royce Gracie.
776
00:40:46,821 --> 00:40:49,235
The Gracies were a
piece of that too, a
777
00:40:49,236 --> 00:40:51,710
piece of the history
of not only the UFC
778
00:40:51,785 --> 00:40:54,086
but of the martial arts evolving.
779
00:40:54,162 --> 00:40:57,626
For a while they owned
those competitions.
780
00:40:59,292 --> 00:41:01,013
There's the tag.
781
00:41:01,086 --> 00:41:03,095
What the Gracies did
was they took the
782
00:41:03,096 --> 00:41:04,847
ground game, the submission game,
783
00:41:04,923 --> 00:41:07,853
and really refined it
to a whole other level.
784
00:41:07,926 --> 00:41:10,180
Bruce would have loved
Brazilian Jiu-jitsu.
785
00:41:10,261 --> 00:41:12,847
I think if he saw the Gracies,
he would have studied.
786
00:41:12,931 --> 00:41:16,941
He really embraced wrestling
and he really embraced Judo.
787
00:41:17,018 --> 00:41:19,486
The difference between the
Gracies and Bruce Lee
788
00:41:19,562 --> 00:41:22,362
is Bruce Lee was never stuck
and married to one thing.
789
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:25,489
I think once everybody
started to learn Jiu-jitsu
790
00:41:25,568 --> 00:41:29,579
and then people started to
do more stand-up in there...
791
00:41:30,740 --> 00:41:33,041
My goodness.
792
00:41:33,118 --> 00:41:35,917
Then I think they started
talking about Bruce Lee.
793
00:41:35,995 --> 00:41:39,342
Oh, man. That is the Karate Kid.
794
00:41:39,416 --> 00:41:41,717
And when you're talking
about combat...
795
00:41:41,793 --> 00:41:43,665
Well, I mean, if
it is a sport, now
796
00:41:43,666 --> 00:41:45,589
you're talking about
something else.
797
00:41:45,672 --> 00:41:47,558
You have regulations.
You have rules.
798
00:41:47,632 --> 00:41:50,313
But when you're talking
about fighting as it is...
799
00:41:50,385 --> 00:41:51,856
- No rules?
- With no rules.
800
00:41:51,928 --> 00:41:52,972
Real fighting.
801
00:41:53,054 --> 00:41:56,352
Well, then, baby, you'd better
train every part of your body.
802
00:41:57,267 --> 00:42:00,565
Mixed martial art in the cage
is for a contest. It's a sport.
803
00:42:00,645 --> 00:42:02,365
I don't know that I would call him
804
00:42:02,366 --> 00:42:04,489
exactly the father of
mixed martial arts
805
00:42:04,566 --> 00:42:07,864
because, again, it is still
sport, there are still rules.
806
00:42:07,944 --> 00:42:10,168
Bruce Lee was strictly
for the street,
807
00:42:10,169 --> 00:42:12,334
taking guys out, not
for competition.
808
00:42:12,407 --> 00:42:14,465
When they had these
Vale Tudo fights in
809
00:42:14,466 --> 00:42:16,369
Brazil, there were
barely any rules.
810
00:42:16,453 --> 00:42:18,294
You could head-butt,
you could kick
811
00:42:18,295 --> 00:42:20,083
in the groin, all kinds of things.
812
00:42:20,165 --> 00:42:23,463
Bruce's favourite weapon in the
street fight was the finger jab.
813
00:42:23,543 --> 00:42:26,889
This hand would block the vision,
so when he came up, like that.
814
00:42:26,963 --> 00:42:28,487
If you do that, it could be very
815
00:42:28,488 --> 00:42:30,392
serious damage to his
vision for life.
816
00:42:30,467 --> 00:42:33,848
Mixed martial art is the
purest form of combat
817
00:42:33,928 --> 00:42:37,392
that you can possibly
have in civilisation.
818
00:42:39,559 --> 00:42:42,407
Oh. With a kick.
819
00:42:42,479 --> 00:42:46,655
I just always felt like it
was such a real raw sport
820
00:42:46,733 --> 00:42:49,367
and that it was gonna
overtake boxing one day.
821
00:42:49,444 --> 00:42:50,951
It seems like that day's here.
822
00:42:51,029 --> 00:42:52,121
Let's fight.
823
00:42:52,197 --> 00:42:54,817
It's the most
hardcore real form of
824
00:42:54,818 --> 00:42:57,583
competition and
honesty I could find,
825
00:42:57,660 --> 00:42:59,463
and that's the kind
of thing I crave.
826
00:42:59,537 --> 00:43:02,717
Carano, a big-time puncher.
827
00:43:02,791 --> 00:43:05,425
There is fear. Sometimes you
don't wanna go in there.
828
00:43:05,502 --> 00:43:07,423
It just teaches you
to face the music,
829
00:43:07,504 --> 00:43:09,972
that fear's something that
needs to be devoured.
830
00:43:10,048 --> 00:43:13,227
My biggest fear is not
that I'm gonna get hurt.
831
00:43:13,301 --> 00:43:16,018
Carano getting pounded.
832
00:43:16,096 --> 00:43:17,912
My biggest fear is
that I'm not going
833
00:43:17,913 --> 00:43:19,442
to be able to make it authentic
834
00:43:19,516 --> 00:43:21,319
and honestly express myself.
835
00:43:21,393 --> 00:43:23,587
You're not trying to
express yourself in
836
00:43:23,589 --> 00:43:25,782
real fighting. You're
trying to survive.
837
00:43:25,855 --> 00:43:30,612
And you ask yourself how can
you honestly express yourself
838
00:43:30,694 --> 00:43:31,951
at that moment?
839
00:43:32,028 --> 00:43:35,207
If I want to punch, I'm gonna do
it, man, and I'm gonna do it.
840
00:43:35,281 --> 00:43:39,125
Not you want to punch because
you're trying to avoid getting hit
841
00:43:39,202 --> 00:43:42,334
but to really be in with
it and express yourself.
842
00:43:42,414 --> 00:43:45,925
So that is the type of thing you
have to train yourself into it,
843
00:43:46,001 --> 00:43:49,299
to become one with the...
844
00:43:49,379 --> 00:43:50,802
This might sound different.
845
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,977
I feel as if I'm helping people
as I'm punching them in the face.
846
00:43:54,050 --> 00:43:57,016
- Shogun's badly hurt.
- Jon Jones.
847
00:43:57,095 --> 00:44:00,274
I'm beating weakness out of them,
making them a better person.
848
00:44:00,348 --> 00:44:02,899
In my opinion it's the
highest art of expression
849
00:44:02,976 --> 00:44:05,526
and that's what honestly
expressing yourself is.
850
00:44:05,603 --> 00:44:07,157
To the body.
851
00:44:07,230 --> 00:44:09,401
And it is all over.
852
00:44:09,482 --> 00:44:12,116
Jon Jones, look, guys like this,
853
00:44:12,193 --> 00:44:15,824
it's important for them to
have this kind of confidence.
854
00:44:15,905 --> 00:44:19,417
I don't look at it as if I'm
hurting my opponent, my enemy.
855
00:44:19,492 --> 00:44:22,589
It's like we're brothers
painting this picture together.
856
00:44:22,662 --> 00:44:26,838
It helps them, until,
of course, it doesn't,
857
00:44:26,916 --> 00:44:30,547
which, as we know
historically, always happens,
858
00:44:30,628 --> 00:44:34,306
where they run into that guy
where, "Oh, this isn't fun."
859
00:44:34,382 --> 00:44:37,728
"This is reality. You
can get hurt in there."
860
00:44:43,266 --> 00:44:45,485
What happens is after
several years of that,
861
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:48,408
it takes its effect, you know?
862
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:50,567
Like when I had to go
take my neurological
863
00:44:50,648 --> 00:44:51,941
and my hands were going,
864
00:44:52,025 --> 00:44:56,082
and I couldn't remember where I
parked my car in the morning.
865
00:44:56,154 --> 00:44:58,300
It should be regulated.
There should
866
00:44:58,301 --> 00:45:00,330
be judges and medical staff there.
867
00:45:00,408 --> 00:45:02,793
You don't wanna see
people get injured.
868
00:45:02,869 --> 00:45:06,796
I think my father, from a
pure martial arts interest
869
00:45:06,873 --> 00:45:10,586
and combat interest standpoint,
would have loved to watch the UFC.
870
00:45:10,669 --> 00:45:12,923
I believe that Bruce Lee
was a huge fight fan.
871
00:45:13,004 --> 00:45:14,902
He'd have been jumping
out of his seat,
872
00:45:14,903 --> 00:45:16,468
getting as excited as any of us.
873
00:45:16,549 --> 00:45:18,211
I think he'd have been proud to be
874
00:45:18,212 --> 00:45:20,262
called the father of
mixed martial arts.
875
00:45:20,345 --> 00:45:23,477
Ok, there's people out
there, they got it.
876
00:45:24,391 --> 00:45:28,816
They say that Bruce Lee was the
father of mixed martial arts.
877
00:45:28,895 --> 00:45:30,817
That bothers me.
878
00:45:30,897 --> 00:45:32,949
If he's the father of
mixed martial arts,
879
00:45:33,024 --> 00:45:35,824
I'm the grandfather of
mixed martial arts,
880
00:45:35,902 --> 00:45:40,043
And if you don't believe
me, I'll choke you,
881
00:45:40,115 --> 00:45:43,247
cos you got a nice
neck for choking.
882
00:45:43,326 --> 00:45:45,746
When you get into this
whole martial arts thing
883
00:45:45,829 --> 00:45:49,257
and you start talking about Bruce
Lee, a lot of people get offended.
884
00:45:49,332 --> 00:45:52,464
People get pissed off and
bombed out and everything else.
885
00:45:52,544 --> 00:45:57,135
But Bruce Lee is 100 percent the
father of mixed martial arts.
886
00:46:03,763 --> 00:46:09,446
He was so directed and so concrete
about his thoughts and his beliefs
887
00:46:09,519 --> 00:46:12,651
that he actually went out
and had his friend George
888
00:46:12,731 --> 00:46:15,448
make a little miniature tombstone.
889
00:46:15,525 --> 00:46:19,156
It's really heavy and it says,
"In memory of a once fluid man
890
00:46:19,237 --> 00:46:21,574
crammed and distorted
by the classical mess."
891
00:46:21,656 --> 00:46:24,773
The classical mess
meant that all these
892
00:46:24,774 --> 00:46:27,422
traditions were a classical mess.
893
00:46:27,495 --> 00:46:30,841
"Right punch comes. I'll move
out to a 30-degree angle."
894
00:46:30,915 --> 00:46:33,799
"Then I'll bend my..."
It's too complicated.
895
00:46:33,877 --> 00:46:35,514
It's not gonna work in real life.
896
00:46:35,587 --> 00:46:38,268
So here was this
tombstone he created
897
00:46:38,340 --> 00:46:42,136
to essentially remind himself
to go back to fluidity.
898
00:46:43,887 --> 00:46:46,770
Bruce had a vast library
of motivational books
899
00:46:46,848 --> 00:46:49,529
and wrote motivational
thoughts every day
900
00:46:49,601 --> 00:46:52,318
and had a little diary
that he kept every day.
901
00:46:52,395 --> 00:46:55,989
Always they would say you've got
to have the plan and work the plan
902
00:46:56,066 --> 00:46:58,699
and write down your
goals, which he did.
903
00:46:58,777 --> 00:47:02,703
You know, his famous paper he
wrote, My Definite Chief Aim.
904
00:47:37,107 --> 00:47:40,405
1969 was a very
difficult time for him.
905
00:47:40,485 --> 00:47:43,035
A lot of things were
going through his life.
906
00:47:43,113 --> 00:47:46,078
As I recall, money was short.
907
00:47:46,157 --> 00:47:48,477
Bruce was very
traditionalist and very
908
00:47:48,478 --> 00:47:50,499
ashamed that I had to go to work.
909
00:47:50,578 --> 00:47:53,711
This was not in his
way of thinking.
910
00:47:53,790 --> 00:47:58,013
He contemplated maybe going back
to Hong Kong at that time period.
911
00:47:58,086 --> 00:48:02,725
And then in the summer of '69
these horrific murders happened.
912
00:48:03,967 --> 00:48:06,980
We have a weird homicide.
913
00:48:07,053 --> 00:48:09,553
When the Manson murders happened,
914
00:48:09,554 --> 00:48:12,356
it was horrible,
it was horrifying.
915
00:48:12,434 --> 00:48:15,151
The scene described
by one investigator
916
00:48:15,228 --> 00:48:17,814
as reminiscent of a
weird religious rite.
917
00:48:17,897 --> 00:48:21,741
Bruce was a very good friend of
Jay Sebring and of Sharon Tate.
918
00:48:21,818 --> 00:48:25,496
Five persons, including actress
Sharon Tate, were found dead
919
00:48:25,572 --> 00:48:27,213
at the home of Miss Tate and her
920
00:48:27,215 --> 00:48:29,368
husband, screen director
Roman Polanski.
921
00:48:29,451 --> 00:48:32,914
My father worked with Sharon Tate
the summer before the murders
922
00:48:32,996 --> 00:48:34,633
on the film The Wrecking Crew.
923
00:48:34,706 --> 00:48:37,671
Miss Tate was eight
months pregnant.
924
00:48:37,751 --> 00:48:39,864
Among the other victims
were Hollywood
925
00:48:39,865 --> 00:48:41,381
hair stylist Jay Sebring...
926
00:48:41,463 --> 00:48:44,809
Jay Sebring introduced my
father to William Dozier,
927
00:48:44,883 --> 00:48:48,940
who was the producer of Batman and
also produced The Green Hornet.
928
00:48:49,012 --> 00:48:51,558
The murders were
then followed up the
929
00:48:51,559 --> 00:48:53,769
very next night by more murders.
930
00:48:53,850 --> 00:48:59,319
It was just a nightmare and
very scary for Bruce, too,
931
00:48:59,397 --> 00:49:02,092
because Bruce's
whole mentality was
932
00:49:02,093 --> 00:49:04,487
protection, to take care of us.
933
00:49:04,569 --> 00:49:07,120
One officer summed up the murders:
934
00:49:07,197 --> 00:49:11,918
"In all my years I have never
seen anything like this before."
935
00:49:16,998 --> 00:49:20,629
Those were tough times, going out
of the '60s and into the '70s.
936
00:49:20,710 --> 00:49:24,970
And every day, I
practise martial arts.
937
00:49:25,048 --> 00:49:28,013
We were really struggling
financially to make it,
938
00:49:28,093 --> 00:49:30,344
and we had bought our
first house which
939
00:49:30,345 --> 00:49:32,482
we ended up not being
able to afford.
940
00:49:32,555 --> 00:49:35,236
And right in the middle
of that he hurt his back.
941
00:49:35,308 --> 00:49:37,155
He was doing a good
morning stretch
942
00:49:37,156 --> 00:49:39,105
exercise which can
be very dangerous.
943
00:49:39,187 --> 00:49:41,322
Chiropractors like that exercise.
944
00:49:41,398 --> 00:49:42,951
- You see?
- Watch out.
945
00:49:43,024 --> 00:49:46,239
For whatever reason, he did not
warm up and just... that was it.
946
00:49:46,319 --> 00:49:48,158
He was in excruciating pain.
947
00:49:48,238 --> 00:49:50,229
I said, "Where's
Bruce?" They never
948
00:49:50,230 --> 00:49:51,999
wanted to say he hurt his back,
949
00:49:52,075 --> 00:49:54,756
because I knew he was working
on the screen scripts.
950
00:49:54,828 --> 00:49:58,375
They told him that he was
never going to walk properly,
951
00:49:58,456 --> 00:50:01,256
and forget doing any gung fu.
952
00:50:01,334 --> 00:50:05,131
On the back of his business card
he wrote the words "Walk on".
953
00:50:05,213 --> 00:50:08,206
He used to put the
card on his bathroom
954
00:50:08,207 --> 00:50:10,600
mirror and his doors and walls,
955
00:50:10,677 --> 00:50:13,690
so everywhere he went in his
room, he'd see "Walk on".
956
00:50:13,763 --> 00:50:16,231
So he'd get down and start
doing his stretching.
957
00:50:16,307 --> 00:50:20,400
Bruce brought himself back
through rigorous rehabilitation.
958
00:50:20,478 --> 00:50:21,819
I had a similar expression
959
00:50:21,896 --> 00:50:23,878
when I would drive
down to Torrance
960
00:50:23,879 --> 00:50:25,859
to do my Jiu-jitsu
class every week.
961
00:50:25,942 --> 00:50:30,248
His expression was "Walk on" and
mine was "Walk in the front door".
962
00:50:30,321 --> 00:50:32,872
I had every excuse on the
way down to go back.
963
00:50:32,949 --> 00:50:36,046
My stomach hurts. My arm
hurts. My knee's aching.
964
00:50:36,119 --> 00:50:38,373
And I used to say,
"Walk in the front
965
00:50:38,374 --> 00:50:40,212
door. Walk in the front door."
966
00:50:40,290 --> 00:50:42,573
The end result of
walking in that front
967
00:50:42,574 --> 00:50:44,798
door 16 years was I
got my black belt,
968
00:50:44,878 --> 00:50:48,176
which I consider the greatest
achievement of my life,
969
00:50:48,256 --> 00:50:50,557
apart from my children.
970
00:50:50,633 --> 00:50:53,682
The back problem was a constant
problem in his filming
971
00:50:53,762 --> 00:50:55,648
from day one after the injury.
972
00:50:55,722 --> 00:50:57,857
Something he had to
be careful about
973
00:50:57,932 --> 00:51:02,405
and nurse each day when
he finished working.
974
00:51:02,479 --> 00:51:04,590
And you push it out,
but all the time
975
00:51:04,591 --> 00:51:06,702
you are keeping the
continuity going.
976
00:51:06,775 --> 00:51:09,871
Bending, stretching.
977
00:51:09,944 --> 00:51:12,163
He worked extremely hard.
978
00:51:12,238 --> 00:51:16,498
Most of us, I think, don't know
what it is to work that hard.
979
00:51:19,496 --> 00:51:21,667
My father went to India
980
00:51:21,748 --> 00:51:24,963
with James Coburn and the
writer Stirling Silliphant.
981
00:51:25,043 --> 00:51:28,222
They were scouting locations
for a film, The Silent Flute,
982
00:51:28,296 --> 00:51:30,515
that my father had written
the treatment for
983
00:51:30,590 --> 00:51:33,853
that he was really hoping
would come together,
984
00:51:33,927 --> 00:51:35,536
because he was struggling at that
985
00:51:35,537 --> 00:51:37,439
point in time to get
a project going.
986
00:51:37,514 --> 00:51:39,847
The Silent Flute
could have blasted
987
00:51:39,848 --> 00:51:41,856
Bruce into Hollywood big time.
988
00:51:41,935 --> 00:51:45,233
This was going to be the
big breakthrough project.
989
00:51:45,313 --> 00:51:46,943
This was going to put money in the
990
00:51:46,944 --> 00:51:48,860
bank to pay the
mortgage and all that.
991
00:51:48,942 --> 00:51:52,121
But they couldn't find the
locations that they wanted.
992
00:51:52,195 --> 00:51:55,659
Stirling and Jim came
back to Warner Bros
993
00:51:55,740 --> 00:51:59,751
and said, "This is just not what
we're looking for in location."
994
00:51:59,828 --> 00:52:01,833
And then it all
came crashing down.
995
00:52:05,333 --> 00:52:07,634
That was such a
disappointment to Bruce
996
00:52:07,711 --> 00:52:11,590
because we were banking
on it, literally.
997
00:52:11,673 --> 00:52:13,643
(Bruce Lee)
998
00:52:29,357 --> 00:52:32,240
Bruce took a trip back to
Hong Kong to help his mum
999
00:52:32,318 --> 00:52:34,537
with immigration into
the United States.
1000
00:52:34,612 --> 00:52:37,578
He took Brandon took with him.
Brandon was five years old.
1001
00:52:37,657 --> 00:52:41,003
He wasn't working, had no
money. He dropped everything.
1002
00:52:41,077 --> 00:52:43,379
Closed his schools. "I'm
going to Hong Kong."
1003
00:52:43,455 --> 00:52:47,251
The Green Hornet was at that
time showing on TV in Hong Kong,
1004
00:52:47,334 --> 00:52:49,635
only the people were
calling it The Kato Show.
1005
00:52:49,711 --> 00:52:51,549
They didn't care
about Van Williams.
1006
00:52:51,550 --> 00:52:53,139
He was the biggest thing there.
1007
00:52:53,214 --> 00:52:57,307
He was greeted there
as a returning star.
1008
00:52:57,385 --> 00:52:59,280
That was the first
time he thought,
1009
00:52:59,281 --> 00:53:01,016
"Wow. People recognise me here."
1010
00:53:01,097 --> 00:53:02,569
"They remember me."
1011
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:05,321
He did a couple of interviews
on television shows.
1012
00:53:05,393 --> 00:53:08,407
Oh, yeah, that kid. Now he's
a big star in Hollywood.
1013
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:12,326
So that was the first inkling
1014
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:16,161
that maybe there would be a
future there in Hong Kong.
1015
00:53:16,237 --> 00:53:18,788
But he wasn't quite ready
to follow up on that.
1016
00:53:21,493 --> 00:53:25,633
Bruce Lee had a bit part,
or a supporting role,
1017
00:53:25,705 --> 00:53:27,793
in the Longstreet series.
1018
00:53:27,874 --> 00:53:31,172
And this had an enormous effect
on the audience. What was it?
1019
00:53:31,252 --> 00:53:35,215
I think the successful
ingredient in it
1020
00:53:35,298 --> 00:53:38,892
was because I was being Bruce Lee.
1021
00:53:38,968 --> 00:53:40,974
- Yourself?
- Myself, right.
1022
00:53:41,054 --> 00:53:44,482
And did that part, just
expressed myself, like I say,
1023
00:53:44,557 --> 00:53:46,728
honestly expressed
myself at that time.
1024
00:53:46,810 --> 00:53:50,357
He was very proud of Longstreet,
and it was very much from him
1025
00:53:50,438 --> 00:53:52,360
and his art and his thoughts.
1026
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:55,952
Can you remember the lines
by Stirling Silliphant to...
1027
00:53:56,027 --> 00:53:57,913
- He's one of my students.
- Was he, too?
1028
00:53:57,987 --> 00:53:59,074
Yes.
1029
00:53:59,075 --> 00:54:01,499
You've had everybody
as your student.
1030
00:54:01,574 --> 00:54:03,995
But some lines there
expressed your philosophy.
1031
00:54:04,077 --> 00:54:05,807
I don't know if you remember them.
1032
00:54:05,808 --> 00:54:06,879
I remember.
1033
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:09,337
I said... This is what it is, ok?
1034
00:54:09,416 --> 00:54:12,215
If you try to remember,
you will lose.
1035
00:54:12,293 --> 00:54:15,141
I said empty your mind.
1036
00:54:15,213 --> 00:54:17,847
Be formless, shapeless.
1037
00:54:17,924 --> 00:54:19,645
Like water.
1038
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:22,439
Now, you put water into a cup,
1039
00:54:22,512 --> 00:54:24,731
it becomes the cup.
1040
00:54:24,806 --> 00:54:27,143
Put water into a bottle,
it becomes the bottle.
1041
00:54:27,225 --> 00:54:30,073
You put it in a teapot,
it becomes the teapot.
1042
00:54:30,145 --> 00:54:35,448
Now, water can flow or
creep or drip or crash.
1043
00:54:35,525 --> 00:54:37,826
Be water, my friend.
1044
00:54:37,902 --> 00:54:40,239
- Like that. You see?
- I see. I get the idea.
1045
00:54:40,321 --> 00:54:43,002
- A-ha.
- I get the power behind it.
1046
00:54:43,074 --> 00:54:45,792
The thing that I got off
him the most is the trust,
1047
00:54:45,869 --> 00:54:50,128
being able to trust your
abilities in each situation.
1048
00:54:50,206 --> 00:54:53,339
A lot of times the game
becomes too scripted.
1049
00:54:53,418 --> 00:54:54,925
When it's too scripted
1050
00:54:55,003 --> 00:54:57,886
and you start planning for
certain things to take place,
1051
00:54:57,964 --> 00:55:01,061
that's when I believe you're weak.
1052
00:55:01,134 --> 00:55:03,388
What he's saying is
that you have to adapt
1053
00:55:03,470 --> 00:55:05,605
to your surroundings,
your environment.
1054
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:08,729
James Coburn said, "Look, man,
the best thing you can do,
1055
00:55:08,808 --> 00:55:10,941
go back to Hong Kong,
do what you do
1056
00:55:10,942 --> 00:55:12,901
best, come back, rock the world."
1057
00:55:12,979 --> 00:55:18,413
James Coburn did tell Bruce that
he shouldn't keep doing TV,
1058
00:55:18,485 --> 00:55:21,581
that it would eat up his genius.
1059
00:55:21,654 --> 00:55:23,961
He had much more to
offer the world and
1060
00:55:23,962 --> 00:55:26,210
he should hold out
for starring roles.
1061
00:55:26,284 --> 00:55:30,294
Jimi Hendrix had to break away and
go to England to be recognised
1062
00:55:30,372 --> 00:55:32,341
as the rock star that he was.
1063
00:55:32,415 --> 00:55:34,835
Clint Eastwood, he had a
career out of Rawhide,
1064
00:55:34,918 --> 00:55:37,967
but it was the Italian Westerns
that really made his career.
1065
00:55:38,046 --> 00:55:40,894
Bruce ultimately had to
go back to Hong Kong
1066
00:55:40,965 --> 00:55:43,267
to be recognised as the
movie star he was.
1067
00:55:43,343 --> 00:55:47,733
Here's a plane ticket. Just go
back to Hong Kong for a few years.
1068
00:55:47,806 --> 00:55:50,855
You wouldn't want
any trouble, huh?
1069
00:55:50,934 --> 00:55:53,318
That's one of the things
I admire most about him.
1070
00:55:53,395 --> 00:55:56,159
He said, "ok, the institution's
not gonna work for me."
1071
00:55:56,231 --> 00:55:57,987
"I'll figure something else out."
1072
00:55:58,066 --> 00:56:00,534
He just went to through back door.
1073
00:56:10,453 --> 00:56:13,039
Bruce made the first
two pictures with
1074
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:15,294
independent producer Raymond Chow
1075
00:56:15,375 --> 00:56:17,427
for $15,000 each.
1076
00:56:17,502 --> 00:56:20,020
That was... It was
made in Thailand
1077
00:56:20,021 --> 00:56:22,259
in a small village in Thailand.
1078
00:56:22,340 --> 00:56:25,437
Bruce Lee plays a
working-class hero.
1079
00:56:25,510 --> 00:56:27,562
He's from the land.
He's one of the folk.
1080
00:56:27,637 --> 00:56:31,066
But at the same time as that,
he's never one of the guys.
1081
00:56:31,141 --> 00:56:33,202
And this is why it
was so successful,
1082
00:56:33,203 --> 00:56:35,317
as well as the brilliant
choreography.
1083
00:56:37,522 --> 00:56:39,578
Bruce Lee completely
changed the way
1084
00:56:39,579 --> 00:56:41,579
action scenes look
today in cinema.
1085
00:56:41,651 --> 00:56:43,952
It's about making
violence look beautiful,
1086
00:56:44,029 --> 00:56:46,449
which may sound like a
paradox, it probably is,
1087
00:56:46,531 --> 00:56:48,305
but a director like John Woo, he
1088
00:56:48,306 --> 00:56:50,411
shoots a gunfight
like martial arts.
1089
00:56:50,493 --> 00:56:53,338
It's a ballet. In
terms of the craft
1090
00:56:53,339 --> 00:56:56,260
of film-making,
that's a huge change.
1091
00:56:56,332 --> 00:57:01,552
But the Western movies really piss
me off. They chop 'em up so much.
1092
00:57:01,629 --> 00:57:04,762
Most of the scenes overzoom, so
you can't see what's going on.
1093
00:57:04,841 --> 00:57:07,475
Those guys have to go back
and watch Bruce Lee movies.
1094
00:57:07,552 --> 00:57:10,850
You can see these awesome moves
he's doing in their entirety.
1095
00:57:10,930 --> 00:57:12,962
You can have a shot
that doesn't have
1096
00:57:12,963 --> 00:57:14,727
to last only a half-second long.
1097
00:57:14,809 --> 00:57:17,823
I never even thought about it
until I did this movie Haywire.
1098
00:57:17,896 --> 00:57:20,909
Now every time I see a movie,
I'm like, "Stop cutting away."
1099
00:57:20,982 --> 00:57:22,619
"Oh, that's a stunt double."
1100
00:57:22,692 --> 00:57:27,082
They were wonderful to watch. No
wires, no gimmicks, no quick cuts.
1101
00:57:27,155 --> 00:57:28,749
You get an actor to portray that,
1102
00:57:28,750 --> 00:57:30,536
you're gonna have
to do quick cuts.
1103
00:57:30,617 --> 00:57:32,788
Bruce Lee set a new baseline.
1104
00:57:32,869 --> 00:57:35,189
Every piece of film
fight choreography
1105
00:57:35,190 --> 00:57:37,211
has been influenced by Bruce Lee,
1106
00:57:37,290 --> 00:57:39,675
whether the people
involved know it or not.
1107
00:57:39,751 --> 00:57:42,052
- A motion picture is motion.
- Yeah.
1108
00:57:42,128 --> 00:57:45,723
I mean, you gotta keep
the dialogue down.
1109
00:57:47,842 --> 00:57:50,179
We came over to Hong Kong
1110
00:57:50,261 --> 00:57:53,524
and that was when they showed
the premiere of The Big Boss.
1111
00:57:54,891 --> 00:57:57,691
The theatre was packed.
1112
00:57:57,769 --> 00:57:59,940
Bruce and I sat there
towards the back.
1113
00:58:01,523 --> 00:58:04,821
When Bruce Lee's first
movie showed in Hollywood,
1114
00:58:04,901 --> 00:58:07,072
I was so elated, I
was so emotional,
1115
00:58:07,153 --> 00:58:09,490
seeing my friend, my
teacher, on the screen.
1116
00:58:13,284 --> 00:58:17,295
When the movie finishes,
it is so quiet...
1117
00:58:20,208 --> 00:58:22,130
you could hear a pin drop.
1118
00:58:22,210 --> 00:58:25,176
And Bruce is like, "Oh, no.
They hate it." You know.
1119
00:58:25,255 --> 00:58:27,342
And all of a sudden...
1120
00:58:29,092 --> 00:58:31,179
a huge roar goes up.
1121
00:58:31,261 --> 00:58:36,647
And they're cheering and laughing
and clapping. It was wonderful.
1122
00:58:36,725 --> 00:58:40,651
Every time he came on and did his
fight scene, everybody applauded.
1123
00:58:40,729 --> 00:58:45,154
That's when we knew he
was a movie star now.
1124
00:58:45,233 --> 00:58:48,246
And then they started to
spot Bruce in the audience.
1125
00:58:53,408 --> 00:58:55,958
They carried him out
on their shoulders.
1126
00:58:56,036 --> 00:58:59,998
Oh, it was thrilling. It
was thrilling to him.
1127
00:59:00,081 --> 00:59:03,463
"Finally I have been
appreciated in my work."
1128
00:59:04,127 --> 00:59:08,683
It was wonderful, a very
high moment in his life.
1129
00:59:09,716 --> 00:59:11,887
It's The Pierre Berton Show,
1130
00:59:11,968 --> 00:59:13,843
the programme that
comes to you from
1131
00:59:13,844 --> 00:59:15,515
the major capitals of the world.
1132
00:59:15,597 --> 00:59:18,943
This edition comes to
you from Hong Kong.
1133
00:59:19,017 --> 00:59:22,315
And Pierre's guest, the
newest Mandarin superstar.
1134
00:59:22,395 --> 00:59:26,951
His name is Bruce Lee and he
doesn't even speak Mandarin.
1135
00:59:27,025 --> 00:59:28,745
Here's Pierre.
1136
00:59:28,818 --> 00:59:30,574
There's a pretty good chance
1137
00:59:30,653 --> 00:59:33,619
that you'll get a TV series in
the States called The Warrior
1138
00:59:33,698 --> 00:59:36,369
in which you use,
what, the martial
1139
00:59:36,370 --> 00:59:38,373
arts in a Western setting?
1140
00:59:38,453 --> 00:59:40,256
That was the original idea.
1141
00:59:40,330 --> 00:59:42,964
Bruce Lee had an idea for a
TV show called The Warrior,
1142
00:59:43,041 --> 00:59:46,672
which later became the series Kung
Fu, which we all know and love.
1143
00:59:46,753 --> 00:59:48,307
David Carradine did a good job,
1144
00:59:48,380 --> 00:59:51,726
but Kung Fu, the TV series,
was Bruce Lee's role.
1145
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:54,979
The better guy doesn't always get
the job in the movie business.
1146
00:59:55,053 --> 00:59:57,105
There's a lot of
politics involved.
1147
00:59:57,180 --> 00:59:59,565
Have people come up in
the industry and said,
1148
00:59:59,641 --> 01:00:01,662
"We don't know how
the audience are
1149
01:00:01,663 --> 01:00:03,402
going to take a non-American?"
1150
01:00:05,188 --> 01:00:08,320
Well, such question
has been raised.
1151
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:10,654
In fact, it is being discussed,
1152
01:00:10,735 --> 01:00:14,496
and that is why The Warrior
probably is not gonna be on.
1153
01:00:14,572 --> 01:00:15,700
- I see.
- You see?
1154
01:00:15,782 --> 01:00:22,414
Because unfortunately such thing
does exist in this world.
1155
01:00:22,497 --> 01:00:25,843
Bruce Lee was a bigger star,
both in Asia and America.
1156
01:00:25,917 --> 01:00:28,503
He was a world-class
martial artist.
1157
01:00:28,586 --> 01:00:30,805
He had already done
The Green Hornet.
1158
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:33,894
And then he did not get the
role for being too Asian.
1159
01:00:33,967 --> 01:00:37,728
He had such disdain for Hollywood
1160
01:00:37,804 --> 01:00:39,690
and all those old movies
1161
01:00:39,764 --> 01:00:44,688
having Caucasian people play the
parts of Chinese characters.
1162
01:00:49,399 --> 01:00:52,033
I have already made up my mind
1163
01:00:52,110 --> 01:00:56,286
that in the United States I think
something about the Oriental,
1164
01:00:56,364 --> 01:01:01,003
I mean, the true Oriental,
should be shown.
1165
01:01:01,077 --> 01:01:04,126
- Hollywood sure as heck hasn't.
- You better believe it, man.
1166
01:01:04,205 --> 01:01:07,420
It's always the pigtail and
bouncing around, chop-chop,
1167
01:01:07,500 --> 01:01:09,636
with the eyes slanted
and all of that.
1168
01:01:09,711 --> 01:01:13,472
There's nothing worse in a movie
than when all of a sudden
1169
01:01:13,548 --> 01:01:15,434
some horrific stereotype shows up.
1170
01:01:15,508 --> 01:01:18,438
You're like, "Why? Just leave
us out. Just leave us out."
1171
01:01:18,511 --> 01:01:21,394
"We'd rather not
exist in your world
1172
01:01:21,473 --> 01:01:25,186
than exist in your world in
some buffoonery coonery."
1173
01:01:25,268 --> 01:01:27,071
He had a lot of celebrity students
1174
01:01:27,145 --> 01:01:30,075
and he was teaching them
philosophy and martial arts,
1175
01:01:30,148 --> 01:01:31,405
so he sold them.
1176
01:01:31,483 --> 01:01:33,483
But when it came
down to it for Bruce
1177
01:01:33,484 --> 01:01:35,326
and Hollywood, they didn't get it.
1178
01:01:35,403 --> 01:01:37,907
They didn't take the time
to know who Bruce was.
1179
01:01:37,989 --> 01:01:39,543
This was his struggle.
1180
01:01:39,616 --> 01:01:40,826
You want to get ahead?
1181
01:01:40,909 --> 01:01:44,705
Here you have a bright future,
if you apply yourself.
1182
01:01:44,788 --> 01:01:45,915
I will, sir.
1183
01:01:45,997 --> 01:01:48,880
Hollywood was a terrible
disappointment to him,
1184
01:01:48,958 --> 01:01:53,431
especially because then you throw
in the racial factor as well,
1185
01:01:53,505 --> 01:01:56,933
that studios did not want to
back a major Chinese star.
1186
01:01:57,008 --> 01:01:58,831
Asian stereotypes for women are
1187
01:01:58,832 --> 01:02:01,065
pretty bad. For men
it's much worse.
1188
01:02:01,137 --> 01:02:04,352
And I think he was railing
against that his whole life.
1189
01:02:04,432 --> 01:02:07,519
When that little
thing of disrespect
1190
01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:09,688
crept into my life again,
1191
01:02:09,771 --> 01:02:12,488
which was the movie business,
I got really angry.
1192
01:02:12,565 --> 01:02:17,571
It is kind of shocking, isn't it,
that that much time, 40 years,
1193
01:02:17,654 --> 01:02:23,954
has passed and there hasn't been
one Asian-American romantic lead,
1194
01:02:24,035 --> 01:02:26,461
or even just a movie star on that
1195
01:02:26,462 --> 01:02:29,255
scale, an Asian-American
movie star?
1196
01:02:31,626 --> 01:02:33,714
Not one.
1197
01:02:36,756 --> 01:02:37,800
I don't think
1198
01:02:37,882 --> 01:02:42,438
I could name an Asian
romantic lead male.
1199
01:02:42,512 --> 01:02:44,908
There hasn't really
been anyone since my
1200
01:02:44,909 --> 01:02:47,186
uncle here, particularly
in Hollywood.
1201
01:02:47,267 --> 01:02:50,944
Obviously out of China you have
Jet Li, you have Donnie Yen.
1202
01:02:51,021 --> 01:02:54,617
There have been no
great Asian male
1203
01:02:54,618 --> 01:02:57,913
leads in Hollywood who are sexy.
1204
01:02:57,986 --> 01:03:01,200
Er, a lead male, Asian-American?
1205
01:03:01,281 --> 01:03:02,752
Erm...
1206
01:03:02,824 --> 01:03:05,172
I don't even look at
him as being Asian.
1207
01:03:05,173 --> 01:03:07,463
He's like Bruce Lee.
He's like my idol.
1208
01:03:07,537 --> 01:03:09,293
And that's something
I guess I don't
1209
01:03:09,294 --> 01:03:11,049
think of so much,
but I guess, yeah.
1210
01:03:11,124 --> 01:03:12,631
A Chinese nationalist
1211
01:03:12,709 --> 01:03:15,592
watching Bruce Lee films will
see Chinese nationalism.
1212
01:03:15,670 --> 01:03:18,600
A white Westerner may not
even notice the ethnicity.
1213
01:03:18,673 --> 01:03:21,687
Maybe Dean Cain, right?
1214
01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:23,681
Isn't he part Asian?
1215
01:03:24,971 --> 01:03:28,483
At certain times there were
prejudices against my skin,
1216
01:03:28,558 --> 01:03:30,390
but I never let it
bother me, because
1217
01:03:30,391 --> 01:03:32,319
in the back of my
mind I used to think,
1218
01:03:32,395 --> 01:03:35,859
"I'll take care out in the parking
lot and I'll beat your head in."
1219
01:03:35,940 --> 01:03:41,113
Bruce Lee became a complete star
making films in his own country.
1220
01:03:41,196 --> 01:03:43,283
40 years later, things
haven't changed.
1221
01:03:43,365 --> 01:03:45,701
So if you wanna see
another star like that,
1222
01:03:45,784 --> 01:03:48,963
it has to happen in films
made outside of the system.
1223
01:03:53,041 --> 01:03:56,387
My first memory of Bruce Lee is
in the movie Chinese Connection.
1224
01:03:56,461 --> 01:04:00,092
The last scene in the movie
there's a firing squad.
1225
01:04:01,841 --> 01:04:05,519
When he came out and ran up
and jumped and they froze it.
1226
01:04:09,182 --> 01:04:11,982
I was like, "Mum, what happened?"
1227
01:04:12,060 --> 01:04:15,856
And she said, "He
wanted to go that way."
1228
01:04:15,939 --> 01:04:19,652
And that just... that
just stuck with me.
1229
01:04:19,734 --> 01:04:22,913
If you look at Chinese Connection,
1230
01:04:22,987 --> 01:04:26,286
it's a movie about
cultural nationalism,
1231
01:04:26,366 --> 01:04:29,025
as expressed through
action sequences,
1232
01:04:29,026 --> 01:04:31,753
but that's no different
than Swan Lake.
1233
01:04:31,830 --> 01:04:35,460
There's no difference between
a ballet and a kung fu movie,
1234
01:04:35,542 --> 01:04:38,756
expressing the ideas and the
emotion through movement.
1235
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:46,680
When the Japanese bring the sick
man of Asia framed picture,
1236
01:04:46,761 --> 01:04:48,886
this is speaking to
a long period of
1237
01:04:48,887 --> 01:04:51,068
Chinese suppression
and subordination
1238
01:04:51,141 --> 01:04:53,178
that was within living
memory of those
1239
01:04:53,179 --> 01:04:54,902
1970s Hong Kong Bruce Lee films.
1240
01:04:57,564 --> 01:04:59,948
If you play the film
with the dubbed English
1241
01:05:00,025 --> 01:05:02,030
and then in the
original Cantonese,
1242
01:05:02,110 --> 01:05:04,910
you see that they're
essentially different films.
1243
01:05:04,988 --> 01:05:07,307
So, for example, one
of the characters
1244
01:05:07,308 --> 01:05:09,330
goes up to Mr Wu, the translator,
1245
01:05:09,409 --> 01:05:11,877
and in the English
dubbed version he says:
1246
01:05:11,953 --> 01:05:14,338
Look, here, now what's
the point of this?
1247
01:05:14,414 --> 01:05:15,588
The translator goes:
1248
01:05:22,088 --> 01:05:24,224
In the Cantonese version he says:
1249
01:05:31,139 --> 01:05:33,643
So in the English version
he's not Chinese,
1250
01:05:33,725 --> 01:05:36,101
but in the subtitled Cantonese
1251
01:05:36,102 --> 01:05:39,112
version, he says,
"Yes, I'm Chinese,
1252
01:05:39,189 --> 01:05:41,953
but I've chosen to go with
the Japanese, the powerful."
1253
01:05:42,025 --> 01:05:43,995
So there's a world of difference.
1254
01:05:44,069 --> 01:05:45,789
We're consuming different films
1255
01:05:45,862 --> 01:05:47,376
depending on the nature of the
1256
01:05:47,377 --> 01:05:49,244
decisions they make
in translating.
1257
01:05:49,324 --> 01:05:51,827
Westerners have thought
that they're slapstick,
1258
01:05:51,910 --> 01:05:54,081
but the Chinese
audience are watching
1259
01:05:54,082 --> 01:05:55,967
highly politically charged films
1260
01:05:56,039 --> 01:05:58,234
with quite recent
history, animosities
1261
01:05:58,235 --> 01:06:00,429
and resentments
coursing through them.
1262
01:06:00,502 --> 01:06:05,591
Now, you listen to me, and
I'll only say it once.
1263
01:06:05,674 --> 01:06:07,014
We are not sick men.
1264
01:06:07,092 --> 01:06:09,263
What he gave was
so real and so raw
1265
01:06:09,344 --> 01:06:12,227
because he lived it
every day of his life.
1266
01:06:12,305 --> 01:06:14,656
Bruce did not get
along well with the
1267
01:06:14,657 --> 01:06:17,193
director of the first
two films, Lo Wei.
1268
01:06:17,268 --> 01:06:19,819
Lo Wei thought that he could
put his thumb on Bruce
1269
01:06:19,896 --> 01:06:22,744
as one of his simple actors.
1270
01:06:22,816 --> 01:06:25,340
Well, he was old
school and wouldn't
1271
01:06:25,341 --> 01:06:27,455
listen to any ideas Bruce had.
1272
01:06:27,529 --> 01:06:30,456
The bottom line is
Bruce still didn't
1273
01:06:30,457 --> 01:06:32,998
feel the freedom that he wanted.
1274
01:06:35,954 --> 01:06:39,133
He said to Raymond Chow,
1275
01:06:39,207 --> 01:06:42,256
"I want to make this film,
The Way of the Dragon."
1276
01:06:42,335 --> 01:06:45,550
I want to write it, I want to
produce it, I want to direct it
1277
01:06:45,630 --> 01:06:47,635
and I can do this and act in it.
1278
01:06:47,716 --> 01:06:50,480
It's really a simple
plot of a country boy
1279
01:06:50,552 --> 01:06:53,316
going to a place where he
cannot speak the language
1280
01:06:53,388 --> 01:06:56,105
but somehow he came out on top.
1281
01:07:01,187 --> 01:07:03,655
He goes to Italy and the
mafia can't beat him,
1282
01:07:03,732 --> 01:07:06,828
so they call America and
America sends over Colt.
1283
01:07:06,901 --> 01:07:09,487
We must call America for Colt.
1284
01:07:09,571 --> 01:07:13,913
- Is this Colt good?
- Is Colt good?
1285
01:07:13,992 --> 01:07:16,211
And Colt is Chuck Norris.
1286
01:07:16,286 --> 01:07:19,880
Bruce Lee is fighting a
real American, you know.
1287
01:07:19,956 --> 01:07:23,717
He's strawberry blond. He's
got hair all over his body.
1288
01:07:23,793 --> 01:07:25,763
In fact, he uses that
hair against him.
1289
01:07:25,837 --> 01:07:28,056
So when he fought Chuck Norris...
1290
01:07:30,592 --> 01:07:33,048
He represented all
people of colour
1291
01:07:33,049 --> 01:07:35,231
fighting the Western oppressor.
1292
01:07:39,392 --> 01:07:41,148
(speaks Spanish)
1293
01:07:50,111 --> 01:07:53,789
If you're a non-white
viewer, this is a big deal.
1294
01:07:53,865 --> 01:07:58,374
The little guy is beating the
best that America can provide.
1295
01:07:58,453 --> 01:08:00,672
I can tell you, at the
Fox Theatre in St Louis,
1296
01:08:00,747 --> 01:08:05,256
which was 100 percent all
black, we cheered for him.
1297
01:08:05,335 --> 01:08:07,885
Some of us were more
politically aware than others,
1298
01:08:07,962 --> 01:08:09,255
but everyone got the joke.
1299
01:08:14,386 --> 01:08:17,518
He was very appealing to anybody
who's ever been oppressed
1300
01:08:17,597 --> 01:08:19,898
because of ethnic reasons
or other reason.
1301
01:08:19,974 --> 01:08:22,070
That time when Bruce
was on the rise, we
1302
01:08:22,071 --> 01:08:24,115
were looking for
countercultural heroes
1303
01:08:24,187 --> 01:08:25,907
to fight the establishment.
1304
01:08:25,980 --> 01:08:29,528
It's 40 years. Wouldn't have
people forgotten him by now?
1305
01:08:29,609 --> 01:08:31,738
No, I think a lot of cultures have
1306
01:08:31,739 --> 01:08:34,118
picked him up as
sort of their hero.
1307
01:08:34,197 --> 01:08:36,040
You had Muhammad
Ali. You had Malcolm
1308
01:08:36,041 --> 01:08:37,543
X. You had the Black Panthers.
1309
01:08:37,617 --> 01:08:40,203
You had a lot of
radicalism going on.
1310
01:08:40,286 --> 01:08:43,004
Bruce Lee represented that
same kind of radicalism.
1311
01:08:43,081 --> 01:08:46,877
Bruce Lee emerges when America is
having a very bad time in Vietnam
1312
01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:49,843
and cannot beat the Viet Cong,
1313
01:08:49,921 --> 01:08:52,425
these little yellow
guys in pyjamas,
1314
01:08:52,507 --> 01:08:55,011
so Bruce Lee speaks to that.
1315
01:08:55,093 --> 01:08:57,497
Anywhere you go,
everybody is about
1316
01:08:57,498 --> 01:08:59,767
Bruce Lee and rallies behind him.
1317
01:08:59,848 --> 01:09:00,891
He's the underdog.
1318
01:09:00,974 --> 01:09:04,320
You don't have to start
shouting political declarations
1319
01:09:04,394 --> 01:09:06,862
to be culturally and
politically significant.
1320
01:09:06,938 --> 01:09:09,035
That Colosseum fight
was very accurate.
1321
01:09:09,036 --> 01:09:11,079
Taking nothing away
from Chuck Norris,
1322
01:09:11,151 --> 01:09:13,238
but I think Bruce Lee
would be victorious.
1323
01:09:13,319 --> 01:09:16,783
That fight scene gave Chuck
Norris pretty much a career.
1324
01:09:16,865 --> 01:09:19,285
If they said Bruce could
have beat Chuck Norris,
1325
01:09:19,367 --> 01:09:21,953
I'd say, "How much
do you wanna bet?"
1326
01:09:22,037 --> 01:09:24,967
I got a fistful of green
backs in my pocket.
1327
01:09:26,458 --> 01:09:29,388
Chuck got chucked out right
there in that movie.
1328
01:09:29,461 --> 01:09:31,433
That's one of my favourites. Boom.
1329
01:09:31,434 --> 01:09:33,637
Guillotine choke in
the '70s. Hello.
1330
01:09:33,715 --> 01:09:35,802
That's being ahead of your time.
1331
01:09:37,260 --> 01:09:40,439
When Bruce started doing
the film Way of the Dragon
1332
01:09:40,513 --> 01:09:42,768
and he was this huge
star on the rise,
1333
01:09:42,849 --> 01:09:45,068
things were changing.
1334
01:09:45,143 --> 01:09:48,524
I think he started having a hard
time trusting people around him.
1335
01:09:48,605 --> 01:09:50,610
You bastard.
1336
01:09:53,651 --> 01:09:56,535
Fame is a killer, literally.
1337
01:09:56,613 --> 01:09:58,914
Put money on top of that.
1338
01:09:58,990 --> 01:10:02,419
Suddenly you distrust people's
motives, for very good reason.
1339
01:10:08,833 --> 01:10:12,760
He had told me that he doesn't
know who his friends were.
1340
01:10:12,837 --> 01:10:15,222
He says he doesn't
know who to trust.
1341
01:10:15,298 --> 01:10:20,222
It was eye-opening to know
what the price of fame was.
1342
01:10:20,303 --> 01:10:22,439
(Bruce Lee)
1343
01:10:30,730 --> 01:10:32,588
You can't go to school for it. You
1344
01:10:32,589 --> 01:10:34,610
deal with it on a
day-to-day basis.
1345
01:10:34,693 --> 01:10:36,780
(Bruce Lee)
1346
01:10:44,536 --> 01:10:46,872
Fame took over my mind.
1347
01:10:46,955 --> 01:10:49,339
It almost destroyed
my career, my family.
1348
01:10:49,416 --> 01:10:51,088
I was caught up in my own hype.
1349
01:10:51,167 --> 01:10:54,513
I thought the only way to
save myself from myself
1350
01:10:54,587 --> 01:10:59,143
was to do something where I
could get hit and hit back.
1351
01:10:59,217 --> 01:11:01,269
And I thought I'd
made a healthy choice
1352
01:11:01,344 --> 01:11:03,480
because it was
better than a whisky
1353
01:11:03,481 --> 01:11:05,853
bottle or, you know,
whatever the fuck.
1354
01:11:05,932 --> 01:11:06,976
It got to the point
1355
01:11:07,058 --> 01:11:08,915
where he could
hardly go out of the
1356
01:11:08,916 --> 01:11:10,771
house without people
following him.
1357
01:11:10,854 --> 01:11:14,200
He craved on sort of a soul level
1358
01:11:14,274 --> 01:11:17,239
to be a little bit more peaceful.
1359
01:11:17,318 --> 01:11:19,406
(Bruce Lee)
1360
01:11:26,453 --> 01:11:29,039
Well, you can't have a normal life
1361
01:11:29,122 --> 01:11:30,794
or make normal mistakes
1362
01:11:30,874 --> 01:11:34,551
because everybody's constantly,
you know, looking in.
1363
01:11:36,588 --> 01:11:39,720
And it was just
like a smorgasbord.
1364
01:11:39,799 --> 01:11:42,979
He could have had ten at a time
if he even remotely wanted to.
1365
01:11:43,053 --> 01:11:47,063
The word superstar really turned
me off and I'll tell you why.
1366
01:11:47,140 --> 01:11:51,150
Because the word star,
man, it's an illusion.
1367
01:11:51,227 --> 01:11:54,075
It's something what
the public calls you.
1368
01:11:59,527 --> 01:12:02,031
I really loved... I might get
1369
01:12:02,113 --> 01:12:05,411
a lot of crap for this,
but Game of Death,
1370
01:12:05,492 --> 01:12:07,793
and to have like
no way is the way.
1371
01:12:07,869 --> 01:12:09,949
He's fighting each
opponent that brings
1372
01:12:09,950 --> 01:12:11,666
a different problem to the table
1373
01:12:11,748 --> 01:12:13,005
and he's gotta adapt.
1374
01:12:13,083 --> 01:12:15,545
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
came to Hong Kong
1375
01:12:15,546 --> 01:12:18,137
to visit and Bruce
had this great idea.
1376
01:12:18,213 --> 01:12:20,511
"Let's do a scene
together. It'll be
1377
01:12:20,512 --> 01:12:22,685
great, a great fighting sequence."
1378
01:12:22,759 --> 01:12:26,057
I'd speak to Kareem about his
sessions with Bruce and he said,
1379
01:12:26,137 --> 01:12:28,641
"I sparred with him and
like he was just so quick."
1380
01:12:28,723 --> 01:12:31,571
"I'd turn this way and
then he's not there."
1381
01:12:31,643 --> 01:12:33,897
"He's kicking you in
the back of the head."
1382
01:12:33,978 --> 01:12:36,529
"Then I turn this way
and he's over here."
1383
01:12:36,606 --> 01:12:38,914
He said he couldn't
catch him. There was
1384
01:12:38,915 --> 01:12:40,996
just no way he could
lock in on him.
1385
01:12:41,069 --> 01:12:43,288
He was just like a rabbit.
1386
01:12:43,363 --> 01:12:46,636
I really love the
idea of the levels
1387
01:12:46,637 --> 01:12:49,378
and getting to the next level,
1388
01:12:49,452 --> 01:12:52,133
and fighting different styles.
1389
01:12:52,205 --> 01:12:54,450
As a dancer who battled
other dancers,
1390
01:12:54,451 --> 01:12:56,465
that was like the whole mentality.
1391
01:12:56,543 --> 01:12:58,765
And on the third level,
it's supposed to
1392
01:12:58,766 --> 01:13:00,933
be a person who is
trained in weaponry,
1393
01:13:01,006 --> 01:13:03,342
and so he chose me to do the part.
1394
01:13:03,717 --> 01:13:07,063
Dan Inosanto, being one of the
freshest Filipinos on the planet,
1395
01:13:07,137 --> 01:13:08,967
was actually the
person that brought
1396
01:13:08,968 --> 01:13:10,351
the nunchucks to Bruce Lee.
1397
01:13:10,432 --> 01:13:14,145
1964, I introduced the
nunchucks to Bruce Lee.
1398
01:13:15,020 --> 01:13:19,077
And at the time he thought this
was a worthless piece of junk.
1399
01:13:31,745 --> 01:13:35,091
When he moved into the LA area,
I taught him how to use it.
1400
01:13:35,165 --> 01:13:38,379
He said, "I'm gonna use
this on The Green Hornet."
1401
01:13:39,377 --> 01:13:43,637
Nunchucks was always some mother's
broom getting sacrificed,
1402
01:13:43,715 --> 01:13:47,309
which would then turn into
someone's groin being sacrificed.
1403
01:13:47,385 --> 01:13:49,444
In three months he
was swinging it like
1404
01:13:49,445 --> 01:13:51,348
he had been doing
it for a lifetime.
1405
01:13:51,431 --> 01:13:53,436
I was living in Miami
when they came out.
1406
01:13:53,516 --> 01:13:55,363
Every gangster in
town had nunchucks,
1407
01:13:55,364 --> 01:13:57,064
and couldn't use 'em worth a shit.
1408
01:13:57,145 --> 01:13:59,236
I would spend hours whipping 'em
1409
01:13:59,237 --> 01:14:01,784
around and trying
to learn the moves,
1410
01:14:01,858 --> 01:14:05,121
trying to copy how he'd have it
under his shoulder right here
1411
01:14:05,195 --> 01:14:06,286
and have the hand out.
1412
01:14:06,363 --> 01:14:09,744
In a short time I think almost
every child is using this.
1413
01:14:09,824 --> 01:14:11,719
It became like a
household product.
1414
01:14:11,720 --> 01:14:13,455
It's outlawed now in California.
1415
01:14:15,580 --> 01:14:19,341
After I watched this
movie, I used to use that.
1416
01:14:20,502 --> 01:14:23,136
But I always hit my elbow.
1417
01:14:25,757 --> 01:14:27,600
Right out of the gate
I swung real hard
1418
01:14:27,601 --> 01:14:29,304
and I even made the
Bruce Lee noise.
1419
01:14:29,386 --> 01:14:32,316
I went, "Whoo." and I hit my head
1420
01:14:32,389 --> 01:14:35,603
and there was this big nut
that came out maybe an inch.
1421
01:14:35,684 --> 01:14:37,819
And after that I stopped
making the noise
1422
01:14:37,894 --> 01:14:40,398
and I stopped playing
with the nunchucks.
1423
01:14:40,897 --> 01:14:42,748
I tried to make my
parents buy me some
1424
01:14:42,749 --> 01:14:44,361
real ones. Thank God they didn't.
1425
01:14:44,442 --> 01:14:47,456
I'm nunchucking, I'm busting
myself all in the head.
1426
01:14:47,529 --> 01:14:49,415
I had the rubber
ones, so I'm good.
1427
01:14:51,574 --> 01:14:53,767
I got into it because
I stopped carrying
1428
01:14:53,768 --> 01:14:55,585
a gun. I carried a gun for years.
1429
01:14:55,662 --> 01:14:57,299
I'm not ashamed to admit it.
1430
01:14:57,372 --> 01:14:59,139
I think I went into therapy and I
1431
01:14:59,140 --> 01:15:01,334
thought, "Let me carry
something else."
1432
01:15:02,002 --> 01:15:04,422
This one particularly
is sentimental for me.
1433
01:15:04,504 --> 01:15:08,466
These are the same nunchucks that
we used in The Game of Death.
1434
01:15:09,509 --> 01:15:11,312
He gave me these to
keep in the house.
1435
01:15:11,386 --> 01:15:13,889
It brings out really
fond memories for me.
1436
01:15:22,647 --> 01:15:25,826
Fred Weintraub, who was an
executive at Warner Bros,
1437
01:15:25,900 --> 01:15:29,364
comes to visit him in Hong Kong
on the set of Game of Death,
1438
01:15:29,446 --> 01:15:31,949
says, "Hey, man, we've
seen what you can do."
1439
01:15:32,032 --> 01:15:34,337
"We wanna do a film
with you and we
1440
01:15:34,338 --> 01:15:36,706
wanna do it with
Warner Bros." Boom.
1441
01:15:36,786 --> 01:15:40,334
It was a time when Bruce
had so much opportunity
1442
01:15:40,415 --> 01:15:44,425
and he was so thrilled to
co-produce Enter the Dragon.
1443
01:15:44,502 --> 01:15:49,177
He said, "This is my opening
back into Hollywood."
1444
01:15:57,640 --> 01:15:59,278
They were all there in Hong Kong,
1445
01:15:59,351 --> 01:16:02,862
the producers, Fred
Weintraub, Paul Heller.
1446
01:16:02,937 --> 01:16:05,571
They're ready to
film, have all this
1447
01:16:05,572 --> 01:16:07,991
crew, Western crew, Chinese crew,
1448
01:16:08,068 --> 01:16:12,327
which was a very difficult
situation in itself,
1449
01:16:12,405 --> 01:16:15,703
and sets are built, and
Bruce won't come to work.
1450
01:16:17,911 --> 01:16:20,171
He wants to put a
little more Chinese
1451
01:16:20,172 --> 01:16:22,550
philosophy that fits
in with the story.
1452
01:16:22,624 --> 01:16:24,795
Bruce knew what he
wanted Dragon to be,
1453
01:16:24,876 --> 01:16:27,842
but had problems with folks
who didn't share his vision.
1454
01:16:27,921 --> 01:16:30,555
And he was adamant he was
not going to the set.
1455
01:16:30,632 --> 01:16:33,259
It was kind of hard
around our house
1456
01:16:33,260 --> 01:16:35,887
because was Bruce
was so frustrated.
1457
01:16:35,970 --> 01:16:37,524
He could lose his temper.
1458
01:16:37,597 --> 01:16:40,361
If he didn't like anything
you did, he would tell you.
1459
01:16:40,433 --> 01:16:42,770
Linda was that fabulous wife.
1460
01:16:42,852 --> 01:16:45,154
She knew how to talk to
him and counsel him.
1461
01:16:45,230 --> 01:16:47,411
I was talking behind the scenes to
1462
01:16:47,412 --> 01:16:49,785
Fred and Paul and
the other people,
1463
01:16:49,859 --> 01:16:52,825
saying, "You need
to listen to what
1464
01:16:52,826 --> 01:16:55,791
he has to say because
he is right."
1465
01:16:55,865 --> 01:16:58,250
He was fighting for his career.
1466
01:16:58,326 --> 01:17:01,183
It was a coming
together, and, yes,
1467
01:17:01,184 --> 01:17:03,961
Bruce did get things in that film.
1468
01:17:04,040 --> 01:17:06,425
Let me think.
1469
01:17:06,501 --> 01:17:09,847
Don't think. Feel.
1470
01:17:09,921 --> 01:17:13,267
And they're all better off,
the world is better off,
1471
01:17:13,341 --> 01:17:15,892
for the stand that
he took that time.
1472
01:17:18,722 --> 01:17:19,764
Action.
1473
01:17:22,058 --> 01:17:25,191
Enter the Dragon was Hollywood's
first dipping its toe
1474
01:17:25,270 --> 01:17:27,606
into the water of the
martial art genre.
1475
01:17:28,481 --> 01:17:31,863
Bruce Lee is explosive in a way
that no one had seen before.
1476
01:17:36,906 --> 01:17:39,460
The opening scene,
Bruce Lee basically
1477
01:17:39,461 --> 01:17:42,079
put the mixed martial
arts in his film.
1478
01:17:42,996 --> 01:17:44,799
Fighting in the Kenpo gloves.
1479
01:17:44,873 --> 01:17:48,254
The mixed martial arts gloves
with the open fingers.
1480
01:17:48,335 --> 01:17:49,378
And he used arm bars.
1481
01:17:49,461 --> 01:17:53,553
There's not a lot of charisma
in a straight arm bar.
1482
01:17:53,631 --> 01:17:54,674
He was the man.
1483
01:17:57,218 --> 01:18:00,398
When he stomps out Bob
Wall and kills him...
1484
01:18:02,015 --> 01:18:06,274
you see a lot of complex
emotions all going on at once.
1485
01:18:06,353 --> 01:18:09,567
I haven't seen any actor
in an action film
1486
01:18:09,647 --> 01:18:14,120
match all those levels and nuances
in the middle of a fight scene.
1487
01:18:15,445 --> 01:18:19,123
The mirror scene was just, you
know, when he's walking around
1488
01:18:19,199 --> 01:18:22,050
and he's cut up and
all of a sudden
1489
01:18:22,051 --> 01:18:24,585
he hears his master in his head
1490
01:18:24,662 --> 01:18:26,917
saying if you destroy the image...
1491
01:18:26,998 --> 01:18:30,960
Destroy the image and you
will break the enemy.
1492
01:18:31,044 --> 01:18:32,515
You defeat the enemy,
1493
01:18:32,587 --> 01:18:34,509
he was just... It had a tension
1494
01:18:34,589 --> 01:18:39,976
that to me resonates because it's
cutting through all illusions.
1495
01:18:40,053 --> 01:18:42,354
This is the moment that
he was waiting for.
1496
01:18:42,430 --> 01:18:45,016
This was Bruce Lee's
film in Hollywood.
1497
01:18:49,270 --> 01:18:52,367
Bruce was in a studio doing
dubbing for Enter the Dragon
1498
01:18:52,440 --> 01:18:55,904
and he went to the
restroom and he collapsed.
1499
01:18:55,985 --> 01:18:58,536
I was called and came
to the hospital.
1500
01:18:58,613 --> 01:19:04,212
And he was unconscious and
I was talking to him,
1501
01:19:04,285 --> 01:19:09,090
and he told me later that he was
like in the bottom of a well
1502
01:19:09,165 --> 01:19:13,128
and he could hear me calling
him, "Come back, come back."
1503
01:19:13,211 --> 01:19:15,299
And he did recover from that.
1504
01:19:15,380 --> 01:19:20,517
It was a cerebral oedema, a
pressing of fluid on the brain,
1505
01:19:20,593 --> 01:19:22,563
but they never found
the cause of it.
1506
01:19:22,637 --> 01:19:24,830
Ted Wong used to
always tell me, "Bruce
1507
01:19:24,831 --> 01:19:26,694
Lee was never afraid of anything,
1508
01:19:26,766 --> 01:19:29,068
except one thing, and
that's getting older."
1509
01:19:29,144 --> 01:19:32,323
He came to the United States
and had a complete physical
1510
01:19:32,397 --> 01:19:35,280
and they pronounced
him in perfect health
1511
01:19:35,358 --> 01:19:37,244
with the body of an 18-year-old.
1512
01:19:37,318 --> 01:19:40,248
The doctors were very reassuring.
1513
01:19:40,321 --> 01:19:44,498
He had just had a collapse. He
didn't have frequent headaches.
1514
01:19:44,576 --> 01:19:46,711
Of course, they
didn't have MRIs then
1515
01:19:46,786 --> 01:19:49,420
to see what his brain
tissue was looking like.
1516
01:19:49,497 --> 01:19:51,716
I had seen him in June.
1517
01:19:51,791 --> 01:19:55,339
He told me that he'd had an ok
from UCLA that his body was fit.
1518
01:19:55,420 --> 01:19:57,410
He was not worried
about himself and
1519
01:19:57,411 --> 01:19:59,347
he was taking good
care of himself.
1520
01:19:59,424 --> 01:20:01,892
Bruce Lee faces a real dilemma.
1521
01:20:01,968 --> 01:20:04,649
He's on the verge of stardom
in the United States,
1522
01:20:04,721 --> 01:20:06,778
but he's just
achieved superstardom
1523
01:20:06,779 --> 01:20:08,778
as a film actor here in Hong Kong.
1524
01:20:08,850 --> 01:20:11,400
So what does he chose,
the East or the West?
1525
01:20:11,478 --> 01:20:13,146
It's the kind of problem most
1526
01:20:13,147 --> 01:20:15,274
budding movie actors
would welcome.
1527
01:20:20,945 --> 01:20:23,246
I was called and told
by Raymond Chow,
1528
01:20:23,247 --> 01:20:25,252
"You should get to the hospital."
1529
01:20:25,325 --> 01:20:27,875
"They're taking Bruce
to the hospital."
1530
01:20:27,952 --> 01:20:31,749
And I was there way
before Bruce got there.
1531
01:20:31,831 --> 01:20:37,633
So eventually the ambulance
arrived. It took a long time.
1532
01:20:37,712 --> 01:20:39,682
Everything took too long a time.
1533
01:20:39,756 --> 01:20:43,184
He got to the hospital and
I saw him laying there
1534
01:20:43,259 --> 01:20:48,515
and I saw them do a big injection
of something right into his heart.
1535
01:20:52,060 --> 01:20:55,335
And I remember
turning to a medical
1536
01:20:55,336 --> 01:20:58,609
person standing
there and saying...
1537
01:20:58,692 --> 01:21:00,827
I couldn't say, "Is he dead?"
1538
01:21:00,902 --> 01:21:04,117
I said, "Is he alive?
1539
01:21:04,197 --> 01:21:07,958
And they shook their
heads and said, "No."
1540
01:21:08,034 --> 01:21:12,874
And that was just unbelievable.
1541
01:21:12,956 --> 01:21:17,048
It must be a mistake, you
know, it's not real.
1542
01:21:18,086 --> 01:21:22,096
What can I say? It was.
1543
01:22:01,713 --> 01:22:08,689
You can see how when he
passed away, you know, how...
1544
01:22:10,138 --> 01:22:12,923
how difficult that
was and, you know,
1545
01:22:12,924 --> 01:22:15,488
how difficult that was for my dad.
1546
01:22:15,560 --> 01:22:18,194
It's the first time I
saw my dad ever cry.
1547
01:22:18,271 --> 01:22:20,359
Yeah, that's true.
1548
01:22:24,986 --> 01:22:26,789
It was really rough.
1549
01:22:28,990 --> 01:22:31,078
Well, yeah.
1550
01:22:33,328 --> 01:22:36,840
I said, "Dan, is it true?
Is Bruce Lee dead?"
1551
01:22:36,915 --> 01:22:40,261
"I got a lot of calls." And
he says, "Yeah, Rich."
1552
01:22:40,335 --> 01:22:42,969
Linda called him from Hong Kong,
1553
01:22:43,046 --> 01:22:46,926
and he was in a trance on his own
and talking about Bruce Lee.
1554
01:22:47,008 --> 01:22:50,472
He was so in grief, so in
mourning about Bruce's death.
1555
01:22:50,553 --> 01:22:54,433
He was just really uniquely
different from everybody else.
1556
01:22:55,392 --> 01:22:59,188
My memories, they're
more like glimpses.
1557
01:22:59,270 --> 01:23:03,577
But I remember primarily
the funeral in Hong Kong,
1558
01:23:03,650 --> 01:23:05,849
because it was so
massive, and sort
1559
01:23:05,850 --> 01:23:07,742
of being dragged through that,
1560
01:23:07,821 --> 01:23:10,585
because it was chaotic.
1561
01:23:10,657 --> 01:23:16,043
And I remember my dad's mum
taking us to get candy
1562
01:23:16,121 --> 01:23:19,834
and feeling really
happy about that.
1563
01:23:22,210 --> 01:23:26,433
I was in class, actually,
when Bruce Lee died.
1564
01:23:26,506 --> 01:23:29,306
There were guys in there
crying, sobbing, just...
1565
01:23:29,384 --> 01:23:31,638
I mean, Bruce Lee, you know...
1566
01:23:33,763 --> 01:23:35,400
He was just... he was it.
1567
01:23:39,728 --> 01:23:42,527
Will you tell me what
Teacher died of?
1568
01:23:42,605 --> 01:23:44,863
Forensic scientists
from around the
1569
01:23:44,864 --> 01:23:46,995
world came up with the conclusion
1570
01:23:47,068 --> 01:23:49,749
that he had had a
hypersensitive reaction
1571
01:23:49,821 --> 01:23:53,333
to this medication that he had
been given for a headache
1572
01:23:53,408 --> 01:23:57,465
and that that had caused
the fluid on his brain
1573
01:23:57,537 --> 01:24:01,464
and that he had succumbed to that.
1574
01:24:03,460 --> 01:24:06,592
It's still something that
people cannot believe.
1575
01:24:06,671 --> 01:24:08,488
He was well. There was nothing
1576
01:24:08,489 --> 01:24:10,728
wrong. How could a
healthy man die?
1577
01:24:10,800 --> 01:24:15,439
And then there's all this stuff
about, you know, how he died,
1578
01:24:15,513 --> 01:24:17,269
the sinister way in which he died.
1579
01:24:17,349 --> 01:24:21,062
He had an aneurysm
1580
01:24:21,144 --> 01:24:24,572
or the death hands got
him or, you know...
1581
01:24:24,647 --> 01:24:25,691
He was murdered.
1582
01:24:25,774 --> 01:24:28,822
They gave him the dim mak,
they gave him a death touch.
1583
01:24:29,569 --> 01:24:32,666
There's absolutely positively
something a little shady
1584
01:24:32,739 --> 01:24:34,495
about the way that
it all went down.
1585
01:24:34,574 --> 01:24:39,462
How he could pass away at that
age, you know, but it does happen,
1586
01:24:39,537 --> 01:24:43,595
so I've learned to cope
with it and deal with it.
1587
01:24:43,666 --> 01:24:45,304
But it always puzzled me.
1588
01:24:45,377 --> 01:24:47,512
The fact that my family is cursed
1589
01:24:47,587 --> 01:24:52,677
and the very sad and tragic
circumstance that my brother died,
1590
01:24:52,759 --> 01:24:54,978
those are sort of the
themes that pop up.
1591
01:24:55,053 --> 01:24:57,343
They wrote so many
stupid stories, the
1592
01:24:57,344 --> 01:24:59,692
tong killing him and
all that bullshit,
1593
01:24:59,766 --> 01:25:02,530
and he died of drugs,
that sold magazines.
1594
01:25:03,311 --> 01:25:05,425
He died in Betty Ting
Pei's apartment,
1595
01:25:05,426 --> 01:25:06,942
so there's no denying that.
1596
01:25:07,023 --> 01:25:09,761
The decision was made
by the producers
1597
01:25:09,762 --> 01:25:12,077
to say that he had died at home.
1598
01:25:12,153 --> 01:25:15,368
When that news got out that
he had not died at home,
1599
01:25:15,448 --> 01:25:16,955
the tabloid press went crazy.
1600
01:25:17,033 --> 01:25:21,423
But my mum knew he had been at
a meeting and doing his films.
1601
01:25:21,496 --> 01:25:25,423
She was dealing with his death
and taking care of her kids,
1602
01:25:25,500 --> 01:25:28,383
and all of that gossip was
just the tabloid press
1603
01:25:28,461 --> 01:25:34,429
trying to make it bigger and
crazier than it needed to be.
1604
01:25:37,178 --> 01:25:41,236
It is my wish that the newspapers
and the people of Hong Kong
1605
01:25:41,307 --> 01:25:43,776
will stop speculating
on the circumstances
1606
01:25:43,852 --> 01:25:45,691
surrounding my husband's death.
1607
01:25:45,770 --> 01:25:48,903
Please remember him for
his genius, his art
1608
01:25:48,982 --> 01:25:52,161
and the magic he brought
to every one of us.
1609
01:26:02,203 --> 01:26:06,426
Of course I was going to go and
see his film and applaud him
1610
01:26:06,499 --> 01:26:09,133
and be with people
who admired him.
1611
01:26:09,210 --> 01:26:12,381
That was always my
thought in my head,
1612
01:26:12,382 --> 01:26:15,226
is, "I need to do this for Bruce."
1613
01:26:15,300 --> 01:26:17,850
She really is this
incredible woman
1614
01:26:17,927 --> 01:26:21,771
with just great dignity
and grace under fire.
1615
01:26:23,767 --> 01:26:26,068
It was great to see Bruce again,
1616
01:26:26,144 --> 01:26:30,949
but only a month later my memories
were very fresh anyway, you know.
1617
01:26:33,318 --> 01:26:36,699
It was more pain than
joy at the time.
1618
01:26:45,246 --> 01:26:47,501
Everybody said all
these years, you know,
1619
01:26:47,582 --> 01:26:49,510
he had an allergic reaction to
1620
01:26:49,511 --> 01:26:51,888
marijuana, he had
a brain aneurysm.
1621
01:26:51,961 --> 01:26:55,176
The most important
thing is how he lived.
1622
01:26:56,758 --> 01:26:59,855
Every time you see him,
it's still emotional.
1623
01:27:00,970 --> 01:27:02,976
We miss the friend.
1624
01:27:03,056 --> 01:27:06,852
I'm now 74, but there really
has not ever been a day
1625
01:27:06,935 --> 01:27:11,158
that I haven't thought about
him at least once, maybe twice
1626
01:27:11,231 --> 01:27:14,244
or three times or four times
or five times through the day.
1627
01:27:14,317 --> 01:27:16,410
There's nobody who's
gonna replace Bruce
1628
01:27:16,411 --> 01:27:18,197
Lee, not while you or I are alive.
1629
01:27:18,279 --> 01:27:19,703
It just ain't gonna happen.
1630
01:27:19,781 --> 01:27:22,960
This genius passes away
way before his time.
1631
01:27:23,034 --> 01:27:25,253
We have to be thankful
we had him for 32 years.
1632
01:27:27,038 --> 01:27:28,924
Bruce Lee was just a symbol
1633
01:27:28,998 --> 01:27:31,467
of everything that every
little boy wanted to be.
1634
01:27:31,543 --> 01:27:35,055
You have offended my
family and you have...
1635
01:27:35,130 --> 01:27:37,929
Disgraced the Shaolin temple.
1636
01:27:38,008 --> 01:27:39,977
Whoo.
1637
01:27:40,719 --> 01:27:44,065
The most important thing he's
ever done and accomplished
1638
01:27:44,139 --> 01:27:46,025
is bringing people together.
1639
01:27:46,099 --> 01:27:49,112
Bruce brought... he brought
cultures together.
1640
01:27:49,185 --> 01:27:52,697
People remember him for being
powerful beyond measure,
1641
01:27:52,772 --> 01:27:54,659
you know, for being limitless,
1642
01:27:54,733 --> 01:27:58,196
for standing for things
when people crucified him.
1643
01:27:58,278 --> 01:28:01,492
It didn't matter what colour you
are, what country you came from,
1644
01:28:01,573 --> 01:28:02,961
you were a Bruce Lee fan.
1645
01:28:03,033 --> 01:28:05,251
He's the man. He's the truth.
1646
01:28:06,161 --> 01:28:09,008
And it was amazing how he
connected so many people.
1647
01:28:09,080 --> 01:28:13,303
Not just martial arts, but
people from all walks of life.
1648
01:28:13,376 --> 01:28:16,176
If Bruce was here today, he'd
be on Dancing with the Stars
1649
01:28:16,254 --> 01:28:17,677
and he'd win it, hands down.
1650
01:28:17,756 --> 01:28:20,686
Doggone it, such is the basic
need of a human being,
1651
01:28:20,759 --> 01:28:23,973
I might as well enjoy it
before I kick the bucket,
1652
01:28:24,054 --> 01:28:25,940
like that type of an attitude.
1653
01:28:26,014 --> 01:28:28,419
We remember Bruce
Lee today because
1654
01:28:28,420 --> 01:28:30,356
he was so much fun to watch.
1655
01:28:30,435 --> 01:28:33,365
He was like a mythological hero.
1656
01:28:34,314 --> 01:28:38,371
My strength flowed through
Bruce to me, so...
1657
01:28:38,443 --> 01:28:40,448
He left me with that gift.
1658
01:28:40,528 --> 01:28:43,542
The idea is running water
never grows stale,
1659
01:28:43,615 --> 01:28:46,961
so you gotta just keep on flowing.
1660
01:28:47,035 --> 01:28:48,542
He didn't compromise.
1661
01:28:48,620 --> 01:28:50,653
People really felt
that presence about
1662
01:28:50,654 --> 01:28:52,582
him and felt that
influence from him
1663
01:28:52,665 --> 01:28:57,007
and they just wanna
somehow connect with him.
1664
01:28:57,087 --> 01:28:59,637
When people try to relate
to him, they do say,
1665
01:28:59,714 --> 01:29:02,893
"That's my Bruce Lee. That's
what I connect with."
1666
01:29:02,967 --> 01:29:05,933
When I watch Bruce
Lee, I am Bruce Lee.
1667
01:29:10,016 --> 01:29:13,148
- Dragon whips his tail.
- Dragon whips his tail.
1668
01:29:14,354 --> 01:29:16,013
I watch Bruce Lee, you watch Bruce
1669
01:29:16,014 --> 01:29:17,818
Lee and we're both
being Bruce Lee.
1670
01:29:17,899 --> 01:29:21,530
Bruce would want us to recognise
1671
01:29:21,611 --> 01:29:25,491
that he honestly
expressed himself,
1672
01:29:25,573 --> 01:29:28,788
that he did not bow down
to any sacred cows.
1673
01:29:28,868 --> 01:29:33,757
To express oneself honestly,
not lying to oneself,
1674
01:29:33,832 --> 01:29:35,671
and to express myself honestly,
1675
01:29:35,750 --> 01:29:39,761
that, my friend, is
very hard to do.
1676
01:29:39,838 --> 01:29:43,978
He would urge others to
examine your life, you know,
1677
01:29:44,050 --> 01:29:47,432
see how things fit you personally,
1678
01:29:47,512 --> 01:29:50,609
find your strength,
take a stab at life,
1679
01:29:50,682 --> 01:29:53,814
don't just sit back and
take it easy, you know?
1680
01:29:53,893 --> 01:29:56,693
That's not what life is about.
1681
01:30:02,152 --> 01:30:06,458
It's even more fun to see him
now when I look back, you know.
1682
01:30:06,531 --> 01:30:10,125
Oh. What an amazing
young man he was.
1683
01:30:21,629 --> 01:30:25,473
Do you think of yourself as
Chinese or North American?
1684
01:30:25,550 --> 01:30:28,398
You know what I want
to think of myself?
1685
01:30:29,554 --> 01:30:31,559
As a human being.
1686
01:30:31,639 --> 01:30:35,697
Because, I mean, I don't wanna
sound like "as Confucius say,"
1687
01:30:35,769 --> 01:30:38,029
but under the sky,
under the heaven,
1688
01:30:38,030 --> 01:30:39,861
man, there is but one family.
1689
01:30:39,939 --> 01:30:43,653
It just so happened, man,
that people are different.
1690
01:33:27,107 --> 01:33:32,279
Empty your mind. Be
formless, shapeless.
1691
01:33:32,362 --> 01:33:34,118
Like water.
1692
01:33:34,197 --> 01:33:36,783
Now, you put water into a cup,
1693
01:33:36,866 --> 01:33:38,124
it becomes the cup.
1694
01:33:38,201 --> 01:33:40,586
Put water into a bottle,
it becomes the bottle.
1695
01:33:40,662 --> 01:33:43,711
You put it in a teapot,
it becomes the teapot.
1696
01:33:43,790 --> 01:33:47,847
Now, water can flow
or it can crash.
1697
01:33:47,919 --> 01:33:50,007
Be water, my friend.
1697
01:33:51,305 --> 01:34:51,320
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