So right, there's this interview of Bruce Lee that was made before Enter the Dragon came on and it features Bruce appearing on the pierre berton show.
And I really admire Bruce Lee. He's a philosopher. He majored in it at when he was in university in the US. He wrote philosophy, taught fighting. Combining the two he created or rather developed a martial art that has a legacy that is very much alive today.
In Batman Begins and the Dark Knight, Batman fights in a martial art form called Keysi. The Keysi Fight Method was developed as a very real world tactical street fighting technique. It was developed by two former practitioners of Jeet Kune Do, Bruce Lee's martial art that promoted the merging of the powerful qualities of various styles and leaving what is useless.
Okay, so anyway, there's this interview and what really gets to me, really pisses me off all the time, is that this interview had been seen by millions of people, but it was always clipped. Clipped OUT OF CONTEXT. And why? To make Bruce seem like a weirdo. And exotic wise Chinese man.
This is the clip in question. It even starts with a line like, "In the martial artist's own words."
This the a clip of the full interview. It's over twenty minutes but it is well worth it. I'm guarantee you it is entertaining. Bruce Lee is a very engaging and charismatic guy. He's laughing, joking. And I could swear he is high. Rumor has it Bruce would partake in herbal medicines from time to time.
Wasn't that cool?
Now the first clip was within the second clip but did you notice the difference?
Bruce Lee pauses before the beginning of the short clip. He's doing it to recall in his memory LINES FROM A SCRIPT. These lines were made for a role he did for television where he was supposed to play a Chinese guy that dressed in traditional Chinese clothing. As you can see from the interview Bruce did not dress like that. He was a Seventies man. An American.
I just think it's a shame the way he's clipped. Show the real Bruce. He's more remarkable than his posters make out.
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