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Test shots 2, take 1.

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Look straight into the camera, Bruce.

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Right into the camera.

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Now three quarters over here. Stay like that.

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And now a profile on the left.
Fine, stay that way.

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Now a profile from the other side.
Stay again.

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Now three quarters on that side.

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And then straight into the camera again.

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Good. The camera now moves backwards.

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And never mind
see some kung fu moves.

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That's hard alone
but I do my best.

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Maybe someone can join in.
- That would...

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Go ahead.
- Stand close to it.

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An accident cannot be ruled out
but anyway...

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There are several strokes.

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It depends where you hit
and what weapon you use.

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Use fingers for the eyes.

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Don't worry.

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The eyes.

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Or straight in the face.

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You can also do it from your waist.

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Just a moment. We turn it
a little, then it will be better visible.

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That's fine.

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I'm sure
that my father didn't quite understand...

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with which machine
he was confronted.

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How systemic it is.

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But I don't think he was naive.

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He just believed
very much in itself.

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There is the direct finger thrust.

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There's the punch.

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The back of the fist and low.

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Then there are the legs.
In the cross or alongside.

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He knew he
had something interesting to share.

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And he knew how hard he was
wanted to work for it.

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He was concerned.
- That's not necessary at all.

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Bruce Lee stayed in America for twelve years.

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He returned to Hong Kong in 1971,
his parents' hometown.

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He shot four films in two years.

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Hollywood had rejected him.

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He wanted to show that an Asian
could be a strong protagonist.

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When Bruce got a proposal to
to make a first film in Hong Kong...

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he decided to take a look
how it happened...

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and how he was received.

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He went to the midnight premiere
from The Big Boss.

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The first showing of The Big Boss.

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Bruce hadn't seen him yet.

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And Bruce always said that Hongkongers
really react to a film.

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If they don't like it,
you will be greeted with boos.

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THE BIG BOSS
1971

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The script of The Big Boss
wasn't really any good.

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Production was substandard.

52
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But Bruce Lee himself was phenomenal.

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That persona and that energy.

54
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That love affair with the camera
was there immediately and she was powerful.

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Have martial arts skills
a deeper meaning for me...

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because as an actor,
as a martial arts practitioner and as a human being...

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I have learned a lot
from martial arts.

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We sat in the back.
The cinema room was full.

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And when the movie was over,
the whole room was silent.

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Nothing.

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Suddenly everyone started cheering
and shouting and clapping.

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They went crazy.

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They cheered Bruce. They knew
meanwhile he was sitting in the room.

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And they carried him out of the room.
It was unbelievable. Really beautiful.

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Then he knew it was right.

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If it's beyond all expectations
will be a success...

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he is as surprised as the rest.

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He tastes it for the first time
of being a movie star.

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Like a movie at that time
raised a million Hong Kong dollars...

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120,000 US dollars,
then that was a big deal in Hong Kong.

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Then you would be a movie star.

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And your film grossed two million,
then you were a superstar.

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What do you think of his kung fu?
- Very fast and powerful.

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His technique is top notch.
- He's in a class of his own.

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Bruce Lee is incredible.

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He doesn't like to waste time.
He takes the bull by the horns.

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Is Bruce Lee your hero?
- Yes.

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What do you like so much about him?

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He always wins against the bad guys
and he moves very fast.

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He's not an action hero
like Eastwood or Bronson.

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He's more of a Nureyev.

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Hong Kong was one in the 1970s
very dynamic and exciting city.

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There were many communities.

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American soldiers relaxed there
during the Vietnam War.

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It was a city
who partied day and night.

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It was a kind of Wild East
where everything was possible.

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China was dominated for a century and
been humiliated by the West.

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A lot was left hanging.
There was a lot of anger.

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Hong Kong is experiencing now
his own revolution of youth.

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Student protest on the street...

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tensions between the British
colonial authorities and Hong Kongers.

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The police come by.
Things are thrown.

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This is an anti-British rally.

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Bruce found it British
colonial rule corrupt.

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He was a nationalist...

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in the sense that he wanted it to be Chinese
people were free and independent.

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When The Big Boss caught on,
he wanted to repeat that success.

98
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But the next film had to be bigger
and get better. And it was.

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Fist of Fury was
a much larger production.

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The movie gave Bruce
the opportunity to show...

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how a protagonist
had to behave and dress...

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and how the fight scenes
should look like.

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We see it Shanghai
of colonial times.

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Hey, kid. What are you doing here?

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Shanghai was occupied, humiliated
and insulted by foreigners.

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Pretend you're our dog
and I'll let you in.

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Bruce Lee packs a lot of emotion
in a very passionate explosion.

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We were in Hong Kong in 1972.

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It was a moment
whereupon people in a colony said:

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Yeah, we're not going to take it anymore
to be second class citizens.

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It was high time.

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Fist of Fury wasn't just focused
against Japanese colonialists...

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but also against the West.

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The film is very cathartic.

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SICK MAN FROM EAST ASIA

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People started to react strongly
on the racism of the West.

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This time you eat paper.

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Next time it's glass.

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Bruce had now realized...

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He wasn't quite
broke through in Hollywood...

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but he knew
that it could be done there.

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Hollywood was the main stage
and Hong Kong would always remain an afterthought.

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The question became: can we make our films?
sell to the rest of the world?

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This is the Pierre Berton Show.

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Bruce Lee, the Mandarin superstar.

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Recording December 9, 1971
in Hong Kong.

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Bruce Lee faces a dilemma.
He's about to break through in America...

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but he is as an actor
already a superstar here in Hong Kong.

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00:12:01,780 --> 00:12:04,221
What does he choose?
The East or the West?

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What are you going to do? You can do both
live worlds? Do you want both?

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I'm gonna do both
because I have already decided.

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The United States must
getting to know the East...

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and by that I mean the real East.

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That's where Hollywood has failed.
- Say so.

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I only have very abstract ones
memories of him.

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I remember our house
and the movie studios.

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I remember glimpses here and there.

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But I remember very well
what he was like on an energetic level.

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What it was like to be with him...

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to feel his love,
to play together.

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And I know him too
through his own words.

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12 years earlier

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May 16, 1960.

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Dear Hawkins,
Now I'm really on my own.

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Since I've been in this country, I have
didn't spend any of my father's money.

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I have a part-time job now
job as a waiter after school.

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I can tell you: it's tough, boy.
I'm always busy.

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My friend, get well soon.
Your friend, Bruce.

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Bruce moved from Hong Kong
to Seattle at eighteen.

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He had gotten himself into trouble
and was ready for a new start.

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He was a handsome young man
and very resourceful.

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He wanted to prove that to his father
he could continue studying without him.

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When I met him,
Bruce was a slight man.

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I think he was then
weighed about sixty kilos.

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He called me Roy.

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When Bruce moves to the US,
he suddenly belongs to a minority.

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A Chinese minority
in a white country.

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He becomes like any immigrant
confronted with questions.

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Who will I be? What is my identity?
How do I express myself?

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And how can I be seen
in this society?

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My father worked
at Ruby Chow's restaurant.

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And at the same time he studied
Wing Chun, on his own.

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He was always interested
in martial arts events.

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Many Japanese martial arts were
quite popular, such as karate and judo.

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But not Chinese kung fu.

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He saw an opportunity there...

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and he left people
take lessons with him.

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In a parking garage
and those places.

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It was very atraditional
approach to martial arts.

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Many Chinese gave
no lessons for westerners.

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He was looked down upon
in the community.

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He breaks the barrier.

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Bruce taught whoever wanted it.

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It didn't matter
whether you were Chinese or not.

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I'm a while
been very close to him.

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He sometimes switched to it
Cantonese and then I had to say:

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I don't understand it at all.

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He looks for ways
to mask his accent.

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He becomes familiar with life
of America's youth.

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He sees working people
class, colored people...

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and thus an idea is formed
of who he wants to become.

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I helped him with how he...
had to behave on the street...

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and how to read people.

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Adopting postures.
What was cool behavior and what wasn't.

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Bruce was the streets of Hong Kong
used to and not ours.

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He learned a lot about America...

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out of ten boys
whom he took under his wing.

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Good or bad, we taught him
know American life.

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Who am I?

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That's the age-old question
that every person asks themselves at some point.

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He looks in the mirror
and recognizes his own face.

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He knows his name,
age and history.

193
00:17:28,721 --> 00:17:33,332
And yet he asks himself
deep down: who am I?

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I guess we never
can forget what we are.

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How we look
you can't run away from that.

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I taught him the importance
of being proud of your origins.

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He found that attractive
that I didn't take any bullshit.

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And he had that too.
He was also ethnocentric himself.

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I felt like me
didn't have to apologize to anyone.

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Especially as a Japanese-American,
by the Second World War.

201
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He knew what I had been through
in the relocation camps.

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A hundred thousand men, women
and children of Japanese descent...

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brought together
to reduce the threat...

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at a time
that the chance of an invasion was real.

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00:18:28,137 --> 00:18:30,097
Upon arrival, each family had to...

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The Japanese were imprisoned.

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You can do it
call concentration camps.

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They spoke of relocation camps.

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00:18:41,566 --> 00:18:45,290
To fight the Japanese
and do it thoroughly...

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we must study thoroughly
how they think.

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The Asian community was here
confusing to white Americans.

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The Japanese were
the bad guys, right?

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00:19:00,210 --> 00:19:04,213
The slit eyes that against
the Americans fought in the war...

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and did terrible things.

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...relentless destruction
of unarmed cities

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and defenseless people.

217
00:19:11,675 --> 00:19:18,410
The Vietnamese were whole again
bad because they were communists.

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And the Chinese were the anomaly.

219
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Was China good or was China bad?

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The Chinese were already in the years
1830 brought here for one reason:

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as cheap labor
for the construction of the West.

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The stereotype is that they are submissive,
be quiet and very diligent.

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Then there was the turnout
of a white working class...

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led by Irish Americans.

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They managed to create a smear campaign
against Chinese Americans.

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And so became the Chinese Exclusion Act
approved in 1882.

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It was the first time that one group
people were explicitly banned.

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The Chinese got literal
not seen as people.

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00:20:19,268 --> 00:20:24,515
I ask you to stand up
and fight with me...

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to give America back
to the Americans.

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00:20:30,976 --> 00:20:33,697
It's like a victim
of rape.

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00:20:33,822 --> 00:20:37,786
A victim whose constitutional
rights have been violated...

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don't like to talk about that.

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He also points the blame
not with the finger.

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He sees himself
as the person responsible...

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of that terrible crime.

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On to the experiences
to listen to those people...

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Bruce gets an idea of how
it comes across to white Americans.

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00:21:06,215 --> 00:21:09,703
Asians were dismissed as different.

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Jesse, Bruce and I went out often.

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00:21:24,991 --> 00:21:30,724
And then we switched girlfriends,
so that the races were mixed.

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00:21:32,207 --> 00:21:36,377
We wanted to see
whether anyone would speak to us about it.

243
00:21:39,023 --> 00:21:41,624
We went
to Buddhist dance parties...

244
00:21:41,749 --> 00:21:45,557
rhythm and blues evenings,
but also the popular things.

245
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,442
I called him a kinetic genius.

246
00:21:49,567 --> 00:21:54,453
Then I gave him a double pirouette
learned, all he had to do was watch.

247
00:21:54,578 --> 00:21:58,828
He did it perfectly.
That was astonishing.

248
00:22:00,391 --> 00:22:06,405
He was a fantastic dancer,
but romance wasn't his thing.

249
00:22:11,496 --> 00:22:13,461
We just grew apart.

250
00:22:14,383 --> 00:22:18,873
Bruce had many assets,
but for me that wasn't enough.

251
00:22:22,802 --> 00:22:25,724
September 1962.

252
00:22:25,849 --> 00:22:32,138
Dear Pearl, in this letter
represent my dreams and thoughts.

253
00:22:32,263 --> 00:22:35,431
You would call it my way of life
can name.

254
00:22:37,394 --> 00:22:40,317
Ideas is true America
is looking for.

255
00:22:40,442 --> 00:22:42,963
America has ideas
made it what it is...

256
00:22:43,087 --> 00:22:46,576
and one good idea makes a man
to what he wants to be.

257
00:22:48,901 --> 00:22:51,182
If you have a stone
dropped in a puddle...

258
00:22:51,307 --> 00:22:57,355
the stone makes circles that expand
until they fill the entire puddle.

259
00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:02,532
This is exactly what will happen if I
pours my ideas into an action plan.

260
00:23:03,535 --> 00:23:05,859
Kind regards, Bruce.

261
00:23:09,829 --> 00:23:14,033
My father opened
his first official school...

262
00:23:14,158 --> 00:23:19,250
the Jun Fan Kung Fu Institute,
in 1963 in Seattle.

263
00:23:20,052 --> 00:23:22,693
That was a transition period.

264
00:23:22,818 --> 00:23:26,341
When he saw that there was money
could be earned...

265
00:23:26,466 --> 00:23:30,154
crocheted
his original students.

266
00:23:31,317 --> 00:23:35,406
In retrospect, Bruce
always had an agenda.

267
00:23:36,088 --> 00:23:40,293
He was now a product,
not a friend and teacher.

268
00:23:40,418 --> 00:23:45,068
He opened that studio
and that's where he met Linda.

269
00:23:46,792 --> 00:23:49,394
His goal has always been...

270
00:23:49,518 --> 00:23:53,282
to the beauty of the Chinese
show culture to the world.

271
00:23:53,407 --> 00:23:55,653
And he started with me.

272
00:23:59,741 --> 00:24:02,343
We studied
at the same university.

273
00:24:02,468 --> 00:24:08,076
There was a place with white columns
and a large lawn...

274
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,361
and there we practiced kung fu.

275
00:24:10,486 --> 00:24:13,569
He was very smooth and personable.

276
00:24:13,694 --> 00:24:17,377
He practically explained how to do it
standing and what you had to do.

277
00:24:17,502 --> 00:24:19,943
Okay, Linda, hold your arms like this.

278
00:24:20,068 --> 00:24:24,192
He threw me over his shoulder
and I lay flat on the ground.

279
00:24:24,317 --> 00:24:28,968
He leaned over me and asked:
Would you like to visit the Space Needle?

280
00:24:29,810 --> 00:24:31,409
Yes, please.

281
00:24:31,534 --> 00:24:34,220
That was our first date.

282
00:24:38,550 --> 00:24:42,519
He loved the lifestyle
that you could lead in America.

283
00:24:42,879 --> 00:24:49,129
He then wanted to establish kung fu schools
all over the country.

284
00:24:49,254 --> 00:24:52,822
He had big dreams,
grand ambitions.

285
00:24:57,593 --> 00:25:03,481
He wanted me to taste it
Chinese dishes and Chinese movies.

286
00:25:03,606 --> 00:25:08,814
We went with the whole group
kung fu students go to the cinema...

287
00:25:08,939 --> 00:25:11,465
to watch The Orphan.

288
00:25:14,512 --> 00:25:20,525
He appeared on the screen
and turned out to be the star too.

289
00:25:21,647 --> 00:25:25,857
I was completely perplexed.
I didn't know what I saw.

290
00:25:26,459 --> 00:25:28,624
He was a movie star.

291
00:25:29,546 --> 00:25:33,234
I looked at him and I said: Is that you?

292
00:25:33,915 --> 00:25:35,875
And he said: Yes.

293
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,087
But he found that
nothing extraordinary.

294
00:25:39,849 --> 00:25:43,136
He looked at it as:
that was my job as a teenager.

295
00:25:48,388 --> 00:25:52,794
First a short biography.
You were born in San Francisco?

296
00:25:52,919 --> 00:25:58,246
Beats. November 27, 1940.
Sagittarius.

297
00:25:58,371 --> 00:25:59,693
A diplomat.

298
00:26:00,776 --> 00:26:03,578
He was born in Chinatown
from San Francisco.

299
00:26:03,703 --> 00:26:07,311
Nothing leans in America
closer to Hong Kong.

300
00:26:08,875 --> 00:26:11,316
It is by far the largest Chinatown...

301
00:26:11,441 --> 00:26:13,841
by immigration
of Chinese workers...

302
00:26:13,966 --> 00:26:15,971
following the gold rush.

303
00:26:17,494 --> 00:26:20,777
Your father was quite famous
in Chinese opera?

304
00:26:20,902 --> 00:26:22,140
That's right.

305
00:26:22,265 --> 00:26:26,109
What was his name?
-Lee H-o...

306
00:26:26,234 --> 00:26:31,481
Lee Hoi-chuen and company
ended up in Chinatown...

307
00:26:31,606 --> 00:26:34,729
because they earned well
by touring in the US.

308
00:26:34,854 --> 00:26:41,424
My grandmother traveled with me.
She was pregnant with my father at the time.

309
00:26:41,549 --> 00:26:45,237
And that's why my father is
born in San Francisco.

310
00:26:45,678 --> 00:26:48,685
He is an American citizen.

311
00:26:53,335 --> 00:26:57,420
Bruce Lee starred in films
since he was a baby.

312
00:26:57,545 --> 00:27:01,308
He literally grew up
on the Hong Kong film sets...

313
00:27:01,433 --> 00:27:04,601
and in the wings
of Cantonese opera.

314
00:27:07,086 --> 00:27:13,817
In 1940, when Bruce was born,
my grandmother called my father.

315
00:27:13,942 --> 00:27:19,113
She said: There's a war coming
in Hong Kong with the Japanese.

316
00:27:19,956 --> 00:27:24,241
But my father was a real one
Chinese. Family for everything.

317
00:27:24,366 --> 00:27:25,844
We're coming home.

318
00:27:25,969 --> 00:27:29,377
If something happens,
then with the whole family.

319
00:27:29,939 --> 00:27:33,301
And soon after you are
moved to Hong Kong?

320
00:27:33,426 --> 00:27:36,308
Yes, when I was three months old.

321
00:27:36,433 --> 00:27:40,718
My father came
from a poor fishing family.

322
00:27:40,843 --> 00:27:45,089
My mother was her uncle
the first millionaire in Hong Kong.

323
00:27:45,214 --> 00:27:48,220
His name was Sir Robert Ho Tung.

324
00:27:49,704 --> 00:27:57,321
Bruce Lee's mother, Grace Lee,
was of European descent.

325
00:27:58,243 --> 00:28:01,085
We were quite wealthy.

326
00:28:01,209 --> 00:28:04,898
We had two maids
and a driver.

327
00:28:06,381 --> 00:28:10,225
My father also took care
for his older brother's family.

328
00:28:10,350 --> 00:28:14,079
There were always fifteen,
sixteen people.

329
00:28:18,208 --> 00:28:20,453
Bruce was a free spirit.

330
00:28:21,375 --> 00:28:24,177
He's always been a rascal.

331
00:28:24,302 --> 00:28:27,428
Not good at learning,
good at fighting.

332
00:28:33,081 --> 00:28:36,885
Many celebrities came by
with my father.

333
00:28:37,010 --> 00:28:43,024
A director-producer saw
that Bruce was very active.

334
00:28:43,826 --> 00:28:48,637
He said: Maybe you should have him
play a small role.

335
00:28:49,599 --> 00:28:53,047
He seems like a born actor to me.

336
00:28:54,731 --> 00:28:57,613
So my father let him
play some small roles.

337
00:28:57,738 --> 00:29:04,072
I'm an important man now.
My teacher is Flash Knife Lee.

338
00:29:05,556 --> 00:29:10,202
He played at the age of nine
in the movie The Kid.

339
00:29:10,327 --> 00:29:17,056
He symbolized someone who had it
had had a hard time.

340
00:29:17,181 --> 00:29:21,672
Uncle, here's some money for food.
- I don't want your dirty money.

341
00:29:22,434 --> 00:29:25,155
It's a Chinese saying:
yik fu si tim.

342
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:29,726
Enjoy the sweet
and remember the bitter.

343
00:29:29,851 --> 00:29:31,690
A nostalgia for suffering.

344
00:29:31,815 --> 00:29:34,777
Go ahead.
- I don't want to stab you.

345
00:29:34,902 --> 00:29:37,703
How dare you? Your parents are dead.

346
00:29:37,828 --> 00:29:41,232
Your uncle worked so hard
to help you.

347
00:29:41,356 --> 00:29:44,724
And what has it achieved?
You want to stab me.

348
00:29:45,856 --> 00:29:49,861
My father didn't want to at first
that he went into showbiz...

349
00:29:49,986 --> 00:29:53,349
but the films he starred in
did very well.

350
00:29:53,474 --> 00:29:58,044
He was one of the greatest
child actors, so he allowed it.

351
00:30:01,011 --> 00:30:04,574
At what age did you start
study martial arts?

352
00:30:04,699 --> 00:30:06,659
Thirteen.
- Thirteen?

353
00:30:06,784 --> 00:30:09,305
Have you had any known senseis?

354
00:30:09,430 --> 00:30:17,363
I studied under Yip Man
in Chinese martial arts.

355
00:30:17,488 --> 00:30:21,372
The style is wing chun.

356
00:30:21,497 --> 00:30:26,103
At school they said:
who do you think you are?

357
00:30:26,228 --> 00:30:29,271
And he was beaten up.

358
00:30:29,395 --> 00:30:36,125
He thought: I have to teach myself
defend if necessary.

359
00:30:36,250 --> 00:30:39,658
As a human being you are always sitting
in a learning process.

360
00:30:41,823 --> 00:30:45,748
Yip Man had a broad view
on martial arts.

361
00:30:45,873 --> 00:30:49,075
He wasn't narrow-minded about that.

362
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:53,490
I think Bruce Lee
was his ideal student.

363
00:30:56,536 --> 00:31:03,588
My instructor said to me:
relax and calm your mind.

364
00:31:03,713 --> 00:31:07,797
Forget yourself and follow
your opponent's movements.

365
00:31:07,922 --> 00:31:13,490
Let your mind do counter movements
without any thoughtfulness.

366
00:31:13,615 --> 00:31:17,223
Above all, learn
the art of letting go.

367
00:31:20,831 --> 00:31:27,122
After many hours of meditation and practice
I gave up and went sailing alone.

368
00:31:27,247 --> 00:31:29,607
At sea I thought about my training.

369
00:31:29,732 --> 00:31:33,135
I was angry with myself
and struck the water.

370
00:31:33,260 --> 00:31:37,986
At that very moment
something occurred to me.

371
00:31:38,111 --> 00:31:41,639
Do not wash this water
the essence of kung fu?

372
00:31:43,282 --> 00:31:48,334
This water, the softest substance
on earth, only seemed weak.

373
00:31:48,735 --> 00:31:53,261
In reality it could be the loudest
substance penetrates the earth.

374
00:31:53,386 --> 00:31:58,157
That's it. I wanted to be like water.

375
00:32:03,248 --> 00:32:05,969
He was already good at wing chun.

376
00:32:06,094 --> 00:32:12,303
There was another style, choy li fut,
and they were always fighting each other.

377
00:32:12,428 --> 00:32:15,636
There was fighting on rooftops.

378
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:21,605
Bruce came home with bruises
or sometimes with a black eye...

379
00:32:21,729 --> 00:32:25,939
and my father didn't accept that.

380
00:32:33,115 --> 00:32:40,288
Starred in 1960's The Orphan
Bruce Lee more or less himself.

381
00:32:40,412 --> 00:32:42,657
A young delinquent.

382
00:32:51,237 --> 00:32:56,283
The final straw then was one
undercover agent my mother spoke.

383
00:32:56,408 --> 00:33:02,699
Your son fought. We are
afraid he will join a gang.

384
00:33:02,823 --> 00:33:08,435
If he doesn't stop,
we'll have to catch him.

385
00:33:09,397 --> 00:33:13,282
My father said:
He was born in America...

386
00:33:13,407 --> 00:33:16,690
and we have friends there
who can take care of him.

387
00:33:16,815 --> 00:33:22,467
We can send it back
and see what he makes of it alone.

388
00:33:29,604 --> 00:33:33,328
Sam, you had as a child
no parents to take care of you.

389
00:33:33,453 --> 00:33:36,820
I remember
the day before his departure.

390
00:33:37,501 --> 00:33:40,023
I was sleeping and he woke me up.

391
00:33:40,148 --> 00:33:46,241
Robert, I'm leaving tomorrow and I know
not what awaits me.

392
00:33:47,123 --> 00:33:49,525
I never had it before
so uncertain.

393
00:33:49,649 --> 00:33:53,979
He was concerned. He didn't know
what to expect. He was afraid.

394
00:33:54,741 --> 00:33:59,351
He was only eighteen,
but it was decided.

395
00:34:00,233 --> 00:34:04,884
My father sent him to America
with only a hundred dollars in his pocket.

396
00:34:16,047 --> 00:34:19,970
When we were dating
we often went to the movies.

397
00:34:20,095 --> 00:34:22,497
This is how we saw Breakfast at Tiffany's.

398
00:34:22,622 --> 00:34:26,665
Mrs. Golightly, I protest.

399
00:34:26,790 --> 00:34:29,152
Mickey Rooney looked ridiculous.

400
00:34:29,276 --> 00:34:33,642
Bruce was embarrassed
that his culture was presented this way.

401
00:34:33,767 --> 00:34:38,853
If you don't have that gramophone
immediately, I'll call the police.

402
00:34:38,978 --> 00:34:41,740
Asian Americans on screen...

403
00:34:41,865 --> 00:34:49,036
were either crazy, maniacal,
robotic stereotypes...

404
00:34:49,161 --> 00:34:52,324
or they served whites.

405
00:34:52,449 --> 00:34:55,090
The coolie earns ten cents a day.

406
00:34:55,215 --> 00:34:59,060
Dear ladies, dear gentlemen,
May I introduce myself?

407
00:34:59,185 --> 00:35:05,639
Hollywood always had Asians
openly racist.

408
00:35:08,245 --> 00:35:10,290
She has 39 sticks?

409
00:35:11,131 --> 00:35:13,737
A stack like a pagoda.

410
00:35:14,458 --> 00:35:17,822
Hollywood left a white man
playing a Chinese...

411
00:35:17,946 --> 00:35:20,473
instead of a Chinese one
to give that role.

412
00:35:21,835 --> 00:35:27,043
Talk to Nancy Kwan. Talk
with the actors who were there at the time.

413
00:35:27,168 --> 00:35:28,767
Yes, who am I speaking to?

414
00:35:28,892 --> 00:35:33,422
I can't imagine Asian leads
remember from then.

415
00:35:34,625 --> 00:35:36,950
They were played by white people.

416
00:35:38,193 --> 00:35:40,714
John Wayne played Genghis Khan.

417
00:35:40,839 --> 00:35:43,200
Under whose authority
are you crossing my country?

418
00:35:43,324 --> 00:35:45,163
My instinct says: take her.

419
00:35:45,288 --> 00:35:49,012
The Chinese community spoke
no real shame about it...

420
00:35:49,137 --> 00:35:52,099
even if it was unheard of.
Casting white people?

421
00:35:52,224 --> 00:35:54,826
Life at its best
is barely bearable.

422
00:35:54,951 --> 00:35:58,358
How can you be so callous?
What kind of man are you?

423
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:04,689
Protruding teeth, glasses
and small, frail figures.

424
00:36:04,813 --> 00:36:10,185
Most Asian men
was instilled: this is what you are.

425
00:36:11,108 --> 00:36:15,272
Asian protagonists are allowed
don't kiss white women.

426
00:36:15,397 --> 00:36:18,078
They are allowed alone
Asian women kissing.

427
00:36:18,203 --> 00:36:22,573
Well, you turn your head to one side
and I turn my head to the other side.

428
00:36:26,422 --> 00:36:27,981
Smart, those Chinese.

429
00:36:28,106 --> 00:36:35,082
There are no roles for anyone else
aspect of their humanity.

430
00:36:39,612 --> 00:36:42,454
October 20, 1963.

431
00:36:42,579 --> 00:36:46,668
To the sweetest girl,
of the man who appreciates her.

432
00:36:47,590 --> 00:36:52,076
Linda, contented life
with few resources...

433
00:36:52,201 --> 00:36:56,165
carry everything cheerfully,
do everything courageously...

434
00:36:56,289 --> 00:36:59,537
waiting for opportunities, never rushing.

435
00:37:00,419 --> 00:37:05,706
In other words: the spiritual
unsolicited and unconscious...

436
00:37:05,831 --> 00:37:08,358
grow through the ordinary.

437
00:37:08,758 --> 00:37:10,057
Bruce.

438
00:37:13,168 --> 00:37:18,295
That Bruce chose it
to marry a white man...

439
00:37:18,420 --> 00:37:22,389
showed what he already thought about America.

440
00:37:25,476 --> 00:37:31,845
There were still states
which banned interracial marriages.

441
00:37:31,970 --> 00:37:34,091
It was looked down upon.

442
00:37:34,216 --> 00:37:39,267
My mother had a hard time with it
that Bruce and I wanted to get married.

443
00:37:41,271 --> 00:37:46,880
She asked us to wait,
but we had already made plans.

444
00:37:47,005 --> 00:37:51,615
And when she met him,
she really started to love him.

445
00:37:56,756 --> 00:37:59,999
I met Bruce Lee in July 1964...

446
00:38:00,123 --> 00:38:03,972
after a demonstration at the
international karate championship.

447
00:38:05,055 --> 00:38:09,385
Bruce Lee stood for the first time
for a large audience.

448
00:38:12,712 --> 00:38:15,554
Kung fu originated in China.

449
00:38:15,679 --> 00:38:19,804
It is the precursor
of karate and jiu-jitsu.

450
00:38:19,929 --> 00:38:24,375
It is more complete and smoother.
It blends together.

451
00:38:24,499 --> 00:38:30,032
There is continuity instead of one
or two movements and then stop.

452
00:38:31,836 --> 00:38:35,038
The best example is a glass of water.

453
00:38:35,163 --> 00:38:39,008
Water is the softest
substance on earth...

454
00:38:39,133 --> 00:38:43,221
and yet it can be stone
or granite penetration.

455
00:38:44,024 --> 00:38:48,113
You can't grab it.
You can't hit it or hurt it.

456
00:38:49,516 --> 00:38:53,240
Every kung fu practitioner wants
are soft as water and flexible.

457
00:38:53,365 --> 00:38:56,171
He adapts to the opponent.

458
00:38:59,258 --> 00:39:04,069
Bruce Lee was then searching,
to what he called the truth.

459
00:39:04,790 --> 00:39:07,552
He wanted to get rid of the different styles...

460
00:39:07,677 --> 00:39:11,967
and he promoted simplicity
and a lack of tradition.

461
00:39:12,769 --> 00:39:15,731
Nobody thought that way.
He had a different view.

462
00:39:15,856 --> 00:39:18,942
And I loved it
what he showed.

463
00:39:22,510 --> 00:39:28,524
1964 and 1965 were key years.
A lot happened.

464
00:39:30,248 --> 00:39:32,088
To Taki Kamura.

465
00:39:32,213 --> 00:39:36,698
February 1, 1965. Our baby is here.

466
00:39:36,823 --> 00:39:39,870
Name: Brandon B. Lee.

467
00:39:40,592 --> 00:39:43,398
A big, healthy boy of course.

468
00:39:49,612 --> 00:39:54,619
A week after Brandon was born,
Bruce's father died.

469
00:39:54,744 --> 00:39:59,314
It was unexpected
and Bruce was really devastated.

470
00:40:00,477 --> 00:40:03,965
It was a tough loss for him.

471
00:40:09,137 --> 00:40:12,019
He cried.
He was crying with tears.

472
00:40:12,143 --> 00:40:19,680
He knew his father was taking him to the US
sent with only 100 dollars...

473
00:40:21,605 --> 00:40:23,409
but that was good for him.

474
00:40:29,222 --> 00:40:35,636
Before he went to America,
he was concerned with ostentation.

475
00:40:36,799 --> 00:40:41,887
He had his looks,
he had his nice clothes.

476
00:40:42,011 --> 00:40:45,859
He thought that was why it was doable.

477
00:40:48,145 --> 00:40:54,876
But when he went to America, he saw...
he what life was really about.

478
00:40:55,001 --> 00:40:58,729
Be independent
and be responsible for yourself.

479
00:40:59,611 --> 00:41:03,219
And not just for yourself,
also for your family.

480
00:41:08,551 --> 00:41:13,878
I was home. The phone rang and
it was William Dozier's office.

481
00:41:14,003 --> 00:41:17,973
I didn't know who he was.
A producer, they said.

482
00:41:21,140 --> 00:41:26,869
Now we know that at that tournament
in Long Beach in 1964...

483
00:41:26,993 --> 00:41:30,196
a man named Jay Sebring was in the audience.

484
00:41:30,321 --> 00:41:33,323
He was the barber
of many Hollywood stars.

485
00:41:33,448 --> 00:41:38,615
Jay saw my father at a demonstration
and he was very impressed.

486
00:41:38,740 --> 00:41:43,386
And he knew that his customer,
Hollywood producer William Dozier...

487
00:41:43,511 --> 00:41:48,041
was looking for an Asian
actor for a TV show.

488
00:41:49,564 --> 00:41:53,890
When Bruce came home, I said:
You'll never believe this.

489
00:41:54,015 --> 00:42:00,825
A producer in Hollywood wants
that you are going to do a screen test.

490
00:42:00,950 --> 00:42:04,719
He was perplexed. He was really surprised.

491
00:42:06,844 --> 00:42:13,173
Bruce had never told me
that he wanted to start acting again.

492
00:42:13,298 --> 00:42:16,461
He was still focused on his goal...

493
00:42:16,585 --> 00:42:20,194
to open martial arts schools
all over the country.

494
00:42:26,488 --> 00:42:28,493
Test shot 2, take 1

495
00:42:30,136 --> 00:42:35,107
Bruce, look into the lens and tell us
your name, age and place of birth.

496
00:42:35,949 --> 00:42:38,309
My last name is Lee. Bruce Lee.

497
00:42:38,434 --> 00:42:42,399
I was born in San Francisco,
in 1940. I am 24 years old.

498
00:42:42,524 --> 00:42:45,125
You just became a father?
- Yes.

499
00:42:45,250 --> 00:42:49,295
And you didn't sleep very well?
- Three nights already.

500
00:42:49,420 --> 00:42:50,778
Tell the crew...

501
00:42:50,903 --> 00:42:53,304
That screen test shows what Bruce was like.

502
00:42:53,429 --> 00:42:56,110
It's especially in the morning because...

503
00:42:56,235 --> 00:42:59,438
He was a smooth
confident man.

504
00:42:59,563 --> 00:43:01,443
He knew how to handle it.

505
00:43:01,568 --> 00:43:06,098
He just introduced himself
as he was.

506
00:43:06,578 --> 00:43:12,347
The camera goes backwards. Never mind
see some kung fu moves, Bruce.

507
00:43:12,472 --> 00:43:14,276
This is the crane.

508
00:43:14,917 --> 00:43:16,241
I start.

509
00:43:24,419 --> 00:43:25,718
The tiger.

510
00:43:26,424 --> 00:43:28,424
You start out as a tiger.

511
00:43:28,549 --> 00:43:32,958
You claw the face or you lash out
with the crane's beak.

512
00:43:37,048 --> 00:43:40,130
Those are just movements.
- Thank you very much.

513
00:43:40,255 --> 00:43:42,536
That's what we mean by simplicity.

514
00:43:42,661 --> 00:43:48,108
They were so impressed that they...
wanted to find him a house.

515
00:43:48,233 --> 00:43:54,202
They paid Bruce $1,800, like that
We had never seen much money before...

516
00:43:54,327 --> 00:43:57,213
for him there
eighteen months.

517
00:43:58,897 --> 00:44:00,381
Excuse me.

518
00:44:04,069 --> 00:44:06,710
Much violence was used.

519
00:44:06,835 --> 00:44:11,562
Negroes were beaten and
hunted with dogs and drovers.

520
00:44:11,687 --> 00:44:15,931
The sixties was a time
of unrest and social change.

521
00:44:16,056 --> 00:44:20,461
You had the human rights movement
by Martin Luther King...

522
00:44:20,586 --> 00:44:22,827
the marches on Washington.

523
00:44:22,952 --> 00:44:26,355
Who taught you
to hate the texture of your hair?

524
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:33,375
To hate your skin color so much that
you bleach your skin to appear white.

525
00:44:35,380 --> 00:44:38,302
Tragedies happened during that time.

526
00:44:38,427 --> 00:44:42,912
President Kennedy and
Martin Luther King were assassinated.

527
00:44:43,037 --> 00:44:47,167
Martin Luther King is tonight
shot dead in Memphis.

528
00:44:47,928 --> 00:44:51,612
Bruce had the feeling
that the country was in trouble...

529
00:44:51,737 --> 00:44:54,980
because of all those racial conflicts.

530
00:44:55,104 --> 00:44:58,908
The whites are my enemy.
Not the Vietcongs or the Chinese.

531
00:44:59,033 --> 00:45:02,517
You're working against me
if I want freedom and justice.

532
00:45:02,641 --> 00:45:07,447
If I want equality. You come
doesn't even matter to me and my faith.

533
00:45:07,572 --> 00:45:11,823
You want me to go fight somewhere
and you don't stand up for me at home.

534
00:45:12,624 --> 00:45:16,428
Bruce was aware
of the Black Liberation movement.

535
00:45:16,553 --> 00:45:21,084
He expected black Americans
would stand up for their rights.

536
00:45:22,968 --> 00:45:27,694
African Americans found
more and more support...

537
00:45:27,819 --> 00:45:33,071
for civil and human rights
of all Americans.

538
00:45:34,955 --> 00:45:41,164
The gist was: African Americans
shout too loudly. Look at the Asians.

539
00:45:41,289 --> 00:45:45,013
If they were a bit quieter and more docile
were like the Asians...

540
00:45:45,138 --> 00:45:48,065
they might achieve more.

541
00:45:49,949 --> 00:45:54,961
As an American
whose ancestors came from Japan...

542
00:45:55,883 --> 00:45:58,768
I have already several times
got the question:

543
00:45:59,771 --> 00:46:02,572
why don't niggers act like you?

544
00:46:02,697 --> 00:46:07,143
In that shameful one
racial hierarchy in America...

545
00:46:07,268 --> 00:46:12,034
Asians were treated better
than black Americans.

546
00:46:12,159 --> 00:46:18,930
The myth of the model minority is
the stereotype of the docile Asian.

547
00:46:19,055 --> 00:46:26,948
He adapts and doesn't complain about it
discrimination, poverty and exclusion.

548
00:46:27,073 --> 00:46:30,115
He keeps a low profile, works...

549
00:46:30,240 --> 00:46:33,929
and follows the rules
that white society imposes.

550
00:46:34,891 --> 00:46:39,015
We were never treated
as full human beings.

551
00:46:39,140 --> 00:46:42,303
We always became
pushed into a corner.

552
00:46:42,428 --> 00:46:45,554
And for me it is
blatant racism.

553
00:46:51,448 --> 00:46:55,694
Meanwhile, Bruce was waiting
on his chance in Hollywood.

554
00:46:55,818 --> 00:46:59,822
Finally they saw that they
The Green Hornet would make...

555
00:46:59,947 --> 00:47:02,269
and we moved to Los Angeles.

556
00:47:02,393 --> 00:47:06,518
Here are Bruce Lee, who plays Kato,
and Ben Williams, the Green Hornet.

557
00:47:06,643 --> 00:47:11,690
Bruce gets his chance in Hollywood
by playing a sidekick.

558
00:47:11,814 --> 00:47:13,253
The Asian servant.

559
00:47:13,378 --> 00:47:17,703
I'll say it the Chinese way.
Do them boring. Thank you very much.

560
00:47:17,828 --> 00:47:23,035
In that series he started the myth of
to break the model minority.

561
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:26,604
It's easier
to say what it won't be.

562
00:47:26,728 --> 00:47:31,775
It won't be an imitation of Batman.
Green Hornet will stand alone.

563
00:47:31,900 --> 00:47:32,818
Come on, Kato.

564
00:47:32,943 --> 00:47:39,357
He is Kato. It was his job
driving around with the Green Hornet.

565
00:47:40,118 --> 00:47:44,204
They saw Bruce
and his physical, kinetic gift...

566
00:47:44,329 --> 00:47:48,658
and they said: we have to do this
can use on the screen.

567
00:47:49,179 --> 00:47:53,184
For The Green Hornet they sent
him to an acting coach...

568
00:47:53,309 --> 00:47:56,316
but he said: You have no dialogue.

569
00:47:57,758 --> 00:48:02,284
Dear Mr. Dozier, Kato is one
active partner of the Green Hornet...

570
00:48:02,409 --> 00:48:05,291
and not a silent follower.

571
00:48:05,416 --> 00:48:09,982
I'm not complaining, but I think
that an active partnership

572
00:48:10,107 --> 00:48:13,710
Kato will be better highlighted.

573
00:48:13,835 --> 00:48:16,116
I want to improve the program.

574
00:48:16,241 --> 00:48:19,925
Then they gave it to him
some dialogue now and then.

575
00:48:20,049 --> 00:48:21,247
You know...

576
00:48:21,372 --> 00:48:26,619
If we ever see that masked one again
If I see kung fu man, I want him.

577
00:48:26,744 --> 00:48:32,954
He had to fight like a lion
for every inch of progress.

578
00:48:33,079 --> 00:48:37,088
I was number two.
- With the plan to become one?

579
00:48:38,611 --> 00:48:42,174
Bruce was treated
as an extra.

580
00:48:42,299 --> 00:48:46,664
The problem of equal pay
is a perfect example...

581
00:48:46,789 --> 00:48:49,270
of second class treatment...

582
00:48:49,395 --> 00:48:53,164
where non-white actors
had to deal with.

583
00:48:56,492 --> 00:49:00,495
Who is that strange man on the bicycle?
- His name is Bruce Lee, I think.

584
00:49:00,620 --> 00:49:03,989
He looks a lot like Kato.
- Do you need help?

585
00:49:04,951 --> 00:49:07,070
Doing some kung fu?

586
00:49:07,195 --> 00:49:12,688
What is kung fu, Bruce?
- Kung fu is a Chinese fighting style.

587
00:49:13,490 --> 00:49:17,619
Martial arts such as karate and jiu-jitsu
are derived from kung fu.

588
00:49:18,782 --> 00:49:21,704
When he worked in Hollywood,
he said to me:

589
00:49:21,829 --> 00:49:25,112
I can tell people faster
gain insight with a film...

590
00:49:25,237 --> 00:49:29,081
than by writing a book
or open a hundred schools.

591
00:49:29,206 --> 00:49:33,731
Don't you have karate schools or something?
in San Francisco? I'm not an expert.

592
00:49:33,856 --> 00:49:36,221
In Oakland.
-Oakland?

593
00:49:36,743 --> 00:49:39,785
And have you opened one here?
- Not yet.

594
00:49:39,910 --> 00:49:43,113
There are recordings every day. It's busy.

595
00:49:43,238 --> 00:49:46,080
ABC, where we see each other
in The Green Hornet.

596
00:49:46,205 --> 00:49:51,938
I'm Bruce Lee. Watch every
Friday evening on the ABC channels.

597
00:49:52,699 --> 00:49:58,151
Bruce sets the screen on fire.
He impresses people.

598
00:49:58,752 --> 00:50:03,242
His presence on screen
is a protest in itself.

599
00:50:04,807 --> 00:50:07,689
When Asians and people of color...

600
00:50:07,814 --> 00:50:12,460
we look for confirmation
in the culture around us, right?

601
00:50:12,584 --> 00:50:18,598
Seeing someone on the screen
who looks like you has a stimulating effect.

602
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:22,522
You have the feeling
that you belong here.

603
00:50:22,647 --> 00:50:27,097
That you can do things
that you previously did not think possible.

604
00:50:29,703 --> 00:50:34,193
He noticed that he was in the right place
was, but at the wrong time.

605
00:50:35,195 --> 00:50:40,808
America and Hollywood were ready
for change, but not that much.

606
00:50:41,609 --> 00:50:42,968
Dear Bruce...

607
00:50:43,093 --> 00:50:46,697
Confucius says:
Green Hornet no longer buzzes.

608
00:50:46,822 --> 00:50:51,232
The Green Hornet was removed
because the viewing figures were disappointing.

609
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:18,093
When the program was dropped,
he was very vulnerable.

610
00:51:19,575 --> 00:51:24,547
He was very disappointed
but he set new goals for himself.

611
00:51:27,554 --> 00:51:33,042
He then read books
and written a lot.

612
00:51:33,167 --> 00:51:37,376
It's got him somewhere
also well done.

613
00:51:38,137 --> 00:51:41,745
He did everything
to make ends meet.

614
00:51:42,668 --> 00:51:46,592
Sometimes he found an acting role.
That didn't happen often.

615
00:51:46,717 --> 00:51:49,564
And sometimes he was a stunt coordinator.

616
00:51:51,006 --> 00:51:54,656
We worked together
to The Wrecking Crew.

617
00:51:55,377 --> 00:51:57,657
He was a pleasure to work with.

618
00:51:57,782 --> 00:52:00,388
We hung out together at my house.

619
00:52:01,510 --> 00:52:03,992
Bruce had a plan.

620
00:52:04,116 --> 00:52:09,769
He would be a big one
become a kung fu movie star.

621
00:52:10,892 --> 00:52:12,336
I said: Go for it.

622
00:52:13,338 --> 00:52:17,904
He refused roles
who belittled the Chinese...

623
00:52:18,029 --> 00:52:22,594
and he has a few years
very little acting.

624
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:27,124
He was easy as a hamster
being able to spin around on a wheel...

625
00:52:27,249 --> 00:52:32,060
as he had done
what Hollywood expected of him.

626
00:52:38,515 --> 00:52:43,321
It was dire. We never knew
where his wages would come from.

627
00:52:43,445 --> 00:52:46,493
We really had to
tighten the belt.

628
00:52:48,057 --> 00:52:52,306
We had a hard time
but we did have a lot of time together.

629
00:52:54,912 --> 00:53:02,243
Shannon was born and she wound
him immediately around her finger.

630
00:53:02,368 --> 00:53:05,697
He really thought she was a sweetheart.

631
00:53:06,257 --> 00:53:11,750
He was crazy about her.
Those were happy times for me.

632
00:53:12,392 --> 00:53:17,840
Our family was together.
Bruce had a lot of time for the children.

633
00:53:17,965 --> 00:53:20,089
Those were good times.

634
00:53:29,656 --> 00:53:33,501
You opened a school in Hollywood
for people like James Garner...

635
00:53:33,626 --> 00:53:35,785
and Steve McQueen and all that.

636
00:53:35,910 --> 00:53:40,516
Why do they want Chinese
learn martial arts? For a movie role?

637
00:53:40,641 --> 00:53:43,884
Not really. Most of them...

638
00:53:44,009 --> 00:53:48,975
My approach
or method of teaching is:

639
00:53:49,100 --> 00:53:53,225
all knowledge translates into self-knowledge.

640
00:53:53,350 --> 00:53:57,715
They want to learn to express themselves
through movements.

641
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:01,689
Be it anger, determination
or something else.

642
00:54:05,257 --> 00:54:09,346
You have your natural instinct
and you have self-control.

643
00:54:12,915 --> 00:54:15,961
You need the two
combine in harmony.

644
00:54:16,723 --> 00:54:19,249
Yin and yang?
- Good spot, man.

645
00:54:21,574 --> 00:54:24,220
Okay, let's take a look.

646
00:54:25,904 --> 00:54:29,392
Brandon, get out of the way.
- Come here, Brandon.

647
00:54:30,073 --> 00:54:31,372
Is it on?

648
00:54:31,877 --> 00:54:33,721
I want to watch, Mom.

649
00:54:36,087 --> 00:54:38,768
Bruce fits into that counterculture.

650
00:54:38,893 --> 00:54:44,906
As a martial arts teacher
he is some kind of Asian guru.

651
00:54:46,109 --> 00:54:52,604
He teaches ancient Eastern wisdom
to whites from the West Coast.

652
00:54:53,246 --> 00:54:59,335
Steven McQueen was at the top
of his career. James Coburn too.

653
00:54:59,460 --> 00:55:03,545
Ted Ashley was the boss
from Warner Brothers.

654
00:55:03,669 --> 00:55:05,709
It seemed like something hip...

655
00:55:05,834 --> 00:55:10,120
because there were many older ones,
white men in hollywood...

656
00:55:10,244 --> 00:55:15,452
the one with the cool Chinese
wanted to be seen.

657
00:55:15,577 --> 00:55:17,982
I feel the fire within myself.

658
00:55:18,663 --> 00:55:23,550
One of my first memories
is Uncle Bruce's house in Bel Air.

659
00:55:23,675 --> 00:55:28,842
Brandon and I walked through the halls
and we burst into a room...

660
00:55:28,966 --> 00:55:32,089
where my godfather
talked about philosophy...

661
00:55:32,214 --> 00:55:35,983
with a circle of students
around him.

662
00:55:36,865 --> 00:55:40,910
There was almost something bohemian about it.

663
00:55:41,034 --> 00:55:43,796
You need your feet
involve more.

664
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:47,168
They were people
with different backgrounds.

665
00:55:48,251 --> 00:55:52,060
I assumed
that the world would be like this.

666
00:55:57,110 --> 00:55:59,512
I knew Bruce
through a mutual friend...

667
00:55:59,637 --> 00:56:02,202
the publisher
from Black Belt magazine.

668
00:56:02,844 --> 00:56:08,456
He said: Bruce teaches a traditional one
style, but it is fun and innovative.

669
00:56:08,978 --> 00:56:12,461
He is 2.18 meters tall
and delivers on his debut.

670
00:56:12,586 --> 00:56:15,352
The mediatized student
is untenable.

671
00:56:16,795 --> 00:56:18,835
Bruce loved all sports.

672
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:25,415
He liked that everyone
could contribute to the martial arts.

673
00:56:28,301 --> 00:56:32,467
Approach many people
an instructor and questions:

674
00:56:32,591 --> 00:56:37,077
What is the truth?
Can you teach me that?

675
00:56:37,201 --> 00:56:41,887
One will say:
I will teach you the Japanese method.

676
00:56:42,012 --> 00:56:45,135
The other will say:
I will teach you the Chinese method.

677
00:56:45,260 --> 00:56:48,107
To me that's all nonsense.

678
00:56:54,039 --> 00:56:57,808
I personally don't believe in the word style.

679
00:56:58,611 --> 00:57:01,938
By talking about styles
people are divided.

680
00:57:02,539 --> 00:57:07,912
They are not united
because styles have become the law.

681
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:13,083
Let's see.

682
00:57:16,851 --> 00:57:19,894
After training, Bruce sits
often in his office.

683
00:57:20,019 --> 00:57:25,707
He has a video player
where he looks at Muhammad Ali.

684
00:57:25,832 --> 00:57:29,436
Muhammad Ali,
Sugar Ray Robinson, Joe Lewis.

685
00:57:29,561 --> 00:57:33,730
Black boxing champions were
the pride of black Americans.

686
00:57:35,363 --> 00:57:39,452
He was open to all those influences.

687
00:57:41,457 --> 00:57:45,466
He studied
where they got their strength from.

688
00:57:46,469 --> 00:57:51,881
And he thought a little better
would work for his body.

689
00:57:58,776 --> 00:58:07,151
You should know that Bruce Lee
had a supporting role in the series Longstreet...

690
00:58:07,275 --> 00:58:10,840
and it really caught on
to the public. Why?

691
00:58:10,964 --> 00:58:18,216
I think it was the ingredient for success
that I was Bruce Lee.

692
00:58:18,341 --> 00:58:21,468
I was allowed to show myself as I was.

693
00:58:23,432 --> 00:58:24,991
What exactly do you do?

694
00:58:25,116 --> 00:58:29,442
In Cantonese: jeet kune do. The
away from the intercepting fist.

695
00:58:29,567 --> 00:58:32,413
The intercepting fist?
- Or foot.

696
00:58:33,575 --> 00:58:36,497
See? To hit me
you have to move towards me.

697
00:58:36,622 --> 00:58:39,745
That gives me the opportunity
to intercept your attack.

698
00:58:39,870 --> 00:58:43,433
In this case I use
my longest weapon, my sidekick...

699
00:58:43,558 --> 00:58:46,479
against the closest target,
your kneecap.

700
00:58:46,604 --> 00:58:51,571
Compare it with a left jab
boxing. But much more harmful.

701
00:58:51,696 --> 00:58:53,496
Lee is going to teach me.

702
00:58:53,621 --> 00:58:57,144
I can't teach you.
I help with your self-exploration.

703
00:58:57,269 --> 00:59:00,272
Okay, let's do some more
practice those stairs.

704
00:59:00,397 --> 00:59:04,040
The 60's have
Bruce Lee heavily influenced.

705
00:59:04,165 --> 00:59:10,855
It was a time of experimentation,
disillusionment and existential dread.

706
00:59:10,980 --> 00:59:16,628
There was a conscious effort
to challenge the western way.

707
00:59:16,753 --> 00:59:21,118
I live here. My grandmother lived here.
She died here.

708
00:59:21,243 --> 00:59:24,647
So I belong here,
but i hate it here.

709
00:59:24,772 --> 00:59:30,385
If I were an outsider, I would
say: Leave, away from here.

710
00:59:31,106 --> 00:59:37,079
But because this is my home,
absurd enough and cruel enough...

711
00:59:38,483 --> 00:59:40,527
I don't want to do that.

712
00:59:41,289 --> 00:59:43,970
The sixth generation is now growing up.

713
00:59:44,095 --> 00:59:48,621
I don't want that again
a generation will perish.

714
00:59:48,746 --> 00:59:51,869
I don't want them to grow up
with the either-or feeling.

715
00:59:51,993 --> 00:59:55,281
That they feel
born foreigners feel.

716
00:59:55,962 --> 01:00:01,731
Before 1968 we were oriental.
People from the East.

717
01:00:01,856 --> 01:00:04,141
The East compared to what?

718
01:00:05,063 --> 01:00:08,306
You saw a shift in that.

719
01:00:08,431 --> 01:00:12,715
People went away
call Asian Americans.

720
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:15,282
What they actually said was:

721
01:00:15,406 --> 01:00:19,852
we no longer define ourselves
compared to the West...

722
01:00:19,977 --> 01:00:21,415
wherever the West is.

723
01:00:21,540 --> 01:00:24,507
We define ourselves from within.

724
01:00:25,549 --> 01:00:29,112
Meanwhile, Bruce was fighting a battle...

725
01:00:29,237 --> 01:00:34,244
for his philosophies and ideas
to get on the screen.

726
01:00:34,368 --> 01:00:37,456
Don't attack blindly. You have to listen.

727
01:00:38,018 --> 01:00:39,335
Listen.

728
01:00:39,460 --> 01:00:41,621
You don't hear that bird, do you?
- No.

729
01:00:41,746 --> 01:00:45,354
If you don't hear the bird,
you can't hear your opponent.

730
01:00:46,236 --> 01:00:51,247
My father kept trying
to land roles in Hollywood.

731
01:00:52,089 --> 01:00:56,214
I want to be able to live like an American.
You're old fashioned.

732
01:00:56,339 --> 01:00:57,658
And you're a fool...

733
01:00:57,782 --> 01:01:01,626
if you think you can with us
break because you choose to.

734
01:01:01,751 --> 01:01:05,555
He got roles in Marlowe and Longstreet...

735
01:01:05,680 --> 01:01:13,097
but a lot of people from the studios
saw him as a novelty.

736
01:01:14,539 --> 01:01:20,549
He figured it out pretty quickly
that the impact he wanted to have...

737
01:01:20,674 --> 01:01:26,046
wouldn't happen
only by auditioning for roles.

738
01:01:27,249 --> 01:01:34,105
The only way to show yourself
was writing his own roles.

739
01:01:38,635 --> 01:01:44,404
When Bruce noticed us and we noticed him
had seen on the screen...

740
01:01:44,528 --> 01:01:47,215
we saw something in him.

741
01:01:49,259 --> 01:01:53,744
We came up with a series
about a shaolin monk...

742
01:01:53,869 --> 01:01:58,239
who came to America to be Chinese
to help railway workers.

743
01:01:59,121 --> 01:02:05,535
Bruce came up with a concept that later
would become the TV series Kung Fu.

744
01:02:06,297 --> 01:02:08,979
He had suggested it
to Warner Brothers...

745
01:02:09,103 --> 01:02:13,709
and he was very happy
that they thought it was a good idea.

746
01:02:13,834 --> 01:02:15,233
I said, I don't know.

747
01:02:15,358 --> 01:02:23,015
I don't know if Hollywood is ready for that
an Asian main character on TV.

748
01:02:24,017 --> 01:02:25,817
He said: Do you want to bet?

749
01:02:25,941 --> 01:02:29,309
I said: Yes, that's fine by me.
And so we bet.

750
01:02:30,873 --> 01:02:36,525
We sat together in my afternoon
nice office at Warner Brothers.

751
01:02:37,207 --> 01:02:39,568
Mr. Marlowe?
- Yes?

752
01:02:39,693 --> 01:02:45,541
He kicked the door shut with his foot
and started waving a nunchaku.

753
01:02:45,666 --> 01:02:49,675
Dangerously close to my nose.
I thought: what is this here?

754
01:02:50,637 --> 01:02:53,042
Bruce said, Feel my arm.

755
01:02:54,246 --> 01:02:56,766
It was like touching a rock.

756
01:02:56,891 --> 01:02:58,491
Five hundred dollars.

757
01:02:58,615 --> 01:03:00,896
And who am I doing all this nothing for?

758
01:03:01,021 --> 01:03:04,665
Winslow Wong. That's me.

759
01:03:04,790 --> 01:03:10,999
We were talking about the role in Kung Fu.
Of course Bruce wanted to play it.

760
01:03:11,124 --> 01:03:15,770
But it came down to it
that Bruce's accent...

761
01:03:15,895 --> 01:03:21,106
would be difficult
among American television audiences.

762
01:03:35,941 --> 01:03:40,627
In the television world
there were only three customers.

763
01:03:40,751 --> 01:03:44,956
There was commercially speaking
no reason to diversify...

764
01:03:45,081 --> 01:03:48,128
solely to diversify.

765
01:03:48,729 --> 01:03:53,936
No one wanted to take the risk
straying too far from the mainstream...

766
01:03:54,061 --> 01:03:59,073
because then you lose the great thing
TV audience and then you're screwed.

767
01:04:02,951 --> 01:04:07,597
There were prejudices
in the film industry against non-whites.

768
01:04:07,722 --> 01:04:13,170
Kung Fu was written for Bruce,
but the studio people decided...

769
01:04:13,295 --> 01:04:16,818
that America wasn't ready
for an Asian hero.

770
01:04:16,943 --> 01:04:22,190
They gave the role to...
Now I have forgotten his name.

771
01:04:22,315 --> 01:04:25,121
The Kung Fu series, with...

772
01:04:29,371 --> 01:04:33,055
The TV series appeared as Kung Fu...

773
01:04:33,180 --> 01:04:37,269
and David Carradine was allowed
play the leading role.

774
01:04:39,033 --> 01:04:44,641
ABC received a lot of criticism for that.
Me too and Warner Brothers too.

775
01:04:44,766 --> 01:04:50,338
But you need your product
try to sell it.

776
01:04:51,140 --> 01:04:57,555
I didn't find a single Asian actor
that I could sell to ABC.

777
01:05:01,604 --> 01:05:04,968
Hollywood is racist
because that's what America is.

778
01:05:05,093 --> 01:05:10,059
And what Hollywood shows,
reinforces racism in America.

779
01:05:10,184 --> 01:05:12,829
It's a vicious circle.

780
01:05:17,761 --> 01:05:22,251
He said, OK, that's the reality now.

781
01:05:23,735 --> 01:05:28,225
How can I avoid that?
and change course?

782
01:05:31,031 --> 01:05:37,004
The most important thing was
that he did not let himself be stopped.

783
01:05:38,247 --> 01:05:42,453
He said: I see
and I have already decided.

784
01:05:42,577 --> 01:05:48,310
I just do this.
I'll keep going for it.

785
01:05:55,014 --> 01:05:58,539
I have a question
about the problems you experience...

786
01:05:58,664 --> 01:06:02,828
as a Chinese hero
in an American series.

787
01:06:02,953 --> 01:06:04,993
People in the industry sometimes say:

788
01:06:05,118 --> 01:06:08,280
We don't know if the public
a non-American wants?

789
01:06:08,405 --> 01:06:15,016
Unfortunately that exists
indeed in this world.

790
01:06:15,141 --> 01:06:18,263
In certain parts of the country.

791
01:06:18,387 --> 01:06:24,557
They consider it a financial risk.
And I don't blame them.

792
01:06:24,682 --> 01:06:30,010
Suppose that in Hong Kong
a foreigner breaks through.

793
01:06:30,135 --> 01:06:35,542
If I were the man with the money...

794
01:06:35,667 --> 01:06:40,273
I would be concerned too
whether it would be accepted.

795
01:06:40,398 --> 01:06:42,718
I can live with that.

796
01:06:42,843 --> 01:06:47,369
Do you still see yourself as Chinese?
or do you sometimes see yourself as an American?

797
01:06:47,494 --> 01:06:50,501
Do you know how I see myself?

798
01:06:51,583 --> 01:06:53,463
As a human being.

799
01:06:53,588 --> 01:06:57,672
I don't want to be with Confucius
come on...

800
01:06:57,797 --> 01:07:01,762
but under heaven
there is only one family.

801
01:07:01,887 --> 01:07:05,896
It's just that way
that people are different.

802
01:07:08,902 --> 01:07:11,589
He felt rejected.

803
01:07:13,513 --> 01:07:16,756
Bruce was devastated.
He couldn't grasp it.

804
01:07:16,881 --> 01:07:18,283
He said: Why?

805
01:07:19,166 --> 01:07:25,179
He was very hurt
and he was disgusted with the whole system.

806
01:07:27,264 --> 01:07:33,598
He was determined to make something happen
to do in his own way.

807
01:07:37,648 --> 01:07:42,734
Dear Ted, I'm sorry
how things turned out with The Warrior.

808
01:07:42,859 --> 01:07:47,230
You can't always win, but one
I'm going to win one of these days, dammit.

809
01:07:54,647 --> 01:07:56,846
How did you discover Bruce Lee?

810
01:07:56,971 --> 01:08:02,379
I saw him for the first time
in a TV interview in Hong Kong.

811
01:08:02,504 --> 01:08:05,030
He did great things there.

812
01:08:05,752 --> 01:08:09,475
When Brandon was five,
he went to Hong Kong with Brandon.

813
01:08:09,600 --> 01:08:14,767
He was recognized as Kato
from The Green Hornet.

814
01:08:14,892 --> 01:08:20,184
Everyone in Hong Kong knew
that he had made it in America.

815
01:08:22,188 --> 01:08:24,749
I just called him.

816
01:08:24,874 --> 01:08:30,764
He said: Like good action movies
want to make kung fu films...

817
01:08:30,889 --> 01:08:33,128
you have to handle it this way and that way.

818
01:08:33,253 --> 01:08:39,027
I said: Okay, but if you help me
we can make something of it together.

819
01:08:46,083 --> 01:08:49,767
The truth is that I am Chinese
with a yellow face.

820
01:08:49,892 --> 01:08:53,174
I can't become an idol for white people...

821
01:08:53,299 --> 01:08:56,662
and not my countrymen
to excite.

822
01:08:56,787 --> 01:09:01,959
That's why I decided
to serve the Chinese film industry.

823
01:09:04,043 --> 01:09:07,251
He was the prodigal son
who had returned.

824
01:09:11,741 --> 01:09:16,306
It was exciting to be in Hong Kong
to live. It's an exciting city.

825
01:09:16,431 --> 01:09:19,639
It is difficult
to live there with a movie star.

826
01:09:21,122 --> 01:09:27,412
He became very popular there and
it was hard to go out...

827
01:09:27,537 --> 01:09:31,065
without being mobbed by fans.

828
01:09:31,706 --> 01:09:33,189
To start...

829
01:09:34,433 --> 01:09:38,357
I don't like the word superstar
and I'll tell you why.

830
01:09:38,482 --> 01:09:41,925
The word star is an illusion.

831
01:09:42,050 --> 01:09:45,573
I don't see myself as a star.

832
01:09:45,698 --> 01:09:48,861
No way.
You can take my word for it.

833
01:09:48,985 --> 01:09:50,905
I don't say that to...

834
01:09:51,030 --> 01:09:57,325
When he returned, he found his place
not immediately in the film industry.

835
01:09:57,886 --> 01:10:00,367
He had studied in America.

836
01:10:00,492 --> 01:10:05,899
He was a bun go guay lo,
a half devil figure.

837
01:10:06,024 --> 01:10:10,229
You think a lot about yourself
because you're from America? Not so.

838
01:10:10,354 --> 01:10:15,807
If you're mid-Pacific,
you are by definition attacked.

839
01:10:16,689 --> 01:10:22,777
When you call Bruce mid-Pacific, you say
that he is neither Chinese nor American.

840
01:10:22,902 --> 01:10:26,510
He lives between the two worlds.

841
01:10:29,718 --> 01:10:36,128
I heard store clerks
sometimes say something nasty...

842
01:10:36,253 --> 01:10:40,462
about me in Chinese.
They didn't know that I understood them.

843
01:10:42,828 --> 01:10:48,155
People saw Bruce
as a beautiful Chinese man.

844
01:10:48,280 --> 01:10:52,450
Why is he with a
unattractive white guy married?

845
01:10:54,654 --> 01:10:59,500
The reactions were mixed.
He was stigmatized and hated...

846
01:10:59,625 --> 01:11:05,800
but also respected, envied
and sometimes even idolized.

847
01:11:12,294 --> 01:11:15,617
Bruce was self-confidence himself.

848
01:11:15,742 --> 01:11:21,270
He thought: if you ignore me,
if you don't value me...

849
01:11:21,395 --> 01:11:26,847
then that's your problem. You will me
agree in the future.

850
01:11:28,330 --> 01:11:33,779
After The Big Boss and Fist of Fury
Raymond listening to his ideas...

851
01:11:33,904 --> 01:11:37,431
about the direction and storylines.

852
01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:45,124
He wanted all projects
which he signed up for...

853
01:11:45,248 --> 01:11:48,697
of the highest possible
were quality.

854
01:11:49,859 --> 01:11:54,425
He loved fighting
a dialogue on the screen.

855
01:11:54,549 --> 01:11:58,840
There was a deeper meaning
behind what he expressed.

856
01:12:01,285 --> 01:12:04,528
He combined
the East and the West.

857
01:12:04,653 --> 01:12:08,782
He introduced
a western way of thinking.

858
01:12:09,464 --> 01:12:11,304
Westerse filmconcepten.

859
01:12:11,428 --> 01:12:14,270
Het personage
from Chuck Norris for example...

860
01:12:14,395 --> 01:12:18,841
wasn't the cartoon villain
van Fist of Fury.

861
01:12:18,965 --> 01:12:22,653
He is a respectful karate fighter.

862
01:12:27,064 --> 01:12:30,071
That evolution is very important.

863
01:12:31,072 --> 01:12:32,672
Daar klinkt de bel.

864
01:12:32,797 --> 01:12:37,483
Cassius Clay ducks a left. Er
there have been no serious blows yet.

865
01:12:37,607 --> 01:12:40,850
Clay in white, Williams in black.

866
01:12:40,975 --> 01:12:44,137
Clay is a kilo heavier
and their length also differs.

867
01:12:44,262 --> 01:12:48,066
Mensen vragen vaak:
Bruce, are you really that good?

868
01:12:48,191 --> 01:12:52,556
Then I say: If I say yes,
then you call me a braggart.

869
01:12:52,681 --> 01:12:57,528
He keeps coming, but Kessler says
that the round is over.

870
01:12:57,653 --> 01:13:01,060
And if I say no,
then you know I'm lying.

871
01:13:02,063 --> 01:13:06,673
Let me put it this way:
I fear no opponent.

872
01:13:23,751 --> 01:13:27,195
Then we saw Way of the Dragon
had made...

873
01:13:27,320 --> 01:13:32,407
saw Warner Brothers that Bruce Lee
had more to offer than he thought.

874
01:13:32,532 --> 01:13:36,260
Meanwhile, Bruce was busy
to Game of Death.

875
01:13:37,463 --> 01:13:39,663
Bruce called me at home.

876
01:13:39,788 --> 01:13:43,793
He said: We're showing a movie.
Can you come?

877
01:13:43,918 --> 01:13:48,287
It was September, but I could
going to Hong Kong for ten days.

878
01:13:49,811 --> 01:13:54,462
He said: I can't pay you yet.
Financing had not yet been arranged.

879
01:13:55,463 --> 01:13:59,513
We shot our scenes
and I had to fly back.

880
01:14:02,399 --> 01:14:06,605
Bruce was working on a strain
dream project: Game of Death.

881
01:14:06,729 --> 01:14:08,609
And right at that moment...

882
01:14:08,734 --> 01:14:15,188
if he made it on his own
as an actor, but also as a director...

883
01:14:16,833 --> 01:14:22,485
Hollywood is starting to realize
what he has to offer.

884
01:14:25,409 --> 01:14:27,333
I flew to Hong Kong.

885
01:14:27,733 --> 01:14:32,220
Bruce gasped at that moment
to an international film.

886
01:14:32,544 --> 01:14:36,990
Raymond Chow certainly didn't want to
losing his star.

887
01:14:37,115 --> 01:14:40,076
I have long
negotiated with Raymond...

888
01:14:40,201 --> 01:14:42,522
but we couldn't find an agreement.

889
01:14:42,647 --> 01:14:48,416
The evening before my departure
Bruce, Raymond and I went out to dinner.

890
01:14:48,540 --> 01:14:54,710
And I said, Bruce, it's a shame that you
never become an international star...

891
01:14:54,835 --> 01:14:57,039
because Raymond is obstructive.

892
01:14:57,961 --> 01:15:02,527
Raymond looked at me
and he said, OK, we'll make a deal.

893
01:15:02,652 --> 01:15:06,096
And so they went into business
with Warner Brothers and myself...

894
01:15:06,220 --> 01:15:08,025
for Enter the Dragon.

895
01:15:19,972 --> 01:15:22,854
It didn't get off the ground right away...

896
01:15:22,979 --> 01:15:25,540
because Bruce wasn't happy
with the script.

897
01:15:25,665 --> 01:15:31,598
He wanted some business in it
to give the film some more substance.

898
01:15:33,923 --> 01:15:38,048
Bruce didn't want to start it.
He didn't want to go to the set.

899
01:15:38,173 --> 01:15:41,617
The American crew was there
and everything cost money...

900
01:15:41,742 --> 01:15:44,387
but Bruce did not appear on set.

901
01:15:48,356 --> 01:15:53,809
I have no doubts about it
that he could sometimes be difficult to do.

902
01:15:54,730 --> 01:15:59,982
He could be very fiery and intense.

903
01:16:01,064 --> 01:16:08,076
He could also be a scumbag.
He wasn't always the gentleman.

904
01:16:08,200 --> 01:16:11,969
The stories are there.
He was an asshole at times.

905
01:16:13,853 --> 01:16:20,950
Bruce had the same insecurities
that all successful actors have.

906
01:16:22,232 --> 01:16:24,192
Does everyone support my project?

907
01:16:24,317 --> 01:16:28,166
Do they serve my interests?
and that of the film?

908
01:16:31,173 --> 01:16:35,542
In the end he got his way.

909
01:16:37,668 --> 01:16:40,309
What was that? A demonstration?

910
01:16:40,434 --> 01:16:44,398
We need emotional content.

911
01:16:44,523 --> 01:16:48,328
Everything a little
is philosophical in the film...

912
01:16:48,452 --> 01:16:51,179
added Bruce to the script.

913
01:16:53,303 --> 01:16:54,602
That's how it should be.

914
01:16:55,869 --> 01:16:58,875
How did that feel?
- Let me think.

915
01:16:59,757 --> 01:17:02,764
You shouldn't think. You have to feel.

916
01:17:03,366 --> 01:17:07,095
It's like a finger
that points to the moon.

917
01:17:08,618 --> 01:17:15,549
Don't focus on the finger
or you will miss all that heavenly glory.

918
01:17:15,673 --> 01:17:21,406
He tried the kind of films
to make what he wanted to make.

919
01:17:22,128 --> 01:17:25,371
His vision.
- Always keep looking at your opponent.

920
01:17:25,496 --> 01:17:27,581
Even when you bow.

921
01:17:28,823 --> 01:17:35,154
In the 70's there were only a few
few Chinese and Asian films...

922
01:17:35,278 --> 01:17:37,282
that reached Hollywood.

923
01:17:37,965 --> 01:17:43,297
Bruce wanted our movies
also made it in Hollywood.

924
01:17:50,874 --> 01:17:56,206
Our intention was not to go from Enter the
Dragon to make that big success.

925
01:17:57,769 --> 01:18:01,537
We wanted the best possible film
make with Bruce.

926
01:18:03,182 --> 01:18:10,719
We quickly realized that we were
were doing something spectacular.

927
01:18:15,008 --> 01:18:19,659
Bruce did
what he was destined to do.

928
01:18:20,260 --> 01:18:22,265
And it felt great.

929
01:18:23,749 --> 01:18:25,752
He was sizzling.

930
01:18:31,125 --> 01:18:33,811
There is something unique about stars.

931
01:18:34,854 --> 01:18:37,695
You feel the integrity
of their humanity.

932
01:18:37,820 --> 01:18:43,188
They are who they are
and they feel very good about themselves.

933
01:18:43,313 --> 01:18:47,202
That's what Bruce
made it so fascinating.

934
01:18:57,905 --> 01:19:02,757
He enjoyed being famous.
That's what he wanted.

935
01:19:03,679 --> 01:19:07,688
Maybe he found it
after a while a little less.

936
01:19:09,091 --> 01:19:13,060
You become famous,
but then you have to stay famous.

937
01:19:14,984 --> 01:19:17,590
Fame has its price.

938
01:19:21,439 --> 01:19:26,446
I remember him saying: In Hong Kong
I don't know who my friends are.

939
01:19:26,571 --> 01:19:31,903
I asked: What do you mean? He said: I
Don't know if they are after a film role.

940
01:19:32,424 --> 01:19:34,263
He felt lonely.

941
01:19:34,388 --> 01:19:37,435
I don't think so
that I would have wanted his life.

942
01:19:38,558 --> 01:19:42,567
You have no time for yourself.
You don't have time to be yourself.

943
01:19:43,809 --> 01:19:47,213
Has your life changed?
Have you changed now that you are successful?

944
01:19:47,338 --> 01:19:50,500
I hear you're a cult figure
in Hong Kong.

945
01:19:50,625 --> 01:19:55,431
Well, it has changed in the sense
that it is a kind of prison.

946
01:19:55,556 --> 01:19:58,839
Please explain.
- I'm like a monkey at the zoo.

947
01:19:58,964 --> 01:20:01,609
People stare at me and stuff.

948
01:20:02,692 --> 01:20:06,938
Your father pointed you to the dark side
of show business. Do you already know that one?

949
01:20:07,062 --> 01:20:10,626
Except for the illusion.
- Naturally.

950
01:20:10,751 --> 01:20:15,241
You don't seem to get anything out of it.
- Let me put it this way.

951
01:20:16,364 --> 01:20:18,729
In all honesty...

952
01:20:19,691 --> 01:20:21,891
I'm not as bad as some...

953
01:20:22,015 --> 01:20:25,784
but I'm certainly not going to argue
that I am a saint.

954
01:20:32,720 --> 01:20:38,293
In May 1973 he collapsed.
That was a very anxious moment.

955
01:20:40,177 --> 01:20:45,986
He went with Linda and Raymond Chow
to a medical examination...

956
01:20:46,111 --> 01:20:49,960
and a doctor said he
had the body of an 18 year old.

957
01:20:51,884 --> 01:20:54,770
We fooled around in the gym.

958
01:20:55,732 --> 01:20:58,379
He said: I am as healthy as a fish.

959
01:20:59,261 --> 01:21:02,467
That was the last time
that I saw him.

960
01:21:07,960 --> 01:21:09,844
I remember it well.

961
01:21:10,326 --> 01:21:13,248
We went to the studio in the morning...

962
01:21:13,373 --> 01:21:17,502
for a meeting with George
Lazenby, myself and Raymond Chow.

963
01:21:18,624 --> 01:21:20,790
And he complained of a headache.

964
01:21:21,832 --> 01:21:23,476
He suffered from migraines.

965
01:21:24,478 --> 01:21:27,485
When George was there,
we talked.

966
01:21:28,567 --> 01:21:30,206
He was in good spirits.

967
01:21:30,330 --> 01:21:35,338
We were eagerly awaiting
to the release of Enter the Dragon.

968
01:21:35,463 --> 01:21:39,467
Bruce was supposed to fly to LA
for The Tonight Show.

969
01:21:39,592 --> 01:21:43,321
Bruce, Linda and the kids
were going to the premiere.

970
01:21:45,235 --> 01:21:49,479
He was energetic, creative
and cheerful as always.

971
01:21:49,604 --> 01:21:51,448
Only he had a migraine.

972
01:21:53,774 --> 01:21:56,896
Betty was Betty Ting Pei.

973
01:21:57,021 --> 01:22:01,993
We talked to Betty
about a role in Game of Death.

974
01:22:03,235 --> 01:22:05,155
He came for lunch.

975
01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:09,850
She gave him a painkiller
and he wanted to lie down for a while.

976
01:22:10,532 --> 01:22:12,937
Sleep until his headache went away.

977
01:22:16,425 --> 01:22:18,550
And she let him sleep.

978
01:22:20,153 --> 01:22:23,281
When she tried to wake him up,
that didn't work.

979
01:22:42,284 --> 01:22:46,769
Raymond Chow said that I
had to come to the hospital.

980
01:22:46,894 --> 01:22:49,335
I asked: Why? What happened?

981
01:22:49,460 --> 01:22:52,347
And he said: It's like last time.

982
01:22:55,794 --> 01:22:58,200
I went to the hospital.

983
01:22:59,884 --> 01:23:01,688
They brought him in.

984
01:23:02,570 --> 01:23:06,579
But he was already dead by then.

985
01:23:10,227 --> 01:23:12,388
It was unreal.

986
01:23:12,512 --> 01:23:18,085
Of course I was devastated.
But I was there. I've seen him.

987
01:23:20,771 --> 01:23:22,335
The phone rang.

988
01:23:24,380 --> 01:23:28,749
And I saw Mom start to cry.
I asked: What is it?

989
01:23:30,513 --> 01:23:35,159
A friend called to say
that Bruce had died in Hong Kong.

990
01:23:35,284 --> 01:23:38,451
I said: No, come on.
That must be a joke.

991
01:23:41,538 --> 01:23:44,545
Her friend asked
to watch the news.

992
01:23:46,029 --> 01:23:53,165
Hong Kong has been rocked by death
by action movie star Bruce Lee.

993
01:23:53,606 --> 01:23:55,650
Superstar Bruce Lee dies...

994
01:23:55,955 --> 01:23:58,447
International martial arts star dies...

995
01:23:58,572 --> 01:24:00,840
he succumbed to painkillers for migraines

996
01:24:01,263 --> 01:24:06,711
The medical examiner came
concluded that the painkiller...

997
01:24:06,835 --> 01:24:11,085
caused cerebral edema
from which he never awoke.

998
01:24:13,771 --> 01:24:16,894
People introduce themselves
so many questions about his death...

999
01:24:17,019 --> 01:24:24,396
because a 32 year old, very strong,
virile man was suddenly dead.

1000
01:24:25,358 --> 01:24:32,253
That's why they question everything
and they come up with theories.

1001
01:24:34,177 --> 01:24:37,626
But who cares?
He's gone.

1002
01:24:49,733 --> 01:24:52,138
I remember certain things.

1003
01:24:54,704 --> 01:25:01,595
The funeral was real
something surreal with all those people.

1004
01:25:01,720 --> 01:25:03,524
It was just chaos.

1005
01:25:07,132 --> 01:25:12,144
You just have to see how much
people came to show their support.

1006
01:25:12,906 --> 01:25:17,355
You can see how much
Hong Kongers loved him.

1007
01:25:23,640 --> 01:25:27,288
I was led through the crowd.

1008
01:25:27,849 --> 01:25:30,294
I was more or less paralyzed.

1009
01:25:31,497 --> 01:25:38,273
Linda walked in front of me.
I carried Shannon on my arm.

1010
01:25:39,315 --> 01:25:46,166
And Brandon walked next to me, still
two people from Golden Harvest.

1011
01:25:46,291 --> 01:25:49,858
We tried to fight our way through
to the memorial room.

1012
01:25:51,543 --> 01:25:56,229
He was my teacher,
such a strong person.

1013
01:25:56,354 --> 01:25:58,154
He was a god to me.

1014
01:25:58,278 --> 01:26:02,968
How could he be so young
leave us?

1015
01:26:05,374 --> 01:26:07,018
It was a nightmare.

1016
01:26:13,152 --> 01:26:15,878
I had my two children next to me.

1017
01:26:16,279 --> 01:26:18,765
It was stressful.

1018
01:26:28,506 --> 01:26:34,761
I didn't feel like I had the chance
to say something to him.

1019
01:26:52,522 --> 01:26:58,130
Literally ten days later it came
Enter the Dragon in America.

1020
01:26:58,254 --> 01:27:02,299
Warner Brothers took
go big with it.

1021
01:27:02,424 --> 01:27:05,992
The premiere was
at Grauman's Chinese Theater.

1022
01:27:08,357 --> 01:27:12,807
Hollywood Boulevard was closed off
for a dragon parade.

1023
01:27:13,609 --> 01:27:18,375
The outside of the theater
was completely decorated...

1024
01:27:18,500 --> 01:27:24,875
with artwork by Enter the Dragon
and there was a long line.

1025
01:27:26,277 --> 01:27:30,282
Jesus, this is Bruce Lee's work.

1026
01:27:30,407 --> 01:27:33,575
And he didn't see the result.

1027
01:27:37,703 --> 01:27:44,394
Maybe one day I'll die without it
to have fulfilled all my ambitions...

1028
01:27:44,519 --> 01:27:46,443
but that doesn't make me sad.

1029
01:27:46,765 --> 01:27:48,924
I did what I wanted to do.

1030
01:27:49,049 --> 01:27:55,099
And what I did, I did sincerely
and to the best of my ability.

1031
01:27:55,224 --> 01:27:58,190
You can do much more
don't expect from life.

1032
01:27:59,473 --> 01:28:04,320
You're standing at the back of the room,
you're watching your movie on the screen...

1033
01:28:04,445 --> 01:28:10,218
and you feel that the audience
enjoy it to the fullest.

1034
01:28:10,819 --> 01:28:16,592
We all enjoyed it. He had
can view the result.

1035
01:28:17,465 --> 01:28:20,254
Enter the Dragon brought
$91 million worldwide.

1036
01:28:20,380 --> 01:28:22,402
That would be $521 million today.

1037
01:28:22,528 --> 01:28:26,491
In 2004 the film was saved by
the Library of Congress...

1038
01:28:26,617 --> 01:28:30,814
because of its cultural, historical
and aesthetic value.

1039
01:28:31,024 --> 01:28:33,465
That he didn't live long enough...

1040
01:28:33,590 --> 01:28:38,797
to see the impact he
and having had four films...

1041
01:28:38,922 --> 01:28:41,327
is his personal tragedy.

1042
01:28:42,410 --> 01:28:44,450
If he hadn't died young...

1043
01:28:44,575 --> 01:28:49,987
wasn't his myth so fascinating,
was grand and moving.

1044
01:28:50,829 --> 01:28:54,152
Bruce would have had a bigger impact
by living longer...

1045
01:28:54,277 --> 01:28:59,770
but that doesn't change anything
of what he has accomplished.

1046
01:29:01,293 --> 01:29:08,184
He gave me a safe environment
to grow up as a biracial child...

1047
01:29:08,309 --> 01:29:12,473
and he showed me the potential
of my future...

1048
01:29:12,598 --> 01:29:14,402
of what the world could be.

1049
01:29:15,445 --> 01:29:18,728
He was the East
meets the West.

1050
01:29:18,852 --> 01:29:21,779
And he understood
how to bridge the gap.

1051
01:29:22,461 --> 01:29:25,387
He was a very unique person.

1052
01:29:29,436 --> 01:29:33,682
He is the man
who he was when he died.

1053
01:29:33,806 --> 01:29:36,572
He will always be remembered that way.

1054
01:29:39,219 --> 01:29:43,745
He has his own expectations
surpassed, I think.

1055
01:29:43,870 --> 01:29:48,239
He is an edifying example
for people all over the world.

1056
01:29:49,883 --> 01:29:53,171
There hasn't been a day
that I wasn't thinking about him.

1057
01:29:54,333 --> 01:29:58,141
What can I say?
I adored him.

1058
01:30:09,527 --> 01:30:13,050
I had him buried in Seattle...

1059
01:30:13,175 --> 01:30:16,343
because he is there
had his way.

1060
01:30:21,595 --> 01:30:26,923
At least I could be with him now
and say goodbye.

1061
01:30:27,048 --> 01:30:29,212
It was easier.

1062
01:30:38,543 --> 01:30:43,835
I knew what he wanted. He wanted
that I took care of his children.

1063
01:30:45,278 --> 01:30:47,323
So we continued.

1064
01:30:48,846 --> 01:30:50,450
It wasn't easy.

1065
01:31:07,289 --> 01:31:12,656
One of the most important concepts
in martial arts...

1066
01:31:12,781 --> 01:31:15,583
is bridging the gap.

1067
01:31:15,708 --> 01:31:19,631
Bridging the gap
between me and my opponent.

1068
01:31:19,756 --> 01:31:22,843
Bridging the gap
between me and my dreams.

1069
01:31:25,449 --> 01:31:32,621
I see my father as someone
who wanted to build bridges...

1070
01:31:32,745 --> 01:31:37,196
and wanted to keep them open so that
people could cross.

1071
01:31:43,651 --> 01:31:46,698
Twenty years later,
when my brother died...

1072
01:31:48,061 --> 01:31:51,669
I received letters from my father
and I started reading them.

1073
01:31:52,631 --> 01:31:58,244
And it felt like a revelation.

1074
01:32:00,809 --> 01:32:05,540
The medicine for my suffering
I've always had it in me.

1075
01:32:05,981 --> 01:32:07,981
I just didn't take it.

1076
01:32:08,106 --> 01:32:15,202
The ailment came from within,
but I didn't realize that until then.

1077
01:32:18,730 --> 01:32:23,456
That suddenly explained my fate
in my own hands.

1078
01:32:23,581 --> 01:32:28,548
If you're willing
to heal yourself...

1079
01:32:28,673 --> 01:32:32,080
to be your own fuel and light...

1080
01:32:32,922 --> 01:32:38,776
then you can change your perspective
and chart your own path.

1081
01:32:40,930 --> 01:32:45,981
His philosophy was
one of self-actualization.

1082
01:32:47,425 --> 01:32:53,960
Don't accept the stereotypical image
that others impose on you.

1083
01:32:55,123 --> 01:32:59,693
Find out what's worth it
to yourself and express it.

1084
01:33:04,424 --> 01:33:07,105
I said: Clear your head.

1085
01:33:07,230 --> 01:33:11,359
Be formless, amorphous. Like water.

1086
01:33:12,201 --> 01:33:16,005
Pour water into a cup
and it becomes the cup.

1087
01:33:16,130 --> 01:33:18,371
Pour it into a bottle
and it becomes the bottle.

1088
01:33:18,496 --> 01:33:21,618
Pour it into a teapot
and it becomes the teapot.

1089
01:33:21,743 --> 01:33:25,788
Water can flow and it can collide.

1090
01:33:25,913 --> 01:33:27,917
Be like water, my friend.

1091
01:35:14,371 --> 01:35:18,801
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

1092
01:35:20,331 --> 01:35:25,231
Bruce Lee is a symbol of struggle
from the little man for justice.

1093
01:35:32,016 --> 01:35:34,319
My father left behind something beautiful.

1094
01:35:34,444 --> 01:35:38,353
People all over the world
admire him and his work.

1095
01:35:38,478 --> 01:35:41,282
They have been positively influenced by it.

1096
01:35:41,407 --> 01:35:45,898
Like many, collector got Jeff
Chinn faces discrimination.

1097
01:35:46,023 --> 01:35:50,152
That period in 1973 was magical.

1098
01:35:50,277 --> 01:35:55,414
Suddenly there were Chinese men
the big men on campus.

1099
01:35:59,307 --> 01:36:02,875
More than 700 people
headed to the studio...

1100
01:36:03,000 --> 01:36:06,126
hoping for the successor
to become Bruce Lee.

1101
01:36:06,251 --> 01:36:09,697
Did you see someone?
that reminded you of your husband?

1102
01:36:09,822 --> 01:36:13,434
No one has Bruce's character.

1103
01:36:20,578 --> 01:36:23,303
His mother and brother
teach us more about the man...

1104
01:36:23,428 --> 01:36:27,035
those karate experts now
the Galileo of martial arts.

1105
01:36:27,160 --> 01:36:30,085
Why did he take
such mythical proportions...

1106
01:36:30,210 --> 01:36:31,811
in his life and after his death?

1107
01:36:31,936 --> 01:36:34,781
He has
a dynamic personality...

1108
01:36:34,906 --> 01:36:39,196
and he knows how to convey it
on screen or in front of an audience.

1109
01:36:39,321 --> 01:36:43,811
Sometimes you talk about Bruce
in the present tense.

1110
01:36:43,936 --> 01:36:45,883
I will always do that.