“That’s what makes the Bruce Lee scenes so disappointing, not so much on a factual basis, but as a lapse of cultural awareness,” he said.
“The John Wayne machismo attitude of Cliff (Brad Pitt), an aging stuntman who defeats the arrogant, uppity Chinese guy harks back to the very stereotypes Bruce was trying to dismantle,” Abdul-Jabbar wrote.
Jabbar said that Tarantino “has the artistic right to portray Bruce any way he wants.” However, he feels that Tarantino let the legacy of Lee down by crafting his character in a “sloppy and somewhat racist way.”
No one is going to see this movie and walk away thinking Bruce Lee wasn’t one of the baddest men to ever live.
It’s a little scene in a frickin Quentin Tarantino movie, not a Bruce Lee Biopic, relax.
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