How Bruce Lee and This 1970s Western TV Show Are Connected
The Big Picture In the 1993 biopic Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, our titular hero and his then-girlfriend Linda catch a screening of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, which infamously features the non-Japanese Mickey Rooney playing a caricatured Japanese man. The theater erupts in laughter at this depiction – one the film’s director and Rooney himself would later regret – but Bruce is visibly uncomfortable.
This is where convergence begins to feel actionable, however, as Bruce Lee also dispenses wisdom, in the form of memorable movie quotes like, “Don't think, feel! It is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all that heavenly glory,” and “Bullshit, Mr. Han-man!” Actually, that one was from Jim Kelly, but memorable nonetheless. Like Spielman and Friedlander, Bruce Lee was influenced by the martial arts cinema that came before him.
Moving from the pilot to the series proper, Carradine grows out his hair and loses the tape, but maintains the stoicism. In this way, Caine differs from the typical Bruce Lee character, who’s so loud and aggressive in films like The Big Boss and Enter the Dragon. Caine never makes those whooping noises in a fight, and neither, for that matter, did martial heroes in the 1960s.
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