Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (kaj33), a friend of late martial arts star Bruce Lee, believes Quentin Tarantino was sloppy, somewhat racist and shirked his responsibility to basic truth in OnceUponATimeInHollywood
Remember that time Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. kidney-punched a waiter for serving soggy croutons in his tomato soup? How about the time the Dalai Lama got wasted and spray-painted “Karma Is a Beach” on the Tibetan ambassador’s limo? Probably not, since they never happened. But they could happen if a filmmaker decides to write those scenes into his or her movie.
This controversy has left me torn. Tarantino is one of my favorite filmmakers because he is so bold, uncompromising and unpredictable. There’s a giddy energy in his movies of someone who loves movies and wants you to love them, too. I attend each Tarantino film as if it were an event, knowing that his distillation of the ’60s and ’70s action movies will be much more entertaining than a simple homage.
During our years of friendship, he spoke passionately about how frustrated he was with the stereotypical representation of Asians in film and TV. The only roles were for inscrutable villains or bowing servants. In, Paladin’s faithful Chinese servant goes by the insulting name of “Hey Boy” . He was replaced in season four by a female character referred to as “Hey Girl” . Asian men were portrayed as sexless accessories to a scene, while the women were subservient.
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