Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says that Quentin Tarantino failed as an artist with his portrayal of Bruce Lee portrayal, a friend and former teacher of the Laker legend
, or “he could apologize or he could say, ‘I don’t really know what Bruce Lee was like. I just wrote it for my movie,’” she said. “‘But that shouldn’t be taken as how he really was.
“That’s what makes the Bruce Lee scenes so disappointing, not so much on a factual basis, but as a lapse of cultural awareness,” Abdul-Jabbar wrote, citing Tarantino’s skill in distilling action movies from the 1960s and ’70s.“First rule of Bruce’s fight club was don’t fight — unless there is no other option,” he wrote. “He felt no need to prove himself.
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