During his short career, Bruce Lee broke the long-held stereotypes of Asian men even when those stereotypes threatened to hold him back, as director Bao Nguyen shows in the new ESPN documentary “Be Water.” hereandnow
In 1973, Bruce Lee seemed to find stardom overnight following the premiere of the martial arts film “Enter the Dragon.”
Bruce Lee arrived in San Francisco when he first came back to the U.S. in 1959. T unmistakable Coit Tower can be seen in the background. “When Bruce moves to the U.S., his identity is suddenly a minority, a Chinese minority in a white country. He has to face the conundrum that all immigrants face,” cultural critic Jeff Chang says in the film. “Who am I going to be? What is my identity? How do I express myself? And how in U.S. society can I even be seen?”
While making the film, Nguyen learned that Lee was “a student of everyone that he taught and everyone that he interacted with,” including his first student, Jesse Glover. As a young black man, Glover wanted to learn self-defense through martial arts because he was a victim of police brutality. Lee died on July 20, 1973, weeks before the film’s release. Sometimes people forget Lee struggled and fought for his position in Hollywood, Nguyen says.“He didn't expect that that would be his last film,” he says. “It's such a tragedy that he had this goal to break into Hollywood, to become a big star, to be this advocate for Asian American representation. And he passed away a few weeks before the opening of the film, so he never realized that dream.
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