… There’s a certain mythology and mysticism about who Bruce Lee is, which is understandable. It really pulled at certain emotional strings that can incite a little anger and frustration as to how he’s portrayed.
“Especially for me, as someone who has looked up to Bruce Lee as an icon, not only in the martial-arts realm, but in the way he approached philosophy and life, to see your idol be beaten is very disheartening. “I know that Brad had expressed his concerns, and we all had concerns about Bruce losing,” Alonzo recalled. This didn’t sit well with either Alonzo or Pitt: In speaking with Huffington Post, stunt coordinator Robert Alonzo revealed that the original version of the scene ended with Cliff emerging a more clear-cut winner, which declared Lee the loser. As it ends now, the fight gets broken up before a clear “winner” is declared. To find that he’s being used as the butt of a joke, in service of building up a morally grey character nonetheless, has struck some as being in poor taste.īut if the original version of that scene had made it to the finished film, people likely would have been much angrier. Many- including Lee’s family-find the sequence troubling, given that Lee worked hard throughout his entire career to be taken seriously by both those inside Hollywood and audiences who were accustomed to stereotypical Asian characters. In the flashback sequence, the two challenge each other to fisticuffs, and what follows is Cliff more than holding his own and then throwing Lee into a car door just as the fight is broken up. Portions of this scene have been played in the trailers, where Cliff pokes fun at the seriousness with which Lee takes his martial arts ability. But while the Sharon Tate of it all has certainly made many people uncomfortable, it’s not the only aspect of the film that’s ruffling feathers.Īt a certain point about halfway through Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, we’re shown a flashback sequence in which Brad Pitt’s aging stuntman Cliff Booth challenges Bruce Lee ( Mike Moh) to a fight on a backlot. Pretty much every new Quentin Tarantino film comes with its own accompanying controversy, and the filmmaker’s latest effort-the 1969-set Once Upon a Time in Hollywood-is no different. Minor spoilers for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood follow below.
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