Yep. Spot on… Come to think of it, so was that recent film about the Bruce Lee- Wong Jack Man fight, Birth of the Dragon… it was all about the white dude, not about Lee.
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That is just pure fucking awesome.
Can’t decide? Let’s just make a solid gold statue of Bruce Lee looking badass.
I would totally visit Yugoslavia just to see this statue.
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That would require a little time travel! 
Mostar is in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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nope - that was Guy Williams
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He is featured in Tarrantino’s new film about Hollywood in the late 60’s
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Not real jazzed for that; it looks like a 2-dimensional caricature of Bruce Lee, rather than a homage paying respect to him.
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God only knows where my mind was on this topic – I haven’t gotten a name right at all! At least the green hornet part was correct!
Patricia
Edgerton, WI
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With Tarrantino its tough to tell. The guy genuinely has affection for Hollywood of the period. But he also can be pretty hamfisted and pedestrian, even when paying tribute.
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Not to mention overly privileged, self-indulgent and prone to perpetual cultural appropriation
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The guy has made 2 movies which didn’t annoy me
Jackie Brown (He was smart enough to let Elmore Leonard’s milieu speak for itself)
Django Unchained (It was the final mercy bullet to the head for Marget Mitchellesque views of the Antebellum South)
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Far too many of his films just seem like a lame excuse to use racial slurs and show off how “cool” and ‘edgy’ he is; and I say that as someone who actually likes Rez Dogs, Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill’s. I just don’t like like Tarantino himself.
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Yup, but he has a great eye for casting and has revived the careers of several exploitation film stalwarts.
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And a great ear for classic kick-ass music.
But he still seems like an asshole who’s always looking for an excuse to say n*gger.
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Definitely Van Williams. He also did that cool truck advert.
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It took a generation or two, but someone finally tried to make a show based on Bruce Lee’s idea, set in modern times and, gasp, with an actual Asian actor as the lead: “Vanishing Son”.
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I wonder how close any of these shows are to his idea, or how much he had even fleshed it out. “Warrior” explicitly claims to be based on his work, and Shannon Lee (Bruce’s daughter) is involved in making it, but beyond “kung-fu practitioner in Old West,” I’m not sure how much is his.
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I can has geography lesson oops haha. Forgot about that!
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It’s okay… most people probably didn’t spend a good portion of their 30s reading, writing, and thinking about Yugoslavia, so can probably forget it’s no longer around…
But you can always become a cyberyugoslav!
Or of the NSK, which is close enough…
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