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oh boy more Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Bruce Lee discourse okay so it should be know that while popularly Gene LeBell is known to have choked out Steven Seagal until he shat himself, while Gene in his recounting will often not include the making GBS threads part out of politeness Now the Bruce Lee fight is based on an experience on set of Green Hornet involving Gene LeBell and Bruce Lee According to even Lebell’s probably conservative account, Tarantino let the image of Bruce Lee off lightly, because it’s frankly embarrassing for Lee quote:According to LeBell, Lee was a working stiff on the set of The Green Hornet but was kicking the poo poo out of the stuntmen. They couldn’t convince him that he could go easy and it would still look great on film. The show’s stunt coordinator, Bennie Dobbins, needed a ringer to deal with Lee, so he called in Judo Gene. Dr. Killjoy has issued a correction as of 01:00 on Jul 1, 2021 |
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i dunno that makes bruce lee look like a pretty cool dude if he was able to learn from the experience
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Jul 1, 2021 01:48
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Agreed. A dude who learns from his mistakes, develops past his flaws, then becomes friends with the guy who taught him the lesson is generally a pretty cool dude.
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Jul 1, 2021 01:58
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drat that's a cool story.
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Jul 1, 2021 02:09
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how the gently caress do you think that's embarrassing you loving goofball?
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Jul 1, 2021 02:24
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hes goku
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KidDynamite posted:how the gently caress do you think that's embarrassing you loving goofball? I guess the whole “Kung Fu master gets his rear end handed to him by random white guy” hurts the mystique of the fictional character Bruce Lee that certain people get really invested in. But that whole movement about “invincible Kung fu masters with invincible oriental knowledge lost to us decadent westerners “ as a whole has kind of died out with the rise of MMA. Otherwise yes it makes Lee look like a great guy and I don’t see how it’s supposed to be embarrassing.
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KidDynamite posted:how the gently caress do you think that's embarrassing you loving goofball? it’s more the bolded “literally carried around like a child” part whereas the movie made the event far less one sided, I included everything else in the sake of fairness to both Lee and LeBell
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Yeah that's just more proof that Bruce Lee owned. Also that must have been loving hilarious to see
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that story is better than this scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcsPAcLDBkc
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one thing that people usually fail to mention when this comes up is that tarantino was buddy buddy with and revived the career of david carradine, you know the guy who stole bruce lee's show? tarantino then portraying lee like an arrogant cocksucker, accurate or not, is in extremely poor taste considering the circumstances
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I bet Carradine could show Bruce Lee a thing or two about cranking it
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Judakel posted:literary twitter is filled with young adult and science fiction authors with a huge chip of their shoulders due to the fact their work is (mostly justifiably) considered poo poo. i am not surprised these mostly cis people attacked her work without even reading it and engaged in freeform association critiques of poo poo they didnt read Still reminded of that author who'd quit YA twitter and said "I've never seen social dynamics this hosed up, and I've been in prison" Stairmaster posted:hes goku I mean that's literally like something out of Dragon Ball
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KidDynamite posted:how the gently caress do you think that's embarrassing you loving goofball? the reference to discourse seems to imply this is just a thing twitter started talking about out of nowhere i do agree the story makes bruce lee sound badass dunno how he was portrayed in once upon a time in hollywood since i didnt see it but probably not quite as badassishly as the story makes him sound
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never got the complaints about the bruce lee scene in once upon a time, yeah it portrays him as a bit of a blowhard who gets taken down a peg but lee was, kind of famously, a huge dick in his early career because he had to fight every inch to get respect as a chinese man in hollywood, and aside from pitt's char getting a good hit in it's not like the scene portrays him as being full of poo poo
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why do people keep saying that Pitt's character "got a good hit in"? he taunted the Lee character into trying the same thing then used his momentum against him. he got a good hit in on the car
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imagine not cheering at brad pitt killing the manson family lol
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Jul 1, 2021 06:53
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Are we really seeing people go all #Girlboss about the Manson family
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i think once upon is one of tarantinos most difficult movies to a lot of ppl but only because it expects you to know like five things about the 60s
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That Bruce Lee story esp owns because it's basically act one of many kung fu movies. The only way it'd be any better is if LeBell was drunk like Beggar So. E: also it would be hard for Tarantino to disrespect Lee anymore than the entire genre in the 70s dedicated to exploiting his death. Like it's hard to top the movie where Bruce goes to Hell and meets Popeye. Mantis42 has issued a correction as of 07:10 on Jul 1, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/ZSharf/status/1410256813241507841 this is such a hilariously unfair bad faith framing of tarantinos remarks. theres no way that he doesnt think that its incredibly cool
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Farm Frenzy posted:https://twitter.com/ZSharf/status/1410256813241507841 this is such a hilariously unfair bad faith framing of tarantinos remarks. theres no way that he doesnt think that its incredibly cool i like tarantino's contemptuous sneer that they chose for the thumbnail
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Still kinda wild that Star Vs the Forces of Evil just went full anarchist 'no gods, no kings, no borders' for the final episode entirely unironically for a Disney cartoon
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i saw exactly one episode of that where the villain was some headmistress from an evil school the main characters destroyed in an earlier episode and thought it was kind of weird how convincing her argument was that they were rotten little shits still not at clear on why she was hassling their parents about that like what does she even get out of it unless shes genuinely concerned about their destructive behavior
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Farm Frenzy posted:https://twitter.com/ZSharf/status/1410256813241507841 this is such a hilariously unfair bad faith framing of tarantinos remarks. theres no way that he doesnt think that its incredibly cool if you go and read the article there is absolutely nothing offensive or unreasonable in what tarantino says. basically just repeating that labell story someone else posted
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Some Guy TT posted:i saw exactly one episode of that where the villain was some headmistress from an evil school the main characters destroyed in an earlier episode and thought it was kind of weird how convincing her argument was that they were rotten little shits She actually has a whole thing going on, kinda goes all over the place, but the short version is that some teenagers being rowdy isn't really a big problem compared to when you have adults with power and/or authority who decide to gently caress with people for arbitrary reasons babypolis posted:if you go and read the article there is absolutely nothing offensive or unreasonable in what tarantino says. basically just repeating that labell story someone else posted There do seem to be a lot of people who desperately want to cancel Tarantino and are really really bad at it
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It's funny that Rowling retconned Dumbledore to be gay for Hitler even though it was never hinted at in the books Then they made a prequel series about Dumbledore and Hitler and afaik it never comes up there either I dunno I haven't watched them
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It's still the case but they aren't going any more explicit with it than ambiguous meaningful looks from a distance. Possibly one of the most out-and-out cowardly decisions imaginable and if Rowling wasn't overshadowing herself in this instance I think people would be really mad about it.
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I didn't like once upon a time that much but a) I know nothing about that era or place b) I only saw it once and I didn't like inglorious the first time either
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josh04 posted:It's still the case but they aren't going any more explicit with it than ambiguous meaningful looks from a distance. Possibly one of the most out-and-out cowardly decisions imaginable and if Rowling wasn't overshadowing herself in this instance I think people would be really mad about it. That's probably the funniest way to do it lol
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i think its funny they thought gay stuff was too risque for a mass market release but the alleged heroes literally going you leave hitler alone its not our business to meddle was a ok
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would like to thank jk rowling for doing her part to encourage fans to unhealthily assume close emotional friendships are inherently sexual
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also quidditch is a surprisingly good predictor for how racist jk rowling is because she assumes natural talent is so important to sport that an eleven year old child with literally no training whatsoever can instantly become one of the best players in the school this is the real reason why chosen one mythologies tend to be bullshit and rowling deserves the bulk of the blame for them turning into lazy prodigies for all the poo poo lucas gets about promoting chosen one mythologies luke and anakin having to actually learn both how to use the force and develop their own philosophy behind it is pretty tightly integrated into their character arcs
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I look forward to yet another montage of Johnathan Frakes telling me I'm wrong.
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An algorithm recommended me something that I didn't want know about. The fact the algorithm recommended it to me, makes we worry about what I click on, and what other people are clicking on.
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Some Guy TT posted:i think its funny they thought gay stuff was too risque for a mass market release but the alleged heroes literally going you leave hitler alone its not our business to meddle was a ok You'd think that she would have, at some point in the process, realized how loving abhorrent that whole plot thread was. I can't imagine being that clueless.
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Some Guy TT posted:also quidditch is a surprisingly good predictor for how racist jk rowling is because she assumes natural talent is so important to sport that an eleven year old child with literally no training whatsoever can instantly become one of the best players in the school In a lot of fiction there are secret kings, bastard sons who are just other worldly the hobbit has one with Bard the Bowman. King Author, Jesus, Hercules, and other greek characters Wagner's - Der Ring des Nibelungen, utilizes a secret king. Science fiction has harrison Bergons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron A story about how government votes to make everybody equal but one guy can't stop being amazing. Gonna guess that part of Rand's novels and capitalism in general is a throw back monarchy. I think Trump's religion stated they were rich because god wanted them to be. mazzi Chart Czar has issued a correction as of 18:37 on Jul 1, 2021 |
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