Quentin Tarantino on the Bruce Lee "Hollywood" Controversy

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Quentin Tarantino Explained Bruce Lee Controversy in 'The Joe Rogan Experience' podcast

Joe - once upon a time in Hollywood that got controversial was the Bruce Lee scenes

Quentin - yeah yeah

Joe - A lot of people felt like you made Bruce lee into an ass*ole

Quentin - yeah well okay that's again. I'm a little hesitant to talk about this because I don't want like this to be the only thing. People pull from this show but I figured you were going to bring it up especially because I heard you guys go back and forth on it in a little bit. I mean where I'm coming from is…

I can understand his daughter having a problem with it it's her fu*king father all right... I get that but anybody else go suck a dick.

You know and the thing about it though is like you know even if you just look at... Its obvious click cliff tricked him that's how he was able to do. It he tricked him. You know it's like it's its… explained more in the book but the thing is like they do a they do a three-fall a two falls out of three contests.

So cliff loves shit like that you know.. Uh uh and he has a method and his method is to give the guy the first fall okay do your fu*king move dude. Let me see your move…

All right he gives them no resistance… whatsoever the guy does the move he knocks him on his ass and cliff and there's like four different ways Bruce could have come at him the second time that Cliff wouldn't would have had very little defense against…

But most of the time if if a guy has a particular move and it looks like the guy's a lung kid just a big mouth who can't really defend himself. They do the second move again.. I mean they do the first move again second time well now Cliff knows what it is. So he prepares for it he pivots he catches him he throws his ass into the car.

You know and now the third time will be the charm and gets broken up but he just tricked him and Bruce realized he got tricked… if if Cliff hadn't been so vicious he could have even appreciated it…

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Joe - do you know about the history of

Quentin - uh oh yeah and Gene Labelle… yeah of course.

Joe - did you research that before…

Quentin - yeah well I've always known it and everything and like well the stuntman hated Bruce

Joe – Really…

Quentin - on on… on uh green hornet no it's in the it's in Matthew Polly's book and before that I've it's always been known that's why Gene Labelle was brought on.. to teach Bruce respect for American stuntmen Bruce had nothing but disrespect for stuntman and he was always hitting them. He was always hitting them with his feet. He was always tagging us called tagging when you when you hit a stuntman for real and he was always tagging him with his feet and he was always tagging him with his fist and they and they and they got to be the point where like no I refused to work with him.

Joe – really…

Quentin - and he had nothing but disrespect for American stuntmen

Joe - huh that's interesting I wonder what. That was about I wonder what his perspective would have been if somebody asked him to explain it.

Quentin - uh it's like uh wow they're just not good enough they're they're pus*ies. I'm gonna make it look real…

Joe – okay so he was hitting him to make it look real

Quentin - yeah yeah.. but they don't like that no that's unprofessional.

Joe - well that is unprofessional but that's been done before in a bunch of movies by people that people say are as*hole..

Quentin – yeah and yeah and well yeah and um you know and actually somebody else who had a reputation pretty similar to Bruce Lee's in that regards was like Robert Conrad… during that time; yeah and you know he did a lot of his own stunts and he did some really gnarly shit but if you and I've always been a big fan of Robert Conrad but you know in the stunt community he was known as Robert never met a stunt man he couldn't blame Conrad

Joe - um the stunt world is a fu*king crazy world because they're the people that occasionally die making movies

Quentin - yeah absolutely…

Joe - which is just nuts…

Quentin - and look and the thing about it is also Cliff is a hand-to-hand combat killer. He you know he fought in world war ii. He fought with the Filipino resistant fighters. You know in the Philippines against the Japanese. If Cliff fought Bruce Lee at one of Aaron Banks's Madison square garden tournaments Cliff wouldn't stand a chance against Bruce Lee at a mountain square garden martial arts tournament but as a killer who has killed men before in a jungle, he'd kill Bruce Lee. He'd fu*king kill him Bruce Lee's not a killer. Bruce Lee's never really let loose on anybody he's always had to keep it together in a martial arts tournament kind of kind of kind of way. If he's actually facing a guy who could actually kill him. It's a different story.. you know it's in the book Bruce Lee realizes when Cliff takes a hand to hand a military hand-to-hand combat stance... you know he realized... Oh shit this guy's a killer, this guy's not fighting me. He's fighting his instinct to kill me.

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