Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Criticizes Bruce Lee's Depiction in Tarantino Film

[ellie_andrews]

I thought you would like to read the article that I wrote for @THR about Quentin Tarantino’s film: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood regarding the films portrayal of Bruce Leehttps://t.co/DDMnR7wdIL
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (@kaj33) August 16, 2019

** feels "torn" about controversy because he is a fan of Tarantino movies. But Lee was his friend and

Comments

[bohemiancouture]

Can I 100% get what he's saying but also think that it's just a movie and it's fiction? The whole story is kind of ridiculous. It's not real life and sometimes I wish people would just leave it at that. I tried not to read too much into it as a historical reference or whatever.

[kobewife1]

Yep

[swissbeauty23]

welp

[spread]

Thank you!
Say it louder for the people in the back...

[lovebum4life]

Thank you for this because I was rolling my damn eyes.

Tarantino especially feeds off of those societal attitudes.

[labovm]

it's right there in the post about why even if it's fiction it's still important not to do shit like this. omg.

[digi_sprite]

Why did Tarantino use Bruce Lee's name? People who have never heard of Bruce Lee and know he's a real person are going to believe it's true. It was a fucked-up racist thing to do and I hope more voices speak out and then hopefully no award noms for him.

[jellycar]

mte, I remember reading a completely different script for this movie where he played a much larger part, but ig that was changed. why wasn't he just a fictional actor like the two leads?

[handsdowntoo]

But why is the fiction always racist? If you can dream up anything..

[carolinga]

It IS fiction. It's fiction that he created, which means he could have chosen to create it without distorting a real, nonfictional human being's character. And without resorting to racist stereotypes.

[belle_chouette]

no offense, but you sound very white rn

[nigelwitthebrie]

Ewww.....your caucasity is showing

[whysogayprop8]

Are you the same woman tourist in Hong Kong that was just interviewed? Because white would you say that?

[gabzillaz]

cause we all know fantasy can't be racist

[elvasle]

sit down, sis. it's racist. period. systemic racism in mainstream media at its finest with asian men once again being tools for clownery. stop.