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Bruce Lee and Me

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Re: Bruce Lee and Me

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Post by jameal »

>> Motivational speakers are fond of saying it doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down, it’s how many times you get up. But sometimes, it does matter how many times you get knocked down.

He kind of breezed past this but damn, it really strikes a chord with me. As someone in their early thirties I'm only just beginning to appreciate the toll life takes, even as I grow more resilient.

On an unrelated note, there is a book "Bruce Lee Artist of Life" that is a compilation of Lee's notes on philosophy, martial arts, and more. Some of the notes are what he copied verbatim from his college texts but there are also some brilliant reflections on his experiences. I turn to it from time to time for inspiration and insight.

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Post by CoastalCoder »

guerrilla wrote: post #36
vasco wrote: post #15

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The phenomenon of walking out of a show I paid to watch, even if I'm not enjoying that much is so alien to me. The first thought I might have is "what am I missing", and throughout I'll be trying to either find something good in it or start joking about it in my head. Maybe it'll turn good, maybe it'll be so bad it's good. Maybe the way they tell the story is bad but I still want to know how the story ends. I feel li…

You're just a victim of the sunk-cost fallacy.

Come on, Titanic wasn't that bad. :)

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Post by RajT88 »

aerodog wrote: post #8

Seldom does one find an athlete so eloquent and so willing to share his deeper reflections on life as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It's sometimes forgotten that he was himself, looking purely at statistics, the GOAT for some time.

Abdul-Jabbar's quiet, thoughtful demeanor and philosophical bent to his conversational style, to say nothing of his imposing height, strongly reminds me of an airline pilot I once met. Really, the resemblance was uncanny.

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Post by heisnotanalien »

hutzlibu wrote: post #27
actionfromafar wrote: post #26

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Christ?

Well, probaboy not, depending how you count and what you believe. But yes, there are other metrics for role models, except long life.

I mean have you considered you don't get to be Bruce Lee without being a bit er crazy?

Re: Bruce Lee and Me

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Post by flagrant_taco »

vasco wrote: post #15
devoutsalsa wrote: post #14

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Meh. I got bored and walked out to be honest. We all have our own tastes.

The phenomenon of walking out of a show I paid to watch, even if I'm not enjoying that much is so alien to me. The first thought I might have is "what am I missing", and throughout I'll be trying to either find something good in it or start joking about it in my head. Maybe it'll turn good, maybe it'll be so bad it's good. Maybe the way they tell the story is bad but I still want to know how the story ends. I feel li…

I've done this once in 30+ years. Little Nicky was a terrible movie, no clue what Adam Sandler was thinking with that one.

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Post by fuzztester »

keiferski wrote: post #2

Enter the Dragon was playing a theater near me recently, and for some reason never having seen a single Bruce Lee film, I figured I'd check it out. It was awesome and I ended up down a rabbit hole of reading about Bruce's life and accomplishments. There are some really great interviews with him on YouTube too. It's really irritating that the first thing many younger people will think about Bruce Lee is the near-libel…

>There are some really great interviews with him on YouTube too.

I can search, but can you recommend any?

Re: Bruce Lee and Me

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Post by JeremyNT »

mattbrewsbytes wrote: post #39
silisili wrote: post #3

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Interesting. I never made that connection. I'm not a younger person, but never had any interest in Bruce Lee movies. I've seen a few, it's just not my cup of tea. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was a real stinker of a film, IMO. I'd be highly surprised if young people used it as a benchmark of much. I didn't even remember "he" was in it until this comment.

Its art, to each their own. Its also a Tarantino film so its entirely his interpretation and lens of film into what he wanted to produce. I've watched a few interviews with him about that film and others and he is very meticulous about the content down to certain words in lines, no ad-libbing type of meticulous. I like some of his work and some of it I don't. I certainly hope young people understand not to think of p…

> I certainly hope young people understand not to think of portrayals of real people in works of art+semi-fiction aren't a good representation to bench anything on.

Tarantino's style is so distinctive, and basically never grounded in reality.

Regardless of whether the film is to one's tastes or not, it would be a pretty grave error to encounter a character in a Tarantino film and mistake the performance as an accurate representation of any real world person.

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Post by woooooo »

voidfunc wrote: post #11
silisili wrote: post #3

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Interesting. I never made that connection. I'm not a younger person, but never had any interest in Bruce Lee movies. I've seen a few, it's just not my cup of tea. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was a real stinker of a film, IMO. I'd be highly surprised if young people used it as a benchmark of much. I didn't even remember "he" was in it until this comment.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a stinker... that's a take. Movie wad fantastic. The Bruce Lee scene is fucking hilarious also.

The scene was funny but I've never heard anyone who knew him describe him as that sort of pompous douchebag. It's a little defamatory.

Re: Bruce Lee and Me

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Post by keiferski »

fuzztester wrote: post #46
keiferski wrote: post #2

Enter the Dragon was playing a theater near me recently, and for some reason never having seen a single Bruce Lee film, I figured I'd check it out. It was awesome and I ended up down a rabbit hole of reading about Bruce's life and accomplishments. There are some really great interviews with him on YouTube too. It's really irritating that the first thing many younger people will think about Bruce Lee is the near-libel…

>There are some really great interviews with him on YouTube too. I can search, but can you recommend any?

I enjoyed this one: https://youtu.be/uk1lzkH-e4U
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