I think that people don’t understand how hard he worked, how what he accomplished was so remarkable, how deep a thinker and practitioner he was as a philosopher and as someone who not only espoused philosophy but lived his philosophy.” “But there are many layers to him and to his story. “Pretty much everyone knows the name Bruce Lee, and the top-line association is as this cool, kick-ass martial arts action film star,” Shannon Lee said. “ Who am I? That is the age old question asked by every man, at one time or another.” Reading aloud from her father’s collected writings, Shannon Lee gives voice to his words as the film explores the journey he undertook to find his place and purpose. Intimate recollections from daughter Shannon Lee, her mother Linda Lee Cadwell, and friends including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Dan Inosanto and Angela Mao paint a portrait of the Bruce Lee they knew, while cultural experts contextualize the world in which he was forging his own defiant path.

Weaving together archival photographs, home videos, interviews and Lee’s own written words, Nguyen crafts a poetic profile in history. Movies Review: ESPN’s latest doc ‘Be Water’ puts Bruce Lee in cultural contextĮSPN documentary “Be Water” fleshes out the life and challenges of the legendary martial-arts master.

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