'If people are saying, ‘Well, he never said he could beat up Muhammad Ali,’ well, yeah, he did,' Tarantino said.
on “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood,” denying that Lee would have ever boasted his superiority over Ali like Moh’s character does in the film.
The director also addressed criticism that the film makes Lee out to be weaker than he was. In one scene, Brad Pitt’s stuntman character, Cliff Booth, squares off with Lee, hurling him into the side of a car with force and ease. “Brad would not be able to beat up Bruce Lee, but Cliff maybe could,” Tarantino said. “If you ask me the question, ‘Who would win in a fight: Bruce Lee or Dracula?’ It’s the same question. It’s a fictional character. If I say Cliff can beat Bruce Lee up, he’s a fictional character so he could beat Bruce Lee up.”
Tarantino repeatedly cited Cliff’s rugged experience and backstory as justification for his ability to take Lee on, imagining more fantasy scenarios ending in a fight between the pair."[Cliff] has killed many men in World War II in hand-to-hand combat,” Tarantino said. “What Bruce Lee is talking about in the whole thing is that he admires warriors. He admires combat, and boxing is a closer approximation of combat as a sport, like martial arts tournaments are.
“I feel like he turned his confidence into arrogance and his intelligence into mockery,” Shannon Lee told The Times. “I feel like he was picked on in the way that he was picked on in life by white Hollywood.”
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