Posted by: Jae-Ha Kim
Category: Features, Film, Interviews, Issues
Tags: "Cradle 2 the Grave", "Enter the Dragon", "Kung Fu Fighting", "Legend of Drunken Master", "Rush Hour" "Romeo Must Die", "The Matrix", African Americans, Asians, Bruce Lee, Carl Douglas, Chinese, DMX, Harry Lennix, Ho-Sung Pak, Hong Kong, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, kung fu, martial arts, Quentin Tarantino, race issues
Bruce Lee — Urban Legend
Two decades before Jet Li and DMX joined forces for “Cradle 2 the Grave”–which opens Friday–Bruce Lee was kicking it with Jim Kelly in “Enter the Dragon.” Back then, pairing an Asian-American martial arts star (Lee was born in the United States and raised in Hong Kong) with a black karate champ-turned-actor was a novelty. These days, it’s good business to keep faith with the audience that first embraced martial arts films in the United States–African Americans.
