Since last year, large-scale Asian-hostile behavior has erupted in the United States, and many Asian-American celebrities who have developed in the United States have come forward to denounce this unjustified farce, including Li Xiangning, the only daughter of kung fu superstar Bruce Lee.
Li Xiangning
When her father died suddenly, Li Xiangning was only 4 years old, and she even thought that her father lying in the coffin was just asleep.
48 years later, as the only descendant left by Bruce Lee, how is Li Xiangning living?
The first time Li Xiangning was concerned by the Chinese people was in 2015.
At that time, Li Xiangning came to China to negotiate the filming of Bruce Lee's film and television works, and it turned out that a restaurant chain had used a LOGO that was almost exactly the same as his father's image for more than a decade.
Four years later, Li Xiangning sued the restaurant brand for alleged unauthorized use of Bruce Lee's image, claiming 210 million yuan.
As soon as the news came out, there were many opinions, some people supported Li Xiangning's rights protection, and some people said that Li Xiangning was sucking his father's blood, and some of them made a big fuss.
Not only that, the well-known Hong Kong screenwriter Wen Jun also said that Li Xiangning and her mother Linda are worried that they can't absolutely own Bruce Lee, so as long as they are related to Bruce Lee, they will be extra sensitive.
Wen Jun
But in Li Xiangning's view, he was just protecting his father's reputation and image.
She once personally directed her father's biographical film "The Biography of Bruce Lee", and the "Legend of Bruce Lee" that was later broadcast on CCTV was also stamped by her.
Because of Li Xiangning's strictness, many big directors who want to bring Bruce Lee's life deeds to the big screen can only give up, including Wu Yusen and Liu Weiqiang.
Wu Yusen Liu Weiqiang
However, Bruce Lee, as a big IP, has rarely been made up and changed, which is also a fortunate thing.
Over the years, Li Xiang has snubbed the famous Hollywood directors and attacked the big president of the United States who talks but has no brains.
In 2019, Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was released in the United States, set in the 1960s, and inevitably mentioned Bruce Lee, who was thriving in Hollywood at the time.
However, unlike bruce Lee in the Chinese people's impression, Quentin described him as a pompous actor who braged and had a big temper and actually had no real kung fu.
Li Xiangning said: "Sitting in the movie theater, hearing them laugh at my father, I feel that my heart is full of mixed feelings. ”
Li Xiangning could not prevent the film from being released in the United States, but she directly complained to the China Film Bureau, and finally under her struggle, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", which was scheduled to be released in China, was hastily withdrawn.
The Chinese film market is now arguably the largest box office for many international blockbusters, but Quentin is reluctant to re-edit "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" for the Chinese market like other directors, in fact, he insisted: "Bruce Lee's kung fu is really good, but he is very arrogant and brags." ”
Quentin
The two sides quarreled endlessly, did not give in to each other, and made a lot of noise, and a year later, the "understanding king" telangpu followed in The Footsteps of Quentin and bumped into Li Xiangning's gun.
In a public statement, Trump stigmatized the word "KUNG FU," which was born out of Bruce Lee.
Li Xiangning unceremoniously debunked Telangpu's racial discrimination:
"It's a joke at the expense of culture and people, and it's also downright racist rhetoric." This kind of rhetoric can make people feel insecure, and even from a purely martial arts standpoint, I find it very inappropriate to use it. ”
At the beginning of this year, the hatred of Asians in the United States was one after another, Li Xiangning could not see it, she used her father's name to open a social platform, and posted a photo of Bruce Lee, with the caption:
"You think the 'kung fu flu' is a joke, but some people will have a hateful and xenophobic mentality and use it to exacerbate their fear and contempt until heinous behavior breaks out."
48 years later, the unfairness encountered by Bruce Lee who first broke into Hollywood still makes people clench their fists in anger. Li Xiangning, who frequently speaks out, really does not forget his father's legacy, or is he selling his reputation and reputation?
Bruce Lee was only 32 years old when he died, and Li Guohao, who had revealed the truth about his father's death, also died of an unpredictable real bullet at the age of 28. Is it a curse, or is there another reason?
Bruce Lee Lee Guohao
Bruce Lee, who is famous all over the world, died in the bedroom of the female star, and the information released by the hospital said that he died of "cerebral edema".
Before that, Bruce Lee was busy filming, and he didn't spend much time with Li Xiangning.
4-year-old Li Xiangning was held in the arms of her mother Linda, looking at her father lying in a coffin, not knowing what death meant.
Unlike his brother Li Guohao, Li Xiangning was first interested in music, not kung fu.
Li Xiangning's understanding of her father is more from linda, Li Guohao and her father's film and television works before his death. When she entered college, Li Xiangning chose to major in acting, and it was only then that she began to contact Kung Fu from Bruce Lee's former friend.
Li Xiangning Bruce Lee
However, Li Xiangning and Li Guohao are worthy of Bruce Lee's flesh and bones, and they are all one-point in kung fu.
At the age of 21, Li Guohao played a stand-in for his father in the TV series "Kung Fu Circle", and at the age of 22, he won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Newcomer with the movie "Dragon in the Jianghu", which can be described as a promising future.
Lee Kwok Ho
In the same year that Li Xiangning directed "The Biography of Bruce Lee", Li Guohao died on the set of the movie "The Crow".
Stills from "The Crow"
The actor who played against Li Guohao at that time was named Michael, and the prop bullet fired from the prop gun in his hand should have been a prop bullet, and it did not hurt or itch when it hit the body. However, this fake bullet was replaced by a real weapon that actually hit Li Guohao's abdomen.
Exactly who transferred this bullet is still a matter of opinion.
Some people say that Lee Guo-ho has offended people, while others say that Lee Kwok-ho once said that he already knew the real reason for his father's death and would be made public after the release of "The Crow" Crow.
Perhaps it was his words that pushed himself to death.
In any case, from then on, Li Xiangning became the only bloodline left by Bruce Lee in the world.
Li Xiangning seized the time even more and improved his martial arts level.
In 1998, Li Xiangning returned to Hong Kong to shoot the action movie "Full of Guts".
In this movie, Li Xiangning, like her father, has neat fists and feet, beautiful moves, and even jumps off the building scene herself.
After that, Li Xiangning made a cameo appearance in "Blade Warrior 1".
Tiger father and no dog daughter, Li Xiangning proved with strength that he is worthy of the name of the descendants of kung fu superstars.
Carefully calculated, if Bruce Lee is still alive, the 81-year-old may be old and strong, and today's kung fu movies are also because of his existence, and there are successors who live endlessly.
Unfortunately, fate does not have if, time can not be repeated, even Li Xiangning is now 52 years old, what did she do for her father in the days when she faded out of the screen?
In 1940, a yellow-skinned boy was born in San Francisco, USA, and his parents named him Li Zhenfan, and mary, a midwife, gave him an English name: "Bruce LEE".
The boy stretched out his small hands and feet, and no one expected that in the future, this young body would break the sign of "East Asian Sick Man" and become famous in the world.
Li Xiangning did not spend most of his life with his father, but became a practitioner of his father's legacy. In order to get closer to her father's inner world, she had vowed to walk everywhere his father had been.
In Hong Kong, Bruce Lee, who has a quarter of European ancestry, was not once considered qualified to learn kung fu. Later, when he came to the United States, Bruce Lee ignored the opposition of the Chinese martial arts community, and as long as he wanted to learn, he could do it regardless of skin color age.
This precedent has made Chinese martial arts more popular, and many foreigners have fallen in love with Chinese kung fu.
Bruce Lee's life was short, and there were not many film and television works left behind.
In the early years, Bruce Lee's widow Linda was forced to make a living and sold some of the rights to Bruce Lee images.
When Li Xiangning grew up and had his own financial resources, the first thing he did was to buy back the copyrights. In addition, she set up her own company, specializing in her father's video materials and other matters.
As long as it is related to his father, Li Xiangning will personally ask about it.
Li Xiangning said: "In my father's movie, it is really fighting racism. ”
In the withdrawn "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", Bruce Lee was already a big star, but when he first entered Hollywood, he was also discriminated against because of his yellow skin and black hair.
"Male Chinese lack masculine charm in the expression of American mass culture, neither dashing appearance nor admirable manhood."
In order to break this stereotype, Bruce Lee single-handedly confronted Hollywood tough guys such as Marlon Brando and John Wayne.
He earned himself fame and Chinese a breath.
It was once said that Bruce Lee was displaying his body as a weapon to win the struggle between nations and races.
But his greatness is not only because of his martial prowess.
Bruce Lee's whole life has struggled with prejudice and discrimination, and it is because of this great love and justice in his heart that he can become a hero and idol of the 20th century.
"He Bruce Lee believed that all men are created equal and would reach out to those in need." Li Xiangning said.
In the face of all the grievances that are still playing out today, if Bruce Lee were alive, he would certainly come forward.
Kung Fu does not die, the spirit is eternal.