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In 2019, bruce Lee once again attracted the attention of everyone many years after his death, this time, it was not Bruce Lee's kung fu films that set off waves, but his daughter Li Xiangning.
Four years ago, Li Xiangning came to China from the United States to negotiate about the filming of a film and television drama about Bruce Lee.
By chance, Li Xiangning accidentally found the LOGO of a hotel chain, almost exactly the same as the image of his father Bruce Lee, after detailed investigation, the LOGO of this hotel chain has been used for more than ten years.
At that time, Li Xiangning took this matter to heart, and after returning to the United States, he began to entrust people to investigate and write materials, and in 2019, Li Xiangning sued the hotel in court, claiming 210 million yuan.
After the incident was exposed, it caused a sensation in an instant, and many people felt that Li Xiangning was sucking the blood of his father Bruce Lee, and such rights protection was too selfish.
In fact, if you know Li Xiangning, you will find that this is a fighter, a warrior who died without regrets in order to defend bruce Lee's honor.
One
On July 20, 1973, Bruce Lee planned his day early, with a long-distance run in the morning, followed by a simple workout.
After lunch, Zou Wenhuai went to Ding Pei's home to discuss the script, and after talking about the script, he also had dinner with foreign film star George Rahimbi to discuss cooperation.
By the time Bruce Lee and Zou Wenhuai finished talking about work at Ding Pei's house, it was nearly seven o'clock in the evening, and after Bruce Lee stood up, he felt a little uncomfortable in his head, and there was a slight pain.
He said to Zou Wenhuai and Ding Pei, "How do I feel some headaches?" ”
Ding Pei quickly found the painkiller prescribed to her by the private doctor from the house, and then poured a cup of boiled water for Bruce Lee to take.
Zou Wenhua looked at his watch, saw that there was still more than an hour before he and George Rushinbi met, and said to Bruce Lee: "I will go to the Japanese restaurant first, wait for Mr. George Rahimbi, you will rest here first." ”
Bruce Lee thought for a moment and agreed, and then Bruce Lee went to the bedroom for a nap, while Ding Pei sat in the dining room watching TV.
When it was about 8 o'clock, Zou Wenhuai called Ding Pei and asked them when they would arrive, Ding Pei looked at Bruce Lee in the bedroom, found that he was asleep, and told Zou Wenhuai that Bruce Lee was sleeping well now, and let him sleep for a while we were in the past.
When it was nine o'clock, when Ding Pei went to call Bruce Lee, he found that he could not wake up, and then quickly called Zou Wenhuai in a panic.
Zou Wenhuai hurried to Ding Pei's house at about 9:40, he also could not wake Bruce Lee, the first time he called Bruce Lee's personal doctor, but he could not be contacted.
In desperation, Ding Pei could only call his personal doctor Zhu Bohuai, and after a simple examination, Zhu Bohuai suggested that he be sent to the hospital immediately.
Zou Wenhuai called an ambulance and took Bruce Lee to Elizabeth Hospital while contacting Bruce Lee's wife, Linda.
However, after several tosses and losses, he missed the best time for treatment, and Bruce Lee eventually died at the age of 33, when his son Li Guohao was just 8 years old and Li Xiangning was only 4 years old.
Looking at her father in the coffin, Li Xiangning, who was embraced by her mother in her arms, did not realize that her father would be separated from her forever, and she did not know how much suffering the years would bring to their family.
He did not know that he would shoulder the burden of protecting his father's reputation.
Two
In the early years, Bruce Lee because of his busy career, naturally ignored the family, the companionship of his children is even more rare, Li Guohao still has a slight impression of his father, and Li Xiangning's cognition of his father is completely through film and television works and the description of his mother.
With the deeper the understanding, the more Li Xiangning felt the greatness of his father.
Initially, Li Xiangning's dream was music, not to promote kung fu culture, and the reason why she followed her father's path was directly related to her brother Li Guohao.
In the year of Bruce Lee's death, 8-year-old Li Guohao, who had already understood things and had already received some basic training in kung fu, naturally did not hesitate to take over his father's mantle.
After Bruce Lee's death, the family moved to Los Angeles, and a few years later, Lee entered the Emmason Calle Film School in Boston to study film production.
At the age of 21, Li Guohao, as a stand-in for Bruce Lee, officially entered the film and television circle and became a kung fu actor.
The next year, with "The Dragon in the Jianghu" won the Best Newcomer Award of the Hong Kong Academy Awards, people have commented that Li Guohao has the style of a father, handsome appearance plus solid kung fu, coupled with the Jiangshan laid by his father, Li Guohao has a bright future.
Just as Linda's family was happy, bad news came again.
In April 1993, when Lee Was filming a clip from the movie "The Crow", a real bullet was fired from the prop gun, and Lee was shot in the abdomen.
Although the medical treatment was relatively timely, he still lost his life due to excessive blood loss.
After losing two boys in a row, Bruce Lee's family was arguably completely broken, and Linda remarried to Bruce Lee's disciple Tom Brick in 1988.
Originally thought to find love, Tom Brick married Linda with the purpose of finding out the cause of Bruce Lee's death, and the marriage lasted only two years before it failed.
After the divorce, Tom Brick wrote a book about Bruce Lee, which soon sold out.
The death of her brother and the experience of her mother made Li Xiangning feel very deeply, she knew how much interest was hidden behind what her father had brought to the world, and there were countless bad people looking at the tiger.
She must defend her father's honor with her own strength and will never allow anyone to slander, slander, or exploit him.
To this end, Li Xiangning gave up his musical dream, after graduating from the Broadcasting Department of Tulane University, he chose to enter the show business circle like his brother, until this time, Li Xiangning was exposed to kung fu with the help of his father's friends.
During this period, orphans and widows had to sell the copyright of some of Bruce Lee's film and television works in order to survive, which was undoubtedly a very humiliating thing for Li Xiangning.
Three
In 1998, Li Xiangning, who had been practicing hard for 5 years, returned to Hong Kong to shoot "Full of Guts", and in the same year, he also made a cameo role in the Hollywood blockbuster "Blade Warrior".
The action is clean and neat, without dragging mud and water, the punch and leg are very beautiful, Li Xiangning did not humiliate her father.
After having income, Li Xiangning did not buy luxury goods to enjoy life, but began to buy back the copyrights she had sold before at the first time.
Since then, Li Xiangning has begun to pay attention to Bruce Lee's various information, and she has to personally ask about everything.
Regarding Bruce Lee's film and television works, Li Xiangning will definitely read the script first, and after she signs it, she will be allowed to shoot, and its strictness is prohibitive.
The great directors Liu Weiqiang and Wu Yusen once had the idea of shooting a work about Bruce Lee, but after seeing Li Xiangning's approach, they had to spread their hands and give up.
Li Xiangning's strictness has also made some People in the Hong Kong industry feel disgusted.
The famous screenwriter Wen Jun once used a sentence to describe Li Xiangning's mother and daughter, who have always doubted whether they fully own Bruce Lee, so they are particularly sensitive to Bruce Lee's affairs.
After such words reached Li Xiangning's ears, she did not think so, thinking that she was just protecting her father's reputation.
Li Xiangning's approach is indeed reasonable, under her escort, whether it is the movie "Bruce Lee Biography" or the TV series "The Legend of Bruce Lee", there has not been a major adaptation, which fully reflects the spirit of Bruce Lee's promotion of martial arts, rather than being transformed into a love film by the devil.
In addition, Li Xiangning also pays special attention to the image of his father in other films.
In 2019, the world-famous director Quentin's work "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" was released in the United States, because Bruce Lee was mentioned in this work, and Li Xiangning went to the cinema to see the movie for the first time.
It turned out that the image of Bruce Lee in the movie was contrary to the image of his father in his mind.
In this film, Bruce Lee is set up by Quentin as an actor who is good at mouth cannons, bragging everywhere every day, but has no real strength.
In the movie, Bruce Lee is even more teased by Brad Pitt, who plays the protagonist, and in the process of fighting with the other party, Bruce Lee has almost no ability to fight back.
Quentin's setting was successful, and Bruce Lee's various pompous performances in the film caused Americans to laugh.
Surrounded by laughter, Li Xiangning felt very sad in his heart: his father had been fighting all his life to break the ethnic discrimination, and in other people's movies, he had become a sensational clown.
The mixed-race Bruce Lee has experienced a past of discrimination, in Hong Kong, because he has foreign blood, many people are reluctant to teach him orthodox Chinese kung fu, and in Hollywood, he has suffered discrimination against black hair and yellow skin.
In such an environment, Bruce Lee can become an international superstar, and he can never be an embroidered pillow.
However, the film has been released in the United States, Li Xiangning can not change, helpless, can only run to the domestic film bureau to complain, after her run before running, and finally "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" was removed.
This of course caused Quentin's dissatisfaction, and the two sides began to fight on the Bruce Lee issue, and Quentin even opened his mouth: "A little arrogant guy, you can see that you can see that I am not blind." ”
For Quentin's statement, Li Xiangning's reply was only a few words: "Are you familiar with my father?" ”
Quentin was indeed unfamiliar with Bruce Lee, and had never even met him, and Quentin's impression of Bruce Lee was entirely derived from the understanding of Bruce Lee by white Hollywood actors.
This understanding is actually a misunderstanding, but also a kind of discrimination.
Bruce Lee existed as early as his lifetime, and as Bruce Lee's fame grew, he became increasingly marginalized in Hollywood's stardom.
The struggle between Li Xiangning and Quentin ended in both defeats, and in the battlefield abroad, Quentin won, and with this wave of heat, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" earned $370 million at the global box office, breaking Quentin's own record, and also won two Oscar awards.
It seems that the harvest is full, but Quentin has lost the Chinese market, in the domestic battlefield, Li Xiangning's victory, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" was removed, and Quentin's actions have also been criticized by everyone, and it is likely that his future films will be affected.
Just over the course of Quentin's affair, Trump, in a public speech, stigmatized the word "KUNG FU", which was born from Bruce Lee.
Although the opponent is the president of the United States, Li Xiangning is not afraid at all, directly hard steel: "This is a joke at the expense of culture and the people, and it is also an outright racist statement." 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. ”
And this year Li Xiangning is 52 years old, more than forty years after her father's departure.
She has spent most of her life fighting to protect her father's reputation, and now she inherits his legacy and fights racial discrimination and prejudice to the end.
In March 2021, Asian discrimination once again made a lot of noise in the United States, and Li Xiangning opened an account on a social platform in the name of her father, calling for an end to discrimination against Asians, and also got the support of rihanna and many other celebrities.
Li Xiangning said: "Bruce Lee believes that all people are created equal and will reach out to those who need help. ”
The reason why Bruce Lee has such a great influence is not because he is a kung fu star, but because of a spirit and faith.
The spirit of Bruce Lee, which has encouraged thousands of people in distress and who have been changed by him, deserves the praise of all and is absolutely not allowed to be desecrated by anyone.
Today, Li Xiangning still runs the Bruce Lee Fund, while continuing to pay attention to some film and television works that have changed from Bruce Lee's deeds, Bruce Lee has such a daughter, this life is worth it.
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