Be Water

2020

Action / Documentary

17
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 93% · 30 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 100%
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 2029 2K

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Plot summary

In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong to complete four iconic films. Charting his struggles between two worlds, this portrait explores questions of identity and representation through the use of rare archival footage, interviews with loved ones and Bruce’s own writings.


Uploaded by: FREEMAN
December 19, 2021 at 05:46 PM

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Brandon Lee as Self
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1 hr 36 min
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English 2.0
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1 hr 36 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ma-cortes 7 / 10

A nice and enjoyable documentary about the unforgettable Bruce Lee with a lot of stock footage

A good documentary dealing with Bruce Lee existence and mainly told by his wife Linda Lee Cadwell . Narrating his difficult beginings as a hard-working young and then being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee goes back to Hong Kong where is hired by Raymond Chow to complete four films for a powerful Chinese production : Golden Harvest Company . Charting his fights in two worlds, Be Water explores questions of mixed identity , both , Chinese and American ; carrying out a deep investigations through private archive , intimate interviews, and his own writings.

As it tells as Lee was born Lee Jun Fan November 27, 1940 in San Francisco, the son of Lee Hoi Chuen, a singer with the Cantonese Opera. A young Bruce begins appearing in children's roles in minor films including The Birth of Mankind (1946) . Furthermore, he worked in a close relative's restaurant. He eventually made his way to Seattle, Washington, where he enrolled at university to study philosophy and found the time to practice his beloved kung fu techniques. Lee became associated with many key martial arts figures in the United States, including kenpo karate expert , tae kwon do , Karate and Kung Fu . Introduced to television by producer William Dozier, based on the runaway success of Batman (1966), Dozier was keen to bring the cartoon character the Green Hornet to television and was on the lookout for an East Asian actor to play the Green Hornet's sidekick, Kato. Around this time Bruce also opened a second kung fu school in Oakland, California and relocated to Oakland to be closer to Hollywood where trained some Hollywood stars , including to celebrities as Steve McQueen and James Coburn as well as screenwriter Stirling Silliphant. .Bruce's screen test was successful, and Green Hornet (1966) starring Van Williams aired in 1966-1967 with mixed success. His dedication was such that he insisted his character behave like a perfect bodyguard, keeping his eyes on whoever might be a threat to his employer except when the script made this impossible. Another film opportunity then came his way as he landed the small role of a stand over man named Winslow Wong who intimidates private eye James Garner in Marlowe (1969). Subsequently, he developed the series 'Kung Fu' for Warner Brothers , though he was turned down for the lead at the last moment and replaced by David Carradine . With this further exposure of his talents, Bruce then scored several guest appearances as a martial arts instructor to blind private eye James Franciscus on the television series Longstreet (1971). His minor hit in Hollywood led Bruce to return for a visit to Hong Kong and was approached by film producer Raymond Chow who had recently started Golden Harvest productions. Chow was keen to utilize Lee's strong popularity amongst young Chinese fans, and offered him the lead role in Big Boss (1971). In it, Lee plays a distant cousin coming to join relatives working at an ice house, where murder, corruption, and drug-running lead to his character's adventures and display of Kung-Fu expertise. The film shot in Thailand on a very short budget and in terrible living conditions for cast and crew. However, when it opened in Hong Kong the film was an enormous hit. Chow knew he had struck box office gold with Lee and quickly assembled another script entitled Fist of Fury (1972). ¨Fist of Fury¨ was previously realized to his American box office ¨Enter the dragon¨. This one was made later but released before ¨Lee's Return of dragon¨ with Chuck Norris as contender , and Lee had formerly starred ¨The big boss¨. Being his greatest success the Kung-Fu actioner : ¨Enter the dragon¨ is his last complete movie character but his next film ¨ Game of death¨ was absurdly edited after his death . Bruce Lee enthusiasts all around the world were still hungry for more Bruce movies and thus remaining footage -completed before his death of Lee fighting several opponents including Inosanto, Hugh O'Brian and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was crafted into another film titled Game of Death (1978). The film used a lookalike and shadowy camera work to be replaced for the real Lee in numerous scenes. These films packed exciting and rousing struggles violent with impressive combat sequences including Karate , Judo, Tae Kwon do , Hapkido and Wushu . And most of them directed by Lo Wei and Robert Clouse .

Be Water (2020) including appearance of some famous actors , such as Steve McQueen , James Coburn , Nancy Kwan , Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and tragically, his son Brandon Lee, an actor and martial artist like his father, was killed in a freak accident on the set of The Raven (1994) . This decent documentary being competently made by Bao Nguyen.

Reviewed by speedemon-11997 5 / 10

Nothing new in substance, except the anti rascism part...

...and the horribly greedy money milking daughter Shannon Lee is part of this documentary production. Ergo, avoid like the plague! Watch the movies of Bruce Lee instead.

Reviewed by fearthemcneil 4 / 10

They turned this into a "woke" statement and it suffers for it

This documentary was the first one I've seen on the great Bruce Lee that felt like it consisted more of lamenting his time on this earth as a struggle against constant racism more than anything else he did. It becomes the entire point of the film. It's actually ridiculous and borderline laughable how far they take it at times. It becomes more and more apparent the longer you watch this that it's less about Bruce and more about making a woke political statement aimed at the purple haired white women on Twitter and it's a huge disservice to him. Everyone involved in this should be embarrassed.

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