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DarkChozoGhost posted...

In real life when Bruce Lee was young he was an asshole. He would pick fights on purpose to show off, he would cheap shot people offering handshakes, and was really a thug in general. He grew out of that as his career took off, but the movie takes place in 1969, and that scene is a flashback. It was fairly accurate.

Note that the fight does get cut off quickly, it's not like he outright gets his ass kicked (though he was losing). The scene shows that Cliff knows how to actually fight.

I don't really have an issue with him getting his ass kicked. Cliff was a bigger guy who knew how to fight. A bigger guy who knows how to fight is going to almost always win a fight against a smaller guy.

Just seemed kind if weird to make him a dumb asshole. I'd never heard anything like that about him. But I'm not a bruce lee expert or anything, maybe there was more to it than I know.

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