Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

BrutulTM said:

So none of this has anything to do with the movie. Sounds like you just think Tarantino is a douche which isn't news.

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Arbitrary said:

I'm normally pretty good about keeping the artist and the work separate but he managed to do enough shit to impair my enjoyment of his catalog.

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So, anyway.

The depiction of Bruce Lee was tasteless and only done so The Coolest Man on the Planet could be made to look even cooler and several times we have the director's foot fetish on display. Those things are part of the movie. Destroying a priceless guitar borrowed from a museum is part of that movie.

BrutulTM said:

It has nothing to do with whether it was a good movie or not. And there are thousands and thousands of old Martin guitars out there. They're not "priceless', you can buy one very easily. I don't think the music is going to die because that one got broke.

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I'll alert the museum that there are thousands and thousands of 1800s era Martins out there and they can be very easily bought. They seemed pretty unhappy about the whole thing but this should smooth things over.

Arbitrary said:

Maligning real person Bruce Lee who died too young whose son died from an accident filming a movie so you can make Cliff Brad Pitt Booth, The Coolest Man on the Planet, even more cool in your movie was real stupid. It barred the film from getting a release in China and he never even bothered to talk to Bruce's daughter about him.

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I did my dissertation on Bruce Lee and I'm sat next to a Way of the Dragon framed poster right now with two other framed pictures of him at the corner of my peripheral vision.

But in the context of Bruce Lee vs a fictional character - you can write the fictional character to be as strong or as weak as you want. It's not a question of "nobody could beat Bruce Lee" - you could write a clone of Bruce Lee and say the clone decided to continue training and developing JKD instead of going to Hollywood, so that clone would be > Bruce Lee.

The only question mark over the portrayal is not the movie power scale, but whether the real Bruce Lee was arrogant and cocky on set/back stage as portrayed in the movie - and all the evidence suggests no

BrutulTM said:

Yeah, I saw someone ask Chuck Norris who would win in a fight between him and Bruce Lee and he tried to be polite but he basically said Bruce Lee was a movie actor and not a real martial arts expert.

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Seems unlikely considering they were contemporaries and trained together

BrutulTM said:

I tried to find the article but couldn't. I'm not a martial arts fan or a kung Fu movie fan, so I don't have a dog in the fight between Chuck and Bruce, I was just repeating what I remembered reading somewhere.

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It's nonsense, even putting aside their relationship/friendship. Bruce Lee had his own martial arts schools with multiple branches and trained the likes of Dan Inosanto etc. It was through one of his students that he got the Green Hornet job - he was a martial artist before he was an (adult) actor.

BrutulTM said:

Send them this link:

1840s C.F. Martin Guitar * Museum Piece | Reverb

From the Martin Historians - “This definitely looks like a mid-1840s -early 1850s Martin. The faux Spanish foot and nickel silver nut were features of some Martins at this time. This might be the earliest guitar I’ve seen with a 5-9-5 rosette that later would become standard on Style 28 guitars.”...

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30 years older than the one they lost and apparently in good condition for $12,000. More than I would spend on a guitar but hardly "priceless" and barely a line item in a Tarantino movie budget.

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I gave them a call and they said it was more like this


but then you have to consider we're talking about an auction from 15 years ago. I agree though that he definitely should have bought his own rather than borrowing one from a museum to trash.