Ji, Mary

8East, Gym

April 2, 2003

Bruce Lee: Dragon by Linda Lee

Singled Out

Without a doubt, there have been many Chinese victims who have been singled out and discriminated against and one sufficient man, Bruce Lee was undoubtedly targeted against in the movie Dragon. It showed how one man went up to the top and fought against his own in order to be able to have freedom to teach whoever he wants. Bruce Lee was a man who had skills and courage, and he was extremely determined about winning. Since he had his wife and his friends, he was able to do anything, he was inspired.

Bruce Lee was a man who could teach well, and was shown depicted as a man who was being disoriented. From part of this movie, he was shown through a mask, and in his role, he was discriminated by needing to wear a mask to hide his face. The producers all criticize him when he’s away, talking about how he looks. And in the middle, he was looked through as a Chinese man when the big white guys challenged him to a fight, just because he was working out. They showed how he would take off his shoes and socks thinking that this would be a sissy fight. And when he went out with Linda, her mother disapproved because he was Chinese, she was only thinking about how the baby would look like, “a yellow baby.” She had such racist comments about him, and if I were in his shoes, I would feel like slapping her because it isn’t right to criticize people on the way they look, act and there background.

Cleary, the discrimination is shown through two perspectives, Bruce Lee’s and Linda Lee’s. Bruce Lee was judged in the film, and Linda could obviously see that, so in the movie theatre, she could see how the movie was making the Japanese guy act, clumsy and idiotic. And when they went on a date, the restaurant hostess didn’t get them their table because it was a Chinese guy with a white girl, and that couldn’t happen.

Evidently, this movie shows the plight of the racism happening between Chinese and whites. Whites and Chinese couldn’t be together back then, but Linda and Bruce Lee made it possible. They had an extremely tight relationship and didn’t let anything get in there way. When Bruce had sustained being knocked out, and ended up in the hospital, Bruce Lee yelled at Linda, but she came back the next day happy and didn’t care about how he yelled at her, stating to you, that not all whites are cruel and dislike Chinese being with whites.

Undoubtedly, Bruce was the target with the whites and weren’t given his rights when he came up with the idea of the movie with the white producer, instead he was taken out of his movie because he was Chinese and was replaced by a white actor, this showed how whites only wanted whites to be on show because Chinese were disoriented. He was strange and weird to the whites because he did everything differently, like taking off his shoes and socks before a fight like a sissy. The portrayal of him acting like this definitely gives you a sense of how the whites all acted towards Chinese and how some were actually nice.

There were many parts that made Bruce hide his face, and in the movie, it shows Chinese washing and cooking in restaurants which probably say that the only thing Chinese are good at s cooking and washing dishes. I definitely think that the discrimination is towards Bruce Lee and as well as other Chinese because it shows how they fight with one another for silly reasons.

Apparently, Bruce Lee notices the types of discrimination aimed towards him and fights because he don’t want to be treated anything less than a person, so that’s why he changes some of the scenes in the movie, to make it more interesting and to probably prove that Chinese are more interesting than they think by covering up their face. I definitely think that by covering up their face, it makes them more excited into doing there things.

Overall, the types of discrimination Bruce Lee is facing all deals with the fact that he’s a Chinese man in films and that he married a white men. He was stunned that Linda hasn’t told her mom about him, which made him probably think that she was ashamed about them. The discrimination in this film was great and specifically targeted towards Bruce Lee. You should be aware about how people treat different racial and colored people with ignorance and singling them out.