Bruce Lee, the Legend Page #2

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He said,

''You're a master of Gung Fu.

''I'm a pretty good cha-cha dancer.

Why don't we do a deal? Teach me

Gung Fu, and I'll teach you cha-cha.''

Now, an average person...

would take three to four weeks

to learn my basic moves.

But Bruce took only three nights

to master the moves.

So much for

my cha-cha lessons.

Bruce didn't even give me time

to learn the basic beat.

The Orphan

was the second-last film...

Bruce would make

before leaving for America.

In it, he played the most extreme

of his delinquent loner roles.

His final film in Hong Kong was

a complete contrast to The Orphan...

and to any role

before or after.

The Thunderstorm is

probably the only film...

in which he doesn't have

one single fight scene.

Although there are confrontations

in the film...

all the emphasis

in The Thunderstorm...

is on the character's refusal to be

drawn to fight under any provocation.

This reluctance, at least initially,

was a character device...

that would feature heavily

in all of Bruce's later films.

Mary.

Can I help you, Mr. Chan?

Mom knows you're leaving us.

It's hard to find jobs these days.

She wants me to give you $1 00.

Thank her for me, please,

but I just can't take her money.

I'm really sorry about today.

My brother didn't mean it.

He's sorry.

I promise he won't

do it again.

That's what he told me

to tell you.

Don't apologize, Mr. Chan.

Well, anyway,

I'm not your maid anymore.

Mary, I've never

treated you like a maid.

- I'm your friend, Mary.

- Leave her alone!

Mr. Wong.

Sorry about today.

Just leave my sister alone.

David, what's wrong with you? Mr. Chan

was merely offering to help us out.

We're from a poor family.

My sister will marry

a working man.

Cooking meals, washing clothes,

bearing children--

these are what

she'll be doing.

Any thoughts of

going to school...

or marrying a wealthy man

will bring her disappointment.

That's only one way

of looking at it. I think--

- Chan, I'm warning you.

- Warning?

Yes. If I see anyone from your family

seeing my sister...

or coming to my neighborhood,

I'm going to kill him!

David!

Are you out of your mind?

Mr. Chan,

you'd better excuse us.

All right.

Mr. Wong, I know you

dislike me very much.

However, I still want

to be your friend.

Uh, let's shake hands.

I don't follow foreign habits.

It is quite likely that Bruce would have

returned to San Francisco anyway...

as he needed to do so by the time he was

1 8 to confirm his American citizenship.

But the fact that things

were hotting up...

in his constant confrontations

with rival street gangs...

and his mother having to stand guarantor

for him to avoid police prosecution...

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