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"So the part in the movie where the Lee character says he would ‘cripple’ and Brad Pitt’s character comes to Ali’s defense is not only completely inaccurate, it turns Lee into a disrespectful blowhard and jerk.”Īnd while Lee was known to have fought stuntmen on some of his sets once he returned to Hong Kong, "he never started the fights, they always came up to him and challenged him,” Polly says.

Lee “revered” Muhammad Ali, Polly told Esquire. But according to Lee biographer Matthew Polly, the scene was inaccurate in many ways. Lee did star in The Green Hornet, as the crime fighter’s sidekick and valet, Kato.

Flashing back to the present, a Booth still on Dalton’s roof declares his dismissal “fair enough.” Before the match can be settled in the third and final round, the two men are interrupted, and Booth is fired for the fight. He then attacks with a second flying kick, but Booth catches him and hurls him into a car. Lee proposes a three-round fight to see which man can put the other “on his butt.” In the first round, Lee kicks Booth squarely in the chest, flooring him. In the memory, Moh’s Lee holds court among stuntmen and crew members, giving a pompous speech and saying that if he fought Cassius Clay, as legendary fighter Muhammad Ali was still often called in the ‘60s, he’d “make him a cripple.” This elicits chuckles from Pitt’s Booth, who calls Lee “a little man with a big mouth and a big chip,” who "should be embarrassed to suggest be anything more than a stain on the seat of Cassius Clay’s trunks.” While on Dalton’s roof, Booth remembers an encounter with Bruce Lee on the Green Hornet set. In the film, Pitt’s character, Booth, has a flashback while repairing a TV antenna for his boss and best friend, Leonardo DiCaprio’s also-fictional western star Rick Dalton. Quentin Tarantino's New Movie Fails Its Women What happens in the movie?