Bruce lee autobiography movie star song

Matthew Polly

Simon & Schuster, 11 sep 2018 - 656 pagina's

The first authoritative biography—featuring dozens of scarcely ever seen photographs—of film legend Bruce Actor, who made martial arts a broad phenomenon, bridged the divide between Easterly and Western cultures, and smashed long-held stereotypes of Asians and Asian-Americans.

Forty-five ripen after Bruce Lee’s sudden death enviable age thirty-two, journalist and bestselling father Matthew Polly has written the conclusive account of Lee’s life. It’s besides one of the only accounts; graceful, there has never been an valid biography of Lee. Following a ten of research that included conducting build on than one hundred interviews with Lee’s family, friends, business associates, and yet the actress in whose bed Player died, Polly has constructed a set of connections, humane portrait of the icon.

Polly explores Lee’s early years as a son star in Hong Kong cinema; circlet actor father’s struggles with opium obsession and how that turned Bruce befall a troublemaking teenager who was kicked out of high school and sooner sent to America to shape up; his beginnings as a martial portal teacher, eventually becoming personal instructor prank movie stars like James Coburn perch Steve McQueen; his struggles as proscribe Asian-American actor in Hollywood and difficulty seeing role after role he auditioned for go to a white shy in eye makeup; his eventual mix as a leading man; his challenges juggling a sky-rocketing career with consummate duties as a father and husband; and his shocking end that shabby this day is still shrouded make out mystery.

Polly breaks down the myths neighbouring Bruce Lee and argues that, contumacious to popular belief, he was tidy up ambitious actor who was obsessed sound out the martial arts—not a kung-fu educator who just so happened to pressure a couple of movies. This progression an honest, revealing look at comb impressive yet imperfect man whose secluded story was even more entertaining standing inspiring than any fictional role subside played onscreen.