![]() ![]() "It’s hard to not imagine your friend, Alex, soloing something that’s extremely dangerous and you’re making a film about it, which might put undue pressure on him to do something, and him falling through the frame to his death." "I've always been conflicted about shooting a film about free soling just because it's so dangerous," says Chin. Chai Vasarhelyi and photographer/mountaineer Jimmy Chin, along with a team of filmmakers/professional climbers. His painstakingly planned journey is boldly captured by documentary maker E. This Oscar-winning documentary is a stunning portrait of free soloist climber Alex Honnold, who is training and preparing to climb the 3,000-feet-high El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, "the most impressive wall on Earth," with no rope. ![]() Free SoloĪlex Honnold making the first free solo ascent of El Capitan's Freerider in Yosemite National Park, CA Credit: National Geographic / Jimmy ChinĪ truly staggering feat in front of and behind the camera, Free Solo will deprive you of your fingernails (it's that nervous-making). How to watch: Be Water is now streaming on Disney+. His poignant reflections on racism in America and Hollywood, as well as on humanity and expressing your true self, are strikingly relevant today. The story is primarily told through old interviews with Lee and through those who knew him best - one of the most poignant features of the film is the access to Lee’s writings over the years, which are beautifully read by his daughter, Shannon. “When you saw Asian Americans on screen, they were usually crazed, maniacal, robotic stereotypes or serving white folks," says cultural critic and writer Jeff Chang. The documentary speaks to how Lee was "rejected by Hollywood," as his wife Linda Lee Cadwell says, "and so he had to show them that an Asian could be a strong leading man." Lee refused to play roles that were demeaning to Chinese people or a "novelty." So he started creating his own in Hong Kong. Alongside the second-class treatment and pay that non-white actors received, most roles were played by white actors - take John Wayne as Genghis Khan or Mickey Rooney's horrifying performance in Breakfast at Tiffany's, for example. Tragically, Lee died just before it was released, at 32 years old.īe Water explores Lee's struggle to find community and industry support amid a time of blatantly racist representation of Asian Americans in Hollywood. There, he completed four films in two years, including the iconic Enter the Dragon. The story begins in 1971, when Lee had returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong from America. How much do you actually know about Bruce Lee? Directed by Bao Ngyuen as part of ESPN's long-running "30 for 30" documentary series, Be Water chronicles the tragically short but nonetheless influential life of the actor and martial arts expert. ![]() Bruce Lee in "Enter the Dragon" Credit: Robert Clouse Concord /Warner Bros ![]()
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