bruce lee
This film is worth it for the scene when Bruce does some damage in the office alone!!!
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Hi, hi, hi, Mr. Deltoid!
I knew Lee was in this movie before seeing it. But this perhaps the only movie where a SINGLE person gets the better of him--or at least his character--in a physical confrontation.
*SPOILER*
He tried to take out Jim Garner and ended up doing himself in as he took a flying leap off the side of a building. All Garner had to do was duck!
"I knew Lee was in this movie before seeing it. But this perhaps the only movie where a SINGLE person gets the better of him--or at least his character--in a physical confrontation.
*SPOILER*
He tried to take out Jim Garner and ended up doing himself in as he took a flying leap off the side of a building. All Garner had to do was duck!"
The best bit about that scene was the line Garner said to Lee to provoke him: "You're light on your feet- or are you just a bit gay?"
"The best bit about that scene was the line Garner said to Lee to provoke him: "You're light on your feet- or are you just a bit gay?"
I used to think he said gay when I first saw the movie but over time I've come to realise that he actually say "giddy" and the actual line is "you're a little light on your feet Winslow, are you just a little giddy huh?" and for those who don't know the meaning of the word giddy ..
Main Entry: gid·dy
Pronunciation: 'gi-dE
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): gid·di·er; -est
Etymology: Middle English gidy mad, foolish, from Old English gydig possessed, mad; akin to Old English god god
1 a : DIZZY <giddy from the unaccustomed exercise> b : causing dizziness <a giddy height> c : whirling rapidly
2 a : lightheartedly silly : FRIVOLOUS b : joyfully elated : EUPHORIC
I just watched the movie and James Garner definitely does NOT say "giddy". He very clearly says "gay". Besides, why would Bruce Lee's character get mad enough to accidentally kill himself if Garner/Marlowe had only said "giddy"? Despite the somewhat sympathetic (a relative term here) portrayal of Marlowe's attitude toward his officemate - the obviously gay hairdresser - his line to Bruce Lee/Winston Wong is just another example of Hollywood's then-current homophobia (as is so well documented in "The Celluloid Closet"). However, I would hasten to point out that Marlowe's use of the word "gay" in the inflammatory context of the face-off with Bruce Lee/Winston Wong does not necessarily indicate that Marlowe is homophobic but, rather, that he knows that most straight men of the era were and would be vulrenable to such provocation. Pretty canny, if politically incorrect.
share"Gay" wasn't a major slur, if one at all, for homosexuals back then, genius. It meant essentially the same thing as "giddy" or that you're happy like you're walking on air. Go talk to an old person and get some perspective.
shareWiki:
"The sixties marked the transition in the predominant meaning of the word gay from that of "carefree" to the current "homosexual". By 1963, a new sense of the word gay was known well enough to be used by Albert Ellis in his book The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Man-Hunting. Similarly, Hubert Selby, Jr. in his 1964 novel Last Exit to Brooklyn, could write " [he} took pride in being a homosexual by feeling intellectually and esthetically superior to those (especially women) who werent gay...""