Most famous photo ever?

[mozfonky]

Bruce Lee films were considered rightist propaganda during the cultural revolution, yes. A lot of martial arts fiction was like that though. In fact, Jin Yong novels used to be banned until Deng Xiaoping (who was an avid reader of Jin Yong) reversed that.

A friend of mine said her grandmother always yelled at her and called her a right wing extremist for reading western literature such as Harry Potter too when she was a child.

well, i guess grandaughter is lucky she couldn't be sent to a camp or something then huh? Bruce Lee said it plain as day, "people are plain stupid to allow themselves to be oppressed". Bruce was a very unusual asian man.

 

[mozfonky]

True. I just posted it to trigger some TDS.

It's iconic, no doubt. I even tell people that argue, "give the devil his due, he almost gets his brains shot out and that's his reaction" and then he goes on to fulfill his campaign obligations. People tried to say the shot was somehow fake, even with a casualty. He's not the soft, rich wimp some people want to say he is. Of course, they won't say a good thing about him under torture.

 

[Deleted member 449757]

well, i guess grandaughter is lucky she couldn't be sent to a camp or something then huh? Bruce Lee said it plain as day, "people are plain stupid to allow themselves to be oppressed". Bruce was a very unusual asian man.

He was a Hong Konger, so comparing his thoughts to the chinese falls kinda flat to begin with.

 

[mozfonky]

He was a Hong Konger, so comparing his thoughts to the chinese falls kinda flat to begin with.

Bruce was plain unusual wherever he went. The hong kongers didn't like him for his mouth either.

 

[Deleted member 449757]

Bruce was plain unusual wherever he went. The hong kongers didn't like him for his mouth either.

I believe i read that Lo Wei was kinda pissed that he didn't hate the japanese enough.

 

[BluntForceTrama]

all coke addicts are liars...fuka

 

[mozfonky]

I believe i read that Lo Wei was kinda pissed that he didn't hate the japanese enough.

Really? Ya, his best friend was my mentor and was japanese.

The issue with lo wei was several things, I think Bruce just thought he was lazy and Lo didn't like Bruce much either, apparently it got to the point of Bruce pulling a knife which was disputed at the time but his wife, Linda, confirmed it fairly recently.

Bruce was drugged out for a large part of the time in hong kong and he was having issues with the fame too, it's what killed him. That's not the Bruce who lived in Seattle as far as I know.

 

[BluntForceTrama]

without a doubt

 

[mozfonky]

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Good one, incidentally, I do delivery and find it super interesting how Bigfoot occupies the minds of the rural folk, there are many paintings, statues, bumber stickers that you never see in the big city. Maybe they know something the city folk don't.

 

[Deleted member 449757]

Really? Ya, his best friend was my mentor and was japanese.

The issue with lo wei was several things, I think Bruce just thought he was lazy and Lo didn't like Bruce much either, apparently it got to the point of Bruce pulling a knife which was disputed at the time but his wife, Linda, confirmed it fairly recently.

Bruce was drugged out for a large part of the time in hong kong and he was having issues with the fame too, it's what killed him. That's not the Bruce who lived in Seattle as far as I know.

Well, you'll notice that Bruce Lee's films after Lo Wei did not have any anti-japanese sentiment in them while Lo Wei's film after Bruce Lee certainly did. Since Lo Wei was from Jiangsu and born in 1918 i guess it's obvious why he had a hate boner for japanese that i wouldn't expect Bruce Lee to really vibe with, so the info i've read seems plausible on it's face.

Considering Jackie Chan also fell out with Lo Wei (with an infamous escalation) it seems to me that Lo Wei was kind of a difficult person for actors who tried to give their own input into works. Though i think that Lo Wei's quantitative output really disproves any accusation of laziness.

 

[mozfonky]

Well, you'll notice that Bruce Lee's films after Lo Wei did not have any anti-japanese sentiment in them while Lo Wei's film after Bruce Lee certainly did. Since Lo Wei was from Jiangsu and born in 1918 i guess it's obvious why he had a hate boner for japanese that i wouldn't expect Bruce Lee to really vibe with, so the info i've read seems plausible on it's face.

Considering Jackie Chan also fell out with Lo Wei (with an infamous escalation) it seems to me that Lo Wei was kind of a difficult person for actors who tried to give their own input into works. Though i think that Lo Wei's quantitative output really disproves any accusation of laziness.

Bruce milked the Japanese thing with Fists of fury, if that wasn't enough for Lo, what did it really matter? Bruce brought them pride and he did it at the expense of the Japanese with the "not sick men" thing and the kicking of the no chinese sign. I think that Lo had other reasons for not liking Bruce and Bruce didn't like him either. Bruce had problems with a lot of people, most genius' do.

Incidentally, I've read that Bruce did raise his fist to Japanese military planes as a child but of course he obviously outgrew that. He didn't really care much for race although I don't personally believe many of us are racism free. He was at least free enough to befriend many Japanese in Seattle. Bruce was a complicated man, the last couple years everything got distorted because of the fame and the drugs mainly, he went a little crazy, which is what drugs and fame do to some people.

I did see an anectdote years ago, I never could find it again, of a white guy who claimed to be in Bruce's Seattle school for one of his infrequent visits, he sensed that Bruce was pissed about something, he asked Taky (the Japanese head of the class) what was wrong and Taky, as was his nature, told him that Bruce wasn't happy with all the white students but "don't worry about it" which sounds exactly like the diplomatic Taky I knew. So, although Bruce claimed that the color didn't matter, it did somewhat. I never knew if that story was true for sure but it rang true.

 

[mozfonky]

Im not a believer in the lore. I don't think its actually out there. The other evidence outside of this film is stupid AF. I just don't think whatever this is is a man in a costume. No idea wtf Im looking at here.

Heres the one weird fact about the footprints taken after this video was shot. The prints ran in a straight line one foot over the other like it was on a tightrope. Theres a photo showing this and numerous people including Bob Gimlin have discussed this. When you watch the video and how fluid its walking you know theres no way in hell a person could do this.

I don't disbelieve but there is scant proof, most of my people do believe fully in Sasquatch, Indians live in a world of magic, the things they believe and the way they think would give psychiatrists and aneurism.

 

[Sweater of AV]

That is one i had never seen before.

That's interesting. Maybe too much time has passed, but there were a few generations for which Afghan Girl was immensely popular and recognizable. Pretty sure it's still National Geographic's most famous photo of all time.

 

[mozfonky]

That's interesting. Maybe too much time has passed, but there were a few generations for which Afghan Girl was immensely popular and recognizable. Pretty sure it's still National Geographic's most famous photo of all time.

if he's in china, it's understandable. Which is why I mentioned that if he were in the US, those pics are unavoidable if your above a certain age.

Pop culture does have short memory though and even if people know the image, the younger people won't know much about any of them. That pretty much goes for all the famous men that have graced our country, the young often didn't know much about Michael Jackson when he passed and I doubt the young know a lot about Ali now. I'm constantly reminding myself of this fact as a musician and realize that my faves are really not what most people are even familiar with.

 

[Deleted member 449757]

if he's in china, it's understandable. Which is why I mentioned that if he were in the US, those pics are unavoidable if your above a certain age.

Pop culture does have short memory though and even if people know the image, the younger people won't know much about any of them. That pretty much goes for all the famous men that have graced our country, the young often didn't know much about Michael Jackson when he passed and I doubt the young know a lot about Ali now. I'm constantly reminding myself of this fact as a musician and realize that my faves are really not what most people are even familiar with.

I'm not in China but Europe (large parts of my social circle are chinese), but if it's some National Geographic and therefore american thing i guess that makes no difference.

When i think of photos i have seen ad nauseum, it would be stuff like this:

 

[I Am Legion]

The real answers are already in this thread. Absolutely great answers. I'll go with some fun ones. The OG Camel toe:

 

[I Am Legion]

I always loved the optimism here. This is a guy I want to spend a natural disaster with.

 

[Sweater of AV]

if he's in china, it's understandable. Which is why I mentioned that if he were in the US, those pics are unavoidable if your above a certain age.

Pop culture does have short memory though and even if people know the image, the younger people won't know much about any of them. That pretty much goes for all the famous men that have graced our country, the young often didn't know much about Michael Jackson when he passed and I doubt the young know a lot about Ali now. I'm constantly reminding myself of this fact as a musician and realize that my faves are really not what most people are even familiar with.

It was still pretty popular and well known outside of the US but probably not for as long of a period of time.

Yes, younger people will definitely not really know about it.

 

[mozfonky]

I'm not in China but Europe (large parts of my social circle are chinese), but if it's some National Geographic and therefore american thing i guess that makes no difference.

When i think of photos i have seen ad nauseum, it would be stuff like this:

if i've ever seen that, it didn't stick in my memory.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

Haha that was the one I was hoping to see