When Bruce comes to America the first time, everyone seems to be racist against him. Also, there are African Americans at the school he attends...I thought schools were desegregated at the end of the sixties, not the beginning. And there are girls at the school too...
This film should be a nitpickers dream....
In one scene, we see Bruce and Linda Lee looking over a book that says "The Tao of Jeet Kune Do" that has just been released. This book was not released until AFTER Lee's death, and was not in fact authored by him. It's just a collection of his notes and attributable quotes. To my knowledge, Bruce Lee only wrote one book, and it was on Wing Chun (forgot the exact name, something like "Kung Fu, Oriental Art of Self-Defence"). He may have planned to write a great many things, but his untimely death robbed him the oppurtunity.
Bruce Lee makes those wierd "cat noises" in some of the fight scenes. Bruce Lee didn't make those noises in real life. When sparring or fighting, he was silent. They were theatrics.
Bruce Lee is portrayed in the film as injuring his back after the fight with Wong Man Jack. According to most biographies, he injured it weightlifting.
The film sort of glosses over the Wong Man Jack fight's significance. Even though Lee "won" the fight, he felt the fight was too difficult because his style was limited. The "Jeet Kune Do" wasn't something Lee had all along, but developed from his (relatively) short Wing Chun training. The fight caused changes in his outlook and his fighting style. In the film, he is just temporarily disabled, and decides to write a book, the sense of a shift in paradigm isn't there.
It really has been a long time since I saw this film, so I probably missed some stuff. Bruce Lee's real life was much less clear-cut and dazzling. There is also controversy about Lee's life, some strongly disagreeing with Linda Lee's portrayal of Bruce Lee and Jeet Kune Do.
Regarding the previous post, bigotry and bias towards Asians in the 60's was pervasive, but something that is often overlooked in discussions on racism. If Asians were in movies, they were scheming bad guys, wicked generals, or household servants. Lee's film "Enter the Dragon" proved that Asians could be an international hero.
Also,the segment of the film that deals with Bruce when he portrayed Kato on the TV show "The Green Hornet" was totally fabricated.I recently bought the entire video collection of the series as I am a huge fan of the show.No show ever had an episode that looked like the one depicted in the movie,nor was there one entitled "The Formula" as done in the movie.Guess the producers felt that they could take an artistic liberty with this portion of Bruce's life.Trouble is though that when you are doing fact & not fiction,you should show the facts as they happend & not create falsehoods about an actual human being & their life.I did like the touch very much of their having Van Williams who played Britt Reid/The Green Hornet in the 1966-'67 GH TV series with Bruce in a cameo as the director of the TV show.