2014英语四级听力练习慢速3.21(3)_大学英语听力

2014英语四级听力练习慢速3.21(3)

　　Every time I see the bowing, scraping Chinaman with the long pigtail, I want to smash the TV!

　　I agree. The way Oriental people are portrayed by Hollywood: villains, enemy soldiers, comic relief, it makes me sick. In my project, you would play a completely different kind of character.

　　The hero.

　　Well, he works with the hero, and hes a hero, too.

　　Kato, of course, was not the hero but the assistant to the hero, the Green Hornet. Kato is a martial artist in the series and the part made Lee famous in the U.S. and Hong Kong.

　　But David Henry Hwang says Bruce Lee still did not receive offers for lead actor roles.

　　As talented and as amazing as he was, wasnt able to break the glass ceiling in American entertainment, and a lot of the second act of the play is about his struggles trying to get work as an actor in America. And at the end of the show he finally realizes that its not going to happen for him in America, and he decides to go back to Hong Kong where he will eventually make the pictures establish him as the star that we know today.

　　The play ends before Lee gains stardom in the martial arts action movies that he filmed in Hong Kong in 1971 and 1972. Bruce Lee died of a brain swelling the following year at the age of 32. His first big Hollywood film, Enter the Dragon, was released a short time after.