Add in Lee's need to make his Wuxia epic distinctly his own. Because of my wife, I have a big heart for strong women. Tough, practical and intense. In this way, it seems, Lee has also been sneakily consistent. They try to please everyone else.
Women have the true power.
So when they have to confront their inner vulnerability it just breaks my heart. Tiger was special to Lee in another important way. It is the first film he has shot in China, his ancestral homeland. As a small boy, Lee was often enthralled by his mother's sentimental stories and the Chinese sword-fighting adventures and soapy melodramas he watched as a child. Sadly, the director's first trip back home proved hugely disappointing.