- English name：The Karate Kid
- Broadcast time：June 11, 2010
- Starring：成龙（Jackie Chan）、贾登·史密斯（Jaden Smith）、塔拉吉、王姬（Heidi wong）、于荣光（Ringo Yu）、王振威、韩雯雯、吕世佳、赵毅
- director：Harald Zwart
Introduction
Today let’s take a brief introduction of a famous movie named “The Karate Kid”. “The Karate Kid” is a remake of the 1984 Hollywood film of the same name, but the background has moved to China: Dre Parker is a cool American boy who has left Detroit for China to start a new life. He has experienced a difficult time – he feels himself incompatible with his surroundings. He has offended some young bullies, though inadvertently. He has no friend, and nowhere to hide. It is at this time that he meets his apartment building’s handyman Mr Han, who is also a kungfu master. Mr. Han teaches him Chinese Kungfu, and they develop a tacit agreement between them.
Though a Hollywood blockbuster co-produced by China and America, “the Karate Kid” is filled with Chinese elements. For instance, ancient architectures in the movie like the elegant Imperial Palace and the magnificent Great Wall reproduce the ancient charm of traditional China, and the renowned scenic spots in the Wudang Mountains such as Wudang Jinding ( Golden Summit), Zixiao Palace, Xiaoyao Valley, Taizi Slope etc are filled with mystic charm. In particular the Wudang Kungfu, seeming soft and tender, is actually hard and harsh inside, leading the audience to taste the profoundness and uncertainty of Chinese kungfu. Quite a lot of foreign film viewers have also expressed their surprise, “Chinese kungfu is incredibly amazing!”
Plot
12-year-old Derry Parker (Jaden Smith) was originally a carefree American boy living in Detroit. Because of his mother Shirley’s (Taraji P. Henson) job change, they moved to China. At the beginning, due to the huge cultural differences, Derry had an extremely difficult time making new friends.
Fortunately, he quickly established a friendly relationship with his classmate Meiying (Han Wenwen), but unfortunately, due to the differences in cognition and concepts, this friendship was destined to end. To make matters worse, Derry also became an enemy with Cheng (Wang Zhenwei), a gangster in the class. He only knew a little karate. You have to know that this is China, a paradise of kung fu.
Cheng can easily knock down a karate boy like Derry. Feeling lonely in a foreign country, Derry, who has no friends, has to often go to Mr. Han (Jackie Chan), the only apartment maintenance worker who is willing to talk to him. As an anonymous kung fu master, Mr. Han decided to take Derry as his apprentice and began to train him, and the relationship between them became deeper and deeper. Deli knew that sooner or later he would have a final showdown with Cheng in the Kung Fu Championship, so he practiced harder. However, when Mr. Han told Deli that Kung Fu was not just about attacking and dodging, but also about growth and accumulation, Deli also understood what his battle with those bullies in the school meant to him.
Professional evaluation
From a purely film perspective, “The Karate Kid” is a pretty good movie. It is one of the few movies that are worth the price of the ticket. As a genre film produced by Hollywood assembly lines, the film’s hard indicators have basically passed. Individual elements, such as the excellent scenes of the location, the rendering of Chinese urban life in the details of the story, and the Chinese philosophy of learning martial arts and enlightenment, are all projects that add points to the film.
The shortcomings are also shown through these details. The character settings and plots of the entire movie are very unreal, like an American sitting at home and imagining a Chinese story. In their eyes, every Chinese person knows some kung fu, even a property uncle who repairs sewers is a peerless master, and even his English is very professional. Chinese children are tall, mighty, and brave and aggressive. Under the guidance of strict teachers, they are ruthless to any opponent and must kill him; China’s scenic spots are always hidden dragons and crouching tigers, so on the top of the mountain like a tourist attraction, there will always be some monks who do nothing but practice martial arts.
Key words
功夫（kungfu） gōngfu：a kind of fighting styles that have developed over the centuries in China.
万里长城 Wànlǐ Chángchéng ：a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China in part to protect the Chinese Empire or its prototypical states against intrusions by various nomadic groups or military incursions by various warlike peoples or forces.
