Apparently ‘The Karate Kid’ is NOT a remake
source: http://ComingSoon.net
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Harald Zwart, the director of The Karate Kid (out in theaters June 11) said the following to ComingSoon.net:
"To me, it was never a remake; it’s a retelling of a story."
So despite what people are writing about this movie, it isn’t a remake. It’s a retelling; I repeat a retelling. It’s just a story about a kid who moves out of his adored hometown to a place he doesn’t like only to be bullied by the locals who are fluently deadly in martial arts. He befriends the maintenance man of his building and he teaches him the art of kung fu (karate, kung fu, what’s the difference – a martial art is a martial art, right?). He also falls for a girl whose affluent parents don’t approve of him. Oh yeah – lest not forget the title of the movie: The Karate Kid.
Do you see the distinction? It is nothing like the iconic movie of the same title from 1984 that made Ralph Macchio a centerfold in Tiger Beat and served as the coronation of William Zabka as the “King of all ‘80s teen movie pricks.” It spawned numerous sequels, embedded quotable quotes in the pop culture lexicon (i.e. “Wax on, wax off” and “Sweep the leg!”) and gave us a soundtrack that is and was “The Best Around.”
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"To me, it was never a remake; it’s a retelling of a story."
So despite what people are writing about this movie, it isn’t a remake. It’s a retelling; I repeat a retelling. It’s just a story about a kid who moves out of his adored hometown to a place he doesn’t like only to be bullied by the locals who are fluently deadly in martial arts. He befriends the maintenance man of his building and he teaches him the art of kung fu (karate, kung fu, what’s the difference – a martial art is a martial art, right?). He also falls for a girl whose affluent parents don’t approve of him. Oh yeah – lest not forget the title of the movie: The Karate Kid.
Do you see the distinction? It is nothing like the iconic movie of the same title from 1984 that made Ralph Macchio a centerfold in Tiger Beat and served as the coronation of William Zabka as the “King of all ‘80s teen movie pricks.” It spawned numerous sequels, embedded quotable quotes in the pop culture lexicon (i.e. “Wax on, wax off” and “Sweep the leg!”) and gave us a soundtrack that is and was “The Best Around.”
Follow the link to read more...
http://blog.dinoray.com/2010/06/10/apparently-the-karate-kid-is-not-a-remake/
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