12-year-old Dre Parker could've been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying - and the feeling is mutual - but cultural differences make such a friendship impossible. Even worse, Dre's feelings make an enemy of the class bully, Cheng. In the land of kung fu, Dre knows only a little karate, and Cheng puts "the karate kid" on the floor with ease. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han, who is secretly a master of kung fu. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm, Dre realizes that facing down the bullies will be the fight of his life. 12-year-old Dre Parker has moved to China, and finds himself like a fish out of water. He befriends a fellow classmate, Mei Ying, only to make a rival, Cheng, who starts to bully and attack Dre. Soon, Mr Han, the maintenance man of Dre's apartment, fends off Cheng and his friends when they are attacking Dre and signs Dre up to fight in the Kung Fu tournament in return for the bullies laying off of Dre. Dre realizes Mr. Han is much more than a maintenance man, when he's revealed as a master of Kung Fu and Dre soon learns that Kung Fu is about self defense and peace, instead of violence and bloodshed. The 2010 version of The Karate Kid is exactly why I hate remakes. Usually remakes don't work. And in this case The Karate Kid 2010 remake crashed and burned. It was very disappointing. To be honest, going into the move I did lower my expectations – expecting it wouldn't be as good as the original Karate Kid. I'm sorry to say that even those lowered expectations weren't met.<br/><br/>It was nice to see the film change it's setting to China. That made for an interesting adaptation and it fit well with the story. BUT there's a lot of fluff and irrelevant time (don't call it an attempt at character development because it failed), the characters didn't jell and little of the story was believable. The original Karate Kid was 2 hours and it flew by. This remake was only 16 minutes longer but it seemed like it was more than 3 hours. The ending was spectacular.<br/><br/>Jackie Chan is excellent as always, but Jaden Smith is not quite ready for prime time, I'm sorry to say. It's admirable that his dad, Will Smith, is trying to help his son out. And Jaden did have a few modest flashes of good quality acting, but for the majority of the movie I just didn't find his character believable – including for a majority of the fight scenes during the tournament.<br/><br/>Overall The Karate Kid 2010 remake is a major disappointment. I guess it's worth seeing, but don't expect much from it. I can still remember my very favorable emotional response after all these years to the original Karate Kid! This poor remake does not light a candle to the original. I found this version of the Karate Kid to be sour, dour and at times, agonizingly contrived. I was also surprised that Jaden Smith often came across as a pouty rich kid not getting his way. Regardless if I had seen the original Karate Kid, or not, I still would have strongly disliked this new version because it lacks heart and believability!<br/><br/>This is also a very political film! China is portrayed as a wonderful country full of stunning beauty and regular people, like you and me. It felt like the screenplay was approved by a Public Relations firm hired by the Chinese government. Whether that actually happened, or not, China was portrayed in such a misleading way you would think there's hardly any difference between, say, Brooklyn, New York and Beijing, China! <br/><br/>But there are REALLY BIG differences! Here is a succinct summary by a retired Chinese college professor on how incredibly different our two cultures are: "China is a one-party dictatorship. All the real power in China is firmly in the hands of nine men – the members of the standing committee of the Politburo of the Chinese COMMUNIST PARTY (CCP). The People's Congress is just a rubber stamp of the Politburo of the CCP; the Government a mere front of the Party. The armed police force, the regular police force and the judicial system, as well as the mammoth mass media, are all under the tight control of the Party, which means the CCP leadership controls both the bodies and minds of the population. Even religions are under government control. Believers can only worship in government-sanctioned and supervised churches, temples and mosques. The Chinese internet police, composed of about 30,000 university graduates with degrees in computing sciences, monitor and intercept internet communication 24 hours, seven days a week.<br/><br/>There is no freedom of thought, no freedom of speech. Dissenters are severely punished. The spokesperson of the CCP regime recently said at a news conference that there are no political dissenters in China, only "criminals". The last bastion of the CCP dictatorship is the mighty armed forces of China – the People's Liberation Army, which pledges its absolute loyalty to the CCP, and declares its dual function of maintaining domestic stability as well as national defense." <br/><br/>If that's not bad enough, I'll also add: "Only ONE PERCENT of the China's 560 million city dwellers breath air considered safe by European Union standards according to a World Bank study. Air pollution is particularly bad in the rust belt areas of northeastern China. A study done by the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that the amount of airborne suspended particulates in northern China are almost 20 times what WHO considers a safe level." <br/><br/>These huge differences between our two cultures were only too happily glossed over by Hollywood in order to maximize their profits. I'm also sure the Chinese government would have pulled the plug on filming the Karate Kid in a heartbeat if they didn't like the screenplay! Jaden Smith is destined to be a star by the force of will (and wallets) of parents Will and Jada Smith, both producers on The Karate Kid. But he's also got the raw material. 12-year-old Dre Parker (<a href="/name/nm1535523/">Jaden Smith</a>) and his mother Sherry (<a href="/name/nm0378245/">Taraji P. Henson</a>) move from Detroit, Michigan to Beijing, China for her new job. New at the school, Dre incurs the wrath of karate student Cheng (<a href="/name/nm3924254/">Zhenwei Wang</a>) when he makes the mistake of speaking to his girlfriend Mei Ying (<a href="/name/nm3924219/">Wenwen Han</a>). After a particularly brutal beating by Cheng and his friends outside of Dre's apartment building, during which the maintenance man intervenes to "save" him, Dre learns that Mr Han (<a href="/name/nm0000329/">Jackie Chan</a>) is actually a martial arts master and that he's willing to train Dre in self defense. However, Mr Han's "training" seems to consist of Dre taking off and hanging up his jacket over and over and over again. The Karate Kid is a remake of <a href="/title/tt0087538/">The Karate Kid (1984)</a> (1984), which was taken from a script by screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen. This new version was written by screenwriter Christopher Murphey. <a href="/title/tt1674782/">The Karate Kid 2</a> is on the books, but no release date has been set. Cheng is primarily picking on Dre because Dre developed a crush on Mei Ying, but it is implied that she is Cheng's love interest since their families are friends. After Dre develops a crush on Mei Ying and she reciprocates those feelings, Cheng becomes jealous and vindictive. From then on, Cheng and his gang continually bully Dre without showing or feeling any remorse, guilt, mercy, or pity. As bullies usually do, they attack someone they perceive as being weaker and of a different culture/race, purely for malicious reasons such as this one. They've been taught to think this way by their own martial arts instructor Master Li (<a href="/name/nm0950552/">Rongguang Yu</a>) who mistreats them and rewards ruthlessness. Master Li even uses the tag line used by John Kreese (<a href="/name/nm0184392/">Martin Kove</a>) in the original movie: "No Mercy." Harry (<a href="/name/nm3924232/">Luke Carberry</a>) quickly intervenes and desperately is trying to reason with Cheng. He is trying to talk some sense to the bully so he can stop Cheng from further beating up Dre. Harry is saying in Mandarin, "He just got here. He doesn't even know who you are" but the savage Cheng refuses to cooperate and says "Go away" to Harry. Like most other friends, Harry says what any other friend would say (i.e. "What the heck are you doing?", "This is bad", "Don't do this", etc). Mr. Han takes Dre to visit Taoist monasteries in order to watch some of the adepts training in the martial arts and meditating. The scenes were shot at Mt. Wudang, Hubei. There are three temples that take prominence in the movie: The Golden Palace, The Purple Cloud Palace, and the Tianyi Zhenqing Stone Palace, where Dre saw an adept hypnotizing a cobra. The 2.9m dragon stone carving is real. It protrudes from the cliff-side temple passage and originally held a bronze incense burner. Legend said that placing incense here at dawn was a show of courage and an act of faith. （小） "Xiao" in Mandarin literally means "small" or "little". In this case, like in the original where Mr Miyagi calls Daniel "Daniel-san", Mr. Han is calling Dre "Little Dre" because Dre is obviously younger than him. It's to show that Mr. Han, like Mr. Miyagi, is showing his student respect. Dre and Cheng face each other in the final match of the Tournament of Champions, Cheng having won his semifinal match, and Dre's opponent having been disqualified for an illegal blow that injured Dre's knee. Cheng scores the first point by knocking Dre off the platform. Dre scores his first point by knocking Cheng to the floor. His second point is earned when he scissor legs Cheng, again knocking him to the ground. When the match pauses for Cheng to be looked at, Master Li orders Cheng to break Dre's leg and reminds him of the Fighting Dragon motto: No Mercy. The match continues with Cheng scoring another point against Dre by kicking him in his already injured leg. At 2-2, the next to score a point wins the match. Despite the pain, Dre returns to the ring, assuming the crane stance and staring Cheng down in the same manner as he saw the woman on the mountain use with the cobra. When Cheng makes his move, Dre flips himself, catching a kick to Cheng's head. Dre scores a third point, winning the championship. In the final scene, the fighting Dragons line up and pay obeisance to Dre, while Master Li looks on incredulously and Mr Han smiles with pride. It's called "Dirty Harry (Schtung Chinese New Year Remix)" by Gorillaz. Nocturne no.20 in c# minor piano piece by Polish composer Frédéric Chopin. In this particular version, approximately 8 minutes are missing in comparison to the international version. But then again, there is a little bit exclusive footage in it as well. Apparently, this version is only for the Asian market or—to be more specific—for the Chinese market because all the alterations have one goal and one goal only: to make the fellow countrymen look better. Especially the fight and bullying scenes are either much shorter or they have been completely removed. The romance between Dre and Meiying has been toned by one cut in particular: they do not kiss. Furthermore, a few statements about China and its culture have either been changed or added to the audio track. There are a lot of similarities between this remake and the 1984 original, and so the film remains incredible faithful. The only differences are the setting, the age group, different character names and the addition of some Mandarin dialogue and text, along with most notably the kid learns Chinese martial arts other than karate (which is more popular in Japanese martial arts).<br/><br/>Aside from the obvious and most central plot points (Dre runs afoul of a bully, and eventually faces him at a tournament), the following similarities are seen:<br/><br/><ul><li>Mr. Han and Mr. Miyagi are both housing maintenance men and handymen with some broken English, and see Dre/Daniel trying to learn a martial art while trying to fix the main water systems.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Dre lives in a single-parent household, raised by his mother, much like Daniel in the original. However, Dre's father is shown to have died due to unknown reasons. Daniel's father, Mr. LaRusso is never mentioned in the original so it is unclear weather he is dead or divorced.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Cheng and his friends are not purely malicious at heart, but are taught to be by their own martial arts instructor who treats them very badly and rewards ruthlessness. Master Li even uses the tag line used by John Kreese in the original movie: "No Mercy."</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Mr. Han tries to catch flies with chopsticks, just like Mr. Miyagi in the original.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Dre plays a prank on his bullies by throwing a bucket of dirty, slimy, oily rainwater water at them which causes them to chase him and beat him up and having Mr. Han come to his rescue. In the original, Daniel sprays water on one of the bullies in the bathroom stall during the school dance and is also chased and beaten up with Mr. Miyagi coming to the rescue.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Mr. Han tries to reason, make peace and part on good terms with Master Li at his kung fu school despite their rivalry but is coldly rebuffed and rejected. Mr. Han then arranges for Dre to participate in the tournament, with Master Li making the same agreement made between John Kreese and Mr. Miyagi in the original movie: That Cheng and his fellow students will stop bullying Dre in the meanwhile.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Mr. Han teaches Dre basics by having him do repetitive mundane house-hold related tasks. His "Jacket on, Jacket off" exercise is clearly inspired and by and based on Mr. Miyagi's famous "Wax on, Wax off" from the original movie.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Both Mr. Han and Mr. Miyagi perform some kind of mysterious medicine healing ritual technique to a wounded, beaten up and bruised Dre and Daniel, respectively.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Mr. Han hides a painful secret involving his family that eventually comes out while he is drunk, like Mr. Miyagi. They are both shown to be alone, with their family (wife and kids) dead.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>In the tournament semi-finals, Master Li forces his student to sacrifice his place in the tournament by inflicting a severe injury on Dre's leg, resulting in the student's disqualification. Mr. Han helps him recover enough to face Cheng in the final bout.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>During the final match, Master Li demands that Cheng focus on Dre's hurt leg, and Cheng is hesitant to do such a brutal, illegal and unethical move but reluctantly complies. Dre nonetheless wins using a fancy jumping move (much more flair and pizzazz than the "crane kick" used by Daniel in the original movie) and finally gains the two things he needed most by the end of the movie: (1) overcoming his fears, and (2) winning the respect of his nemesis.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Similar alternate ending scenes, involving a battle between the two martial arts instructors, were removed from both the original and this movie. In the original, an alternate ending was scrapped, where John Kreese is roughing up Johnny Lawrence for losing to Daniel at the end of the tournament. Mr. Miyagi intervenes and badly humiliates Kreese in front of all his students (this scene was later added into the beginning of <a href="/title/tt0091326/">The Karate Kid Part II (1986)</a> (1986)). At the end of this movie, an alternate ending where Master Li is infuriated at Cheng and his fellow students bowing respectfully to Mr. Han, and Mr. Han fights off Master Li and leaves him sprawled on the floor, was also taken out of the final theatrical release.</li></ul> a5c7b9f00b The Guns of Navarone malayalam full movie free downloadBulldog Drummond at Bay dubbed hindi movie free download torrentAgent Hollywood full movie in hindi free download mp4What Have They Done to Your Daughters full movie in hindi free download mp4Cross in tamil pdf downloadBold Beginnings! full movie with english subtitles online downloadUpgrade full movie in hindi free download mp4hindi Man in the Shadowhindi Lost in the Jungle free downloadHardland full movie in hindi download
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