Cheng does the same by violently finishing off his opponents. Han assists Dre in writing and reciting a note of apology in Mandarin to Meiying's father, who accepts and promises that Meiying will attend the tournament to support Dre.Īt the tournament, the under-confident Dre is slow to achieve parity with his competition but soon begins beating them and advances to the semifinals. Han fixes the car every year but smashes it to remind himself of what happened this inspires Dre to train harder to help his teacher get past the incident. Han explains to Dre that he crashed the same car years ago, and that his wife and 10-year-old son were killed in the crash. Dre seeks an explanation that night and finds Han apparently drunk, smashing the car he was working on. Her parents thus deem Dre a bad influence and forbid her from seeing him again.ĭuring their training, Han gives Dre a day off. Dre persuades Meiying to cut school for a day of fun, but she is nearly late for a violin audition that was pushed up a day without her knowledge. Han then takes Dre to a Taoist temple in the Wudang Mountains where he trained with his father, and Dre witnesses a woman making a cobra reflect her movements and drinks the water from an ancient Taoist well.Īs Dre's friendship with Meiying grows, they share a kiss at a festival.
He teaches this by having Dre perform repetitive motions using his jacket, which teaches Dre real muscle memory moves. He conveys that serenity and maturity, not punches and power, are the true keys to mastering the martial art. Han promises to teach Dre kung fu and begins to train him by emphasizing movements that apply to life in general. Li accepts the offer but warns Han that if Dre does not show up at the tournament, he will personally bring pain to Han and Dre. Han instead proposes that Dre compete against Li's students at an open martial arts tournament, and that the students leave Dre alone to train for the tournament. Li, who teaches his students to show no mercy toward their enemies, challenges Dre to a fight with Cheng.
Han refuses, but brings him to meet Cheng's teacher, Master Li, at the Fighting Dragon studio to make peace. Han helps heal Dre's injuries using fire cupping as he tells the boy that those students aren't inherently bad but made so by their teacher who is. When Cheng and his friends try to interfere, Han defeats each of them in close combat, showing himself to be a kung fu master. After a school field trip to the Forbidden City, Dre throws a bucket of dirty water over Cheng and his gang who then chase and brutally attack Dre before he's saved by the maintenance man, Mr. After settling in their new apartment, Dre goes to a nearby park where his eyes a young violinist, Meiying, who reciprocates his attention, but another boy Cheng, a rebellious kung fu prodigy whose family is close to Meiying's, attempts to keep them apart by physically attacking Dre, and later him and his friends bully Dre at school. Han (Chan), a kung fumaster who teaches him the secrets of self-defense.ġ2-year-old Dre Parker and his mother Sherry move from Detroit to Beijing after she gets a job transfer at her car factory. He makes an unlikely ally in the form of an aging maintenance man, Mr. Henson) and runs afoul of the neighborhood bully (Zhenwei Wang). The plot concerns 12-year-old Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) from Detroit, Michigan who moves to Beijing, China with his mother (Taraji P. The Karate Kid received generally positive reviews and it earned $359.1 million on a $40 million budget. The Karate Kid was released theatrically worldwide on June 11, 2010, by Sony Pictures. Principal photography took place in Beijing, China, and filming began in July 2009 and ended on October 16, 2009. It is an international co-production between China, Hong Kong, and the United States. The film's music was composed by James Horner.
Unlike the original, this remake is set in China, and features Kung Fu instead of Japanese-OkinawanKarate. The screenplay by Christopher Murphey was from the story written by Robert Mark Kamen for the original The Karate Kid. Henson and Jackie Chan in lead roles, and it was produced by Jerry Weintraub, James Lassiter, Ken Stovitz and Jaden's parents Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. The Karate Kid (known as The Kung Fu Dream in China) is a 2010 familymartial artsdrama film directed by Harald Zwart, and part of The Karate Kid series.
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