Jackie Chan is returning for the next Karate Kid: Legendsand that means an explanation about a stranger 2010 The Karate Kid detail is mandatory. The famous martial arts star played a wise king fu teacher, Mr. Han, with Jaden Smith playing his downtrodden student, Dre. The 2010 film’s formula was nearly identical to the original 1984 film. The Karate Kidalbeit with a different setting and characters. It was initially recognized as a remake, but the way audiences originally understood the Karate Kid universe is now being changed.
Karate Kid: Legends introduces a new titular karate, Li Fong (Ben Wang), who will be taught by the joint efforts of Mr. Han and Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio). This is an exciting concept, as fans have been waiting to see these two characters reunite for a long time. Chan was expected to join the Netflix cast Karate Kid spin-off series, Cobra Kaibut the producers noted that this would be impossible, as the characters of 2010 The Karate Kid exist in a separate universe. Karate Kid: Legends proved them wrong, but the film still has some explaining to do.
The new Karate Kid needs to recognize how similar Mr. Han’s story is to Mr. Han’s.
Han fills Mr. Miyagi’s shoes a little too well
Chan’s character in 2010 The Karate KidMr. Han, was constructed to be a rebooted version of Mr. Smith’s Dre was the new Daniel LaRusso, and the time they spent together practicing through practical means like waxing a car or hanging up a jacket was also intended to mimic the original story from 1984. That’s pretty standard for a remake, but now that Karate Kid: Legends placed Chan’s film in the same universe as Macchio’s, It’s much stranger that all these characters have so much in common. How could identical stories happen to different characters in different times and places?
Somehow, the strangeness of these two stories will have to be addressed in Karate Kid: Legends. The film must justify how Mr. Miyagi would be so similar and how their experiences with young students (Dre and Daniel, respectively) mirror each other perfectly. THE Karate Kid: Legends trailer that debuted at New York Comic Con (not yet released to the public) sees Mr. Han admit to Daniel that he met Mr. Still, completely changing the way the public realized in 2010′ The Karate Kid’ it will not be an easy task.
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The 2010 The Karate Kid the film was a complete remake. There didn’t need to be any explanation for why Dre and Daniel’s stories were so similar or why Mr. Han and Mr. Miyagi shared similar training methods (and had similar tragic pasts). However, by reuniting Han and Daniel, the status of the 2010 film changed. No longer a remake, but a separate installment of the franchise (like the Karate Kid sequences, Cobra Kaiand Karate Kid: Legends itself).
While this change is a little uncomfortable, the Karate Kid franchise has never been about credibility.
Although this change is a little uncomfortable, the Karate Kid the franchise was never dedicated to credibility. The idea that Daniel became a karate champion in a matter of months is outrageous, but the audience believes it for a heartwarming underdog story. Cobra Kai is even more outrageous. Still, this does not mean that Karate Kid: Legends You don’t need to worry about explaining your own existence. Overall, if the film it just makes an ironic acknowledgment that these two stories existing in the same universe are sillythe audience can change their perspectives a little more easily.