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In my report I will be talking about the original karate kid
and the remake of the The original karate kid which was made in 2010.through
out my report I will be covering the way the story has been told and how it has
changed, this will include elements of mise en scene and sound effects,
costume, the characters within the movie etc.
In this first karate kid there was aspect of the Chinese
culture implemented in the movie where as the remake of the karate kid in 2010
we see the uses of the American culture but in both movie we see two different
cultures the still tell the same story lines. Which will be that is a young
American males that lives an normal life until his gets into a dilemma then get
trained by a Chinese karate teacher that assist him to win a karate fighting
tournament.
The producer of the karate kid that was produced in 2010 was
will smith, jerry weintraun, jada pinkett smith, ken stovitz, James lassiter
and the director was Harald zwart. In the remake of the karate kid the producer
was jerry weintraub and the director was john G Avildsen.
The films stars that appeared in the first karate kid was
Randee Heller ( Daniel larusso’s mother), Pat Morita(Mr Miyagi), Ralph Macchio(
Daniel Larusso’s). where as in the remake the main movie stars was Jaden
smith(Dre parker), Jackie Chan (Mr Han)
and Taraji P.Henson( Dre parker’s
mother).
The first karate kid had a budget of 8 million dollars.
However the remake of the film was given a budget of 40 million dollars. The
reason for the difference in budget cost is because over the years the
technology and cost from scenery choices improved and increased.
Both America and china were funded f or both films by Sony
Corporation ever since they got involved, the Columbia pictures and the Chinese
film group corporation. Both of the karate kids where both internationally
co-produced since more than one production where included to help produce these
films.
The films would be seen as mainstream films as there were
specific stars that their audience would like to watch at that time. Also both
movies have high production values and are both very entertaining.
The government of china gave access to the producers to film
in the Forbidden City and the Great Wall of China. By getting access from the
government of china to film in specific places would count as a funding body.
For the technology production of these movies, high
technology cameras and filming equipment was used for example lighting and
editing. But for the remake of the original karate kid you can see a difference
as technology has improved from 1984 and there was new filming equipment being
created which have higher camera resolution.
this is a representation of filming cameras in 1984 and
2010.
The production company that helped participate for the
making of the first karate kid was Columbia pictures and for the remake it was
sony pictures that got involved.
this is both the company logos that was included in making
the movies
When the first karate kid was made in 1984 the cinemas and
theatres that it was released in where warner village cinema and the odeon for
the first karate kid. And in 2010, the cinemas the film featured in was vue
this was a very good choice of place for the film to be shown as a lot of
people go to the vue to go and watch movies.
Both of the films have aspects of a dramatic sports genre
but the remake of the original karate kid included comedy throughout the film.
For the first film of the karate kid, research shows that
there were about four awards awarded to some individual cast members in the
karate kid film. One of the given awards was for the production of the film,
which was the young artist award. Pat
morita who played the karate teacher who was known as mr miyagi
Was awarded an academy award and the golden globes
award. In addition Elizabeth shue earned
the young artist award as well as William zabaka.
On the other hand the remake of the film , awards and
nominated awards given to actors that was given to actors that were involved in
the remake of the karate kid fir example Jackie chan won the favourite action
star award. Then Jackie and jaden was nominated as the favourite on screen
team. And lastly for the actual film, it was nominated as the favourite family
film.
For the remake of the karate kid film in 2010 there was no
sequel but the original had a part 2 and 3.
In conclusion I will ending my report by saying that both of
these movie are different because of production cost and equipment, scenery
actors and props for example in the the main stars where different, when you
compare the film from 1984 to 2010 you can see that there has been a use of
better camera quality used as technology has improve over the years furthermore
what I can say is that both the movies have a similar story line.
