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- Title
ORIENTALISMUS VE FILMU KARATE KID (2010).
- Authors
Růžičková, Vendula
- Abstract
The protagonist of the American movie Karate Kid (Harald Zwart, 2010) is 12-yearold Dre Parker – Jaden Smith (1998), who has to move with his mother from Detroit to China. He has great difficulty making friends with his peers because a bunch of boys from school bully him. Eventually, he becomes close with his classmate Meiying, but their friendship encounters a barrier of difference between the two geographically distant cultures. Mr. Han, portrayed by Jackie Chan (1954), teaches him Chinese kung fu. Although he hides from the world that he is a master of this martial art, he starts training Dre for the upcoming tournament, in which he will fight strong opponents from his school. Various elements are used in the film to help us understand how American artists interpret Chinese reality. The aim of this paper is therefore to search in it and evaluate traces of orientalism.
- Subjects
MARTIAL arts; SCHOOL bullying; SCHOOLBOYS; CHINESE martial arts; KARATE; CHINESE films; AMERICAN films
- Publication
Far East / Dálný Východ, 2020, Vol 10, Issue 1, p89
- ISSN
1805-1049
- Publication type
Article