The Karate Kid is a film about a young boy named Daniel and his karate journey with his Master, Mr Miyagi.
Mr Miyagi is somewhat of a father figure to Daniel as he helps,protects, teaches him karate and about his
culture constantly. Mr Miyagi has helped Daniel overcome a lot of his fears and encouraged him to stand
up for himself from the Cobra Kais. They both trust each other and through their journey have gotten closer
and gotten to know more about each other. At the tournament Mr Miyagi is always supporting Daniel and
realises this is something Daniel really cares about.
My favourite character is Mr Miyagi because of how helpful and kind he is towards Daniel. Mr Miyagi is very patient. He stayed and continued to put up with Daniel even when he doubted him. He taught him simple karate through house chores and that somehow managed to gain Daniels trust a lot more. He saved Daniel multiple times from the cobra kais and managed to get them off his back. He is a very generous man as he gave Daniel one of his cars for his birthday. He taught Daniel karate but told him “Fighting is always the last answer” and “Karate for defense only.” This tells us that Mr Miyagi has a different view than Daniel and that he only uses karate to protect and defend others.
An event which made me laugh was when Daniel and Mr Miyagi were out on the boat and Mr Miyagi purposefully rocked the boat so Daniel would fall off. Mr Miyagi was teaching Daniel a lesson about balance. He told Daniel to get on the bow of the boat and practice some of the karate moves he already knew. Daniel got a bit too cocky so Mr Miyagi made him fall off the boat. Mr Miyagi cracked up laughing and so did I.
I would recommend this text to other teenagers because it is a thrilling story with a bit of violence and romance that teenagers these days seem to like. This story also has a good message in it. When the main character is thrown around and continuously bullied he never stops standing up for himself or Ali. Mr Miyagi who he met on the way helped him to push through all the bullies and overcome them. In the tournament Daniel never gave up and finally showed them what he could do and they no longer could bother him. Alot of teengaers these days with bullies can relate to the feeling but they need to do what Daniel did.“ Push through and never give up”
We have also been learning about different film terms and techniques.
Below are my film shots and a grid to my analysis from short clips of a film. This term for English we are doing the topic film studies. We have been learning about the different camera shots and angles that people may use in movies or videos. Below is a photo of some of the different types of camera shots. We then watched the movie Karate kid. As we went period through period watching this movie we had to write down some key events that happened in the movie. When we finished the movie we had work on hapara workspace to do. We had to watch a small clip from the movie and take a few images from that small clip to analyse. The link below shows a doc where we did some of the analysis work.
