| July 22nd, 2010 |
|
So, Chas and I were just in a taxi. As we got in, we were talking about the new Karate Kid movie, and how Chas had read some people objecting to the casting of Jackie Chan because Jackie Chan is a kung fu master, not karate.
Part of the discussion we were having was about the general awesomeness of Jackie Chan.
Our taxi driver was Chinese, and joined in the conversation enthusiastically on the awesomeness of both Jackie Chan and Jet Li. (According to the taxi driver, pretty much every Chinese person knows of Jet Li, because he has learned every kung fu style and was a champion at everything by the age of 18.)
Chas suggests that Jet Li is probably the Chinese equivalent of Don Bradman; I suspect this might be apt. It was certainly remarkable how quickly the driver went from fairly quiet and reserved to enthusiastic engagement with the conversation telling us awesome things about both of them.
In any case, the criticisms are all moot, because the new movie is set in China and the karate part is that the kid has previously done a little karate; Jackie Chan teaches him kung fu.
I find it much less problematic to have the thing where you have some foreign kid who learns to be MOAR AWESOME than the local kids at !thing, because, hey, they're kids, and if Jackie Chan is an awesomely better teacher of kung fu than the local kids' teacher(s), then obviously little Jaden Smith will become awesomely better at kung fu than the local kids. I will confidently assume that just about any kid will be more awesome at kung fu than other kids if taught by Jackie Chan, because Jackie Chan is awesome.
|
|
|
| Top of Page |
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios |
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}