The Karate Kid (1984)

This is an 1984 comedy directed by John G. Avildsen written by Robert Mark Kamen and produced Jerry Weintraub. It has the themes of friendship, kung fu and love. The film was given $8,000,000 by columbia pictures which had made $90,000,000 in the US. The film stars Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita.The film had received an Oscar nomination for Pat Morita's performance as an supporting actor. Films similar to this would be the karate kid 2 & 3 in addition so would "Enter the Dragon". The film follows Daniel who recently moved to California and how he deals with his new found life. For this I shall be looking at the misc en scene and performance within the film.

This shall be a look at the misc en scene more closely the costume with in the film. In the film the colour red is often seen within it mostly on pieces of clothing. This would be symbolizing hatred, anger and frustration. It would be often seen by a character feeling this. It would signify to the audience how a character is feeling or that another is going to do something bad soon in the film.

In the film Pat Morita plays an old master character type. This is done as the common characteristics would be a smart and secretive this can be seen in other films such as Gandolf from LOTR series. When doing the secretive section he often would appear joyful as if he is rather simple, however in contrast when appearing smart he would adapt a straight body position which would be tense showing the amount of control and technique he has to the audience.