Week 5 (24.10.13)
- All of us meet again at KAA at 5pm to proceed writing up movie review.
- we had write the review on Karate Kid and Fright Night based on the guide question provided.
KARATE KID
A Teacher He
Never Expected. A Challenge He Never Imagined.
The
Karate Kid literally "The Kung Fu Dream" is a 2010 American martial
arts action drama film. The film was Directed by Harald Zwart and produced by
Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, the film stars Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith. The 5 most important characters in the movie Karate Kid is Dre Parker,
Mr. Han, Sherry Parker, Lu Wei Cheng and Master Li. The character Dre Parker is
played by Jaden Smith, Mr.Han is by Jackie Chan, Sherry Parker is by Taraji P.
Henson, Lu Wei Cheng is by Wang Zhen Wei and Master Li is by Yu Rong Guang.
Dre Parker is a
young boy from Detroit, Michigan who is bullied by a kung fu student, and must
learn to stand up to him. Mr. Han is the maintenance man who teaches Dre kung
fu. Sherry Parker is Dre's mother who is very protective of Dre. Lu Wei Cheng
is the main antagonist and student of Master Li. Master Li is a Kung Fu teacher
who instructs his students to be merciless towards their enemies.
The
plot concerns a 12-year-old boy from Detroit, Michigan who moves to Beijing,
China with his mother due to his mother’s latest career move. Dre immediately
falls for his classmate Mei Ying - and the feeling is mutual - but cultural
differences make such a friendship impossible. Even worse, Dre's feelings make
an enemy of the class bully, Cheng. Hence, he’s also runs afoul of the
neighborhood bully. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn
but maintenance man Mr. Han, who is secretly a master of kung fu. As Han
teaches Dre that kung fu, the secrets of self-defence is not about punches and
parries, but maturity and calm, Dre realizes that facing down the bullies will
be the fight of his life.
Dre’s
chance of coming China already change his life totally. He met Mr Han, teacher
of Kungfu and philosophy of being better man. Having a good teacher really
helps a lot in ones life. Beside, Dre also faces a challenge that he never
think of before he going China. He is entering a Kungfu tournament where he
never know anything about Kungfu. However, his willingness to learn has bring
him towards successful. He never waste his chance of being changed in China.
The
part which attracted our attention in the whole movie is when Han begins
training Dre, but Dre is frustrated that Han merely has Dre spend hours taking
off his jacket, hanging it up, dropping it, and then putting it back on again.
After days of this, Dre refuses to continue. This made me think of teenagers
nowadays will never really obey what the elder asked to do. Teenagers normally
will think that they had grown up and is big enough for them to do things
according to their opinion and thinking. Actually there is always a strong
reason why elder people asked us to do something which we thought is nonscene.
As in the case of movie, Han asked Dre to practice with his jacket is to show him
the repetitive arm movements in question were Han's method of teaching Dre
defensive block and strike techniques, which Dre is now able to display
instinctively when prompted by Han's mock attacks. Han emphasizes that the
movements Dre is learning apply to life in general, and that serenity and
maturity, not punches and power, are the true keys to mastering the martial
arts.
Another interesting part in the
movie is during one lesson in the Wudang Mountains, Dre notices a female kung
fu practitioner (played by Michelle Yeoh) apparently copying the movements of a
cobra before her, but Han informs him that it was the cobra that was imitating
the woman, as in a mirror reflection. Dre wants Han to teach him this
technique, which includes linking Han's hand and feet to Dre's via bamboo
shafts while practicing their forms. This scene made me amaze of the powerful
level of Kungfu. The female kungfu practitioner is so concentrate and focus on
the energy flow inside her body until she succesfully influence the
surroundding. This can be seen clearly when her movements can be followed by a
snake.
The most exciting scene in this
movie is definately the scene wher Dre is in the tournament with Cheng. At the
tournament, the under-confident Dre is slow to achieve parity with his
opponents, but soon begins to beat them, and advances to the semifinals, as
does Cheng, who violently finishes off his opponents. Dre eventually comes up
against Liang, another of Master Li's students, who is instructed by Master Li
to break Dre's leg. When Liang insists that he can beat Dre, Master Li sternly
tells him that he doesn't want him beaten, but broken. During the match, Liang
delivers a devastating kick to Dre's leg, along with a series of brutal
follow-up punches. Although Liang is disqualified for his illegal strikes, Dre
is incapacitated, which would allow Cheng to win by default.
After watching this scene,we were really curious why there are this kind of people like Master Li, who teaches
his students to win in such a violent and cheating ways. Besides did not show a
good model as a teacher, he also did not practise the main purpose of kungfu. We felt that Liang actually is not a negative boy as at first he also has the
heart and mind to win Dre fairly. However, he is being influence by his teacher
to win the tournament by cheating. If he has a right teacher, he will be in the
right path and can understand more about the real kungfu.
The part
which touches me is when Dre is badly injured, he still insists of getting on
the stage to continue his match with Cheng. Despite Han's insistence that he
has earned respect for his performance in the tournament, Dre convinces Han to
use his fire cupping technique to mend his leg, in order to see the tournament
to the end. When Han asked Dre the reason of getting up on stage again, Dre
answered, “Because I'm still scared. And no matter what happens, tonight, when
I leave, I don't want to be scared anymore.” Through this sentence, we can see
clearly Dre detemination. He has grown up to a better man which make his
mother, his teacher and even himself proud of him. He has change his attitude
of living espeacialy towards people and totally transform to another
personality. Han not only did well in being Dre Kungfu’s teacher and also
teacher of life as he teaches Dre Kungfu and ways to be a better man.
Hence,
Dre returns to the arena, where he confronts Cheng. Dre delivers impressive
blows, but Cheng counters with a debilitating strike to Dre's already injured
leg. Dre struggles to get up, and adopts the one-legged form he first learned
from the woman on the mountain, attempting to use the reflection technique to
manipulate Cheng's movements. Cheng charges Dre, but Dre flips, and catches
Cheng with a kick to his head, winning the tournament, along with the respect
of Cheng and his classmates, both for himself and Mr. Han.
Through
this movie, we have learned a lot. A person has to stay strong in whatever
situation. Never give up easily, stay strong and keep doing it until success. A
person also have to suit himself into new environment and community. Not
everyone in this world will follow your way of living but you have to suit
urself their way of living. This is the rule of living.
FRIGHT NIGHT
DURING THE MOVIE.
1 1) Who are the 5 important
characters in the film? List out the names of the actors playing them.
ž Anton Yel Chin as Charley Brewster
ž Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Ed Lee
ž Colin Farrel as Jerry Dandrige
ž Imogen Poots as Amy Peterson
ž David Tennant as Peter Vincent
2 2)
What is the story about?
The story was about Charley, a teenager who lived in Las Vegas. He
discovers that a new neighbor had moved
to the next door to him who names Jerry. His friend, Ed Lee, claims that Adam’s
family (their classmate) missing is related with Jerry, the vampire. At the
beginning, Charley did not believe to Ed’s accuse until one day, he found that
Ed was disappeared. He came to Ed’s house and found an evidence showed that
Jerry was a vampire. After that, Jerry started to hunt Charley’s mum and his
girlfriend, Amy because Charley know about Jerry’s secret. Charley’s mom was
hospitalized due to Jerry’s attack.
Amy and Charley were attacked by Jerry
and Ed when they nearly arrived at Peter’s penthouse. Ed was killed by Charley,
and then Amy was kidnapped and turned into vampire by Jerry. In the desperate
situation, Charley asked for help from Peter Vincent, the expert on vampire. At the moment, Peter refuse to help him, but
then he gives Charley a stake blessed by Saint Michael that will kill Jerry and
turn all of his victims back into human form.
Charley goes to Jerry’s house where Peter decides to join him after all.
Lastly, Charley manage to stake in Jerry’s heart and returning his victims to
their human form.
3 3)
What group of people would like
to watch this film?
Most of people that would
like to watch this film are probably among teenager. This is because the film
is more like sci-fi genre that make young people especially teenager attracted
to watch the film. Furthermore, the film
is not suitable for age under 13 because there are violence scene in the film.
AFTER
THE MOVIE.
1 4)
Do you like the movie? Why or
why not?
Yes I like the movie because
Charley is a responsible person who willing to risk his life to protect the
people he loved.
2 5)
What rating would you give for
this movie?
I will rate this movie
8/10.
3 6)
What spoilers would ruin this movie
if you told your readers about it?
The spoilers that would
ruin this movie is when I told about that there is a way to defeat Jerry by
stab him with stake blessed given by Saint Michael .
4 7)
All movies teach a lesson (
theme or moral ). What did you learn from this movie?
From the movie that I have
watch it teaches me to be brave to face the upcoming challenge in my
life. Furthermore, it also teach me how to be responsible. I learn this
when Charley try his best to save the person that he loved.
