The Karate Kid

[Guest Edgy DC]

You're right, you script master, you.

Now, here are some Karate Kid Kwestions:

• If you want to send Daniel-san to a Halloween dance as the invisible man, why not send him as mummy or the Phantom of the Opera or something. Why dress him in such a conspicuously inconspicuous costume as the guy behind a shower curtain? That's begging people to notice him. Or is that Miyagi's plan and Daniel is too stupid to pick up on it.



• And why doesn't he play the part, wearing a swimsuit or a shower cap behind the curtain, instead of that Wes Chandler (or was it Kellen Winslow?) Chargers jersey?



• And what's with the Chargers jersey? You hate SoCal, Daniel. Why not wear the New York Giants jersey of the best linebacker ever?



• Daniel seemed to register at the tournament. So how do they not only have his name in designer block letters for the giant bracket on the wall, but also have a reproduction of the presumably unique patch from the back of his karate robe, representing Mr. Miyagi's fake dojo.



• Back to Halloween. If you're going to dump water on the guy whose gang has beaten the snot out of you multiple times, why do it when (a) you know his gang is a-waiting outside in your escape route, and ( when your costume precludes you having a chance to get away safely?

[Elster88]

Edgy DC wrote: script master

The word you're looking for is "loser".

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I liked his Halloween outfit, and I think they did so to demonstrate Miyagi's creativity. The Cobra Kai Kids were smoking dope in the bathroom by the way but never acted like stoners. If they had a chance to do the flick all over again, they'd probably be doing steroids, as their effects were consistent with their behavior.

The graphic question always got me too. As did the HUGE crowd for a karate tournament. And, as usual for a sports movie, the "announcer" provides exposition where he would hardly do live.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yeah, good points.

Two mroe things there.

(1) The announcer pepares to award Johnny Lawrence with the trophy with a lame cliche like, "And now, the moment we've all been waiting for..."

We've all been waiting for the defending champion to reclaim his trophy by default, without a championship fight, because his teammate intentionally incapacitated the upstart would-be co-finalist in the semis?

(2) Why did Tommy get disqualified for trying to break Daniel's leg, but Johnny merely get a stern warning?