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remove it from the 1980s, the karate fad, remove it from an era where putting a Japanese vet on-screen was really, truly, ground-breaking, and having a hispanic character fall in love with Elizabeth Shue was just something we'd never seen before.
THEN
remove it from the cringe-worthy Cobra Kai, and all the bad cliches, and cheesy, over-baked emotionally manipulative '80s rock score, and at the same moment putting Miyagi on-screen and then having him, in the climactic scene, reach back to some mumbo-jumbo Other-esque Japanese voodooism or whatever it is he does.
Maaaaaan...
Sure -- it's a great, heart-warming, widely appealing story that underpins it, but the elements which make the original GREAT are truly dependent on the 1980s context. In particular making Miyagi, the fucking GROUNDBREAKING character, a central part of the film.
I was close with a Japanese-American WWII vet growing up, who got taken out of the service and put into internment camps, and man ... unless they really break some ground on the new Miyagi like that, this shit is going to be trash. ___________
HOPE! https://vine.co/v/i7JjIBL3Qix https://vine.co/v/i7JtqEFwxDu
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