Miyagi take very many kicks to head while learning karate.
Miyagi don’t know. Miyagi only pawn in game of Life.
Even when I saw the movie 30+ years ago, I thought Daniel was ASKING to get his butt kicked.
It’s NOT that Johnny and his friends were good guys. They weren’t. They were bullies and jerks, no two ways about it.*
But Daniel was a little too Jersey-macho for his own good. He knew a LITTLE karate, imagined he knew a lot more than he did, and thought he was tougher than he really was. Hence, he got into fights when it wasn’t smart or even necessary to do so.
Daniel needed self-control and discipline at least as much as he needed better martial arts skills.
*Although Johnny wasn’t ALL bad either- he clearly regretted hurting Daniel seriously in the finals.
Henry Kissinger still has a thick accent after decades in America. So does Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Some immigrants lose their accents, some don’t.
They’ve got accents, sure, but their grammar is fine. Mr. Miyagi’s been living in America long enough to figure out what a pronoun is, however he might pronounce them.
Well, according to both Daniel-san and Mr. Miyagi, he did have ‘some father’.
If it was an illegal kick and the referees still allowed it, then the referees (and judges) were also under the umbrella of Miyagi’s control?!
This is making the series of movies a LOT more interesting… 
The Cobra coach didn’t say, “Sweep the leg!” That was Miyagi throwing is voice, just to fuck with all their heads.
We never actually hear the rules from a tournament official. Daniel gets them second-hand from Ali:
Of course, by a strict interpretation of those (possibly unofficial]) rules, Johnny connects on a punch to Daniel’s face that should have won him the match, but he is not awarded a point.
I expect you’re speaking to the “Alderaan genocide” propaganda that’s been floating around the web. Good job for being a conspiracy theorist and carrying water for Al’Rebellia.
The facts are well examined by now. Lord Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin, based on reliable actionable intelligence obtained through enhanced interrogation of prominent insurgents (including Khalid Sheik Leia, #2 in the Rebellion), determined that despite ostensibly being a pacifist civilian planet Alderaan was being hijacked by fanatical militant elements into a military purpose. Those unlawful combattants were hiding among the civilian population and turning them into human shields. The collateral damage at Alderaan was regrettable, and no one felt that blow more than Lord Vader (who can feel pain across the universe due to his connection with The Force, remember).
It was nevertheless necessary for your and my safety and that of the Galaxy at large. Don’t blame Moff Tarkin, blame the cowardly terrorists who resort to such tactics. Ultimately, Lord Vador did it to save more lives, as well as our freedom. You weren’t there, you don’t have access to all the information, and who are you to criticize our troops anyway ?
(man, satire gets dark)
Pronoun not important, only life important.
Retort.
Boot to the head.
Danny? Johnny? You guys both have it wrong.
The Karate Kid is about Kesuke Miyagi, an immigrant who fought against his own people in World War II, while his wife lost a child in an internment camp. Noriyuki Morita was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance. Ralph Macchio? William Zabka? They showed up.
“His own people”? He was Okinawan-American. Does that make fighting against Japanese imperialism fighting his own people? Really?
Stranger On A Train: Fail. At that level of revisionism, you’ve not only had to add in new, less believable claims, you’ve also basically lost the source material.
Kobal2: Better, but I’m not sure the Sith Empire really even cared enough to put such a face on it. But of course that’s not really what you’re talking about, so, point.
Miller: Snob appeals to snob. Got it.
silenus: You missed. Boot to the head.
I am grateful and enlightened. Few novices experience so much of Tae Quan Leap so soon.
Huh?
On the contrary. I mean, obviously my main drive was cheap unclever current events satire ; but I figure the galactic empire, much like every other totalitarian bullshit governmental structure out there, would a) say anything to anyone as long as it keeps them in line, varying their discourse based on who’s listening (which would naturally include a paternalistic albeit threat-filled condescending diatribe when addressing your average middle-class, middle-Coruscanian crowd) and b) go all in on the foreign enemy stuff.
Consider that the very reason the Empire got started in the first place was foreign enemy stuff, backed by “I’m nuking the Republic and every last one of its ideas the better to safeguard the Republic”. Also a heap of cheap unclever current events satire on Lucas’ part :p. Why change tacks ? This one obviously works well enough.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Somehow I missed that that was a link to a Peter Sellers movie the first time. I thought it was Capote being a snob in real life, rather than being a pedant for laughs.
Brilliant!