The Karate Kid is a great place to begin commenting on
pop-cultural artifacts in particular. Not only is it a pop-cultural thing
itself, it contains many other pop-cultural things: an underdog, Eastern
influences, a montage, the eighties.
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The Karate Kid is also a movie I doubt Hollywood would make
now (although they tried to remake
it). This is not only because Hollywood is too hyper self-conscious and serious
(i.e.