KARATE KID

KARATE KID

Characters:

Dre Parker      - Jaden Smith              - The shy and timid boy trained by Mr. Han

Sherry Parker  - Tiraji Henson                        - Mother of Dre Parker

Mei Ying          - Wen Wen Han          - The friend and crush of Dre Parker

Cheng              - Zhenwei Wang          - The one who’s Bullying Dre Parker

Mr. Han           - Jackie Chan               - The master of kung fu who teaches Dre Parker

Master Li         - Yu Rongguang           - The kung fu Teacher of Cheng

The story begins when a 12 year old boy named Dre Parker and his mother Sherry Parker transfer from Detroit to Beijing to start a new life.

            Dre have a special feeling on Mei Ying, a young violinist. Cheng is always doing bad things to Dre enable to keep him away from Mei Jing. Cheng is good in kung fu, Cheng with his classmates always beating Dre wherever they see him. But one day when they are tripping, Cheng made a critical hit to Dre and it hurts it a lot but a man named Mr. Han helps him to stop Cheng from hurting him again. Mr. Han is maintenance of the building but aside from that he is also a kung fu master, he mends the injuries of Dre by doing the “Fire Cupping Technique”.

            Mr. Han and Dre go to the Cheng’s teacher named master Li to make peace and to stop this incorrect things but master Li challenge Dre to fight to Cheng in the upcoming tournament and he accept the challenge with the treaty that Cheng will leave Dre until the tournament.

            Dre training begins with taking off his jacket, hanging it up, dropping it and then putting it back again. This repetitive arm movements training is Mr. Han’s method of teaching defensive block and strike techniques and they continue training this method.