Conductor Robert Fron says a good melody captures our attention.

And then it moves you through time.

Music is architecture in time.

If you engage in the moment with what you're listening to,

you do lose a sense of the time around you.

How we experience time.

That's on the TED Radio Hour from NPR.

The Karate Kid has been sequelized, serialized, spun off, and rebooted,

and now it's back as Karate Kid Legends.

The new film stars Ben Wong as a kid,

a karate kid, if you will, who's mentored by Jackie Chan and Ralph Machio. I'm Stephen Thompson.

Joining me today on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour is Walter Chow. He's a writer, critic, and film

instructor at the University of Colorado, Denver. Hey, Walter. Hey, Stephen.

It is a pleasure to have you here.

So the Karate Kid's Cinematic Universe has, appropriately enough, many branches,

starting with the original 1984 film, which starred young Ralph Machio and Pat Marita as the Sensei, Mr. Miyagi.

The series has taken us through many training montages,

mentorships, love interests, and karate tournaments, and route to where we are now.

The new film, Karate Kid Legends, ties many of those threads together.

It's devoted to the lore of the original movie, but also to the 2010 remake starring Jackie Chan,

and it nods to the TV series Cobra Kai.

But in the end, what really matters is the by now very familiar bones of the story,

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