The Karate Kid
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2018
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
This one's been a long time coming and now the HDYR gang is finally ready to take on those punks from Cobra Kai. It had been ages since any of us had seen The Karate Kid and although we all expected to have a good time with it, we were pretty surprised by just how well-made this original film is.
Topics include: how director John G. Avildsen shot a rehearsal of the entire movie with the principal cast before production officially began, the pervasive belief that Daniel might be the real bully here, the ultra-important scene that the studio wanted to cut, the almost-as-important moment that is missing, how transforming into one of the most memorable antagonists of the 80s effected William Zabka's real life, a round of 2 Truths 1 Lie, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember the Karate Kid? |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:31.9 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:32.7 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.4 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:34.2 | And today we're revisiting The Karate Kid. |
| 0:53.8 | Yeah. And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting the Karate Kid. Okay. I want to start by giving a shout out to one of our listeners, Charlie. |
| 0:57.7 | This whole thing was really kickstarted by an email. |
| 1:00.3 | I got from him back at the end of February. |
| 1:02.4 | He said there was a weekend that him and his daughter were looking for something to watch. |
| 1:06.1 | He saw that this was streaming. |
| 1:08.0 | It had been over 20 years since he'd seen it, but his daughter takes karate, |
| 1:11.6 | so he thought, uh, this will be an easy sell. So he wrote in to say that not only did his daughter |
| 1:15.9 | love it so much that she started practicing her crane kicks, uh, but he was really pleasantly |
| 1:20.8 | surprised by how much he'd enjoyed it after all this time as well. And realizing that we had |
| 1:25.3 | never covered this one, he suggested that it was worth |
| 1:27.8 | another look. And I wrote back to say, I know I've brought this one up several times in the five |
| 1:32.9 | years we've been doing this. I've always wanted to cover it. And the second one. So I said, |
| 1:37.6 | this is it. This is the year, Charlie, we're doing the first karate kid, I promise. And then it popped |
| 1:43.3 | up on Amazon right as it was time to pick a movie. |
| 1:45.8 | That felt like another sign. |
| 1:48.0 | We just did my cousin Vinnie with Ralph Machio. |
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