[JEWELMARGY]

I just watched the Karate Kid (just cos I can and got all three in one DVD really cheap today) and it occured to me that though heaps of people at the time took up karate as a result of this movie but then dropped it, lots would have stuck with it, wanting to be the next "Daniel". Movies spark interest. I mean, Strictly Ballroom gave ballroom dancing an amazing revival.

We need a kendo movie. (I'd love to say jodo but to be at least semi-realistic it just doesn't have the same widespread appeal).

I even have a concept! Two uni students sharing a room. One does kendo with the uni club. Lots of amusing incidents can come just from this, like airing stinky bogu in a small flat, limited drying space being taken up with dogi, and shinai lying about the place etc. Flat mate eventually decides to join and becomes his roomie's kohai. This opens up the way to explore the concepts of kendo and the thought kendoka put into their art off the shiaioji (sp?) and out of the dojo. You can even have the love interest in the dojo (cos it's a movie so there has to be a love interest and us Smutty Samuraiettes would get really annoyed if us lasses weren't represented).

Of course there has to be a goal. I suppose National team for sempai and grading or first shiai for kohai or something?

I know it'll never happen, but hey, we can dream. Just imagine how it would swell the numbers in the dojo? Most wont stay but that's normal and you'd get more people through the door than before.

[dogdesign]

Would Ralph Macchio be in it?

[treawittelf]

The Last Samurai, Kill Bill, Kill Bill 2.... Everytime there is a samurai movie we get dozen's of gedais wanabees who sign up for the beginners class only to drop out a few weeks later once they fully understand that we don't use lightsabers.

[Stappipsy]

The Last Samurai, Kill Bill, Kill Bill 2.... Everytime there is a samurai movie we get dozen's of gedais wanabees who sign up for the beginners class only to drop out a few weeks later once they fully understand that we don't use lightsabers.

I didn't see any lightsabers in any of those movies.

[ExpodoDop]

Oooo...I wanna play the evil moustache kendoka!

*goes off to wax his moustache*

[Fsfkkkjz]

I want to be Johnny Lawrence.

[jesyflowers]

One of my all-time favorite stupid questions from a short-lived wannabe: "When do we get to fight with real swords?"

[tinetttstation]

In truth,
Aren't we all to some degree "wanna-be's?"
~Or are you saying that you are the "real deal?"
If so, the real deal of what, exactly?

Muhahahah!
Philosophical Conundrums on a Friday!
..Who knew?


P.S.
Karate Kid: A very good movie for it's time. Liked it. Still like it.

Karate Kid 2: Nothing more than sheer teenage masturbatory material in the shape of Tamlyn Tomita.

Karate Kid 3: Let's see just how fat Ralph Macchio can get before his Tiger Beat appeal evaporates.

The next Karate Kid: Proof that action figure sales CAN drive a movie.

Kendo Movie?
All you need to do is digitally edit bogu and Shinais on the actors in the film:
Best of the Best: Boom. You're done in record time.

[Stainditnew]

i am all for the idea if you can fit "christopher walkins" in there somewhere, like a nanada sensei or something, that would be crazy wouldn't it!!!!

[Sipewrio]

LOL
Ok...that'sa good one! Picture Christopher Walken in a dojo explaining Zanshin..
You know, like in his "King of New York" Character?

[Kokomoxcv]

ROWL! Okay, done. Masahiro, you call Chrissy and let him know he's got the part of the club's rokudan sensei (I think nanadan might be pushing it).

You see, if it was a kendo movie about kendoka, you wouldn't get the "lightsaber" questions or the "when do we use real swords" ones either cos the audience will see that we fight with shinai

We could always have the kohai ask the "when do we get to fight with real swords" question and getting laughed at.

The sempai needs to be a good, down to earth, gritty English or Australian actor..... hm....

[leflyCode]

The sempai needs to be a good, down to earth, gritty English or Australian actor..... hm....

Ooooh sure, just exclude all of us Canadians. That's okay...we're used to it.

[pharmacologist30]

We can't have every single freaking nationality that practises kendo, now can we? Unless we do the Worlds. Hmm.. maybe the kohai and sempai go to watch the worlds? But for some reason I keep imagining this set in England, even though I'm an Aussie girl. England or Syndey. Strange huh?

[Pharmaciest2007]

Ooooh sure, just exclude all of us Canadians. That's okay...we're used to it.

Who?
What's this now?
You..You mean there are literally Can..Can..Can-a-di-ans?
Is that how you say it?
Wow. You really do learn something new everyday don't you!




LOL

[Grennios]

The next Karate Kid: Proof that action figure sales CAN drive a movie.

Also the launching pad for the carreer of Hillary Swank.
Well, maybe gave her some pocket money while she was waiting for "Boys Don't Cry" to come along.

[Gorlummm]

Newbie,
That movie sounds so predicatable and sucky, you should go into the direct-to-video movie biz.

[Wheegiabe]

o.k no Russel Crow though, (for some reason I just don't see him in keikogi, hakama, and a full set of bogu. I mean come on he's "Maximus" the gladiator!!!)

you know how in a lot of movies that christopher walkin's in, where he'll usually do some type of "out of this world" explanation about something he's conveying to the other person in the movie? (example, like he did in the movie "pool hall junkies" any of you seen that!!! pertty damn good) anyways, imagine what kinda crazy ass example he'd give you about how to hit a men-uchi. and just imagine looking into his "ominuous"/huge-gantic eyes when you spar him. Talk about a trip!!!!

o.k here's my plot, (and i am going to copyright it so don't any of you dare to take it)..

the setting/place is wherever you like, the sempai is this poor college student who just loves kendo and is determine and inspired to go to the worlds. So he works really hard and goes to all these seminars and whatnot, then of course there's the part in the movie where he gets beat up by his sensei(s) and all that, just when he thinks he's got it figured out, in ... walks in this beautiful girl who wants to start kendo! (i don't know who would fit that part... hmmmmm ) and then this is the twist. at first he just ignores her, and she didn't really like him either, then from a fateful conversation, they started getting closer and closer, bam.. climax.. love scene, song's playing in the background... ahhh, but the plot thickens!!!

[lionsiy]

o.k no Russel Crow though, (for some reason I just don't see him in keikogi, hakama, and a full set of bogu. I mean come on he's "Maximus" the gladiator!!!)

Don't you mean, "Jack-assicus" the Wife/Waiter/Paparazzi/Hotel Clerk/Dog/Phone/Random people-beater?

[melissa]

I want to be Johnny Lawrence.

Sweep the leg Dervish!!!

[doksSirmAdods]

Oooo...I wanna play the evil moustache kendoka!

*goes off to wax his moustache*

You can't grow a mustache. Instead you should be more like Iceman from Top Gun.