Ralph Macchio is taking a crane kick to criticisms that “The Karate Kid” was “too white.”
“People have said it’s a very white cast..that it didn’t dive into the Asian story,” Macchio said in this week’s issue ofThe 60-year-old actor said the 1984 classic, where he starred alongside Noriyuki “Pat” Morita as the new kid in town bullied by his school’s crew of karate menaces, was actually progressive in its approach to the Asian American experience.
“But I always say this: the film was ahead of its time because it was a popcorn movie that talked about Japanese internment camps during World War 2. “Pat always said the scene [in which it’s revealed Mr. Miyagi lost his wife and child in the camps] earned him his Oscar nomination,” Macchio said adding the scene where Morita’s character was inebriated, was poignant to the Japanese American actor.Macchio noted that the film was “ahead of its time” because it discussed the experience of Japanese internment camps during World War II.
The work should be interesting. People who make noise about race are the most racist. In the work Library War, there is a line that says, 'You seem to be looking for discrimination. Do you like discrimination that much?' I like discrimination as much as people who make noise.
And Foxy Brown was too black.
That's kind of the point! It's a story about a kid who is ignorant of Japanese culture and enters into the study of karate with a wise sensei. Would kind of be stupid if it was about a Japanese kid.
Isn't he Italian though?
The second lead was Asian. The entire second movie took place in Japan. Seems people are getting upset for the sake of getting upset.
Really, they are doing everything so that people feel that they are breaking up the country, with stupid questions like these.
Oh god. Pretty soon people will say q-tips are too white. So over it. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
My nickname is often 'Mr Miyagi'. So don't FUK with the Karate Kid
Enough already…sheesh!!!
Watch them do a black Mr Miyagi now smh, woke gotta ruin everything.
I'm so sick of this new generation
I am genuinely surprised this didn't turn into an 'Italians aren't white (when it's convenient)' rant.
Maybe it was too white....make a brown version. White people? They don't care.
Shut up
He's Italian
He was the bully in that movie change my mind.
Toilet paper is too white.
For fuck's sake.
Every imbecile is now empowered to be an unapologetic anti white racist.
Diversity is not needed in ever nook and cranny
Oh my gosh. Now we are going back 30 years to whine and complain? This country is pathetic
At least it wasn’t a movie about a black kid learning Karate.. in China… from a Chinese guy…
Ridiculous
The revolutionary war for independence was too white as well! So were the Wright Brothers!
Did he cash the check Of course he did!!
they had a black karate kid lol, what the fuck is going on
Criticism is pure crap!!!
Stop this madness! 🥴
I found it too Asian. Would have cast Miyagi as a black woman.
Don't hit back, ignore it, these people are corn chips.
When the left says dumb crap like this the only proper response is to spin around and fart on the mic
So you care about diversity in film? Cool. Now do every Tyler Perry movie.
So the Chinese guy doesn't count because he wasn't black
God forbid they criticize Jaden Smith though
I wouldn’t even answer. Just ignore them.
too white? good lord people are going after everything nowadays. the 2nd movie they literally went to Japan. Is that movie too asian?
Why must movies makers crowbar diversity into their art? Also, why does every movie have to be remade to have minority characters that used to be white? Can’t people make NEW things that suite their interests without changing other peoples visions from the past? 2/2
The cabal that cannot be named works overtime to erase Europeans everywhere in the past, present and future
The race hustlers are at it again
From 1984 ffs. Some people have waaay too much time on their hands.
Oh we’re canceling the Karate Kid now 😉
Did he karate chop back
Yep. Mr. Miyagi was just too white.
Ralph Macchio isn’t even white. He’s Italian.
The hatred against White people needs to stop.
German descended Americans are still the largest ethnic group in America. Still the majority, as much as I know that upsets some.
Racism everywhere. Getting old. 🙄 Is there anything white folks did we could be grateful for?
Top 20 movie all time.
They made a black Karate Kid movie and it sucked.
JFC i am so sick of liberals hating white people.
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