{"id":1708144,"date":"2022-10-23T18:03:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T22:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1708144"},"modified":"2022-10-23T18:03:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T22:03:39","slug":"ralph-macchio-kos-claims-that-the-original-karate-kid-was-too-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ralph-macchio-kos-claims-that-the-original-karate-kid-was-too-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Macchio KO\u2019s Claims That The Original \u2018Karate Kid\u2019 Was \u2018Too White\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fralph-macchio-kos-claims-that-the-original-karate-kid-was-too-white%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1708144&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Actor <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/9-great-movies-to-watch-with-your-son\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ralph Macchio<\/a> dismissed claims that his 1984 film \u201cThe Karate Kid\u201d was \u201ctoo white\u201d and did not spend enough time reflecting on the Japanese cultural influence on the martial arts discipline.<\/p>\n<p>Macchio, whose turn as Daniel LaRusso in that movie cemented him as a household name, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/ralph-macchio-dismisses-too-white-criticism-1984s-karate-kid-ahead-of-its-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said last week<\/a> that he had always believed the movie was ahead of its time \u2013 mainly because it addressed the subject of the World War II-era Japanese <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/media-trump-using-former-japanese-internment-camp-james-barrett\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">internment camps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have said it\u2019s a very white cast, that it didn\u2019t dive into the Asian story. 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 II,\u201d the 60-year-old actor explained.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ralph Macchio dismisses &#8216;too White&#8217; criticism of 1984&#8217;s &#8216;Karate Kid&#8217;: &#8216;Ahead of its time&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8xF8HdNYle\">https:\/\/t.co\/8xF8HdNYle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1584155188121640960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Macchio went on to say that his late costar, Noriyuki \u201cPat\u201d Morita, attributed his Academy Award nomination to one the scene that address the camps \u2014 and his character\u2019s experience during the war.<\/p>\n<p>That scene showed the typically stoic Mr. Miyagi drunk and losing control of his emotions as he remembered his wife \u2014 who died in childbirth along with their son in an internment camp \u2014 on what would have been their anniversary. The scene ends with Macchio\u2019s Daniel putting his instructor and mentor into bed.<\/p>\n<p>What made the scene so powerful, Macchio argued, was the fact that Morita himself had spent time in the camps. \u201cPat himself spent two years in the camps. So it had double meaning and some depth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the depth and power of the scene, Macchio said it almost ended up on the cutting room floor \u2014 over concerns that the movie was too long.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe studio\u2019s main concern was that with the movie running over two hours, they would lose a daily screening time, and essentially, money in the process. They all shut up once we screened it for them with an audience,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Macchio returned to the character he made famous decades later, reprising the role of Daniel La Russo for Netflix\u2019s \u201cCobra Kai.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite some early concerns about coming back to the role, Macchio explains in his new memoir that the series has succeeded in taking what made the films \u201cwork\u201d and bringing those elements \u2014 \u201cOvercoming the obstacles, finding your way \u2026 figuring it out\u201d \u2014 to a whole new generation of fans.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In a memoir, Ralph Macchio says he was unsure about returning to the role of Daniel LaRusso in \u201cCobra Kai.\u201d But the Netflix series successfully captures what made the \u201cKarate Kid\u201d films work: \u201cOvercoming the obstacles, finding your way\u2026figuring it out.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rkMygXNh3g\">https:\/\/t.co\/rkMygXNh3g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New York Times Books (@nytimesbooks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimesbooks\/status\/1584284793323196416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2022<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Ralph Macchio dismissed claims that his 1984 film \u201cThe Karate Kid\u201d was \u201ctoo white\u201d and did not spend enough time reflecting on the Japanese cultural influence on the martial arts discipline. Macchio, whose turn as Daniel LaRusso in that movie cemented him as a household name, said last week that he had always believed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1708147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1708147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}