The two movies I chose to compare is The Karate Kid.  The First Karate kid was made in 1984 and directed by John G. Avildsen and starred Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki “Pat” Morita, and Elisabeth Shue. The 2010 version of this movie was directed by Harald Zwart and starred Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith.

This is an underdog story where a kid named Daniel and his mother move from New Jersey to California. Daniel quickly realizes that he does not fit in to this new California crowd.  Daniel starts getting in confrontations and one day he is cornered by a group of karate students. He is quickly beaten up and an elderly man named Miaygi jumps into the fight and all by himself defeats six students single handedly. This man turns out to be a handyman at his apartment. Daniel asks this man to teach him karate and Miaygi agrees after seeing that the teacher of the kids who beat Daniel up only teaches them violence. Daniels sensei teaches him karate and decides the best way to stop these bullies is to beat them in a karate tournament so Daniel beats them and then his sensei dies.

These movie posters show the sensei and his student in both.  They show that this is a movie most likely about karate and it seems that the man in the poster is his teacher of some sort or maybe the childs father. 

They both seem like fighters. The poses that the characters are doing in both posters both show some sort of meditation which to me signified that this wasn’t a bloody fight movie.

In the newest Karate Kid movie the names are no longer Daniel and Miaygi. Instead they are changed to Dre who was the student, and Cheng who is the maintenance man and sensei. The font on the posters is very original and gives a sense of strictness I feel.

The times of these movies are the eighties and the second movie was made in the present. I feel society today is a much more violent society and the movie tries to seem much cooler with its red background and faded font and the movie doesn’t follow the original story line at all because Dre moves to china instead of California which you can see by the building in the background. The original was trying to appeal to the society of the eighties who didn’t like violence and didn’t try to be cool.

In the first poster the two actors are looking at each other which seems like they are closer than the second poster and seem like they aren’t just looking for a fight. In the second poster they are facing the camera with a fighting pose showing that they are looking for a fight and not as close as in the first movie.