{"id":13585,"date":"2011-11-25T02:53:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T02:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=13585"},"modified":"2011-11-25T03:02:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T03:02:53","slug":"the-karate-kid-rehearsal-movie-video-avilsden-macchio-miyagi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/11\/25\/the-karate-kid-rehearsal-movie-video-avilsden-macchio-miyagi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Karate Kid Rehearsal Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Director John G. Avilsden<\/a> has uploaded a video rehearsal version of The Karate Kid<\/a>\u00a0(1984) to YouTube.<\/p>\n

Back in the early 1980s video technology allowed directors to shoot cheap rehearsal footage before they used the expensive film stock for the actual shoot.<\/p>\n

If you get the recent Blu-ray of The Outsiders<\/a> (also starring Ralph Macchio<\/a>) you can see Francis Ford Coppola do a similar thing with his young actors.<\/p>\n

This must have been lurking in a cupboard somewhere in Avilsden’s house but back in May 2010 he decided to upload it to YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The end result looks like a cross between a fan film and B-roll footage<\/a> but is actually a fascinating document of the filmmaking process.<\/p>\n

You can hear the director (or crew) making comments about certain shots and what sounds like Polaroids<\/a> being taken for reference.<\/p>\n

The thing that struck me whilst watching it?<\/p>\n

The weird similarities between this process and the one used to bring Avatar to the screen<\/a>, despite the huge gulf in budgets and technology.<\/p>\n

Here it is in several parts:<\/p>\n