The original The Karate Kid is a synecdoche of the 80s; one that combines the underdog, underprivileged, middle-class Daniel Larusso (Ralph Macchio) – replete with brown hair, brown eyes and a New York accent that casts him as an outsider on the blonde-haired-blue-eyed-laden beaches of Beverly Hills and its affluent residents, including bad-boy Johnny Lawrence, which admittedly […]