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===Development=== ''The Karate Kid'' is a semi-autobiographical story based on the life of its screenwriter, [[Robert Mark Kamen]]. At age 17, after the [[1964 New York World's Fair]], Kamen was beaten up by a gang of bullies. He thus began to study martial arts in order to defend himself.<ref name=oralhistory>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.si.com/tech-media/2018/05/01/karate-kid-movie-oral-history-cobra-kai |title=The Crane Kick Is Bogus: A Karate Kid Oral History|access-date=May 13, 2019 |last=Prewitt |first=Alex |date=May 1, 2018 |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]]|archive-date=May 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190511132307/https://www.si.com/tech-media/2018/05/01/karate-kid-movie-oral-history-cobra-kai|url-status=live}}</ref> Kamen was unhappy with his first teacher who taught martial arts as a tool for violence and revenge. So he moved on to study [[Okinawa Island|Okinawan]] [[Gōjū-ryū]] karate under a Japanese teacher who did not speak English but had been a student of [[Chōjun Miyagi]].<ref name=oralhistory/> As a Hollywood screenwriter, Kamen was mentored by [[Frank Price]] who told him that producer [[Jerry Weintraub]] had optioned a news article about the young child of a single mother who had earned a black belt to defend himself against the neighborhood bullies. Kamen then combined his own life story with the news article and used both to create the screenplay for ''The Karate Kid''.<ref name=oralhistory/> Additionally, given [[John G. Avildsen]]'s involvement with both films, [[Sylvester Stallone]] often joked with Kamen that the writer had "ripped off" the ''[[Rocky (film series)|Rocky]]'' films with ''The Karate Kid''.<ref name=oralhistory/> [[DC Comics]] owns [[Karate Kid (character)|a character called Karate Kid]], a member of the [[Legion of Super-Heroes]]. The filmmakers received permission from DC Comics in 1984 to use the title for the film and its sequels.<ref name=making/>
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