花旗小和尚 American Shaolin (1992) Movie Script

杰瑞发布于2024-02-07

在香港国际散打争霸赛上，美国青年卡森惨败于特里弗之手，并被当众羞辱，为报仇雪恨，卡森萌发了去少林寺出家习武的念头。他来到嵩山脚下，结识一个叫阿诗玛的姑娘。阿诗玛带他到少林寺山门。卡森好奇心胜，误闯经堂，被赶出山门，心灰意冷◇经阿诗玛爷爷的指点，他不畏烈日风雨，在山门前打坐，终于打动少林寺主持三德和尚，破例收卡森为少林弟子。卡森入寺后，先是随师兄弟劳作，时日一久，卡森露出烦闷，听起了摇滚音乐。三德法师原谅了他的过失◇来又在练武时逞强好胜，不慎打碎神像，三德法师又原谅了他，并借机教以少林武… After being humiliated in the ring by a dirty kickboxer who pulled down his shorts and then hit him, a martial arts master decides to travel to China and enter a monastery where he may learn the Shaolin form of fighting. The film then veers into "Karate Kid" territory where the novice humiliates himself at every turn, is tolerated as a foreigner, and still comes out a champion. The monastery teaches non-violence, but everyone knows that sooner or later the student will catch up with the bad guy.

MONK:
Non thinking.
ANGLE ON DREW: Confused.
ANGLE ON MONK: Who doesn't explain any further.
MONK (CONT'D) Your training begins today, in this most sacred of training halls. The floor bears witness to the efforts of fighting monks from centuries past.
ANGLE ON FLOOR: Where there are depressions and worn spots, the result of thousands of hours of training.
MONK (CONT'D) At the Shaolin temple, we forge our bodies in the fire of our wills. We adhere to a vow of non-violence, unless someone else is in danger... Follow my movements... He starts moving through a series of techniques, and the rest of the disciples try to mimic his actions. He is moving around the room, and they are trying to do what he is doing.
Some are getting it, some aren't.
Drew, used to a more individualized type of training, isn't getting it.
EXT. TRAINING AREA – DAY ESTABLISHING TIGHT SHOT OF WEDGE THWOCKING INTO THE GROUND.
A hand COMES INTO FRAME, grabs the wedge and pulls it back out of the ground.
PULL BACK TO REVEAL Drew, along with the other disciples, lined up and throwing these sharp wedges into the ground and pulling it back out. Their muscles are bulging with the effort.
ANGLE ON HUGE SMOKING BRASS URNS Filled to the brim with small stones. Drew is forcing his arms into the urn in "Iron Palm" training.
ANGLE ON MONK ON A SET OF POLES He is going through a complex form, kicking and punching, never missing or faltering a step. Some of the poles are as high as 6 feet off the ground.
ANGLE ON GAO ON THE POLES He is less sure, but at least he doesn't fall.
ANGLE ON DREW: Trying the poles. He starts out well, but he soon misses and falls, almost impaling himself on a pole.
DREW:
I can't do this!
D.S.
Here at Shaolin, can't doesn't exist. Only won't.
EXT. TRAINING AREA – DAY ESTABLISHING SHOT OF DISCIPLES PAIRED OFF.
Drew is working with his friend Li. They are moving through a series of techniques, ending with a flashy kicking technique which is to blocked by a special Shaolin technique.
Each time Li throws the final kick, Drew gets hit, HARD.
His block isn't working. A monk comes up to him.
MONK:
Block the way I showed you.
DREW:
(showing him a block) This is the way I was taught.
MONK (CONT'D) Do it this way. You won't get hit.