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.

DREW:
How many succeeded?
ARHAT:
A handful. You chose correctly. Nothing is more precious than human life.
DREW:
But, I didn't obey.
ARHAT:
(smiling slightly) At the beginning of your training, you were to obey without question. Now, as you become a Shaolin, you must learn to question everything, and obey yourself.
Drew and the monk bow to each other, the sunset over the mountain in the b.g.
DISSOLVE TO: EXT. ARHAT HUT – NEXT MORNING ESTABLISHING SHOT OF DREW COMING OUT OF THE HUT, HAVING JUST GOTTEN UP.
The Arhat is already out there, moving through his gong fu moves.
DREW:
I have to leave. What is the easiest way to get back to the temple.
ARHAT:
The bus.
Drew laughs at the crazy reply and starts for the mountain path that brought him to the hut. The Arhat runs after him, grabs his sleeve and pulls him over to a place behind his hut.
DREW'S POV OF A ROAD BEHIND THE ARHAT'S HUT A road! After all he went through to get there?
ARHAT (CONT'D) Bus stops every 20 min., will take you straight to the temple.
Drew smiles and shakes his head, then bows to the Arhat.
The Arhat returns the bow.
DREW:
Thank you, Master.
ARHAT:
They should give you a bus schedule with that map... He walks off to the hut, while Drew makes his way down to the bus stop.
EXT. SHAOLIN TEMPLE – DAY ESTABLISHING SHOT OF DREW WALKING BACK INTO THE TEMPLE.
He is dirty, weary but triumphant. As he walks back through the temple to San De's chambers to report, he sees a group of people walking out the other way.
The group is made up of the thugs who attacked him, the woman by the lake, and the man from the bridge. They are talking together on their way out.
ANGLE ON DREW: Smiling as he realizes that it was all a test – every moment of it.
EXT. TRAINING AREA – DAY ESTABLISHING SHOT OF DREW AND THE DISCIPLES TRAINING.
They are expert fighters now, and they move through the complicated routines with ease.
ANGLE ON DREW FLYING THROUGH THE AIR Hitting the ground and rolling, then coming up and throwing a shuriken at a target.
The throwing star hits the target dead center.
ANGLE ON DREW: Manipulating the spear like a master.