Rural China charm
New Jack City + Boiler Room + Kim Ki Duk + Tarantino
Idiosyncrasies of a culture
The mastermind
Robert McKee school of screenwriting
Use eye-patch & mustache to signal bad, train in the oriental temple to underscore the Oriental-ness, Asian males must maintain their asexual nature, main antagonist was born with eye-patch on to signal inherent evil nature, give music team a sample of “eye of the tiger” to make exact replica, the coach does not have to show any signs of the necessary skill as long as he has incredibly deep voice, cast Julia Roberts’ brother, bad characters are incapable of speaking a language except grunting,
Hollywood Legacy
Poorman’s Ex-machina
Because getting into Harvard is the easiest