Not because he was the star, but because that movie was the worst. And just to be safe, let’s go ahead and disqualify Arnold from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines as well. Arnold was the star of T2, so he’s out even though he was an ace mentor. The mentor has to be a complementary piece, because mentors are always complementary pieces. The mentor cannot be the star of the movie.So the cutoff date, for movies about karate movies or anything else, is 1980. Nearly every karate movie has some sort of mentor in it, and if we’d spent any time considering all the ones from the movies before 1980 we’d have been here all day. No movies from before 1980 were considered.So, to make the job more manageable, there were some rules set in place. Sorting through all the mentors in all the movies is no tiny task. And the very best ones, in the broader view of his or her circumstances, should have been losers. The most interesting ones also have some invisible means of financial support that never gets discussed. He or she should also be smart enough and wise enough to take the lessons learned from those experiences and apply them to situations that aren’t specifically tied to their areas of expertise, often in ways that are initially surprising and/or confusing to their protég és. A good movie mentor should also be patient, sporadically funny, reliable, and also occasionally flawed. What makes a great movie mentor? To start, he or she should have a great deal of life experience, preferably within one or more specific fields (Benny the Jet taught Smalls all about baseball, Morpheus taught Neo about the Matrix, Sister Mary Clarence taught nuns Motown songs, etc.). We’re using that as an excuse to write several thousand words about fictional movie mentors, 1 so get ready. This week marks the 20th anniversary of Clueless, a movie that, among other things, is about a very popular girl mentoring a less popular girl.
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