Busayo Akanro - Light does not shine in light

A few days ago, I sat watching a movie with my family late at night. The title of the movie is Kung Fu Panda. The movie was an animation by dreamworks. I had looked forward to seeing the movie not only because it was a cartoon (I love cartoons), but also because it was martial arts (I love martial arts as well).

Po (Jack Black) is a panda who works in a noodle restaurant owned by his goose father Mr. Ping (James Hong), who hopes that Po will one day take over the restaurant. Po is a kung fu fanatic with secret dreams of becoming a great master in the discipline. However, his weight and clumsiness make his goal difficult to attain.

The tortoise Master Oogway (Randall Duk Kim) has a premonition that the evil snow leopard warrior Tai Lung (Ian McShane), the former student of his own protégé, the red panda Master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman), will escape from prison and return to threaten the Valley of Peace. While Shifu sends Zeng (Dan Fogler), a messenger goose, to Chor Ghom Prison to have the security increased, Oogway orders a formal ceremony to choose the Dragon Warrior, a supreme master of kung fu who can defeat Tai Lung. It is assumed that one of the Furious Five—Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Monkey (Jackie Chan), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Viper (Lucy Liu), and Crane (David Cross)—a quintet of supremely skilled martial artists trained by Shifu, will be chosen for this honor. Po, in his attempts to see the Dragon Warrior, finds himself in the middle of the ceremony. Oogway, impressed by Po’s sudden appearance, surprises everyone by designating Po himself as the Dragon Warrior despite Po’s protests and Shifu’s pleas to reconsider.

The Five battle Tai Lung but are eventually defeated. All except Crane are paralyzed by a special nerve-striking technique, and he manages to carry his friends back to the valley. When they return, Shifu decides Po is ready to open the sacred Dragon Scroll, which promises great power to its possessor. However, when Po opens it, he finds nothing but a blank reflective surface. Stricken with despair at the scroll’s apparent worthlessness, Shifu orders his students to lead the villagers to safety while he stays to delay Tai Lung for as long as he can.

Po meets up with his father, who tells him the secret ingredient of the family’s noodle soup: nothing. Things become special, he explains, because people believe them to be special. Realizing that is the point of the Dragon Scroll, Po rushes off to help Shifu. At this time, Tai Lung arrives at the palace to obtain the Dragon Scroll. However, he discovers that the Dragon Scroll is gone, and then attempts to kill Shifu in anger. But before he can, Po arrives and challenges him. Tai Lung temporarily stuns him and gains the Dragon Scroll, but is unable to understand its symbolism. Po tries to explain the wisdom of the scroll to a frustrated Tai Lung, who uses his nerve attack on Po, but the panda is impervious thanks to his amply-padded gut. Emboldened, Po counter-attacks, and uses the Wuxi Finger Hold (a technique Shifu had previously threatened to use on Po) on Tai Lung, defeating him in a large explosion of golden light that ripples through the valley.

The Five return to the valley to investigate and find a slightly dazed but triumphant Po. Deeply impressed by Po’s victory, Tigress leads the Five to acknowledge him as a Kung Fu master. Po suddenly remembers that his teacher is badly wounded, and rushes back to Shifu. At first the master appears to be dying, and Po panics. But Shifu is only trying to rest after such a terrible battle with Tai Lung.

The moral of the Story

There’s no special gift or talent anyone has or requires that turns such a one into a world classs NO.1 in anything he or she does. It simply takes believing. Once you believe you can, then you can. Once you believe you are, then you are. Everything responds to a deep seated belief we have in the possibilities we see. The panda was accidentally called the Dragon Master, he clowned at the idea but decided to live up to it. Not only was there no secret ingredient to create the special soup, there also was nothing written in the scroll. Just a blank reflective surface. All exceptional people that have walked this earth discovered that they were the ones who were the masters in their respective scrolls because the believed what they saw.

You are what this country, continent and planet has been waiting for. Don’t think it’s someone else’s turf. I’ve heard several times that the original formula for mixing coca-cola is locked up in a vault somewhere and only top executives in the company know the exact proportions of mix that gives it unique taste. LOL!!! That might be true, but who has said and proven that one of such people haven’t told someone else by omission or commission. It’s just a lot of hype to protect its uniqueness. was it secret before it was discovered? It’s like saying, if Michael Faraday didn’t discover electricity, no one else would have. THERE IS NO SECRET INGREDIENT.The scroll is blank and available for any who believes to look straight in it, discover his reflection and believe the HE is the one.