RE: Remakes
July 26, 2016 at 4:52 am
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2016 at 4:55 am by Homeless Nutter.)
"Maltese Falcon"(1941) - was a remake of 1931 movie of the same name.
"Some Like It Hot"(1959) was a remake of "Fanfare d’Amour"(1935)
"The Thing"(1982) was a remake of "The Thing from Another World"(1951).
"Scarface"(1982) - "Scarface"(1932).
"The Fly"(1986) - "The Fly"(1958).
"Little Shop Of Horrors"(1986) - "Little Shop Of Horrors"(1960)
"The Heat"(1995) - remake of "L.A. Takedown"(1989), by the same director.
"True Grit"(2010) - "True Grit"(1969).
"The Departed"(2006) - "Internal Affairs"(2002).
...and so on. Of course many of those movies (as well as countless others) were based on other media, like books.
Sure - many remakes these days are boring, cynical and unnecessary, but then so are many so called "original" movies and TV shows. Also - cinema and TV have been around for a century, so it's small wonder, that more and more ideas are being reused.
Nothing new under the Sun and all that...
As for the actors of varied races, or genders playing the same characters - I don't mind, in fact I'm all for it, because I know it p*sses off bigots no end. And f*ck those people...
"Some Like It Hot"(1959) was a remake of "Fanfare d’Amour"(1935)
"The Thing"(1982) was a remake of "The Thing from Another World"(1951).
"Scarface"(1982) - "Scarface"(1932).
"The Fly"(1986) - "The Fly"(1958).
"Little Shop Of Horrors"(1986) - "Little Shop Of Horrors"(1960)
"The Heat"(1995) - remake of "L.A. Takedown"(1989), by the same director.
"True Grit"(2010) - "True Grit"(1969).
"The Departed"(2006) - "Internal Affairs"(2002).
...and so on. Of course many of those movies (as well as countless others) were based on other media, like books.
Sure - many remakes these days are boring, cynical and unnecessary, but then so are many so called "original" movies and TV shows. Also - cinema and TV have been around for a century, so it's small wonder, that more and more ideas are being reused.
Nothing new under the Sun and all that...
As for the actors of varied races, or genders playing the same characters - I don't mind, in fact I'm all for it, because I know it p*sses off bigots no end. And f*ck those people...
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