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The Movie Remake Thread
Be My Head:
TOMB RAIDER?
That movie isn't even that old! Not that I care anyway.
Are they still going to remake Akira? Anyone know?
a pack of wolves:
The Hollywood live action version? Rumour is it's dead, but I guess DiCaprio's still got the rights to it so it could still happen at some point.
Joseph, my reply to your questions got so out of hand I had to give it its own thread: http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,23614.0.html
Border Reiver:
--- Quote from: Will on 04 Aug 2009, 07:45 ---
--- Quote from: elizaknowswhatshesfor on 04 Aug 2009, 05:44 ---
Honestly are there no good stories left in the world? Really?
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There are plenty of good stories left in the world. Unfortunately, most of them happen to exist in books...books that require a modicum of reasoning, thought, and intelligence to follow. This works not at all with the current climate of dumbed-down, explain-everything-even-the-obvious Hollywood money-whoring that drives people to theaters.
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So what people actually find entertaining?
Remember that Shakespeare was considered to be pandering to the lowest common denominator to put bums in the theatre to make money. I'm not saying that people like Uwe Boll will be considered to be this period's Shakespeare (my money would be that in 400 years they'll be looking at Mr. G. Lucas and S, Spielberg's works), but that if no one goes to see what you make, or that it is unreachable to the public you've failed as an entertainer.
elizaknowswhatshesfor:
--- Quote from: Faker on 04 Aug 2009, 10:14 ---I'm guessing if they did a Footloose remake, Zac Efron would be first choice to star... you know this to be true.
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This my basic problem with remakes, the people you know they will get to play Characters you may well have grown to love like they are your own little children.
Ps. That shakesphere argument is old. If you follow that logic, Jeremy Kyle is this century's version of the Globe.
Also: Most of Shakephere's greatest and most re-told stories are based on Greek tragedies/comedies & those in turn can be traced back to pagan myths and stories told and retold the world over. They wren't new stories, they were just told in a new & interesting way.
There will always be the classic themes of love, loss, triumph etc.
Surgoshan:
Man, I love me a good tale of etc. I always get a bit weepy when the etc finally unfolds.
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