If you had to remake one film...

[twister!]

'The Phantom Menace' or 'Attack of the Clones' anyone... I'm sure some good films could be made from that story...

'Breakfast at Tiffany's' - Although I LOVE the existing film version I'd like to make a VERY different version - one that is much closer in tone to Capote's book (which is quite dark).

[Actor]

The Collector(1965).

Freddie kidnaps Miranda and keeps her in his basement, hoping she will fall in love with him. Of course she doesn't. Right?

Well, that was 1965 thinking. No girl is going to fall in love with the man who kidnaps her. Right?

But two things have happened since 1965:
</font><ul type="square">[*]<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Stockholm Syndrome</font>[*]<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Patty Hearst</font>[/list]<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Stockholm Syndrome. Back in the 70s a group of would be bank robbers found themselves surrounded by police. Taking hostages they held out for days before being captured. Afterwards the hostages expressed sympathy for their former captors. One woman even married her former captor.

Since then research has turned up a lot of examples of the Stockholm Syndrome. Seem it's not that uncommon for captives to fall in love with their captors. The most famous victum of the Stockholm Syndrome is Patty Hearst who became a willing member of the Symbionese Liberation Army.

So today it's not unbelievable that Miranda just might fall in love with Freddie. Puts a whole new twist on the plot. So new that you might even say it's not a re-make at all but a whole new story. Hmmm.

[Actor]

Originally posted by jb.:
I have to say, I'm not a fan of the remake. Someone has already made the film so let it stand. I know there's a big glut of remakes happening at the moment and films have always had remakes down through the years. But I just don't see the point. It's happening more and more because the studios will not take any risks with new talented writers coming through and prefer to use tried and trusted ideas.

I mean, come on, there's plenty of ideas out there to make films about why rehash the past?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The point should be to allow other artists to give their interpretation of the same material. Should Branagh have passed on making Hamlet because Olivier had already done it?

The Maltese Falcon was originally filmed in 1931. In 1936 it was re-made as Satan Met a Lady. But it is the second re-make, again titled The Maltese Falcon and starring Humphrey Bogart, that everyone remembers.

Then there's the dismal re-make of Psycho that everone would like to forget.

The Maltese Falcon and Psycho are extremes, the sublime and the dismal. Most re-makes fall in between.

In theatre re-makes are called revivals, and they don't get the same bad rap that movie re-makes get. That's probably because when audiences see Marisa Tomei and Quentin Tarintino as Suzi and Roat in Wait Until Dark most of the audience never saw, or only have vague memories of, Lee Remick and Robert Duvall in the same parts 30 years earlier, so Tomei and Tarintino are judged on their own merits instead of being compared to the originals.

With movies it's different. A re-make of Wait Until Dark invites immediate comparison to the 1967 film, which you can get on DVD.

One reason re-makes are usually bad is that the financial backers of the project do not want a re-interpretation of the material. They want a proven product. If it ain't broke don't fix it. So we get junk like the re-make of Psycho

IMHO a good candidate for a re-make would be a movie that either flopped or did so-so in its original incarnation. A good filmmaker might be able to make a good movie from material that was once a flop. Unfortunately, this kind of project is not likely to get funding.

[jb_617]

No. I hate to be harsh. But you are totaly wrong.


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[Matty2phatty]

everything ok jb? That's the second post where you came online and ripped at somebody.

[Patriarch]

I would remake Dune... Ofcourse the series have since been made (havent seen them) but the lynch film is very poor compared to the book.

If Minority Report hadent been made I think remaking The Running man could be quite good. I do think the ending would have to be changed slightly here in post 9/11 [img]smile.gif[/img]

I would love to see A Clockwork Orange being made for the first time today, by kubrik. I love the film, but it has really aged in terms of screen violence. So while not exactly a remake I would want, I would like to see it made today.

[jb_617]

jb's fine..he's just having his period or something.

Actually, I wasn't ripping into anyone specific. Just snobbish filmmakers in general. Unless you are setting the world on fire with your films, I don't think you should be judging the relative worth of anyone else's work.

That's all.

And a Dune remake would be cool. Although I love the original, maybe a sequel would be better?


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[m0d]

When it comes to re-MAKE then for me it would be Attack of the 50 Foot woman. So much more potential graphics wise, and there's certainly deeper, darker storylines available now that still link back to the themes from the original and 90's remake. Though it's the CGI potential that I think would appeal to most, my main reason for a remake is that I'd like to make the protragonist female bigger & badder. 50ft women are something, but 500ft ones are something else [img]wink.gif[/img]

Off topic but, If it came to films I'd like to re-SHOOT;

I would remake Alien vs Predator, and in such a way that you could NEVER make a video-game out of it [img]tongue.gif[/img] Seriously though, I think those are two films that had one of the best potential mergers available EVER but when it went ahead it was awful. Basically, AvP should never have been made IMO - it ruined a lot for me.

The second is Terminator III. I'd never let that exist. This is a film I will seriously consider shooting if I ever have any large sum of money, Hollywood power/influence etc. As an avid fan of the second movie, and the first, I couldn't bear the post-modernistic look on the final installment. Arnie is a joke, John is a fucking poof and Clare Danes brings nothing to the screen other than her good looks. This also includes the poorly executed storyline. I'd love to remake this film so it actually felt like a Terminator movie.

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[sn-films]

I've been wracking my brain for the last couple days trying to think of some clever movie to remake, and then one of the new Volkswagons drives by and it hits me... I mean, an idea hit me.

Herbie Goes Bananas

The original Italian Job was a 2-hour Mini Cooper commercial, and then the remake featured the new Mini Cooper. Its only fair that the new Volkswagon Beetle get some screen time in the form of a Herbie remake.
But my heart broke when I saw this...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400497/

[Matty2phatty]

I could be wrong, but wasn't AvP a game a while before the movie?

When i went and saw T3 i was VERY disappointed until i started watching it as a comedy, and then i actually really enjoyed it.