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Modern Re-make

posted 19 years ago by blocherd
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With so many movies from the 1920s being re-made into classic in the later years, one of them being "The Wizard of Oz", I would love to see this concept be adapted with high budget technology.

However have it set to the era which Mary Rhinehart Roberts intended it to be set, and give the lead character the appearence that it was originally meant to have. Also script it closely with the book.

After all this is the inspiration for Bob Kane's creation of "Batman", and it would look good to see the inspiration made with modern technology!

[–] novastar_6 18 years ago

A remake might be nice providing they do it right, but you know, considering how they do movies, even remakes these days, they'd probably do it so that there's massive blood and guts everywhere, swearing up and down the place, sex between Dale and Brook and God knows who else, not to mention all the new fancy guns and cars and clothes, and there'd probably be a few people doing all that modern 'gangsta' talk and all that crap. I say if they can't do it with the decency that the original was made in, and give it the 1920s classic era and theme it deserves, and keep the violence brief, the romantic interests tame, and keep the language clean, then they shouldn't bother, just leave it as is.

[–] blocherd 18 years ago

I agree with you whole heartedly, but I am suggesting that they do it right and do it authenically with the book, as it was written!

I would also apply this for a re-make of "The Man Who Laughed", which was the inspiration to the creation of The Joker!

[–] blocherd 18 years ago

By the way,if a remake was to be made; I would like to have it titled with the author's name in the front of it like 'Mary Roberts Rhinehart's "The Bat"'!

[–] novastar_6 17 years ago

Now that would be a way to do it, she came up with the story...well 2 of them actually, she deserves the credit, posthumous or not.

[–] Crurned 16 years ago

Yes, something of the same vibe of finding Neverland as it is for Peter Pan. I found out his movie by accident, and I feel it deserves a lot more of praise and respect. However, by Hollywood's behavior today it could end up as another cheap D-movie remake created by the Asylum guys.

I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.

[–] novastar_6 16 years ago

Yeah, you can't leave anything up to Hollywood anymore, nothing's sacred to them. They'll remake anything and they'll ruin the potential of a perfectly good film all in the name of profit.