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Comparing it to the Bob Hoskins remake


This film was remade not too long ago as The Secret Agent starring Bob Hoskins and Partricia Arquette. The strange thing I noticed was that the younger brother, played by Christian Bale, was portrayed as mentally challenged whereas in the Hitchcock film, he wasn't.



Off the record, on the QT, and very hush hush

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I've not yet seen it, but I would be interested in checking it out for comparison purposes.

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It's not actually a remake, it's just based on the same novel that Sabotage was based on (The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad), in which Stevie indeed had a mental disability.

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i didn't even realize there was a remake to this classic film.

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