The score for this film is so grand and wonderful, yet the movie itself is old as old gets. They need to remake this film (even though it was a propaganda tool).
shareI agree that the soundtrack would be great carried over to a remade movie. But I think it would be most interesting if it maintained the same shots and edits that mark Eisentstein's style, ala the remake of Psycho. Remaking it with more 'involved' story or a modern style would ruin it.
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I saw it quite recently, and it featured a new recording of the soundtrack - that certainly seemed to work well. I think it would be difficult and a little pointless to remake it, especially since it is more an account of its times than historical fact in some aspects. Still a gripping piece of cinema history though, with a battle scene that looks good even today, and images and shots which have been replecated countless times.
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The remake is called Star Wars!!
LOL!!!
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a remake with better equipment (more authentic looking armor and helmets) would be interesting.
> Dan Brown's error: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0piyS7jaKc
Or where the battle scene isn't just guys swinging swords in the air...
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the grotesque fantasy like armor was great in this film. I really liked it. However I can understand that some people are offended by it, but I think it was great to see the Teutonic knights portrayed almost literary as demons with false motives.
shareSo you think they were like "more evil" than other people of this period?
> Dan Brown's error: http://home.arcor.de/berzelmayr/st-john.html
No absolutely not.
What matters here in this case that through the eyes of the film, the Teutons are evil. The way of portrayal is not to be taken to seriously on a level other than symbolism. So the way they look is important for their portrayal of evil.
There is a huge difference between liking the symbolism and admiring the method it's appield with great succes on screen or thinking that someone is more evil than another. Feel free to browse through some of my older posts; I don't think any man or country is more vil than another.
Eisenstein knew this too, but he was ordered to make propaganda and he did. Succesfully is you ask me.
The film was made as a propoganda tool to create a haterade for Nazi Germany because everyone knew a war was coming. That is also why the helmets are "fake" looking because they are meant to look like exaggaretd German war helmets of the 20th century mixed with the Teutonic Knights helmets. Its a propoganda film and it should be left as is because the film does exactly what Eisenstein wanted it to.
However if someone wants to make a film about Alexender Nevsky I see no problem in that.
To the op and everyone on these boards who advocate for remakes: GO AWAY!!!
shareAmerican film has IGNORED this piece of art though freely borrowing from it to create Conan, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, King Arthur and others. They also ignored TARAS BULBA with Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis... a film shot in Argentina with MASSIVE amount of horsemen as rarely seen in Hollywood films at that time (without CGI).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8G6S6fQQ4I
Hence, it's unlikely to believe USA will do a remake of this. Only if it's made in Russia (and they DID a remake nobody ever knew just like they did a remake of Taras Bulba!). The Alexander Nevsky remake was BAAAAAAD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2nHn98M0jM
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