Just for fun if this where to be remade today who would you chose to play Joe and who would be a great Kirsten????
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I think Gwyneth Palthrow and Sean Penn could do
sharefi they were re-making it, and jazzing it up to newer times a bit. I'd say Johnny Depp, and Charlieze Theron would be amazing.
shareThe problem with a lot of today's actors and actresses is they look too much like little kids playing dress-up, but some people I would consider casting would be Kevin Spacey, George Clooney, Peter Krause or Julian Mc Mahon for Joe.
For Kirsten, I'm wondering about Martha Plimpton, Lili Taylor, Courtney Love(who, when she's not messing up her own life has been wonderful in the two Milos Forman films about Larry Flynt and Andy Kaufman).
I would keep the original style, keep it black and white, because the despair of alcoholism can't be prettied up in color. I know most so-called demographics would demand their films to be nice and colorful and pretty and with a happy ending. I dread someone coming along and deciding that Kirsten would also sober up and the two would live happily ever after. One hour of political correctness would kill me faster than a month on a bender.
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I'm thinking someone like Naomi Watts for Kirsten's role, she is an amazing actress and for the guy, how about someone like Travolta or Cruise.
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Dyslexics UNTIE! I mean. . .unite.
Kirsten Dunst DOES look like Lee Remick, doesn't she? AND she's aptly named for the leading lady. Kevin Spacey kind of reminds me of Lemmon, but he's a bit old now, eh?
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I agree totally. Lee Remick was one of the most beautiful women of the 20th Century. Kirsten Dunst is just...pretty.
shareBoth because they look staggeringly alike Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick and becuse they're extraordinary actors, Kevin Spacey and Charlize Theron.
shareHave you seen the Lost Weekend (1945) with Ray Milland? In a sense, this movie could be considered a re-make, if only in a very general sense.
Given the way Hollywood has been handling remakes lately, I'd have to agree with "pinkglitterflower". Unfortuneately, with 10 percent of the population estimated to have drinking problems, this movie is being remade all the time. Rehearsed, anyway.
So here's a question, what movie do you think would complete the Alcoholic Trilogy (or two movies if you don't like the Lost Weekend and/or Days and Wine and Roses? One of the first movies I remember seeing right after I was legally compelled to go to meetings a few years ago, was "28 days" (2000, which I thought at the time was fairly realistic.
BTW, on the DVD commentary Blake Edwards said he and Lemmon went out for dinner and drinks after the movie wrapped, and Blake brought up the topic of their own legendary drinking exploits, and after they talked for a while, noticed that they sounded like the characters in the movie - that is - in denial. He mentioned that within 2 years they had both bottomed out, and eventualy got sober.
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Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, of course, but I tend to place "Days Of Wine & Roses" on the same respected pedestal that I feel "The Pink Panther" should remain.. that is - Some movies should NOT be re-made. I haven't seen the Pink Panther remake with Steve Martin, nor do I wish to, but I've heard nothing but negative feedback about it. I really can't see anyone in Lemmon OR Remik's roles. They're brilliant! Leave it alone, please!!!
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I think that for the most part, re-makes are a no-win situation; if a re-make is too far from the original source (like Wiz/The Wizard of Oz), it can infuriate purists to the original. If a re-make is done with different casting to a film whose characters are trademarks and were already perfectly cast (example Steve Martin/Peter Sellers as Inspector Cluseau in The Pink Panther, as you mentioned), it's pointless because someone's already perfected the character. But if a filmmaker sticks exactly to the original source (Gus Van Sant's Psycho), it's both pointless and it can show that two people can make exactly the same film and one will come out brilliant and the other will be absolute trash. I dare someone to name ONE remake that both does justice to the original source and is a good film.
If you want to see a similiar film to Days of Wine and Roses, there's a little indie Australian film coming soon called Candy, with Heath Ledger in it. It, like Days, deals with two young people passionately in love whose relationship becomes shaped and changed (for the worse) when they get addicted to heroin. The female character, like Kirsten, experiences a downfall when she gets addicted. I haven't seen it, but hopefully if it comes to northern California I'll see it.
I don't think Days should be remade, though if it ever is, it should still be set in the 60s--if it were set in the present, it wouldn't be as shocking with its themes. Then again, the whole reason why Days is so powerful is because it came out during a time when taboo subjects were unheard of, and considering the Best Picture nominees last year, it's impossible to shock anyone. But even with the love story, I don't think anyone could have better chemistry than Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick. Their performances in the last scene can NEVER be topped.
The only positive thing that would come out of a remake would be more people seeing the original.
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I can't think of many others that were particularly good. I suppose Bright Lights, Big City (better book than a film, though), followed by Sideways if we're talking chronologically.
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The Lemmon/Remnick film is actually a remake or a repeat--Miller originally wrote the screenplay for a 1958 episode of Playhouse 90.
Around the time of the Lemmon movie, there was a Bantam novelization written by David Westheimer.
And someone has written a novel that's an adaptation of the play/novelization(!)setting it in London in the 60s.
For a third selection for the trilogy--there's Clean and Sober with Michael Keaton and a luminous Kathy Baker.
For a remake--Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick (without the Southern accent).
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James Woods & Sean Young?
how about
Bill Murray & Scarlet Johanssen
Reese Witherspoon & Patrick Bateman
No question: Christopher Walken and Annette Bening--a little older than you'd expect, but I think they could pull it off. If not them, Robert Downey, Jr. and Cate Blanchett? No, wait...I've got it! Gary Oldman and Amanda Plummer!!
shareI don't know about Joe but def Kirsten Dunst to play Kirsten. BTW, the resemblance between Dunst and Lee Remick is eerieeeeeee. Oh, well, they're both Scandinavian...
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