Please no 're-imagining'
I hope that some Hollywood genius never sees this film and remakes it.
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MovieChat Forums > Tanin no kao (1967) Discussion > Please no 're-imagining'
Oh what a horror! Hollywood has little or no imagination left, and all they can do is (badly) remake old TV shows. Bewitched, Beverly Hillbillys, My favorite Martian, The Addams Family (OK, not so bad), Lost In Space, George of the Jungle...need I go on?
I was sick to my stomach when I heard that someone thought that it was a good idea to remake "Seven Samurai". I pray every night that it never comes out.
Certain simple people can't handle black-and-white, or subtitles, or foreign films in general. Their loss!
The Departed was a good flick, but was it really better than Infernal Affairs?
Just caught the last half of this film by accident and loved it. Will rewatch the whole thing asap. From what I saw, I'm just shocked that no one is mentioning Abre Los Ojos or Vanilla Sky as reimagining.... it's all I could think of while watching.
shareinto a classic and wonderfully entertaining western called 'The Magnificent Seven'. It is based on the same story set to a western theme. Both films are excellent.
Unfortunately not all remakes or retellings are as good.
Yes, but what you need to start with is a crap film with good potential. Work from the bottom up so to speak. But, should you work on something that's already that good, then approach it from a totally different angle.
And, Eureka Masters of Cinema have released this film on DVD with a Tom Rayns commentary (the current doyen of Japanese movies) and a booklet should anyone be interested in expanding their knowledge.
and "A Bug's Life" too, no? Actually with Seven Samurai, the premise is brilliantly simple, so there's a lot of room to build original execution. The Kurosawa original is my favorite film of all time, and I was a bit let down by the Magnificent Seven. Then again, I'm not too keen on traditional Westerns, seems like a very American thing, you grew up with it or you didn't...
I know Sergio Leone nearly directly plagiarized Yojimbo for A Fistful of Dollars, but both films are so heavily stylized in their own way that you can enjoy both. I do.
It's when the concept is so elaborate that you wonder why they bother to remake it at all, such as Abre Los Ojos/Vanilla Sky, or now the Millenium books (just a couple of years after the original too!). That's just pointless.
Blasphemous! No need to remake it or bring up the possibility of one for arguments sake.
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