Attention Hollywood: You guys have no clue what movies should be remade and what movies should be left alone. You should pull your heads out of your asses and listen to the people who actually like going to the movies, instead of your sycophantic assistants and accountants.
Take Travels with My Aunt, for instance. I think this movie would be a good candidate for a remake.
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I am not so sure about this... guess they would ruin it.
On the other hand, the remake of "The quiet American" was actually better than the original, as it was closer to the novel. I could imagine Michael Caine here again as Henry Pulling.
Who would make a good Aunt Augusta in your eyes?
I think it should be remade, but much closer to the book. I have no idea why they completely changed the ending, but it sucked. The book was so great. I wish Maggie Smith could still be in it because she was perfect for the part.
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Indeed. I would volunteer to direct, having read the book at least a dozen times.
shareMagie Smith should definitely reprise this role, as she is certainly now in the correct age bracket for it.
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ttention Hollywood: You guys have no clue what movies should be remade and what movies should be left alone. You should pull your heads out of your asses and listen to the people who actually like going to the movies, instead of your sycophantic assistants and accountants.Movies made correctly the first time around, like this one, should not be subject to being re-made.
Take Travels with My Aunt, for instance. I think this movie would be a good candidate for a remake.
no more remakes!When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
I'm with the original poster on this one. The existing film is OK, but compared to the book it's a poor thing; caricatured and somehow mean-spirited. Centrally, the book is about Henry's liberation from his pinched and conventional existence by the free-spirited Augusta. The film retains a bit of that but also makes Augusta into a ridiculous and deluded figure who needs looking after by Henry. That might be more realistic, but the book is about the exhilaration of liberation not the pitfalls.
I also agree that Maggie Smith could reprise the role, but with a less cartoonish performance and more naturalistic direction. If the director wanted to keep the flashback structure he could use the footage from the earlier film (as with Terence Stamp in "The Limey"), but it would work fine without - there are no flashbacks in the book, just lots of storytelling.
Vanessa Redgrave could also do it I think, Julie Christie is the right age but seems to lack the formidable quality the role demands.
But in some ways, the film represents a moment in British history which is past; the character of Henry represented a type of everyman in a way he no longer could - Greene's novel is a kind of metaphor for the changing social codes of Britain as it moved out of postwar austerity and into the less formal era of the 60s and 70's.
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According to IMDbPro a remake of this movie is currnetly in development:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1421390/
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I agree this would be a good candidate for a remake, As a great fan of the novel I find the 1972 version disappointing. I love Maggie Smith, but she was way too young for the part at the time and her performance was a little too broad. I do hope she's in the new version.
Other possibilities I might like to see for the new one:
Geoffrey Rush - Alec
Forrest Whittker - Wordsworth
Cate Blanchett - Tooley
Just brainstorming.
Damn, they ARE remaking it!! That is not good news.
shareThough I do not like remakes generally, this could be fun! Though it is quite difficult to outdo Maggie Smith's "bigger than life" -performance.
However, I'd like to see the following actors and actresses to be casted in the remake:
Aunt Augusta - Barbara Windsor
Henry - Colin Firth
Wordsworth - Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Visconti - Christopher Lee
Tooley - Jessica Brown Findlay
Inspector Sparrow - Donald Sumpter
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