Needs to be Remade
I feel like this movie needs to be remade! I'd love to see someone like Christopher Nolan direct it, and I always thought that Christoph Waltz would be a great O'Brien. Kind of random I know, but what do you guys think?
shareWhy do you feel that it needs to be remade? Most remakes (not counting 1984 itself) are disasters. The remakers usually try to bash the earlier version and boast that they did it better; this annoys a lot of people, so if anything goes wrong with the ramake, they'll jump on it.
The remake of PSYCHO was a slavish disaster; somebody even made a video showing the two versions of the shower murder side by side. Somce people still prefer the Kubrick Lolita to the 1980s remake, in spite of the censorship problems in the early 1960s. The recent TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY was more atmospheric than the BBC version, but the BBC version had a clearer story line and Sir Alec Guiness.
Unless a remake has some clear virtue that didn't exist in the original, there's not much point in remaking it.
A new movie based on book 1984 needs to be made. It would not be a remake at all. Most people know 1984 by reading of the book as it is often required school reading material .
Reason why it needs to be made because now, today, we are more than ever loving in a world of 1984. We literally do have cameras in many places. I guess UK has it most like in the book because the cameras are I stalled by the government. In USA we have fewer of them. We have drone technology that is essentially the helicopters described in the book.
Governments spy on our Internet, look at us from the skies, from space, and can detain people indefinitely. Wars are started for no good reasons.
Perfect timing.
Yeah, based on the book .. right. Sadly, I am skeptical that would really happen. AT the moment, Hollywood studios engaged in remakes as well as those film's apologist fans, have constructed this myth of "re-adaptation not remaking", yet in every single case of supposed re-adaptation, the resulting film has proven instead to be a simple remake, in that is shot for shot similar, contains the same merged characters and modified plot points, retains plot beats found in the prior film adaptation, etc.
shareI think you're right. When they do shot to shot "remakes" it is extremely annoying. It is like a wasted opportunity. I also reread my post and found mistakes. Sorry about those. It is from my phone's autocorrect and my not proof reading it.
sharePerfect timing, but not for the reasons you mention. The UK is the closest?
I'd like to tell you about a little country known as North Korea, where people live in fear and love of their great leader, Kim Jong Un. To speak badly of their leader or the party means death, torture or concentration camps. The news are overflowing with fantastic news about the country and the evils of foreign countries, impressive feats like how North Korea has recently become the first nation to land on the sun (a feat that took 4 hours by rocket). There are speakers shouting propaganda and kids giving up their parents to the NK police for talking ill of their nation. Very few people are allowed to leave, get access to info, the internet or the outside world in general.
The whole country is basically 1984 right now. So yes, very timely.