Remake
I heard a rumor today that the producer of many of the American remakes of Japanese and Korean films said that he is intending to remake Failan with Philip Seymour Hoffman. It's a sad, sad day in the world.
shareTrue, but atleast it's with PSH. That's a good start atleast. I just hope they try to do something different, not just copy it, you couldn't better this film really. There's little if any room for impreovement.
I see nothing wrong with a writer/ director taking ideas from a movie and working with it in a different manner, or adding their spin' to it. It's all the remakes that piss me off.
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Well, to add from what I said, it's supposedly going to follow Hoffman and then a Russian emigre to America. Just doesn't seem like it could really have the same impact here, since Failan is so ingrained with social criticism.
share"since Failan is so ingrained with social criticism."
And with the U.S. being the most critical country on the planet...
I wouldn't advice a Russian immigrant to opposite Philip S. Hoffmann in this remake. Like you said there wouldn't be any impact or sympathy from the audience. Americans always root for the underdog in movies. So who's the underdog in American society right now? Surely it's not the Caucasians. How about casting a Latin actress, because it's ingrained in the American mind (thru our media), that Hispanics are the ones who's always being deported. People could readily relate to this. You rarely see a Russian in the 6'o clock news being deported by the I.N.S.
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