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If it were remade in America


If this film were to be remade in America, who do you see directing and staring in it?

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Roman Polanski directing a film in america ? Only with a hand held camera from within a prison.
More likely to be Paul WS Anderson with added Werewolves

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i think you´re absolutely right,there are no great actors in america
anymore.the glorious times of hollywood are gone since a long time.let´s hope for a rebirth or something,and more chances for precious independent movies.
erm yeah.so long

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No great American actors? What? Well I guess that depends on your relative definition of what exactly "great" means, but there are some damned good ones out there.

Harvey Keitel is from a previous generation, but he continues to take on varying and risky roles; I've yet to see him hand down anything less than high quality acting. Don Cheadle has continued to deliver great perfomances. Johnny Depp - he's thrown-off America, but he's still American, and he's been consistently great.

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"There are no great actors in America". OK, well considering that this comes from someone who can't even be bothered to a) put together a proper paragraph and b) doesn't seem to understand how to make a coherent sentence "the glorious times of hollywood are gone since a long time" or even c) understand the most basic facets of grammar and/or punctuation ".let´s hope for a rebirth or something,and more chances for precious independent movies.", does isa's opinion even matter at all?
I would hazard a idea that isa-a55h0le is not even from America (what a broad statement fu*ktard "America" constitutes Canada, the U.S. and even Mexico, hell if you want to really get technical it includes all of central and south America too since you decided to just say "America" *beep* of course isa-tit feels this way, b/c he is just a little bitch who can't take that no other country will ever surpass Hollywood in terms of film, b/c w/o Hollywood, films wouldn't be where they are now. But that's OK, as isa's last words were "erm yeah.so long" it shows even he realized what a utter twatter his idiotic posting made him out to be


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It would be called "New Orleans" and be set at the SuperDome.


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horrible joke you *beep* loser

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"It would be called "New Orleans" and be set at the SuperDome."

That is no joke. Ordeal lets people do terrible things. I think this idea isn't that farfetched nor is it meant to be funny, I guess. Just when it comes to close to fact people dispise it. Come on, let's not be ignorant.

It is all,... an illusion

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The title of this movie reminds me of Ingmar Bergman's "Hour Of The Wolf." Isn't there a French saying for dusk where there there is a transformation from dogs to wolves. We go from domesticated friends to wild animals.

I didn't mean it as a joke. It's a horrible thing, what happened - is happening - in New Orleans, and also the way a few of those people behaved. I mean, there is one thing to loot a store for food, clothes, and water, and another to go out and shoot at rescue helicopters and rape girls.


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I just used a NOLA comparison in another post here. In fact I saw this movie for the first time a few nights ago on OnDemand and New Orleans crossed my mind many times. I think it is very accurate. People reduced to the basic instinct of survival. The scary thought is that despite NOLA having a high crime rate the same thing in any city and in any country. If anything seeing what happened down there in "real life" made me appreciate this film that much more.

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Hopefully it will never be remade in America.

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I would be called "The Postman, II" if it were re-made in America.

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"I would be called "The Postman, II" if it were re-made in America."

right, because the postman is the only type of movies coming out of america and all americans love the postman and that's why it did so well in the theatres. how witty of you.

anyway, i think if it were to be redone (although there is no need to), Jim Jarmusch would be a great director (just watch Dead Man) and Frances McDormand comes to mind as the lead female.

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You know what I'd like to see?

I'd like to see American companies putting a stop to remaking foreign films and instead, release the originals in the states. Have famous American actors do the voice work to draw some sort of crowd, if need be, but stop turning good foreign films into trite Hollywood *beep*

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I think George Lucas would direct it and there would be digitally added AT-ATs walking around in the background.

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I have a huge tolerance for slowly developing movies and drawn out scenes (so no cracks about American ADD please), but this film really tested my patience. When we see a field or a train moving is it really necessary to keep showing it for like 5 minutes? OK, it's a field... OK, the train is moving. We got the idea. Cut to the next scene already!

And don't give me that bullocks about me not understanding independent or foreign cinema and being used to flashy Hollywood crap. That's just pompous posturing by idiots who are full of themselves just like the statements a la "there are no good American actors anymore" (bunch of horses@it). I watch a lot of indy and foreign movies. I like many of them. But just because it's indy or foreign doesn't mean one can't call it tedious and boring.

This film, while in retrospect had a good idea behind it, was extremely tedious to watch. Perhaps, if an American remake were to be made (and I don't generally like the idea of remakes) it would not put viewers into deep coma.

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I guess though it is all a matter of what films you're used to. For example, I'm an Andrei Tarkovsky fan, what more needs to be said? :) There were a couple of scenes here which at the time seemed to be taking ages, but one of those two was the last shot... when I realised it WAS the last shot, it made a lot more sense, and I could see it was entirely appropriate and powerful.

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and you don't understand independent and foreign cinema, and you're used to flashy Hollywood crap. And there are no good American actors anymore.

Isn't film, at least one like this, meant to give you new experience? Life after an apocalypse isn't much like watching MTV. Probably being forced to sit and watch boring things and being stuck doing that is close to the frame of mind of the people in that world, they don't have a lot of choices or entertainment. Plus it might do that just to break you out of your customary frame of mind, to make you more pliable.

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I believe the long, still shots which convey stability and steadiness were used as a stark counterpoint to the chaotic and unstable world we were viewing. Plus the story and the performances were so rooted the cinematography was obligated to stay out of the way. But the boring day to day argument does have it's merits. However in a film like this bad things are possible at any moment so even in the long takes the anxiety should have staved off the boredom.

By the way American's are capable of making long boring movies too. And who exactly were the great American actors of yesteryear if there are none today?

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because I'm on the internet. I do think he was impatient, and demanding that the movie entertain him the way he expects instead of giving it the space it needs. However, the American actors bit was just extra meanness on my part, I didn't mean it.

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hopefully none.

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