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Remakes, remakes, remakes

posted 5 years ago by PlatinumScreen (221)
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I'm fed up to the back teeth with this! Instead of remaking Little Women for the SIXTH time in a release due this December, and might I add hot on the heels of the FIFTH adaptation just released in late 2017, let's make the first adaptation of a book overdue for the screen, The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery.

Written in 1926, it was one of two Montgomery novels intended for an adult readership. I've never read a book more ripe for the screen's picking. It has everything a good story needs, and it's shameful it never has been adapted.

About the over-reliance on remakes in recent years. I don't believe these remakes are about the stories at all. I believe it's more about taking the currently trendy actors and actresses who are creating buzz and plopping them down in an established and comfortable for the viewer role. Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan, and Meryl Streep are listed for the newest Little Women adaptation. Why not put one of the youngsters in the role of Valancy in The Blue Castle with Ms. Streep playing her mother? I vote for Aidan Turner as Barney Snaith (by the way who is one of the most endearing literary men ever put on a page).

These period dramas are getting into a seriously stale rut with remake after remake after remake. I'm sure someone somewhere is already planning the SEVENTH adaptation of Little Women with glee and telling everyone around how it's going to be groundbreaking and oh so different from the others with fine performances from (insert the next big bankable stars' names here).

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8319) 5 years ago

As you seem to note yourself, it's not really a remake of a previous film but rather a re-adaptation of a classic story. Perhaps I'm being nitpicky, but that's a pet peeve of mine. It is not a "remake."

As long as the story is indeed a great, classic story, I don't mind much that new writers, directors and performers take a crack at them. I love A Christmas Carol and I'm happy that it has gotten several major adaptations. I watch about four of them each Christmas and each one has something that the others do not.

In my view, when it comes to stories like Little Women or A Christmas Carol or, say, The Count of Monte Cristo (to name another classic book I love), I think that each generation deserves a GOOD adaptation of its own. So about every 20 years or so these stories should be re-adapted for the next generation of moviegoers.

[–] liscarkat (16625) 5 years ago

The trailer makes it look like "Little Woke Women". It will appeal to the aggrieved.

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8319) 5 years ago

I am certainly not qualified to know if the film appears to be true to the source material or not. If it is though, I guess you guess blame it on the spirit of modern times.

[–] Kowalski (59486) 4 years ago

THATS IT..JUST THROW THE WORD WOKE ON ANYTHING WITH WOMEN IN IT AND YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY.GARBAGE COMMENT.

[–] gcarras (2728) 4 years ago

LOL! What about last year's (that I write of in my last reply here) version, SET in modern times..

[–] Jes' Sayin' (5990) 4 years ago

The last one was in 2017 -- not much of a generational gap.
Before that there was one in the 90s.

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8319) 4 years ago

If you're talking about the BBC mini-series, I am familiar with that one, but it was made-for-TV and I doubt many Americans even know it exists.

I am talking about a theatrical production that young American girls have easy access to, the release of which they can treat like an event and go to the theater with their friends and see.

The last one that fits that description was the 1994 film, which came out when I was a kid. I'm almost 40 now.

[–] Jes' Sayin' (5990) 4 years ago

People stream all kinds of stuff now. Movies are increasingly only for teenaged boys.

[–] gcarras (2728) 4 years ago

No, there was one set in modern times with 8s-90s star Lea Thompson (her lesser roles were i n the 80s bomb Howard the duck and 90s hit Dennis the Menace..perfe3ct as DTM's mom).

[–] Jes' Sayin' (5990) 4 years ago

Thanks for the contribution to the conversation, but a little unclear exactly what you're saying "no" to?

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Remakes, Marvel, remakes, Marvel 😴 💤

[–] Otter (24464) 4 years ago

The word is "pre-sold".