Remakes
March 2, 2016 11:42 PM   Subscribe

 
I vastly prefer the original Hachiko. That slow 180 pan, that big hug, and the pink lighting! also nsfw, some of those scenes are really violent.
posted by yueliang at 11:49 PM on March 2, 2016


I'm not sure how fair it is to include Psycho in this list, seeing as how it was deliberately done as a shot-by-shot remake, like an artist in a museum recreating a master painting.
posted by hippybear at 12:39 AM on March 3, 2016 [1 favorite]


So, Van Sant's Psycho could be considered simply a fake ...
posted by sapagan at 12:48 AM on March 3, 2016 [1 favorite]


I don't think he ever tried to pass it off as the original to some unsuspecting buyer.... Fake is probably too harsh a word.
posted by hippybear at 12:53 AM on March 3, 2016 [1 favorite]


Yep, you're totally right there. Which makes the film even more unnecessary (than it would have been if it had any sort of ambitions towards reworking and not just representing the original).
posted by sapagan at 1:00 AM on March 3, 2016


I found the Cape Fear comparison interesting, however. While I find the new version more visceral because of how it is filmed, I find the original version more horrifying because the distance creates ambiguity and a voyeuristic sense to the scene.
posted by hippybear at 1:11 AM on March 3, 2016 [1 favorite]


Comparing remakes to originals a few decades older, it can often be seen that in the violence department, nothing is left for us to imagine. Well, not just remakes, movies in general. I'm not saying that movies today are too violent, but perhaps: there's no longer any space for us to imagine violence. Again, not saying this or that approach is good or bad per se, they're both uncomfortable. One, as you said, hippybear, creating a voyeuristic sense (wanting, desiring to see more), the other, the impulse to close your eyes and turn away from the brutality (but, once your eyes are closed, the voyeur returns: the desire to peek through the fingers...).
posted by sapagan at 1:40 AM on March 3, 2016 [1 favorite]


I’m wild about this modern edit of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
posted by D.C. at 2:31 AM on March 3, 2016 [9 favorites]


Crap. I had finally forgotten that they had remade Sleuth and then I watch this. Sonsabitches.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 4:49 AM on March 3, 2016 [1 favorite]


Missing Death at a Funeral (2007, 2010) which could have had on one side of the screen Peter Dinklage and on the other side of the screen ..Peter Dinklage.
posted by dannyboybell at 4:58 AM on March 3, 2016 [2 favorites]


Speaking of remakes, here's the trailer for the new Ghostbusters
posted by Roommate at 6:35 AM on March 3, 2016


So is the fidelity a good thing or a bad thing?
What's the point of remaking a movie to be the same as the original?
(oh, yeah...money)
posted by MtDewd at 6:36 AM on March 3, 2016 [1 favorite]


Peters Dinklage?
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:36 AM on March 3, 2016


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