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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:17:08 -0500
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- Subject: Re: Old movie recasting
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- Martin,
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- Your sentiment about *not* remaking old movies is a logical extension of
- mine about not remaking foreign films in at least some useful sense. So
- I'd agree. Especially since the impetus for remake fever is that the first
- version was successful, a classic. So why bother? Some may have ideas
- (or pretensions) for updating the original and making it more relevant to
- the present. Some may have nothing more than Ted Turner's colorize-it-for-
- today's-market sentiment in mind.
-
- On the other hand, I'm inclined to give more leeway to remaking older,
- more obscure films that had good potential but weren't well executed or even
- quirkily enough executed to gain a cult of some kind. (No, I don't think
- I can name one at the moment, though.) Jeff Clark
-