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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:38:15 CST
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- From: Rick Francis <C47805NF@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
- Subject: Remake better than original(s)...
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- How about the John Huston & Humphrey Bogart remake (3rd version,
- second remake) of The Maltese Falcon? I think everyone agrees it
- was better than the first two versions.
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- Another example is The Postman Always Rings Twice. I don't mean the
- Nicholson-Lange one, I mean the Lana Turner one from the forties.
- Is it better or worse than Ossessione, the Visconti version? There
- you have the interesting example of an Italian version of an
- American novel, which was made after a French version (Le Dernier
- Tournant) came out. So then an American remake is made of a foreign
- film, though arguably a "re-appropriation" of a US source...
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- oop, gotta eat dinner. Cornish hens! NOT better as a remake!
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- Rick
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