It's happening a lot more with foreign films than before nowadays. It doesn't really sit as well with me. I mean if I made a foreign film, then it got to the US, and they wanted to remake it, I would be honored. But I will also feel that it would take away from the original with a lot of western audiences. Kinda feels like you are taking away the specialness of the original by remaking it into something else.
One remake I liked a lot better was The Departed. More subplots and character development than the original, and more serious villains and other characters. But that too is also kind of bad, because what that does it make the original more inferior and less noticed, cause the remake did a better job. It means big bucks for the filmmakers to sell the rights for an American remake, but it also feels like selling out too. Thoughts?
One remake I liked a lot better was The Departed. More subplots and character development than the original, and more serious villains and other characters. But that too is also kind of bad, because what that does it make the original more inferior and less noticed, cause the remake did a better job. It means big bucks for the filmmakers to sell the rights for an American remake, but it also feels like selling out too. Thoughts?
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