Comments on: When Should Movies Be Re-made? https://daredreamer.com/when-should-movies-be-re-made/ The Sites & Sounds of Creative Expression Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:05:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: Ron Dawson https://daredreamer.com/when-should-movies-be-re-made/#comment-1994 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:05:34 +0000 http://daredreamermag.com/?p=6841#comment-1994 In reply to Gavin.

Well said Gavin.

]]> By: Gavin https://daredreamer.com/when-should-movies-be-re-made/#comment-1993 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:51:45 +0000 http://daredreamermag.com/?p=6841#comment-1993 A film should also be due for a remake when it was a great premise that was executed poorly. This year one of those films was In Time. Neat sci-fi premise but got clunky really fast. Me personally, I don’t believe there are any sacred cows in cinema. Should Citizen Kane get remade? In the hands of 99.9% of directors I say no but in the hands of some one that really has a vision for it, go ahead. The stories of Sherlock Holmes keep getting remade over and over again (see the recent BBC series, the Guy Ritchie films are ok) but they can be great. Even the TV series House is a take on Holmes.

Saying when you should make remakes is like saying when you should make action movies. Movies should be made when you have a good script, great actors, and the vision to pull it all together.

]]> By: Ron Dawson https://daredreamer.com/when-should-movies-be-re-made/#comment-1992 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:24:10 +0000 http://daredreamermag.com/?p=6841#comment-1992 In reply to Spencer Morris.

Thanks for the comment Spencer. You’re right about an artist taking a black and white photo for artistic reasons. The colorization I was referring to originally was of iconic images of photos taken before there was color. Read my blog post from yesterday. If you have a famous historical b&w photo, should it be colorized?

]]> By: Spencer Morris https://daredreamer.com/when-should-movies-be-re-made/#comment-1991 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:54:17 +0000 http://daredreamermag.com/?p=6841#comment-1991 Well done! This has been one of my biggest beefs with Hollywood. With so many talented screen writers out there with so many different takes on stories or with new stories to tell we should not have the number of remakes that we do now. I’m okay with remakes, I really like the reasons you brought out for remaking films, but it does seem out of hand sometimes. As far as coloring photos, it doesn’t bother me so much, but if the artist wanted it to be in color then they would have shot it in color. The artist takes a photo a certain way for a reason. To get a feeling across. or maybe to hide distractions. It would be like me going into and adding something to an old famous painting to make it either more modern or to make it mean more to me. The meaning of art is in the eyes of those who view it, but you can’t change it.

P.S. This sounds much better in my head.

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