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Remakes that aren't carbon copies

 
 
 
There's also Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks' almost-shot-for-shot remake. It's very weird to watch both of those movies in sequence.



And of course, Passion of the Christ. As Eric Idle put it, '[Gibson] went and did a remake of Life of Brian, but missed all the jokes.'
 
True Grit (1969) and True Grit (2010) complement each other. I don’t really see a good reason to prefer one over the other. They covered many of the same bases but differed enough, so that sometimes where one diverged from the novel, the other picked it up. So the differences, taken together, form something more completed… there’s no good reason to pick one movie as The Best One to see. Each have their good points so see both if you enjoy westerns. Also, the second of course had to redo the most pivotal and poignant scenes, and that’s part of the interest in comparing both: how to do the same scene again 40 years later, do it different-enough, but try to induce the same dramatic impact as before?
 
The True Grits are too close to be considered different in any sort of significant way.
 
I ponder if The Italian Job can count as a remake of sorts of Ocean's 11. Obviously I'm referring to the originals, Michael Caine in the Italian Job and Sinatra in Ocean's 11. In general, there are a number of similar themes that follow both films which are both based on the same principle. Even end in a similar manner.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
I ponder if The Italian Job can count as a remake of sorts of Ocean's 11. Obviously I'm referring to the originals, Michael Caine in the Italian Job and Sinatra in Ocean's 11. In general, there are a number of similar themes that follow both films which are both based on the same principle. Even end in a similar manner.
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I would see those two as being more a case of two films in the same genre, which were both made at a time when caper/heist films, at least mainstream ones, still refrained from depicting the criminals as actually getting away with their crimes and retaining their ill-gotten booty (hence the similar endings).
 
I think a major factor is whether it is a remake of an film that was a huge popular hit and/or has iconic status in the culture.

It is a whole lot easier to remake a film that lacks these qualities, because one more free to recreate the story without most viewers making critical comparisons to every detail of the original.

There is also a huge difference between a remake and a reboot that just exists in the same universe of the former, of which Ghostbusters is the latter.
 
MarkW said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
I ponder if The Italian Job can count as a remake of sorts of Ocean's 11. Obviously I'm referring to the originals, Michael Caine in the Italian Job and Sinatra in Ocean's 11. In general, there are a number of similar themes that follow both films which are both based on the same principle. Even end in a similar manner.
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I would see those two as being more a case of two films in the same genre, which were both made at a time when caper/heist films, at least mainstream ones, still refrained from depicting the criminals as actually getting away with their crimes and retaining their ill-gotten booty (hence the similar endings).
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I can see that. I haven't seen many heist films.
 
20 minutes into the original "The Italian Job". The remake is way different it seems.
 
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