Movie Remakes, Reboots and the Death of Original Thought
Dec 20th, 2009 by Peter D. Marshall
This article was written by C. Robert Cargill.
“Stop making remakes!” That’s the battle cry of every good blogger – or so it would seem, if you spend much time lingering around most film sites. But let me tell you, nothing says “Original thought” like typing the phrase “Hollywood has run out of ideas. Why can’t they come up with anything original?”
I can only imagine what would’ve happened had the Internet existed in the early ’80s, when a young director best known for making a slasher film dared to remake a Howard Hawks film. The absolute gall, right? Well, we might not have John Carpenter’s The Thing if not for that gall. Or what kind of tizzy would fire up in the blogosphere if we caught wind that someone had the balls to remake a brilliant Akira Kurosawa film – just a year after he had made it? As a western! We might not have had The Magnificent Seven.”
Read the rest of this article from Hollywood.com
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