February 24, 2008
How we'd fuck up Casablanca - A fun exercise: "take a classic flick that pretty much reaches the heights of iconic perfection and decide what we'd do for the remake if it were today".
I'd put Cee-Lo Green in for the pianist, Kate Winslet for Ilsa, but otherwise solid choices.
"We'll always have Duluth"
When I read the post title I was thinking as valatan was which was "how could Hollywood remake and therefore ruin a perfectly classic movie?" I feel like the duo behind the link aren't using "fuck up" to mean ruin necessarily. I was expecting more "Well you have to get a comedic genius to play Claude Rains' role, so a good choice would be Ricky Gervais. This of course means modern Hollywood would cast Nick Cannon or Dane Cook because they're 'hot' right now."
Then again, I think re-making a movie that was perfectly good the first time is wrongheaded and idiotic 99 times out of 100. Are there not enough writers in the world that we have to blow millions of dollars to see something made again? Lazy sequels are one thing but re-doing a script wholesale is just stupid.
(In case you were wondering, the 100th case is something like Evil Dead 2 where having a non-zero budget makes a difference and nobody saw the first one because it had such low distribution. Even then I'm sure plenty of people would argue that 2 even lost some of the immediacy and passion that 1 had because it was a slicker production)
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I think the fucking-up would come with them doing some stupid setting change. Like setting the movie in Kandahar or something idiotic like that.
posted by Valatan at 02:01PM CST on February 24