Why I'm a remake apologist
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ย. 2024
- Today we talking (mostly horror) remakes, reboots, re-imaginings: why they're made and whether we should be a bit more open to them?
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I absolutely loved your chaotic theatre-kid coded energy - as you basically said: IT DEPENDS, duh
hahahahah am I the 2020 remake of the invisible man because you just saw right through me
@@rachellydiab you might as well be cuz you deserve an award 🏆
Yet another excellent, nuanced video with such great points regarding the different circumstances under which remakes are created.
In terms of Suspiria, I remember Tilda Swinton saying she views Guadagnino's version as a 'cover' and I thought it was such a apt way to refer to that film.
Thank you Dimitris! ps i replied on letterboxd (-:
Amazing video as always! I would argue that Scream 5 is a Requel, as it is a mix of Reboot and Sequel.
My wish for 2024 - more unique movies, no matter if there are good Remakes or not :D
Thank you!! And yes you’re right- i kind of ignored requels for the sake of ease but Scream 5 fits that perfectly. And agreed, just give us something fresh !
I always feel like a heretic when I say that I enjoyed the Suspiria remake over the original, so it is wonderful to see others singing its praises!
me too! I love the original as its beautiful and really creative, but the remake has so much to say and says it so gorgeously
I feel the same about The night of the living dead remake
I love both but to me, the remake is better
I don’t know anyone other than me that says frothing at the mouth for something! Incredible I love
My all time favourite film - Guadagnino's Suspiria - is a remake, and a plethora of other remakes populate my top twenty favourite flicks, so I can't realistically slate them as a concept.
Oddly, the idea of them does irk me (just a tad) when I hear of another one on the horizon, and I think you nailed the reason why: we resent cynical cash grabs, which so many remakes blatantly are. Nonetheless, long may they continue, for amongst the buckets of poo is to be found the occasional cup cake...or something.
One of my favourites too! Thank you for watching, here's holding out for the next best remake (-:
Your comparison of Theater revival vs Cinema Reboot/Remake is wonderful. Your videos are definitely better than a lot of actual film school classes, love it.
Questioning your own first impressions (preconceived notions) on anything is admirable(and something everyone should do regularly)...this is another amazing video with great content and an alluring presentation. I'm working my way through your backlog of videos. Cheers.
Loved this video! My favorite one of yours so far! Can't wait for the next one!
This is just random engagement, as I don't have the time to watch the video right now (you know, work), but in general I feel this is a good topic to discuss. Based on the thumbnail, Suspiria remake is just a great example of where someone had a vision of how to do something different with an idea and we should encourage that. Both of those movies have a place in the world. I get why someone would still like the original more, but the remake just does something wonderful with the same premise. One might argue that you could have just given it a new name, because the two movies are so different, but I also do think using the same name gives it some additional spice, because it gives you expectations, which it then subverts in some ways and embraces in others.
Sorry, if I'm just regurgitating things from the video...
I feel about remakes (reboots, reimaginings, adaptations...) the same way I feel about song covers. some I dislike with a passion, some I like as much as the original and see as a worthy homage and some I actually like better than the original (as if the song has tried different people to perform it before it found the right one... Johnny Cashe's cover of "hurt"). the series of different versions of one film I'm currently exited about is "nosferatu". there was the first (an obvious adaptation of "Dracula" with serious copyright issues) by Murnau, starring Max Schreck, then there was the remake by Herzog starring Klaus Kinski, wich has brilliant images that the Murnau version doesn't have. it is it's own new flavour of the film. and now we get Eggers' version with Bill Skarsgard wich I am exited about because... Eggers! even though, because it is the first time that the director is not german.. I weirdly feel like losing a baby... I hope I won't have to admit that his version is the best. I hope it'll be only as good as the other two versions.
the announcement of the new "nosferatu" has actually made me think of remakes more like covers. that's what I call them in my head now.
(I wrote this before arriving at the very end of the video...)
and there is a kind of remake that I think is actually pointless. and that is shooting a film/show again but this time in an american setting because? why? because people in america have a hard time understanding that the world is bigger than just america? really, why? what was the point of shooting "broadchurch" again and naming it "gracepoint"? granted, the plot was slightly different (it was nothing added though. it was only shortened)... and it was propably easy money for David Tennant with so many lines being the same... but.. why? do americans not watch stuff that is not set in america, with people speaking other forms of english than american english?
Hi again! I think covers are the perfect way to look at this, and there are always going to be greats and failures!
Totally agree with Broadchurch!! That was so bizarre bc it wasn’t even created in a different language… I truly can’t comprehend why they made it
@@rachellydiab I'm a continental european and tend to completely miss hypes.. so I actually found gracepoint before broadchurch. and I liked gracepoint but when I found broadchurch I really couldn't understand why they had bothered to make gracepoint. I also hadn't expected that anyone would read my ramblings.. 😄
@@karowolkenschaufler7659 oh wild! I saw Gracepoint 2nd so it definitely fell flat…
Didn’t mean to sneak up on u hahah, but thank u for watching\commenting 😇
Great remake was the Blob 80s version.
No mention of Herzog's remake of Nosferatu.
true. that is missing. and I think it is a good example of an homage. my first try watching the Murnau version was very exhausting to me. I didn't finish it. I wasn't used to the tempo and how silent films work. so I watched the Herzog version first, wich can easily stand on it's own feet with powerfull imagery. and then, through that I gave the Murnau version an other shot and have come to love it as well.
You're my fav movie essay channel rn :D (I think the evil dead remake deserves alot more praise, somehow no one I know has seen it) keep it going your videos are great!!! :3
Eeeee thank you!! 🧚♂
Suuuuch a good point about the plays continually being adapted but no one is ever mad about that while we get so heated about film remakes!
Right! It's definitely changed the way I think about it a bit 💭
I'm loving your videos! Good analysis!
Hey thank you so much!
I would actually LOVE to hear your thoughts on GDT's Pinnochio, as i felt very lukewarm on it myself and was surprised to find very little criticism of it 😅
Oooo the theatre revival comparison is so big brain, touche bestie! Also the Mystic Museum in LA did this exhibit recently called "Y2Kills" and it really cemented for me how important those 2000s remakes are in the horror cannon...they're so mean and gross and entirely their own corner and I'm forever glad they exist! (and I still have TONS of them left to see..)
Hiii 💖💖 Big juicy brains only. That sounds sick, i’m still also catching up on them tbh but every single one i’ve watched I have loved - they have such a specific icky but enticing quality that I can’t put my finger on!!
The 2013 Evil Dead is my all time favorite movie, truly a great revision of the story
Agreed! V excited for Alvarez's Alien film to see if he keeps up the good track record 🤞🏻
You are so smart, a great writer , your voice is great , you’re cool and appealing- great insight. You’re going to have a huge channel
What a lovely thing to say, thank you 🙏🏻
Great video with some brilliant points made. I have a difficult relationship with direct remakes as in remaking essentially the same film over again with little to no creative reason. And my main reason for most of these is the simple fact that they are fundamentally irrelevant in comparison to the great original versions and to be in any way enjoyed it requires you not to have seen the original. I was furious when I took my wife to see Joker, then we came home and watched the King of Comedy and she said to me; “Oh this is just like Joker.” 😤😤😤
With that being said, sometimes a reimagining can be very interesting and sometimes very enjoyable. DePalma’s Dressed to Kill springs to mind as a truly great film which reimagines a classic like Hitchcock’s Psycho. I personally regard The Thing (1982) to be a reimagining of The Thing From Another World (1951) rather than a remake. Another World is a really good film but obviously The Thing is a masterpiece and I will die a happy man never seeing the 2011… whatever the fuck that shit was.
I totally agree that the primary reason for these remakes is simply to make money with little creative imagining and the over saturation of them in the last fifteen years is clearly ridiculous. So my simple answer to this is not to complain or go all film bro nuts, but just simply ignore them. I saw the original and I loved it. The only time I’ll ever seek out a direct remake is when the original wasn’t that great in my opinion.
Great video looking forward to seeing more.
We like remakes as long as they're good :) Glad to find another person who didn't like GDT's Pinocchio!
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Hey a recommendation on a "reboot" (it's not a reboot but it is everything I would ever want from a reboot of Evil Dead) , It's called Deadstream, shoestring budget, sort of twitch streamer found footage, but the quality of writing, acting, and character work is far beyond that summary. If you haven't seen it, you should definately give it a watch.
I feel the remarkable absence of Scarface!
Are you talking about the potential upcoming remake? hard to discuss the merits of a movie that doesn’t exist yet!
@@rachellydiab nope, I am talking about Brian De Palma's 1983 Scarface, with Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer, that is a remake/re-imagining of Howard Hawks's 1932 Scarface. 🙂
@@vins1979 Oh wow, I wasn’t even aware that the 80s film was a remake itself! Definitely another example of a beloved remake that would be missed if we never made them at all
@@rachellydiab I KNOW! Not many people know that Brian De Palma's Scarface is actually a remake. This is a case in which the remake totally obscured the original. Same thing with Martin Scorsese's The Departed, which is a remake of the Chinese movie "Infernal Affair".
To be honest I didn't think I would enjoy your vid as much as I did. You got a sub!
@@johnrawten197 I’m so glad you did! Thank you for watching (-:
What's kinda funny, is I haven't watched a disney remake since like beauty and the beast, because I just expect them to suck. But I loved the live action Cinderella. I enjoy the Ocean's series which are reboots, same with the Italian Job, though I don't like the original Ocean's, and haven't watched the Italian Job. I think your conclusion is spot on. It's also a little upsetting, because we're not inherently opposed to formulas in storytelling. Like almost an entire shelf of my family's movie collection is rom coms, those follow a formula meet cute, develop feelings, misunderstanding, resolution. Making things in a specific genre because it's popular is a broader version of what we dislike about remakes.
highly anticipating the new Crow movie.
@@unknowntosociety01 Likewise! good or bad i’ll be in that cinema with wide eyes
YES! I struggle with some remakes but there are some that are really good in their own right. 2018 Suspiria & the US Ring adaptation really were well done to the point I like them as much as the originals. I thought the latter in particular did a great job of adapting the lead role of Reiko into Rachel in a way that made her more relatable to a western audience. I have a warm spot in my heart for the trashy remakes in the 00s or I would not have gotten my first tastes of horror films. I agree that House of Wax is a blast.
You're seemingly the only other person who has the same opinion on Paris Hilton's House of Wax performance as mine.
she’s so good right!!
Subscribed :) love the content
Thank you 💜
Those 2000s horror remakes are fine, because the originals are bad too. Halloween, Friday the 13th, House of Wax, etc…
this is a sizzling take and i have half a mimd to agree! I think there’s often a prestige awarded to older films that isn’t always deserved
@@rachellydiab p.s. speaking of remakes and what not, you should check out the first omen. I just saw it last night. The female director did a great job, her and the main actress are largely why it’s good.
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Let Me In is probably my pick for the worst... more Hollywood slop when compared to Let The Right One In, one of my favourite films ever. Haven't seen the American version of Martyrs, although it looks hilariously bad and toothless. On the plus side though, Evil Dead 2013 freakin' rocks. The point is ultimately what reason the remake has to exist. Is it because English speakers are too lazy to read subtitles? Or is it something with genuine artistic license and intent? An interesting case between the two would be Haneke's Funny Games.
That’s so interesting, i loved let me in- but i saw it quite young so maybe now I’d feel differently! Evil dead does indeed rock so I’m with you there hahah
And yes Funny Games is a bizarre one, i definitely plan on covering it in the future bc i absolutely adore both versions!
Okay, I’m sorry, but I need some context regarding Del Toro’s masterful ‘Pinocchio’.
I love your content, but that bit broke my heart
Hi!! Honestly i wanted to love it and was so excited for it, but i found it unnecessarily goofy, with very childish jabs at fascism - and i know that’s the point because he’a a little boy but it just stopped me from enjoying it as much. The character design also didn’t click with me!
But I’m a huge believer in there being no bad films, just films we like and films we don’t! and this for me was the latter sadly
ok the wicker man 2006 was hilarious 😂 like I laughed out loud so hard during that movie
but I agree I that remakes or reimagining can be an important aspect of storytelling