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In Reply to: This is the season to warm up your Hollywood heart... more remakes posted by Victor Khomenko on October 15, 2002 at 07:41:56:
I'm sure you will be even more heartened to know that Hollywood is also remaking the Stanley Donen classic Charade with Mark Wahlberg in the Cary Grant role (!!!) and Thadie Newton (correct spelling? She's the black girl from MI2) in the Hepburn part.
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Hollywood entropy.
Once a unique or vital creation has been made, there is a loss of creative energy that can never be recaptured--over time this loss adds up--until all that remains is the remnants of something great rehashed into something mediocre. Then the mediocre is rehashed into the substandard, and so on and so forth, until they won't even bother making real movies anymore (only porn--people are willing to dismiss pornographic entropy).mp
You wouldn't want to know what I call it.
Formulaic drivel sells, it's unfortunate, but true. The Moguls know they can secure the rights to some old story for pennies, and it will likely be a winner 2nd or 3rd time around. There's a lot to be said for the attraction of the name; SOLARIS sounds like it will be interesting from the name. Shakespeare pulled off the perfect coup with naming one of his plays "A Midsummer Night's Dream", it SOUNDS like it would be wonderful, whatever it is about, people would be drawn to any production with that as a name. A masterpiece in copywriting.
As it is, it's one of his lesser works; Shakespeare understood the entertainment industry 400 years ago, and nothing has really changed since
Eric
Tokyo
Sometimes I feel I should be desensitized by now, but every news like that still sends me into a short spin.I am sure they will make it more... lively?
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