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In Reply to: Elephant (Gus Van Sant) posted by ephemere on May 07, 2004 at 09:19:10:
I think I am the only person whoa actually LIKES Van Sant's color re-doing of this classic 1959 Hitchcock film. Except for one or two changes in dialog to bring it up to date, Van Sant's version is like looking at an identical twin or a clone and is to me most entertaining. He includes a long static shot after the credits that makes you watch for something to happen even though you KNOW nothing does. The director took a lot of flak for this one.
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what it would be like to watch the original and the remake simultaneously. They have the same running time, as far as I know. What do you think the effect would be? I've also wondered what motivated him to remake it so exactly. One usually remakes something to improve upon it, not just to "update" it, if that's what it is. Could the remake function as a strange sort of gloss on the original? Just some ideas. I haven't actually seen it. Been meaning to make a double feature of it.
I think one of the reasons is to test or demonstrate Hitch's total control over his films. His scripting and story boiarding were such that it has been said that even if he died while making a film and anaother film maker took over that the result would be almost exactly what the master wanted.
I watched thios the other night. Van Sant has the actors develop charaters, whereas Hitch was more interested in propelling the story. Here Marion Crane's sister is an angry lesbian, boyfriend Sam is a cowboyest westerner, etc.
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