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I hadn't sen tis for a while and although I remembered the use of the original Bernard Herrman score I had completely forgotten Scorcese's use of both Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck (stars of the original)in cameo roles. Further, Mitchum plays a good guy and Peck a bad guy, just the opposite from the origianl.There are many stars in this one: Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Illeana Douglas, Joe Don Baker, and of course Robert Dinero as revengeful villian Max Cady. The rewrite is much more violent and the motivation for revenge deeper.
Great DTS sound on the DVD.
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Because of comments by posters here I watched the original last evening. I would have to say that each has its charms but the original is the better film, better in the sense that Mitchum is more terrifying, Peck is his usual self, giving a terrific perfomance as the common man gradually becoming unhinged as Mitchum continues to taunt him and his family. And the Herrman score is just perfect here. It's astonishing to realize how many great film scores he penned.
your conclusions are (of course) your own. That they agree in some fashion with my own is not material. But I am happy you agree about Mitchum. He was Hollywood's most natural actor of the time, beloved of directors and underrated by the public.Many an actor and actress has voiced the tale that (when engaged in conversation with Mitchum's character) they would simply forget where they were and begin to converse. Fortunately, most directors considered such moments as a gift from the Gods and kept them.
Sorely, very sorely missed. As are Peck, Hermann, et al.
In the original, the girl is innocent in a 1950s kinda way. In the remake, she is a self-centered wannabe trollop. In the original, I cared what happened to her and wanted her saved. In the remake, I cared what happened to her but did not want her saved. Tortured and burned at the stake come to mind.Finally, as others have pointed out, there was a quiet menace to Mitchum's bad guys that no one else seems to have, then or now.
IMO, Mitchum has a more natural, stealthy menace in his portrayal of
Cady than DeNiro, whose role is more contrived.
As for Lori Martin, who is 50ish innocent as you say, and seems to
be younger than Lewis' character in the remake. Dramatic contrast
tween Martin and Mitchum seems greater than twixt Lewis and DeNiro.
Look at the chilling suspenseful scene in the original where the
young girl sits alone in car waiting for mom, Cady approaches, she
panics and flees into bldg....
To me, the original is more suspenseful, while the remake is more
shocking. As I said, I like both,but prefer the original, much as
I prefer The Thing From Another World's suspense over The Thing
remake's greater shock effects. Just my preferences. ~ AH
My sentiments exactly. I thinki I'll give the original a look see.
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Huh?More like a real naive teenager wrestling with and being exploited through her burgeoning sexuality and independence. How anyone can care for 50s manikin screen-child over Lewis' more authentic and realistically fallible portrayal is beyond me. "Tortured and burned at the stake"? What the hell?
but as Mitchum says (in the laziest and most unnerving way possible):
"Mmmmmm...gettin' juicy!"The original doesn't have to be as overworked and overheated as the Scorcese version...it has Mitchum, and that's more than enough!
because Mitchum's character is not over the top until the very end. He is single-minded and more clever than Peck's character. He's out for justice", not revenge. He may be deranged but he's not stupid. The De Niro version is less subtle. It's more blatantly violent and certainly creepy but less emotionally involving.
...was excellent/disturbing in the remake. If it wasn't her first big movie, it was the first I noticed her acting talent in and probably her best part.
Regards,
Mike
She caught perfectly a 15 year old's combination of childishness and awakening sexuality, as well as the ambivalence towrd her parents.
I prefer original, but like the remake too. DeNiro a little over the
top as Cady IMO. Remake much more graphic as you say. Martin Balsam
in original as police chief, reappears as judge which was formerly
played by Edward Platt. ~ AH
I thought he added much low life, creepy, sleaziness to the role. Sombody to truly be fearful of.
DeNiro purportedly spent a year prior filming getting Cady dialect
down pat. ~AH
Thanks. I knew there was someone I missed but couldn't recall who.
Only a little? I only can only with the original, the second is brutal for the sake of being. I saw it only once, and do not intend to have a second look at. But I am biased, I do not like de Niro....Cheers,
Patrick
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