Plus I wanted to continue about "Låt Den Rätte Komma In", (Let The Right One In), and I couldn't find the old topic anywhere.
I'll start this where Snaps left off in "What Are You Currently Watching (on tv/dvd)?"
snaps wrote:
Thye've cast Chloe Moretz to play the part of Eli in the USA remake of LTROI. I'm not saying she isn't a pretty little thing, but she looks about as mysterious and threatening as a girl scout cookie.
First let me repeat something I wrote many, many moons ago. "The Magnificent Seven" good though it was, is not and will never be as good as the Japanese original "The Seven Samurai".
The quote below is from 411mania.com http://www.411mania.com/movies/columns/127773/Around-the-World-in-24-Frames-01.29.10:-Let-The-Right-One-In.htm and I think very nicely expresses my views on "remakes" in general and in particular the remakes of "Låt Den Rätte Komma In" and "Män som hatar kvinnor".
"I will come right out and say it now so there is no debate on how I feel: Sweden's Let the Right One In, directed by Tomas Alfredson is point #1 as to why I can't stand mainstream American film studios and a good chunk of mainstream American film audiences. This is a film that is practically perfect the way it is, and is told best because of where and when it takes place, that any spin that defends the "Contemporary" and "Americanized" version is full of shit. Drizzling, nasty shit. It wouldn't be this way if 1) the U.S. based studios pushed harder when it came to the distribution of foreign-films and 2) if the majority of the U.S. based audience could get past their pathetic quasi-jingoism and actually consider that – yes – there are mainstream stories that DO exist and CAN be told from outside of the United States with non-English-speaking characters."
If you've a like mind I recommend the link to the rest of the review. If you're not of a like mind then just don't go there.
Lina Leandersson and Kåre Hedebrant at the 2009 Guldbagges.
There have to be other remakes which reflect this view as well as some remakes which no doubt are far better than the original, it's just that I find the assumption by the US film industry that it is the only one of consequence, to be insulting to the other 95% of the earth's population.
Takes another tablet.
Rant subsides.