Posted on 06/08/2005 11:10:24 PM PDT by El Conservador
I have no problem at all with remakes like the Honeymooners. Like 99% of the dreck Hollywood puts out I will not see it until it is on cable anyway.
I'll be anxiously waiting for the remake of an all white cast of "Amos & Andy."
No wait, can't do that. All White would be racist.
Maybe an All White version of "No Cabin In The Sky?" Nope, it was pro religious beliefs and again, All White would be racist.
Oh well, Hollyweird doesn't get money from me anyways, not even when their garbage comes out on cable.
Remakes suggest bankruptcy of original thought. You don't need new ideas. You need only modernizing of a script. Usually the copy isn't close to being as refined as the stolen one.
I approve to a degree of cultural blindness in casting as long as it doesn't mock some true event. Yet some artistic ventures are such that they defy any effort to remake them regardless of casting. I find it difficult to believe there are actors that can pull off this effort of Jackie Gleason and Art Carney...of any color. It's about as silly as a twenty first century sculptor taking a run at the Pieta.
No matter what the Hollywoods would have us try to believe.
Roald Dahl certainly had a "flair" for the unusual. Here is a quick biography and some info. Yeah, what a mind! "Vermicious Knids" and all that. I do kind of think that the johnny Depp will more adequately portray the character of Willa Wonka moreso than the talented Gene Wilder. Gene was excellent in his role but in today's times, Deppp will be able to provide further depth into some of the darkness that Dahl could subtly infuse into his characters and stories.
"His books are mostly fantasy, and full of imagination. They are always a little cruel, but never without humour - a thrilling mixture of the grotesque and comic. A frequent motif is, that people are not, what they appear to be. Mary Maloney in "Lamb to the Slaughter", for example, is not a friendly widow, but a clever murderess. In his stories, the background is perfectly worked out: details are very close to reality.
Roald Dahl didn't only write books for grown-ups, but also for children, such as "James and the Giant Peach", "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and "The Gremlins". About his children's stories he said once: "I make my points by exaggerating wildly. That's the only way to get through to children." Roald Dahl is perhaps the most popular and best-selling children's book author. However, these stories are so sarcastic and humorous, that also adults appreciate reading them. "
If they can get Edgar Winter to play Uncle Remus, maybe we'll finally be allowed to see the wonderful "Song of the South" again.
:::rolls eyes:::
SAG union policies encourage these practices. The lefties there strong arm some of the producers. They're all for diversity, except diversity of thought.
It's like the "black Kojak". If they are trying to make all these black remakes of great shows into movies, trying to appeal to one segment of our society, why don't they call all of TV "BET"? That is the way TV is going.
Could it be they are out of ideas???
I'll always give Cedric a bit of leeway for his performance in "Barbershop". When he went on his Jesse Jackson rant, everybody in the theater, black and white, started cheering.
"...stop it with all the remakes"
They can't help it. Very few original thoughts are among the hollywood "me" crowd.
The problem is that race is NOT an issue and that in most cases these are simply bad movies, black, white, or green. While I loved Star Wars, I thought Samuel L. Jackson's "Mace Windu" character was pretty weak. I kept waiting for him to say something like, "Jedi this, mofo!"
Yeah - with the entire cast in 'whiteface'. LOL. Or how about a lighthearted treatment of "Roots" with Bill Murray as Kunta Kinte.
I guess you didn't read the article.
Are you saying only blacks live in the ghetto? Did you see that in a movie? Or is that your definition of ghetto? "a place where only black people live".
Pepperhead! Remade movies are better when we add plenty of sex (hetero, homo, and metro). /s off
My brother showed me a Spiderman comic book made "with collaberation of" a group for the advancement of minorities in engineering. In the whole book 5 of about 100 people were white. And except for the obvious,Spiderman, they were all evil. And it spent half the book talking about how it's not impossible for minorities to get engineering.
nobody else could envision anybody but jackie gleason in this role of ralph kramden The movie version of honeymooners bombed and badly....
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