I wish Hollywood stop it with all the remakes already.
I think part of the reason for so many remakes is because many of them are rather pure and innocent. Hollywood can't stand that. So they have to remake them into "modern" remakes where some of the characters are gay, f-bombs are hurled frequently and any portrayals of the nuclear family are shown with subtle ridicule.
Hollywood seeks to sully these classics for future generations so as to further their aims at social deterioration.
There are more in the pipeline, I'm sorry to tell you. It's such a void of creativity and that they think changing the skin tone of the cast makes a remake edgy demonstrates how devoid of fresh ideas they are in Hollywood.
I wondered today, before seeing this article, how the Dukes of Hazzard remake avoided the ethnic recasting. Must be that Confederate Battleflag on the General Lee.
I object to some of this ethnic cross-casting. They'll cast a black actor as Kingpin of Crime (character was always white) in DareDevil but heaven help you if you cast a white woman as Storm in X-Men (character is a black African). The new Kojack is a bit of an egregous example since the classic involved a lot of his Greek ethnicity and, in effect, robs one ethnic group of its TV icon. How is this so much better than using blackface makeup?
Why is it you seemingly can't do mixed casts these days? The Honeymooners could've been different ethnicities in this remake. They didn't do it. How often do you see tokenization in black sitcoms or films? Why not a cross-section?
Notice the exception to this supposed "colorblind" recasting: you can't have a white Jim and black Huck.
Interestingly, you can have hetero/homosexual cross-casting. No one (except religious conservatives) cares.
Racial division continues to line the pockets of Jesse Jackson, Sharpton, Jackson-Lee, Conyers, Simmons, Dre, BET, et al. With La Raza, Univision, Telemundo, Azlan and others learning that game too.
Self-segregation, refusal to assimilate and share a common language, fracturing of media... America's in trouble deep.
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.
Could it be they are out of ideas???
"...stop it with all the remakes"
They can't help it. Very few original thoughts are among the hollywood "me" crowd.
Pepperhead! Remade movies are better when we add plenty of sex (hetero, homo, and metro). /s off