Publicists always say the new version is “closer to the book” and better than the original. But as a major fan of the book and the film, I can assure you that the original film is very close to the book. Will Rooster still have his Chinese cook or is that too politically incorrect, lol!?
It was actually the Coens themselves who said it.
Well, of course, the Coens are publicists for their own films. I’ve seen this game many, many times with remakes. This “Of Mice and Men” will make the old one with Burgess Meredith sick! This “Death of a Salesman with Dustin Hoffman” will put away once and for all the myth of Lee J. Cobb!” “This version of Ann-Margret in “Streetcar Named Desire” will make you forget all about Elia Kazan and Vivien Leigh. And yet...after a few years...we all travel back to the originals, lol.