Posted on 06/08/2005 11:10:24 PM PDT by El Conservador
I preferred "On Golden Blonde" myself.
The absolute worst is the remake of what was a classic children's movie, "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" with that creepy Johnny Depp in the Gene Wilder title role.
I wish Hollywood stop it with all the remakes already.
"he said actors of color need to be cast in more thoughtful films that tell culturally specific stories."
This guy doesn't get it. That, in itself, is racism. Why should a black actor restrict himself to "culturally specific stories"?
That said, I can't imagine anyone but Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden. Bang Zoom, to the moon, Alice...
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I don't think "The Honeymooners" is going to sell many tickets.
It's not a remake because both films are based off of a Roald Dahl book. The Depp/Burton version is much more closer to the original work, which like much of Roald Dahl's books, is pretty creepy.
But just you wait until there's a white version of "The Color Purple" and watch how tolerant some are of diversity.
The numbers cited actualy tell the real story. Whites don't frequent the movies as much because the scripts today are unimaginative and recycled. Minorities with less income have less entertainment options so more and more movies are skewed for that demographic.
Movies. Another "old media" that is slowly dying from a lack of an original thought.
i was always partial to romancing the bone or caddy shack up myself
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.
Reminds me of the Brady Bunch remake.
RACISTS! Look at where they're taking themselves: We don't want none of that Whitey product. We don't want none of that Whitey news. We don't want none of that Whitey educatin'!
I admit I've become hyper-sensitively suspicious to the severe drop in whites in ads. It's nice to see it isn't paranoia but a genuine phenomena done for the reason I suspected: whites are colorblind when it comes to product ads, minorities are not.
Huh? Where I live, most of the moviegoers are white. I guess you live in the ghetto.
What's next? A hip-hop version of Grease called "Greasy?"
No, a Gay version called "Lube."
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.
Case in point, the remake of "The Longest Yard".
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