Why Will They Never Learn ?

IMO, it's just like Broadway doing revivals of famous musicals.

THEY HAVE A PRE-SOLD NAME.


Then they take that pre-sold name, twist the original story into a pretzel, move songs all around and assign them to different characters, alter the story-line so much you're not even sure it's a REMAKE any more, [Both Broadway Revivals and Hollywood Movies both do this to make their product more "palatable" to today's audiences] and then sell it to the public based on that pre-sold NAME.

I'm thinking of the 1994 Revival of DAMN YANKEES--the second act was rewritten so heavily I thought I wandered into the wrong theater by mistake after intermission.

Whenever a film is remade (I remember this was the case with BEDAZZLED), the Blockbuster near me triples the price of the original version and gets away with it because the market is curious about the original source of the remake.

Why does Broadway and Hollywood do it? Because they can--and make money doing it.

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some remakes are necessary.

What is your problem with remakes? If they suck it doesn't take anything away from the originals. Some of those are great stories that are being retold to a new audience. How is that a bad thing?

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Matt,

That is my point. They are not "great stories being re-told."

They are great stories being changed so much to fit today's sensibilities that the original story gets lost in the shuffle.

BEDAZZLED (2000) didn't "re-tell" the story of BEDAZZLED (1967)--it took the very bare-bones premise of the original--man sells his soul for seven wishes--and took that premise in an ENTIRELY different direction.

IMO, it wasn't a remake--it was a movie with the same pre-sold title that told an entirely different story (and in a far less wittier manner, I might add.)

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