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03-09-2006 12:09 PM |
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Originally Posted by StuartD
Another case of Hollywood not being able to come up with anything new I guess. Why would they even attempt this? How exactly do you remake something like this? It's not like they can just recreate the exact same situations and get laughs
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The beauty of a film like Revenge of the Nerds is that it was never thought to be a big hollywood movie. It was a small budget film from a first time production company. The investors, I'm sure, were expecting to lose their asses. So, it makes it possible to be politacally incorrect, take chances. A new version of this film with try. It will pretend to be politacally incorrect and pretend to take chances but it will do little to cross any boundry that has not already been crossed. Why? Because with bigger funding packages comes more fingers in the batter. The more corporate money in the mix, the more some jack-off will want to have input into the creative process. A film, whether comedy or action or drama, is a personal telling from a persons point of view...the director. The story from a writer. The images from a cinematographer and the "feel" from a production designer. These are the people that make a film what it is. Add in some fucking douche bag that owns a vaccum cleaner manufacturing company, but has $1,000,000 of his money tied up in a film and he's going to get some input into the process. Like, "hey, my nephew always wanted to be in a movie", or "you know, I think you should have the main character fight a polar bear" (ask Kevin Smith about this one!!).
Remakes are the result of conglomerate business, bean counters in a room looking over data and saying, "gee, Starship troopers is shooting and they have giant space bugs...maybe we should have giant space bugs in our movie" even when they are not making a fucking sci=fi movie!
Hollywood creativity is losing out to Japanese corporations. The only creativity left is in the independant film community...trouble is, they can't get financed.
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