Top 5 Remakes of All Time

We know it's practically human nature to complain about remixes, especially those clumsy profit grabs that feel like they'll forever tarnish the original brilliance, but some

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s filmmakers get the second film right. These are our picks for the five best

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of We've always thought that the best way to organize a tour of the best

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is to start at the top of similarity and fidelity and then descend to the unfaithful masses, so first we want to take a look at a look at one of the rarest and most exotic. species as faithful as they are, the scripted shot-for-shot remake is exactly the same and so is pretty much everything else, down to every individual angle and movement, shot, cut and fade, and here we don't have that many to choose from out of 19: 52 is a prisoner of Zenda is a color update that is almost identical but worse. 1931's Dracula features an identical Spanish-language version filmed on the exact same sets at night, while the English-language version filmed during the day and Raiders of Lost Ark, the score is a seven-year labor of love by a group of Mississippi teens that's really funny and we're not kidding;

However, when it comes to serious shot-for-shot contenders, there are really only two movies we can choose from, one being Gus. Van Sant's Psycho, which is updated with color deviations, only slightly adds some questionable sound effects, but largely recreates the 1960 original and the other, and our first pick is fun games that were completely remade by Michael Hanneke your Austrian thriller in the most identical way possible in English ten years later, okay? I bet you three will go see Marvin and not even come. We bet you'll be dead. What's wrong with Z? You think they have a chance.

So sure that they remake a masterpiece to try to understand what makes sense. Gus Van Sant has a studio to pay for the best film school possible and so is wanting to step into his idol's shoes by playing Indiana Jones and changing a language for a foreign market is a good decision from a profit perspective, but Michael Hanneke is not a commercial crook, he is an auteur who makes films meant to make people think, so the question is why and the truth is that he doesn't seem to give a damn about money when he made the original film in German, apparently so It was his intention. to reach the English-speaking public, where he said his message was really necessary, but then it languished in the Austrian art house and then disappeared, so when he had the opportunity to remake it in English with Naomi Watts, he accepted and set out to Un one more challenge: making the exact same movie in completely different circumstances without changing anything, even if he wanted to, which makes this very interesting film a very interesting remake, but one that could achieve its goal once you move away from the limitations of the plane. -per shot, there are tons of filmmakers who remake a movie with practically the same script almost the same way all the

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and it's not just nowadays people like to say that no one makes original content anymore and that nowadays everything It's a remake, but since movies have been movies, this has always been the case.

Did you know that The Wizard of Oz is actually a remake and The Maltese Falcon and Ben Hur and others are quite faithful? Hollywood has always milked the cash cow, but don't worry. Smart filmmakers aren't going to stop sneaking good originals through the gatekeepers this year either, and it's also not that uncommon for filmmakers to remake their own films, and not always with Hanneke's restrictions, sometimes they just want to give a second try. a story they care about because they want to get it right, this is Hitchcock with the man who knew too much and the sessile B DeMille with the Ten Commandments and O's uu with his floating weeds and it's our next choice, the heat of Michael Mann, who probably won't even I didn't even know. it was a new version of him the takedown you see me doing the thrill seeker Lucas told us with a tattoo born to lose on my chest no, I don't take scores correctly that's my job I do what I do best I take scores you do what it's better than try to stop guys like me.

Le Takedown was cut from the original unproduced script and turned into a 90-minute NBC TV pilot that wasn't even picked up, but instead was released as an unremarkable TV movie and yes, it lost several turns. and subplots, but the resemblance is very clear and six years later, Michael Mann returned to his original script, remembered why he loved it and decided to give it a proper chance and the result is an intense battle test and a rapid prototype into a well-rounded crime thriller. greased machine, it's actually fascinating to see what amounts to a public draft; We're often blind to everything but the final product and some carefully curated behind-the-scenes reporting, but elimination shows us the work in progress of the man we get. to see the difference a few years makes in $75 million, and you can follow some of his ideas as a director as they emerge, develop, and refine themselves, not only as he reacts to flaws and fixes them, but also as he takes his successes and drives them. one step further, moving on to number three, we reach our remake midpoint, a movie that takes the same story but just interprets it differently, covers the same plot points but with a totally new flavor, these are movies like Soda Berg's Ocean's eleven, the brat's update. original package in Beverly Hills, takes Renoir's classic, The Rings, big-budget Americanization of Ringu Scorsese's versions of Cape Fear and Infernal Affairs, De Palma's version of Scarface and Birdcage, True Grit, True Lies in the Jungle Book, however, when it comes to balancing a familiar story with a new shine nothing is like Nosferatu the vampire please let me do it it's the oldest medicine in the world oh forget it it's not worth mentioning just a small cup of having declared Nosferatu Murnau's 1922 film as the most important film in German history Hertzog set out to pay homage to the masterpiece with a new version, and while the content is almost identical on paper, the effect is wildly different.

Hertzog's sound in color, dialogue, filming, and casting transmute the source material from high-contrast impressionism to a language of gruesome gothic realism. it delivers a difference where it's meaningful and stays true where it matters and God, could there be a better actor to give Max Shanks Vampire a second voice take than Klaus Kinski? It's not just one of those rare types of remakes that stand side by side with its Original, but even rarer, that it leaves room for both to be masterpieces, both interdependently and independently, moving even further away from fun games and the accuracy of the shots.

Our next remakes dispense with the story and keep only the premise. The changes are bold and overwhelming. imagining z' of tired tales, the girl from him Friday takes the crazy comedy of the covers and transforms it into a romance by changing the genre. The Little Shop of Horrors musically presents a B-movie from the 60s, Dawn of the Dead, dispenses with almost everything except the zombies in the mall and Romeo + Juliet updates Shakespeare in a visionary way, but it is not the first time nor the last. We've often talked about A Fistful of Dollars in the Magnificent Seven and how wonderful the Westernization of samurai cinema is, and while The Fly is a fantastically radical take on the concept of a 1950s horror film, there's nothing like the way in which he did it.

Both John Carpenter's new version and Howard Hawks' original production, something otherworldly, taken from the same science fiction novel by John Campbell, both follow a team of all. -male researchers in a remote Arctic laboratory and both begin with an alien encounter in a crash landing, but that's where the similarities end: the original is a plant life form that can regrow from any individual part of itself same only to die in the fire while the remakes are a cellular shapeshifter that can take the form of one or several crew members or almost indistinguishable animals and from this small change arises a source of difference, a monolithic enemy is changed for a month indistinguishable where the original is a monument. to American cooperation and putting together the remake is a fever dream of paranoia and mistrust, a simple change in the mechanics of the thing triggers a butterfly effect of changes that add up to this hurricane of a remake and finally the last stop of our tour.

We get to those movies that can be considered remakes and only the loosest of senses, so I'm sure they used an existing movie as a starting point, but whatever happened between there and the finish line, it involved something of a completely different universe, this is the good thing. the bad and the strange instead of the ugly or The Last House on the Left, an exploitative remake of Bergman's witty Virgin Spring, is The Lion King as a loose remake of the Hamlet story, or another remake of Hertzog, the bad lieutenant's port of call, New Orleans, his ally fear eats the soul and sukiyaki western django but for our final photo we think there is a clear winner here and it has to be Terry Gilliam's incredible remake of the short french logit a like 1995 12 monkeys a Percival I supported the first movies with the guitar the girls of usako, she is amazing, it is about a circus that does not show, this you hate the way the multi-layer capacity mesh machine a pseudo heavier note, a public combs you to make things more automated, what are we for then we are consumers?

Yes, okay, buy a lot of things, you are a good citizen, but if you don't buy a lot of things, if not, what are you? So I ask you what else will impact if you don't buy things, toilet paper. new computerized cards under electrically operated sex devices stereo systems your brain and your planet headphones screwdrivers miniature built-in radar devices voice computers take it easy Jeff logit a is a black and white French short film composed almost entirely of a slideshow of photographs projected over a simple voice-over narration and 12 monkeys is well terry gilliam and while the seed of the premise is preserved, a brilliant loop of time travel to revive an apocalyptic world that closes in on itself, takes forms so radically different than the shared lineage is almost imperceptible, but both are visionary, avant-garde and hypnotic in their own way, calm and tranquil or colorful and crazy, and there is something appropriate in the time travel remake about a film that returns to a celluloid print of yesteryear. as a memory and tries to reshape it into a new image that Reber is a cinematic moment from the past and this is something that makes Gilliam's wild remix a more than worthwhile journey, which is why we think it is one of the best remakes of all times.

Those are our picks, let us know what you think about them. Shall we leave out some of your favorite remakes? They are all bad remakes, no matter what that rule is that you have in your life. That's fine with me, let us know what you think about them. the comments section below and be sure to subscribe to Cinna Fix for more movie lists.