Remake

Most frequently, the supporters of such acts view such remakes better than the original films, which inspired them. For example, in Snow White and the Huntsman, the gender stereotypes in reference to the classic fairy tales are defied similar to Snow Surname 4 White and the Seven Dwarfs, where women are portrayed as authoritative, masculine as well as independent. This implies that the remake is strong in advancing the ideas of the original film. While some film remakes are almost similar to the original films such that it is difficult to completely disrespect or disconnect the original ideas with the ideas in the film remakes, the version by Scorsese on Cape Fear is obviously a tribute fashion characterized by modern touches (McCall and Tankersley, 29). This is a good example of noir type, where both directors of the film embrace dramatic lighting, dark tones, carnal motivations as well as outright horrifying. In addition, there is significant smoking, a condition for every noir style. When Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is compare to Once Upon A Time, there are film alterations…

Looking at Connecting Lives and how a place can make and remake inequality for a person’s identity. One group of people that tend to have a negative identity would be the homeless, Jonathan Raban visited New York and noticed the negative comments homeless people would receive, they were called alcoholics, thieves and crack addicts, it is these comments that formed their overall identity known as the street people, Raban suggested the identity street people was seen as a national or tribal…

If we look back at How to Take an Exam and Remake the World we find that professor Ollman rejects the common belief that the problems of less developed countries are too difficult to resolve. Moreover he heats up the argument by asking why developed countries would not actually help the ones that are suffering. He states that "since 1947, the world has spent $15 trillion on arms" (p.100) and how "it has been estimated that 1/2 of it would be enough to industrialize the entire third world up to…

To remake “Keith” into a Shakespearean Tragedy I would first make more chance happenings occur between Keith and Barbara before they become lab partners. Adding more chance happenings to “Keith” would give the story more depth and history to help explain more of the ending and why she agreed to meet him at all these different places when he was, considered to her and her posse “an oddball”. The second area I will look at is the internal conflict Barbara, Keith and Brian will develop. I will, to…

Could Harvard become an easy college to get into? In the Article Profile of Perfect College Applicant Gets Remake the author, Kansas City Star, believes it, as well as many other colleges can. The author believes that colleges should start focusing on a student's attributes such as, passion and character. This is in contrast to looking at grades, test scores, and previous classes a student may have taken, which is many college’s primary way of selecting students. The purpose of the article is to…

Fear, cultural anxiety and transformation is an anthology that combines scholarly works on film remakes as a cultural phenomenon. The contributors to this collection focus on the multiple ways in which horror, science fiction, and fantasy films have been remade and analyze them through a range of perspectives from the philosophical to the technological elements that reside in them. The compilation of these essays all argue that the remakes of horror, science fiction, and fantasy films reveal our…

A remake is essentially the reproduction of an older film, but with newer technologies added to enhance graphic quality to compete with modern films. Yet, this isn’t the case between The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and its 2003 remake. Based on multiple critics, the remake did not at all match the level of horror of its predecessor; nonetheless, it did contain even more gore, bones, and severed limbs that many viewers found highly disturbing (Ebert). The film in its entirety became “the formula of…

especially with Hollywood, remakes have been made routinely. Remakes are not all unfavorable, some might argue, they mostly remind people of the great original films out there and enroll new audiences into classical creations. A well-recognized remake in the cinematography world is based on Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Psycho, 1960, by Gus Van Sant. Arguably, Van Sant’s Psycho, 1998, is a ‘shot-for-shot’ remake of Hitchcock’s original film. However, there are several formal differences between these…

rating of 7.3/10 on IMDb and a 84% on Rotten Tomatoes. The 1933 film was directed Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Shoedsack, 2005 film was directed by Peter Jackson. In the remake the story was based on the original by Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace but was re-written by Peter Jackson who also directed the film. Ann Darrow was played this time by Naomi Watts with Jack Black as Carl Denham and Adrian Brody as Jack Driscoll. There were new characters included like Andy Sirkis who played Lumpy…

In the article “Hollywood Warms to Asian Movies, American-Style,” by Renee Graham, she discusses Hollywood’s trend of remaking Asian movies into English. She informs readers that movies such as The Grudge and Shall We Dance? were both based on Japanese originals. Major studios are continuing to snap up the rights to films from South Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong with the intention of remaking them with American actors (Graham 229). Throughout the article, Graham outlines the pros and cons of…