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Old 12-30-2017, 06:21 PM   #117
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Originally Posted by Inziladun View Post
Sadly, you're right.

Tolkien himself said way back in 1955 that he thought LOTR was "unsuitable for 'dramatisation'". He was quite correct. The language, story, and characterizations are sublime and distinctive enough to make an accurate adaptation, as least as far as the ephemeral qualities, impossible. Another GoT clone with swords, sorcery, violence, and maybe as much skin as they can get away with. Why do an adaptation of someone else's work if you're just going to undo it?
Why remake classic films or TV shows at all? Why disembogue ubiquitous sequels ad nauseam (Rocky, Die Hard, Halloween, Fast and Furious, Star Wars, Godzillas, King Kongs, et al)? Did we need two Hulk remakes within a five year period? Which number re-adaptation of Superman, Batman and Spiderman are we on? I've lost count.

There was a period when remakes were more sporadic but better done, usually replacing a silent film that movie viewers would no longer watch (Robin Hood, Ben Hur and The Hunchback of Notre Dame come to mind), but now there seems to be a decided dearth of original ideas reaching the screen, or at least the proliferation of remakes and sequels seems to have saturated the market. Often, it seems genuinely surprising when someone offers a film of genuine depth and originality, and not just a reiteration of a well-worn theme.

Hell, they continue to reuse the "Wilhelm scream" (372 movies and counting). What, you can't come up with one on your own?
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