Like you all know Scarface (1983) starring Al Pacino is a remake of Scarface (1932) starring Paul Muni (which is an adaptation of a 1929 novel)
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SOME LIKE IT HOT wasn't even the first remake of its source material
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Until reading a Billy Wilder biography, I didn't realize how many of his films were based on plays or books. Very few were wholly original ideas.
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How many people knows-or remember-that Martin Scorsese won his first Oscar for directing a remake?
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Comparing a movie and a remake is apples to apples, at least. I don’t bother with “the book or the movie” scrums because it turns into “book medium vs movie medium”, but “this movie vs that movie” is a more interesting conversation.
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My hot take: the new Jumanji movies are better than the original one.
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His Girl Friday is my favorite example of this. A remake and an adaptation, and they had the “audacity” to gender flip one of the leads. And it is still the vastly superior execution of that material.
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See, and I find it kind of lackluster? It felt like they were trying hard at a no-homo thing, and a lot of the bits that were funny in “Front Page” are...less so when the target is a woman dealing with sexism of the time period.
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I think it's vastly more possible for a remake of a movie to be better than the original movie than it is for a movie adaptation of a book to be better than the book.
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Books are bad
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