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#remakes

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AlsoPaisleyCat

@muiren

Good article.

I agree. What’s the justification for a remake of one of the most influential science fiction films ever?

The movie ‘Forbidden Planet’ itself is a retelling of Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ which has been reworked in so very many stage and screen adaptations and homages. One really has to wonder at the mix of unconstrained ambition and unvarnished derivativeness of the EP and screenwriter.

That said, Star Trek, Star Wars and other science fiction fans who haven’t seen the original definitely should.

#ForbiddenPlanet#MGM#Film
Michael Marek

Can we finally move past the era of remakes? A few are excellent, but most are not.

"Viewers are increasingly seeking fresh and innovative ideas that push the boundaries of what’s possible instead of rehashed versions of existing stories."

indiewire.com/news/business/mi

IndieWire · Millennials, Gen-Z Want Original Movies and TV, Not Remakes — SurveyBy Brian Welk
#News#Film#TV
marc [sustain release] ✅

I'm not sure... and I'm just not too much into nostalgia or #remakes. This, however, seems to be more of a modern adaption? But it looks weird. As much as I like Ryan and Emily, they are just not the Colt & Judy that I used to know... However, unlike in the #trailer, a cover of #UnknownStuntman seems to be featured in the film. #FallGuy #Cinema #RyanGosling #EmilyBlunt

Trailer: youtu.be/ZQAIkHr_qN8

Wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall

YouTubeTHE FALL GUY Trailer (2024) Ryan Gosling, Emily BluntBy ONE Media
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Fahim Farook
Indian movies "borrowing”/remaking English and other language movies is fairly standard. But what's even more prevalent is Indian movies in one language being remade in another language 🙂

This is a practice which probably goes back all the way to the beginning of Indian cinema. I certainly remember Tamil movies being remade in Hindi (or vice versa) all the way back to when I was a kid … and that was almost 50 years ago.

In fact, some stars have made a career out of taking a movie which was successful in another Indian region/language and making a hit movie — Jeyam Ravi and Ajay Devgn are names which immediately come to my mind …

Ajay Devgn has starred in the remake of the Tamil Suriya starrer “Singam” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1655607) franchise, renamed to “Singham” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1948150) in Hindi 🙂

Even more interestingly, the Hindi “Singham” movies have taken on a life of their own and spawned spin-offs which make up Rohit Shetty’s (the director of the movies) “Cop Universe” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cop_Universe) which has various cops, including Singham, inhabiting a shared universe.

You can find the Tamil version of the first movie on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G-c07uvZik

There are multiple videos claiming to the Hindi movie on YouTube as well but I haven't found one which is actually the movie 🙂 It looks as if most are just re-assembled clips from the movie with an audio commentary — probably because the authors are violating copyright by uploading the movie 😛

I have not seen the Hindi version but my impression was that it was mostly a scene-for-scene remake rather than a re-imagining …

Guess I should find out one of these days?

Also an interesting thing to note about these cross-language remakes is that some actors, such as Prakash Raj (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0695177) who plays the baddie in both “Singam” and “Singham” will reprise their role. Prakash Raj is fairly notable for this BTW since I remember him playing the same role in multiple such remakes …

(I actually wanted to talk about another re-made franchise Ajay Devgn starred in which has been re-made in at least three different Indian languages, but I think that’ll have to wait for another post …)

#Movies #India #Hindi #Tamil #Remakes #Singam #Singham #Suriya #AjayDevgn
#ajaydevgn
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Fahim Farook
Continuing on with the theme of Indian remakes, “Coming to America” (1988) is an interesting one since I’ve seen at least three sub-continental remakes of the movie — two Indian and one Pakistani 🙂

I’m fairly certain that there are many more movies which lifted elements from the film, but I’m talking of the ones that I distinctly remember from back then as being fairly close to the plot of “Coming to America”.

I don’t recall the name of the Pakistani movie any longer (I think I saw it in ’92 or ’93) but I do remember the Hindi and Tamil versions fairly well.

The Hindi version is “Dil Hi To Hai” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106724) — it had Jackie Shroff and Divya Bharti and I loved at least some of the songs in the movie, if I recall.

You can find “Dil Hi To Hai” on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFPV6SdKjIw

Then, on the Tamil side, you had “My Dear Marthandan” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254593), which starred Prabhu and Kushboo and was trying to cash in on (probably) the Prabhu/Kushboo pairing which was very hot at that time.

“My Dear Marthandan” is on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Pqq_dtsMA

It’s been around 30 years since I’ve seen either movie, I think. I’d love to watch them both again and see if they still hold up or not …

#Movies #Indian #Hindi #Tamil #Remakes #Bollywood #Kollywood
IMDbDil Hi To Hai (1992) ⭐ 5.2 | Drama, Romance2h 44m | Not Rated
#kollywood
Fahim Farook
Today I discovered something interesting — YouTube has fairly good versions of Hindi movies from back in the 80s and 90s!

Well, I think I actually discovered this yesterday when I found “Betaab” but I didn’t actually realize this till today when I searched for “EK Ladka Ek Ladki” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291883)

Back in the 90s, Hindi movies blatantly copied Hollywood movies (with no attribution or permission, mind you) and made their own versions. “Ek Ladka Ek Ladki” is one such movie which copies Kurt Russel & Goldie Hawn’s “Overboard” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093693).

This movie is probably responsible for getting me into Hindi movies again and for learning Hindi just so I could watch the movies 🙂

I generally never watch a movie twice (with a few exceptions) but I think I must have watched this one at least 5 times …

Oh yeah, it’s on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSdQeh3WnkU

The last time I looked for “Ek Ladka Ek Ladki” on YouTube, the only copy I could find was a really dark and hard to watch version. So this version is certainly a find for me 🙂

This gives me an idea! Maybe I should look for other movies from the 90s that copied Hollywood movies and post about them every once in a while?

I generally love the Bollywood version to the Hollywood version of these “re-makes”. So it might be interesting to introduce more people to these versions …

#Movies #Bollywood #Hindi #Remakes #MovieHistory
IMDbEk Ladka Ek Ladki (1992) ⭐ 5.8 | Comedy, Romance2h 42m | Not Rated
#MovieHistory
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