Is today's Video Daily Double as good as the original? Did the Cap'n pay due homage to the "fans" or did I stray too far from the source material? Will audiences show up for the first weekend, giving the remake a huge opening before word of mouth keeps subsequent visitors away? Or did the Cap'n go back to the original source material, avoiding the first version of Video Daily Double altogether (more on the tomorrow)?
Say what you will about remakes - and many, including the Cap'n, have - they aren't new in film history, and they aren't going anywhere. Artistic repetition in cinema has, for better or worse, changed in the last fifteen years but the public's appetite to be fed a new version of something familiar never quite seems to be sated. Let's take a look at two recent examples, from two different perspectives: the foreign film remade into English and the re-adaptation.
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Our first video is a comparison of Michael Haneke's 1997 Funny Games to his 2007 remake. This is an interesting example of artistic repetition in that we rarely see directors in the modern era remake their own films, and in the case of Funny Games, it's so similar one wonders what the point was:
Our second (and technically third) video will transition into tomorrow's post, dealing with the remake / re-adaptation of True Grit by Joel and Ethan Coen. Even if you haven't seen the original, the trailers for each overlap enough to give you some context heading into Thursday.
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