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Gary Gach <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 7 Nov 1993 22:29:15 PST
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derek
 
your upcoming class in remakes sounds great
 
food for thought:
origin may not be a film.  may be a film only
if the the property was an original film property.
(what if the property was adapted from a novel,
or a cartoonstrip, or ..... ??)
you get into some interesting *iconography* there.
EG _apocalypse now_ was part _heart of darkness_
but too part _the golden bough_ -- the new
year-king
poling upriver to challenge the old year-king, etc
 
i find the iconographical stuff interesting.
remakes generally not.  (maltese falcon was
the third
remake, and one of the rare times where a remake
worked)
generally, i find it to be an extension of the
fear-greed phenomenon of hollywood.
 
the remake i liked recently was _no way out_
based on
_the big clock_ (a movie based on kenneth fearing's
novel)
 
too -- how about stuff like _an american werewolf
in london_ where the genre stuff gets blenderized?
 
virtually,
 
gary gach       <[log in to unmask]>
 
=====================================================
 When Elvis Presley died in 1977 there were
                37 Elvis impersonators in the world.
 
                Today there are 48,000.
 
         If the current trend continues,
         by the year 2010, one out of every three
         people in the world will be an Elvis impersonator.
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ps  _tucker_ also lifted heavily from _kane_

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