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Or if applicable, “new films based on the same novel as the previous one.”
Did a search and this doesn’t appear to have been done for a while. Inspired by a truestory post.
What have you watched that you preferred to the original? Feel free to reminisce about movies which were so much worse, as that will probably make this thread longer.
My example was True Grit. Partly this was because I simply don’t like John Wayne, but mostly it was because the Coen brothers know how to make movies that I like to watch. Their Mattie in particular had me spellbound:
View: https://youtu.be/qpRxj0QwgjY
Did a search and this doesn’t appear to have been done for a while. Inspired by a true
What have you watched that you preferred to the original? Feel free to reminisce about movies which were so much worse, as that will probably make this thread longer.
My example was True Grit. Partly this was because I simply don’t like John Wayne, but mostly it was because the Coen brothers know how to make movies that I like to watch. Their Mattie in particular had me spellbound:
Emphatically not a remake of the 1969 film, the Coens’ version is much closer in tone and emphasis to the source material than that first adaptation. It restores Mattie to centre stage (Wayne’s Rooster dominated the earlier movie, while the Mattie role went to 21-year-old Kim Darby), as it reveals the grim realities of seeking justice in the farthest reaches of the American West.
View: https://youtu.be/qpRxj0QwgjY
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