Could these be made today

[Marky B]

This is not about remakes and this film is only an example.

The Ladykillers is a much loved and revered film on this forum,and I still find it very funny today. However,imagine if you will if it had not been ever made,but someone came along with the same story and characters (obviously not the same actors) today and made it,scene per scene word per word.

Would we regard it as being funny as a new film,or would the humour be lost on today's generation.

It could still be set in the fifties (more so for the type of signals).

What do others think and is there any film of the past that could still originally be made today?

Ta Ta

Marky B

[rbrooks2008]

name='Marky B']This is not about remakes and this film is only an example.

The Ladykillers is a much loved and revered film on this forum,and I still find it very funny today. However,imagine if you will if it had not been ever made,but someone came along with the same story and characters (obviously not the same actors) today and made it,scene per scene word per word.

Would we regard it as being funny as a new film,or would the humour be lost on today's generation.

It could still be set in the fifties (more so for the type of signals).

What do others think and is there any film of the past that could still originally be made today?

Ta Ta

Marky B

Don't tell Tom Hanks about it!

[Steve Crook]

name='Marky B']This is not about remakes and this film is only an example.

The Ladykillers is a much loved and revered film on this forum,and I still find it very funny today. However,imagine if you will if it had not been ever made,but someone came along with the same story and characters (obviously not the same actors) today and made it,scene per scene word per word.

Would we regard it as being funny as a new film,or would the humour be lost on today's generation.

It could still be set in the fifties (more so for the type of signals).

What do others think and is there any film of the past that could still originally be made today?

Ta Ta

Marky B

I think that many of them could be made today. The audience would still appreciate them if they were given a chance to see them. The difficulty would be in getting the funding, in convincing a backer that the talent was there and that it wasn't necessary to fill it with superstars, with CGI and explosions. Just because those things are possible doesn't mean that they're necessary.



The other difficulty would be in getting the distribution and advertising sorted out so that they could be seen by a large audience.



Steve

[EHV_Emmetts]

The original Ladykillers would not have been made today. It's humour would be deemed too subtle and too sophisticated for the cinema viewing audience who are predominately the MTV generation.

[Graham321]

That's a very difficult question Marky B. I would say No it wouldnt work because the humour of today is a whole lot different. But also it wouldnt get made without some some CGI and a spectatular ending, unless it was an independent budget production.

[Steve Crook]

name='EHV_Emmetts']The original Ladykillers would not have been made today. It's humour would be deemed too subtle and too sophisticated for the cinema viewing audience who are predominately the MTV generation.

But when something with subtle and sophisticated humour does manage to get made, it's very popular. So I don't think it's the lack of an audience that's the problem. I think it's the producers and distributors assuming that there's not an audience.



If you make rubbish full of CGI and explosions then yes, that will find an audience. but that doesn't mean that that's the only thing that can find an audience



Steve

[Brief Encounter]

When watching the remake of 'The Wicked Lady' from 1983, I felt that certain things which aped the original - mainly TWL's OTT one-liners - seemed very odd, whereas they suited the original. I guess that's to do with 40s film-making.

[Gypsy]

Many times when watching old caper movies, I think "that couldn't be made today" because their stories are based on having no CCTV, mobile phones, lethal weapons, DNA testing or other sophisticated technological creations. If it wasn't Sunday morning, I might be able to write a witty little scenario with an example of how The Lavender Hill Mob would only be a 15 minute film today, but haven't got it in me!

[batman]

The last decent caper movie I saw was The Score, Brando's final film.

[Captain Casper]

"Keeping Mum" wasn't too bad, as a farce and I heartity recommend "Death at a Funeral".



Certainly a bit of Ealing spirit in those two.

[Steve Crook]

There are quite a few British films with the same sort of ethos and the same sort of Comedy/Crime/Drama genre that have been quite successful.

Saving Grace (2000)

Hot Fuzz (2007)

Keeping Mum (2005)

Snatch (2000)

Buffalo Soldiers (2001)

The Business (2005)

to name but a few. Most of those don't have long lists of post production companies and special effects people working on them. They're just a good story, well told



Steve

[torinfan]

Speaking of remakes, has "I See A Dark Stranger" with Deborah Kerr ever been remade, under another title? Thanks

[faginsgirl]

Many of them could be made today I`m sure but without suspense. As Gypsy says modern technology would get in the way of the storyline (boring!). There is a mad zombie chasing after me.....wheres me mobile



As for the ladykillers, we know the answer to that one! I couldn`t believe my eyes nor my ears while watching the remake by Hanks. He claims he never saw the origional....yeah we can tell



And as for the whicker man remake...... Even if it had never been made before the latest version would have still been seen as rubbish IMHO!



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[Marky B]

I thought about this thread last night watching Duel with Dennis Weaver (the film was heavily butchered).

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Marky B

[davidb]

why do they need to cut duel ?

[Marky B]

name='davidb']why do they need to cut duel ?

I think it was for schedule convenience,but I can't understand why as it was in the wee hours of the morning. The opening part was cut - he was driving on the road during the credits - and the scene involving the school bus was omitted.

An excellent film spoiled.

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Marky B

[rbrooks2008]

It would be a half-interesting exercise to replace the music in the remake of Assault On Precinct 13 with the music from the original. At one point in the remake I did think that there was too much incidental music.