Movies that Can't Be Remade

[Coito ergo sum]

Given the political climate over gay marriage, I'm surprised nobody has proposed making "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" where the surprise fiance' is a same sex partner.

[Animavore]

They did remake it just a couple of years ago but changed the races around.

I guess it will be done in the end. It's almost inevitable.

[Audley Strange]

"Triumph of the Will"

"A Birth of A Nation."

"Freaks"

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"Triumph of the Will"

Why not? CGI could do most of that.

"A Birth of A Nation."

New version directed by Tyrannical?

"Freaks"

We could do "Fundies", to the same effect.

[klr]

Summer of '42, col.

Pretty Baby would have to be reworked a tiny bit.

Apparently, they'd like to remake this, but the screenwriter (Herman Raucher) won't let them:

... In the years since the film's release, Warner Bros. has attempted to buy back Raucher's ten percent of the film as well as his rights to the story so it could be remade; Raucher has consistently declined.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_%2742#Remakes

Good for him, I say.

[Coito ergo sum]

How about --

Private Lessons -- with Sylvia Krystal
or, it's copycat, My Tutor


Teenage wank fodder, and playing to every high school boy's fantasy of being given lessons by the older woman....

[hadespussercats]

Given the political climate over gay marriage, I'm surprised nobody has proposed making "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" where the surprise fiance' is a same sex partner.

Ever see "Kissing Jessica Stein"?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

How about --

Private Lessons -- with Sylvia Krystal

Not a minor, so there should be no problem.

[Coito ergo sum]

How about --

Private Lessons -- with Sylvia Krystal

Not a minor, so there should be no problem.

Wasn't he a minor? I thought he was supposed to be like 15 in that movie. Perhaps not.

[Coito ergo sum]

Given the political climate over gay marriage, I'm surprised nobody has proposed making "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" where the surprise fiance' is a same sex partner.

Ever see "Kissing Jessica Stein"?

No, but I now I want to!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

How about --

Private Lessons -- with Sylvia Krystal

Not a minor, so there should be no problem.

Wasn't he a minor? I thought he was supposed to be like 15 in that movie. Perhaps not.

I thought he was older than that, but 15 is legal in a lot of places.

[Coito ergo sum]

How about --

Private Lessons -- with Sylvia Krystal

Not a minor, so there should be no problem.

Wasn't he a minor? I thought he was supposed to be like 15 in that movie. Perhaps not.

I thought he was older than that, but 15 is legal in a lot of places.

Yup, I know. But, what kind of was the genesis of the idea for this thread was something another member said on another thread -- that Woody Allen had committed "pedophilic" acts with Soon Yi, his now wife of 15 years. That brought to mind what I've seen as a growing trend, in my experience, and that is for people to lump in all underage sex with pedophilia, as if an attraction to a 17 year old or a 16 year old is "pedophilia." Many jurisdictions have different structures for ages of consent, of course. And, 15 could very well be legal.

I noticed sort of a tightening of prevailing attitudes toward sex and alcohol, etc. compared to when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s, when things were much looser. Drinking age at 18. Teen sex comedies all the rage in the movies. Open campus philosophies in high schools. Smoking areas in high schools, etc.

So, I wondered what sorts of movies would be scandalous today that didn't raise much of an eyebrow 30 years ago. Private Lessons, I think today would get many folks in a tizzy today. And, My Tutor, and even some scenes in other movies like Fast Times at Ridgemont High -- I know they are remaking that, but what will they do with the 26 year old stereo salesman who bangs the 15 year old sophomore Jennifer Jason Leigh in the baseball dugout? Stuff like that.

[orpheus]

The Seventh Seal. In my opinion, this is one of the two or three greatest films ever made. It is very nearly perfect. Here Bergman was simultaneously walking several very fine lines: the one between melodrama and too light a treatment of the most serious of all subjects; the one between pretentious art and simplistic plot, etc. Somehow he never lost his balance. The result is visually stunning, painfully intense, a hell of a good story, and startlingly tight and economical: there is not an ounce of fat in this one. It couldn't be remade because Bergman is dead, and nobody else even comes close to his ability. Even the greatest of today's directors would fuck it up.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Caligula

[MiM]

Given the political climate over gay marriage, I'm surprised nobody has proposed making "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" where the surprise fiance' is a same sex partner.

Isn't "Bird Cage" just that, admittedly in a somewhat twisted way