Ok, so remakes are terrible right?
If you could remake a movie, what would it be? how would you change it from the original and who would you cast?
Remakes per se are not terrible.
The Maltese Falcon had been filmed twice before--once under the same title and again starring Bette Davis--before Bogart made it a classic. High Sierra, another Bogart film, was remade two times--once with Jack Palance playing Bogart's role and again as a Western with Joel McCrae. as the star in a Western setting as
Colorado Territory.
Broken Lance, a 1950s-early '60s Western starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner and Richard Widmark, was made twice before, the original with Edward G. Robinson playing Tracy's part as the head of a dysfunctional family. But in the first two versions of that movie, the family business was a New York bank, not a cattle ranch.
I recently was impressed by Sean Penn's take on Broderick Crawford's Academy Award-winning role as Willie Stark in
All the King's Men. In fact, I've never been a Penn fan, but I did like him in that movie, which was close to the original film and the book from which it was taken. In fact, the remake threw in several bits underlining that Willie Stark was based on Huey Long, governor of Louisiana, such as Penn telling crowds, "They're after me because I'm one of you" (a common ploy by Long) and especially the scene of him singing "Every Man A King," which Long wrote.
However, as far as your suggestion of a remake I'd like to see, I remember the play,
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (also a 1990 movie) which was a retelling of
Hamlet from the viewpoint of those two minor characters. In the same spirit, I'd like to do a remake of
Gone With the Wind from the slaves' point of view. You hear the "white folks" at their balls and parties offscreen while the camera focuses on the slaves plucking chickens and scrubbing floors and talking among themselves about their masters.
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But hey, let's just remake Jezebel from the points of view of the ill-fated Buck and Henry Fonda's Yankee wife!
