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02-12-08
remake of Funny Games

Release Date: April 4th, 2008

Studios: (for production)
Celluloid Dreams
Celluloid Nightmares
Dreamachine
Halcyon Pictures
Tartan Films
X-Filme
Director: Michael Haneke

Screenwriter: Michael Haneke

Starring: Naomi Watts, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart, and Tim Roth

Plot Summary: (ala IMDB) In this English-language remake of a deconstruction in the way violence is portrayed in the media, a family settles into its vacation home, which happens to be the next stop for a pair of young, articulate, white-gloved serial killers on an excursion through the neighborhood.

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02-12-08
Originally Posted by christine
I'm curious about this film. I wonder why Haneke has remade it?
he wanted to remake because he wanted to bring it to an American audience that won't go see foreign films.



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02-12-08
Originally Posted by Lennon
he wanted to remake because he wanted to bring it to an American audience that won't go see foreign films.
I don't think he should pander to such audiences. If they can't even read, they probably won't get the film anyway...

Here is a thread on the Funny Games and Haneke in general.



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02-21-08
Hitchcock remade his own The Man Who Knew Too Much. I much prefer the original. In more recent years, two European filmmakers remade their own movies: George Sluizer's The Vanishing (1988 & 1993) and Ole Bornedal's Nightwatch (1994 & 1997). The original Vanishing is a masterpiece and his own Americanized remake is an unholy piece of *****. The original Nightwatch is terrific and I kinda like the Americanized one almost as much. I think it's interesting that he attacked the same material with a completely different tone. It works for me, though the original is definitely superior.

I think clearly the only reason Haneke is remaking Funny Games in America is for the perverse thrill of putting "the masses" through that trip on a level that it would never reach strictly as a foreign-language film.
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