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peony
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 Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 2:35 pm Post subject: hollywood remake of korean movies |
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Il Mare, according to IMDB is going to star Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, they've started filming and it will be released 2006.
Rumor mills have said that My Wife is Gangster will be remade, title is in the works + a farfetched (or not) rumor that Queen Latifah will play the title role
My Sassy Girl is going to be remade and released in 2006, directed by Gurinda Chadha.
do you think the remakes will do the originals justice?
has Hollywood lost its creativity that they have to remake foreign films?
and why is so it rare that they just release the originals and make people read subtitles? |
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FUBAR
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 2:51 pm Post subject: Re: hollywood remake of korean movies |
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| peony wrote: |
do you think the remakes will do the originals justice?
has Hollywood lost its creativity that they have to remake foreign films?
and why is so it rare that they just release the originals and make people read subtitles? |
I doubt the remakes will do it justice. They rarely do.
Subtitled foreign films don't get released for to the big screen for one big reason. Starpower. Most foreign films don't have it. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 3:32 pm Post subject: Re: hollywood remake of korean movies |
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| FUBAR wrote: |
| Subtitled foreign films don't get released for to the big screen for one big reason. Starpower. Most foreign films don't have it. |
Actually I think it has more to do with an intolerance for subtitles and if it isn't English it isn't right - at least as far as the general american/canadian public is concerned. |
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peony
Joined: 30 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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they played shilmido or taeguki (i forget which one) in a big theater in nyc last year but no subtitles  i guess it wasnt really geared to be shown to the non-korean public, i wondered what the point in that was. |
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dogbert
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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The film "Frequency" starring Dennis Quaid was remade in Korea as "����". It works both ways.
P.S. Hollywood lost its creativity years ago. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| dogbert wrote: |
The film "Frequency" starring Dennis Quaid was remade in Korea as "����". It works both ways.
P.S. Hollywood lost its creativity years ago. |
Before Japan and Korea dropped their movie/tv/music trade barriers, they remade each others movies. Witness the Japanese vs Korean versions of Ring. Oddly, I saw a Japanese movie at the Seattle film fest called The Happiness of Katakuris. It was a remake of a Korean movie called The Quiet Family. It's a kooky slapstick film. A family buys a quiet hotel and all the patrons keep dying. And they have to keep burying the bodies.
At the end of the Japanese movie, the director took questions. Clearly few knew it was a remake of a Korean film. Someone in the audience asked "where'd you get the idea for this film!"
Did he say "oh, it's a remake of a Korean film."
Nope. His answer was something like "Well, I get these ideas from life...". The director was Beat Takashi, one of Japan's best. Sad. Sad.
Some remakes are okay. The American Ring was pretty okay. The "Magnificent Seven" remake of the "Seven Samurai" is a high water mark. That said, the Hollywood remake of La Femme Nikita was beyond horrible.
All in all, I appreciate that Korean writers are making some large coin selling their scripts to Hollywood. |
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Billy Pilgrim
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
At the end of the Japanese movie, the director took questions. Clearly few knew it was a remake of a Korean film. Someone in the audience asked "where'd you get the idea for this film!"
Did he say "oh, it's a remake of a Korean film."
Nope. His answer was something like "Well, I get these ideas from life...". The director was Beat Takashi, one of Japan's best. Sad. Sad.
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Actually, I think the director was Takashi Miike, the prolific Japanese director behind ONE MISSED CALL, AUDITION and the like.
I'm dying to see THE QUIET FAMILY and the remake, both of which are supposed to be quite good. The remake, I hear, is a cannibal musical, isn't it? Whereas TQF is merely a black comedy. Why can't I find them here?! |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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| peony wrote: |
| they played shilmido or taeguki (i forget which one) in a big theater in nyc last year but no subtitles i guess it wasnt really geared to be shown to the non-korean public, i wondered what the point in that was. |
It was shown in big cities with subtitles (taeguki) and now it is on dvd. Oldboy is in chicago, NYC, and LA now. |
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itaewonguy
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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| dogbert wrote: |
P.S. Hollywood lost its creativity years ago. |
what??!! come on... Hollywood is still pumping out great movies..
and as for remaking foreign films.. why not! I mean there are hundreds of film companies in hollywood.. its good for the korean film industry to remake korean movies.. they will be shown here at the cinema. and the stories are ok so western people can see them... |
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GregoryPeckish
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