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Demisemicenturian 
"Four ever European"
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 Posted - 01/14/2011 : 13:33:52
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Any more ideas than these for films remade into another language (most likely English) very quickly? At the moment I've said two five years but I'm happy to change that if some good examples crop up that are slightly longer. I particularly want films that have been remade because of the change of language, not because the first one didn't work &c., and scene-for-scene versions are especially welcome.
I've included The Girl... and Let... at the moment even though technically they are probably different adaptations of the same source material: I may change my mind once I have seen the English ones.
I don't want to include any rip-offs, or it would be full of Bollywood films: all should be official (leaving aside the issue with the Swedish films above). |
Edited by - Demisemicenturian on 01/14/2011 15:38:55 |
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Cheese_Ed 
"The Provolone Ranger"
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Posted - 01/14/2011 : 14:30:10
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Depends on how quickly they must have been made, but...
Point of No Return and Nikita
Shichinin no Samurai and The Magnificent Seven
Spoorloos and The Vanishing
La Totale! and True Lies
Trois Hommes et un Couffin and Three Men and a Baby
Abre Los Ojos and Vanilla Sky
Insomnia and Insomnia
Nine Queens and Criminal
Dark Water and Dark Water
The Eye and The Eye
The Grudge and The Grudge
Infernal Affairs and The Departed
The Ring and The Ring
Brothers and Brothers
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 01/14/2011 : 14:36:31
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quote:
Originally posted by Cheese_Ed
Depends on how quickly they must have been made, but...
Point of No Return and Nikita
Shichinin no Samurai and The Magnificent Seven
Spoorloos and The Vanishing
La Totale! and True Lies
Trois Hommes et un Couffin and Three Men and a Baby
Abre Los Ojos and Vanilla Sky
Insomnia and Insomnia
Nine Queens and Criminal
Dark Water and Dark Water
The Eye and The Eye
The Grudge and The Grudge
Infernal Affairs and The Departed
The Ring and The Ring
Brothers and Brothers
Thanks! I had no idea that some of those were remakes, although of course I should have remembered The Grudge and The Ring. I'll check out the years and decide. |
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demonic
"Cinemaniac"
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Posted - 01/14/2011 : 23:16:39
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| Personally I'm not sure five years between films qualifies it as a "fast remake" - five years seems long enough for people to forget or care less - not like the recent examples that started your accolade... |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 01/15/2011 : 14:59:03
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Originally posted by demonic
Personally I'm not sure five years between films qualifies it as a "fast remake" - five years seems long enough for people to forget or care less - not like the recent examples that started your accolade...
Well, there were a lot at four years so I decided to make it a round number and include them. I don't think it's about people forgetting them; rather, the Swedish films have been relatively high-profile in English-speaking countries, whereas a lot of the others were not. And for me the crux of the accolade isn't whether people can remember the original: it's about whether the original is recent enough that there is no good reason for a new one yet (i.e. language is the only real motivating factor), and five years is very conservative on that basis.
On remembering those Swedish films, though, the MERPs don't agree with you: my "Girl with Tat too" was rejected on the basis that people "won't put these two films together", despite the titles being identical and their being only two years apart (or really only one year in terms of when the Swedish one and especially its sequels were released here)! |
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