Tenebrous

nixskits asked: Are there any films you felt had a fatal flaw in them which warrants a remake today? Any specific director you think could improve on a certain title?

I think the world of genre storytelling hinges on reusing ideas, tossing them into the brain-blender and seeing what comes out. The whole idea of a remake is really a marketing construct, as opposed to a creative one (in my opinion, anyway). because genre movies are by their nature reusing, recycling and re-combining ideas. Take “Return of the Blind Dead” for example—I could pitch that as “‘Night of the Living Dead,’ but in Portugal, with more occult nonsense.” I could reasonably see the lack of a European setting and the absence of Satan as flaws in NotLD corrected by de Ossorio’s “reimagining” but I would get screamed at (because that’s not the way “we” look at that movie).

I guess what I mean to say is that as I get more involved in my own creative process more regularly, I realize that the fatal flaw thing isn’t the most productive way to look at a movie. I am trying to engage with movies (when I get to watch them, which is infrequent these days!) on a level where I’m trying to get the good stuff out of them, rather than getting turned off by the things that I’d change. That’s not to say I don’t get frustrated, but I acknowledge that my taste is so very, very fallible and only represents one way of looking at a particular piece of work!

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