Why Remakes Are One of Our Greatest Achievements as a Civilization 1414 Responses

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• Honest Inc

  

  This pertains to design and creativity in general.

  Aug 2, 12, 10 a.m. – Permalink

• omg

  Interestingly, there were no talks about how Christian and Judaic Bibles are also remakes, retold, and rehashed stories. Once told to enslaved Jews of the ancient Egyptians. The Bible was nothing new but an upgraded story and script "borrowed" from other religions of the past. Yet this remake succeeds many other remake achievements to date as "the greatest remake ever told."

  • even more than that, all borrowed from pagan idols! and on and on and on and on– doesnotexist1/2

    amazing, really– doesnotexist2/2

  

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  Dog-earAug 2, 12, 12:43 p.m. – Permalink

• moldero

  Next 50 remakes:
  http://www.nextmovie.com/blog/up…

  Evil Dead
  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1288…

  Drop Dead Fred (why the fuck for?)

  The Seven Samurai (this pretty much was remade with 13 assassins)
  but sweet!

  American Psycho (wut?)

  • The Magnificent Seven is a remake of Seven Samurai too– fresnobob

  

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  Dog-earAug 10, 12, 5:58 p.m. – Permalink

• ideaist

  Not remakes, but reinterpretations are the next big "ting":

  

  http://www.beck.com/

  "In the wake of Modern Guilt and The Information, Beck’s latest album comes in an almost-forgotten form—twenty songs existing only as individual pieces of sheet music, never before released or recorded. Complete with full-color, heyday-of- home-play-inspired art for each song and a lavishly produced hardcover carrying case (and, when necessary, ukelele notation), the Song Reader is an experiment in what an album can be at the end of 2012—an alternative that enlists the listener in the tone of every track, and that’s as visually absorbing as a dozen gatefold LPs put together."

  This is an exciting project, to say the least...

  • wow! double-ipad! oh no, wait ....– 23kon

  

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  Dog-earAug 10, 12, 6:14 p.m. – Permalink

• cannonball1978

  Retelling is a trend (aka tradition), not an achievement.

  • yup– moldero

  

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  Dog-earAug 10, 12, 6:20 p.m. – Permalink

• doesnotexist

  mankind is a remake.

  

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  Dog-earAug 10, 12, 7:27 p.m. – Permalink

• ukit2

  Life is a remake

  

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  Dog-earAug 10, 12, 7:34 p.m. – Permalink

• ukit2

  Life is a remake

  

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  Dog-earAug 10, 12, 7:34 p.m. – Permalink

• doesnotexist

  Q: is life a remake?

  

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  Dog-earAug 10, 12, 7:43 p.m. – Permalink

• drgs

  -1

  

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  Dog-earAug 11, 12, 12:22 a.m. – Permalink

• i_monk

  Life is a DO LOOP.

  

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  Dog-earAug 13, 12, 7:04 a.m. – Permalink

• MrT

  I'm not quite seeing the connection between centuries of folklore and pointlessly similar remakes within the same industry and within less than a generation. Shame the article didn't quite deliver what the title promised.

  

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  Dog-earAug 13, 12, 5:47 p.m. – Permalink

• i_monk

  It *was* one of our greatest achievements, but then copyright lawyers were born. Today's equivalent of retelling a story around the campfire is called piracy or infringement.

  

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  Dog-earAug 13, 12, 6:02 p.m. – Permalink

• sine

  this thread title is breaking the Public Voice menu...

  

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  Dog-earAug 14, 12, 12:42 a.m. – Permalink

• ernexbcn

  Life is life.

  • Na na na na.– ernexbcn1/2

    labada labdab life– drgs2/2

  

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  Dog-earSep 1, 12, 12:15 p.m. – Permalink