Juri wrote:
"I just don't want to see the original film to be
ruined."
Well, of course, the original will not be ruined, it's still
right there on my shelf and on the shelves of many video
stores. In fact, the new one has brought more attention to
the old one (I know a guy who has been trying to rent it for
over a month and it's never in). Didn't someone say it
recently ran on a cable movie channel? The timing makes it
evident it's a tie-in.
Similarly, bad movies don't ruin the books upon which they're
based. Or different movies, for that matter. I remember the
first time I saw Altman's Long Goodbye. I was incensed by his
changes. I was fuming when I came out of the theater.
However, when I saw it again I forced myself to take it on
its own terms and ended up loving it.
And that's what I'm going to try to do when I see the new Get
Carter
(although I admit to a perverse interest in how bad they
might have screwed it up, like Payback, which I hated), take
it on its own terms, not compare it to the Hodges film. In
that film, Micahel Caine played Carter with understated cool.
There is no way I can conceive of Stallon playing understated
cool. Maybe they changed focus, though, and used Stallone's
strengths for him -- I don't have any problem seeing him as a
mob enforcer. So as much as I loved the original Get Carter
(and the book upon which it was based), I am going to try to
look at this film as what it is? I'll let you know if I
succeed. Or if I think the film does.
Mark
-- # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 10 Oct 2000 EDT