I have it on my computer but haven't yet. Will watch it later this week, I think. Heard that it's vastly different because the caretaker character wasn't a child when they met/is maybe a pedo...IDEK.
In the book which (according to the filmakers at least) BOTH movies were based on this is the situation.
The vampire girl is actually a boy with genitals removed. The guy who is acting as the vampire's guardian of sorts is a pedo. And there are absolutely no main characters working as a caretaker.
One thing the original "Let The Right One In" movie did, which is very rare indeed, was to make a movie which stayed true to the book while remaining a very good piece of work in and of itself. I saw the movie first then read the book while my better half came to them the other way around. Both us loved both the book and the movie.
So yeah, a lot of us are actually wondering why they even needed to make this remake (never mind what's going on with the weird title change). Perhaps you could give us a longer review?
The remake is really different. For instance, Abby (vampire, who is def. a girl) meets the caretaker when he's a kid, so there's this whole arc of her using men until they get too old to help her. There's this beautiful scene in the beginning where the caretaker and Owen (Oskar) see each other for the first time and they just kind of stop and check each other out and it's palpable that one is looking at his future while one is seeing his past. You end up feeling really sorry for the caretaker by the end and unable to tell if Abby grooms these boys to love her so she can use them, or if she honestly has feelings for them.
Yeah, that really IS different. That most certainly confirms that all the stuff about the new movie being an alternative interpretation of the book was complete nonsense. What you've just described is thoroughly at odds with the book. It doesn't seem so much an adaptation of the book or even a remake, but rather it sounds like it's 'inspired by' the original movie
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The vampire girl is actually a boy with genitals removed. The guy who is acting as the vampire's guardian of sorts is a pedo. And there are absolutely no main characters working as a caretaker.
One thing the original "Let The Right One In" movie did, which is very rare indeed, was to make a movie which stayed true to the book while remaining a very good piece of work in and of itself. I saw the movie first then read the book while my better half came to them the other way around. Both us loved both the book and the movie.
So yeah, a lot of us are actually wondering why they even needed to make this remake (never mind what's going on with the weird title change). Perhaps you could give us a longer review?
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