On the notes of: why sometimes dosing yourself up with medication so you can do your duty can be worth it: today in Berlin I met Florian Henckel von Donnersmark, aka the director of The Lives of Others, Das Leben der Anderen, aka my favourite movie in 2006. We talked about Los Angeles, Lion Feuchtwanger (he said he must be the only one to have the
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The idea of an American remake of a movie about the Stasi problem, set in today's US, is one of the strangest things I can imagine. I'm slightly irritated at the degree of self-involvement it displays, and slightly baffled at the implied commentary.
I hope you can cure yourself now, being at your parent's at least. :)
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Remake: it never occured to me before that they would set it in the US, because this isn't exactly Three Men and a Baby (= French comedy which ended up being remade in a US context), but I find it intriguing IF they can pull it off, and before I was just dreading the remake prospect. I mean, obviously neither the FBI nor the CIA is the Stasi, and as I said to M. below, an American actress could film elsewhere without losing her audience entirely, an American writer could just leave the country and still publish in the US if they find it impossible to live there, etc - but still, you can imagine the threat of having their lives destroyed, just by different means, and definitely using surveillance as a part of accomplishing it. We'll see.
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And good luck with fighting the bacterias! *g*
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When I first heard of the American remake, I was horrified because I thought they would basically tell the same story only with American actors. As daring as the concept to set the movie in the US of today is, I'm not sure how many political implications of the original they will be able to keep. I wonder if and how they are adapting the level of urgency and threat of the Stasi era. But the core of the story is a tale about humanity and that is as universal as it gets, so the movie should work at least on this level.
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Thank you for writing about this. Friends and I have been wondering about just that question re. the remake - taking it out of the context of the GDR - and I agree with him, it should definitely be interesting.
Is it okay to quote you on this? I will link back, of course.
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