No. Just... no. Hollywood should STOP.

[vivien_sivvus]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117986985.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

They're remaking "My Fair Lady". With Keira Knightley. Are they mad?

I appreciate that musical films are big at the moment- and it's fantastic!- But there are so many GOOD musicals that

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[osprey_archer]

They're remaking My Fair Lady? *facepalm*

And you're right, there are half a dozen wonderful musicals that haven't been made into movies yet, so why are they wasting their time remaking a classic? Wicked, at very least, probably has just as big a potential fanbase as the remake, without the chance of this kind of backlash.

If there's a remake of Pan's Labyrinth, I may explode. Especially because there's a fifty percent chance that Hollywood would change the Spanish Civil War to something more famous, so audiences wouldn't have to wrap their minds around a war they'd never heard of.

[vivien_sivvus]

I wouldn't put a remake of Pan's Labyrinth past them. I mentioned that they're remaking The Orphanage, which is by the same director and is on par with PL. I would imagine that Ofelia becomes a stunning, long legged blonde and some sort of comic relief is introduced... **headdesk**

The problem with these remakes is that they generally don't have the subtlety of the originals. I would imagine that Eliza Dolittle and Henry Higgings will have some seriously romantic interlude in the remake. In slow motion. With cheesy violin remix of "Just You Wait" in a major key.

[osprey_archer]

Making Ofelia blonde is just wrong on every level. If there was a Spanish inquisition I would definitely send the hypothetical remakers of Pan's Labyrinth there, just for that.

There probably will be a romantic interlude in the new My Fair Lady. I've heard some people complain about how sappy old movies are, but really I think new movies take the prize in that department. Because the studios think that viewers today won't get romance unless someone uses a sledgehammer, or something.

[vivien_sivvus]

Yeah. People complain about being "cheated" if a relationship is only hinted at... although I think that's more an American thing to be honest.

Aaaand we're back to the discussion of European vs. American media! :P

There are some films where certain romantic scenes are removed between the US and England, simply because we're jaded and cynical on the Island. For example, the new version of Pride and Prejudice had that "Mrs Darcy" scene, which we'd have to Youtube to see here.

[osprey_archer]

Really? I've always thought that the Europeans (or at least the Spanish) demanded more blatant relationships than Americans. In American movies, romantic relationships can be established with a kiss, but Spanish directors don't seem to be happy until they've caught the characters in flagrante two or three times.

"Mrs. Darcy," however, was a travesty of a scene, which pains right-thinking people on both sides of the Atlantic. The entire movie lacked the subtlety of Pride & Prejudice, and that scene just wallows in the movie's deficiencies.

[vivien_sivvus]

I thought the slow-motion "We are in our nightclothes because it's more romantic even though we could get stoned for it" mist scene of P&P was more soul destroying. But then, I've only seen it once