'Dirty Girls'
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I do think there are a bunch of films that could do with a remake, though. Bell, Book, and Candle is one of them -- you could update the story and (sorry, Jimmy, I do love you) make the leading man a little younger, and really have fun with it in ways they couldn't.
I would love to see a remake of Bell, Book and Candle, but I am a heretic and want the ending changed. Yes, I still get angry over the "witches lose their powers if they fall in love" bit.
You mean beyond the outrage of Uwe Boll just existing and making movies?
I thought that was understood?
Rebecca happens to be my favorite Hitchcock, and I'm not sure how it could be improved. Perhaps -- but only perhaps -- by telling parts of the story that could only be hinted at, or not told at all, under the Code.
On the other hand, the basic plot of a young, innocent, even somewhat naive second wife trying to live up to the memory of the first wife? Could go in several directions.
Yes, I still get angry over the "witches lose their powers if they fall in love" bit.
Do what now? I've never seen that movie. Uggh. At least Samantha (Bewitched) never fully gave up on hers. Also, my tag seems especially appropriate at this juncture.
for what it's worth, I always hated Max de Winter
He isn't a very likable person. Or at least, he doesn't treat his second wife very well when she needs him.
He didn't treat either wife well. For the first one, he went looking for a very specific type of person, met and married her, and then decided nope, not what he wanted at all.
People tend to forget that Anjelica Houston had a long modeling career before she was in movies. This collects some of her modeling from the late sixties and early seventies.
Some really amazing and gorgeous shots in there, and so different from how you think of her.
so different from how you think of her
You sure you don't want to say so different from how *you* think of her? I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who thinks of her as a highly gorgeous woman capable of assuming many different personas.
Not that I think everyone thought that, but I doubt it's an insignificant number.
Clearly it's just my deficient imagination. Mostly though I was referring to her youth and the era of 70s fashion when she was modeling. Though she had other roles, she didn't really breakthrough in film until Prizzi's Honor in '85 when she was in her mid-thirties.