Of course, Leone's first movie A Fistful of Dollars was basically a straight-up (if not official) remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, which, while a samurai movie, was Kurosawa's tribute to westerns. It had a lot of the same attitudes of the spaghetti westerns already in place.

And, of course, Yojimbo was basically a samurai version of Dashiel Hammett's Red Harvest. And so on, and so forth.

Speaking of stuff like this. Can I get a little help? I'm trying to come up with a list of movies that are basically classic stories retold.

I have stuff like Twist, 10 Things I Hate About You, Scrooged...but then I get stuck in Shakespeare and can't get out (West Side Story, My Kingdom, My Own Private Idaho, Scotland, PA) and I'd like a little more diversity.

Not straight up shooting a play or a work of literature, but a different take on a popular tale.

Clueless.

What is My Own Private Idaho a take on? (I have never finished, I always fall asleep).

Also, A Simple Twist of Fate with Steve Martin is really Silas Marner reimagined

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The Warriors

Roxanne. And what's the movie with Toshiro Mifune that's based on Hamlet or Lear or something?

Ran was a remake of King Lear.

And Throne of Blood was the Scottish play. Mifune was in Throne, but not in Ran.

Freeway was a modern day version of Little Red Riding Hood.

Ball of Fire was Billy Wilder's retelling of Snow White and The Seven Dwarves.

Speed was Die Hard on a bus.

What, it's a classic story.