East of Eden is Cain and Abel
Oz is the highest-scoring person ever to fail to graduate.
Willow ,'Him'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Laga - Aug 26, 2009 8:47:58 am PDT #3968 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
megan walker - Aug 26, 2009 8:49:40 am PDT #3969 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Two other interesting text relationships:
Godard's
Contempt
and Homer's
Odyssey
Cukor's A Double Life and Othello
Both about remaking a classic work, but also mirroring that work.
juliana - Aug 26, 2009 8:51:48 am PDT #3970 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
What is My Own Private Idaho a take on?
Henry IV. There was a lot more Shakespeare in it, but the studio made Van Sant take it out. It's an incoherent mess of a movie, but I really like it.
megan walker - Aug 26, 2009 8:56:22 am PDT #3971 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Well, duh. Keanu.
Strega - Aug 26, 2009 8:58:43 am PDT #3972 of 30000
Barb Wire is Casablanca.
juliana - Aug 26, 2009 8:59:51 am PDT #3973 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Well, duh. Keanu.
Yes. But also River, and I can see where Van Sant was going with it, even if he didn't quite succeed. Shakespeare's version of Hal is always fascinating to me, and I like seeing what other people come up with.
Kathy A - Aug 26, 2009 9:00:45 am PDT #3974 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The Zero Effect is updating Sherlock Holmes.
Fred Pete - Aug 26, 2009 9:01:00 am PDT #3975 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
The book is probably better known than the movie, but A Thousand Acres is King Lear in rural Iowa.
megan walker - Aug 26, 2009 9:04:36 am PDT #3976 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
In other French re-interpretation news, Cocteau is a great one for that. In addition to La Belle et la Bête, he wrote Delannoy's L'Éternel retour, which is a re-telling of Tristan and Isolde with very, very pretty people. And, his Orphée is amazing. More people need to see it, if only for the killer performance of María Casares as Death.
I'd also check out Marcel Camus' Orfeu Negro, which sets the Orpheus tale in Rio during Carnival.
Kathy A - Aug 26, 2009 9:08:23 am PDT #3977 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
In actor news, Michael Phillips (film critic for the Chicago Tribune) has put together a list of The New Reliables, actors you can always count on to give a good performance, regardless of the quality of the script or direction.
I like his inclusion of Patricia Clarkson, Chwetel Ejiofor, Simon Pegg, JK Simmons, and Stanley Tucci.