Originally posted by: return_to_hades
Wouldn't the reverse of a remake be the original? There is no such thing as reverse remake.
Whether BW remakes HW. Whether HW remakes BW. Whether BW remakes BW. Whether HW remakes HW. Whether any given X remakes any given Y. A remake is a remake.
This topic should simply be "Which BW movie you want to see remade in HW"
I want Hollywood to remake Devdas. It will be a Hip-Hop/Rap musical.
We open with a young hip-hop star winning a best new artist award. He celebrates with his girlfriend. We flashback to his childhood. He's orphaned when his parents are killed in a police shootout. He is absorbed into their gang which makes young teens like him run drugs. When the den mother sees his musical talent, she decides to use all her contacts to make him her golden egg star.
His only friend and companion is the girl next door. She makes him feel safe and grounded in a volatile world. Cut to montage of them growing up together to him celebrating his first award with her and proposing marriage.
When his manager and den mother see that he's getting married in the tabloid news they are furious. Marriage and settling down don't fit with the image of a badass rap star. So they create rifts in the relationship by painting her as a golddigger and a selfish woman holding him back. Despite his reluctance, he goes along and publicly breaks up with her.
His girlfriend is heartbroken. When she finds out she's pregnant her single mother convinces her to get married to an older businessman and aspiring politician. He's an old acquaintance of her father and a widower. As a recent widower, he sees it as a win-win. He gets a wife and his young daughters get a mother while the baby gets a father and hope for a stable life. He also sees it as a way to paint himself positively for his aspiring political career.
When the young artist finds out his ex-girlfriend is pregnant and married - he regrets his decision. He begs for her to take him back. She refuses because he abandoned her and she owes her unborn child a stable life.
The heartbroken star becomes emotionally volatile and violent. He resorts to drugs and alcohol. He reconnects with an old friend who is now a wealthy pimp. And they engage in wild partying and revelry together. He develops a fondness for a stripper, often passing out at her place. His manager encourages his exploits because the emotional trauma makes him write great songs and his wild ways keep him relevant and in the news.
Seeing his life spiraling out of control his ex-girlfriend tries to help him out. She wants her now young son to know his biological father someday. She even spends a lot of money to get him into an expensive rehab from where he escapes. She befriends the stripper who seems to be the only person who cares about him. This causes strains in her marriage because her husband now running for senate believes it is harming is public image.
In the mean time the artist discovers that his manager and the den mother are embezzling money from him. He realizes that they have been the ones using him and holding him back. He accepts that they have kept him from happiness. He fires his manager and promises to get them both arrested. He then meets the stripper and promises to check himself into rehab and marry her when he is sober again. He goes to meet his ex-girlfriend to tell her that he wants to be a more involved father when he's sober. But when he goes to visit her he's kept away by guards as the senator is celebrating his victory.
Cut to a montage of him returning to his hotel room in tears. His manager and pimp friend appear to console him. When his ex-girlfriend finds out that he tried to visit - she rushes to meet him. Both her and the stripper reach his hotel room at the same time to see cops and medics as - he has joined the many artists dying of drug overdose.
Movie ends with manager and den mother accepting posthumous grammy on his behalf and continuing to milk his celebrity. Fade to stripper giving a lap dance to another hip hop artist and the ex-girlfriend and her son sitting solemnly behind a senator husband giving a speech.
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