Why remakes of iconic films? - Page 2

One of the reasons for remakes is the cult status that films achieve after their initial release.

If the audience enjoys those remakes, they will keep making them. It will continue until the time when people will start rejecting all remakes, and finally, makers will stop touching iconic films.

Originally posted by: atominis

I am sure fans of original Forrest Gump legit puked at LSC.

I wonder tho what did fans of the Forrest Gump Book think of the movie 😆 It always starts somewhere

Originally posted by: Maroonporsche

I wonder tho what did fans of the Forrest Gump Book think of the movie 😆 It always starts somewhere

Making a film based on a book is authentic, it is giving it a visual representation. It isn't changing anything, is it? I don't know about that book.

Originally posted by: Guddu.Pandit

Making a film based on a book is authentic, it is giving it a visual representation. It isn't changing anything, is it? I don't know about that book.

Im fine with remakes

Remaking a show or a book or a movie or a book into a movie is fine with me.

Well, the question is about iconic films and why remaking them?

The most easiest answer may be relative to iconic movies of other Indian filmindustries at a time when these movies weren't dubbed or subtitled - it's the success or high standard these movies have one wants to use and replicate.

Since some years, this doesn't make much sense anymore as more and more movies are made available for other Indian languages through dubbing orthrough streaming with subtitles.

Remaking iconic Hindi movies makes sense when they are based on a book (like Devdas) as they reflect the vision of the filmmaker/director or are transported in a modern setting.

Remaking iconic movies with an original content makes only sense - imo - when it is a kind of homage/tribute to the iconic movie but giving the movie a change (in style, setting, storytelling).

Remaking iconic movies that themselves stem from the remake of another (probably not having become iconic) movie is just adding one remake to another remake

Originally posted by: Clochette

Well, the question is about iconic films and why remaking them?

The most easiest answer may be relative to iconic movies of other Indian filmindustries at a time when these movies weren't dubbed or subtitled - it's the success or high standard these movies have one wants to use and replicate.

Since some years, this doesn't make much sense anymore as more and more movies are made available for other Indian languages through dubbing orthrough streaming with subtitles.

Remaking iconic Hindi movies makes sense when they are based on a book (like Devdas) as they reflect the vision of the filmmaker/director or are transported in a modern setting.

Remaking iconic movies with an original content makes only sense - imo - when it is a kind of homage/tribute to the iconic movie but giving the movie a change (in style, setting, storytelling).

Remaking iconic movies that themselves stem from the remake of another (probably not having become iconic) movie is just adding one remake to another remake

I rather liked the Don and Agneepath remakes. Don because they bothered to tweak the story to add add something new.Agneepath because the hero was a lot darker and they did away with the irritating Mithun bits and gave us the fabulous Rauf Lala instead. Hrithik was in his prime vs Amitabh who was a lot older when he did Agneepath.Sid's Ittefaq also tried something different even though it didn't exactly work out for me. Even Hera Pheri is a page by page remake of the Malayalam original and that didn't take away its entertainment value.Because at that time there were enough original movies to match the remakes and the cast was also better.

There is a difference between adaptation and remake

Adaptations work remakes will not work in the era of OTT. Simply because original is easily accessible and better than the remake. eg. Vikram Vedha.
Bollywood has buried its head in the sand and refuses to accept this

Omkara was an adaptation of Othello it worked. Don 2 was an adaptation of original Don it worked too.
Bhool Bhulaya of Karthik Aryan is again an adaptation of the original and it worked too

Bollywood needs to adapt and not remake a scene by scene copy of the original

An adaptation brings something original creative and new for the audience in the same story. That makes it a success

Don 2 moved from Mumbai to Malaysia. The diary changed to a hard disk and twist at the end turned the whole story upside down and paved way for a sequel so it worked twice

Vikram Vedha was a scene by scene copy why will anybody waste their money on it

And now there is Mili it’s still the same remake

The problem is Bollywood is facing is that it is not paying money to good scriptwriters instead translating dialogues and screenplay of the original

And the adaption has to be logical and believable Amir Khan was an idiot. US recruited mentally challenged youth as war fodder during Vietnam war. Indian army doesn’t do that and Kareena’s whole arc was so stupid and contrived.

Original FG had Jenny dying of HIV due to her hippy lifestyle that matched with the timeline of the movie

Only thing that fit was 84 Sikh riots