remake?
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roman8 — 17 years ago(July 16, 2008 10:41 AM)
I actually always thought that El Cid is not popular enough as theme, so maybe a remake might be not an altogether dreadful idea. After all, remaking The Fall of the Roman Empire as Gladiator proved a quite successful endeavour.
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PostmortemG — 17 years ago(February 14, 2009 12:02 PM)
"After all, remaking The Fall of the Roman Empire as Gladiator proved a quite successful endeavour."
But Gladiator pales in comparison to T.F.O.T.R.E.
"Cain and Abel will go to Heaven if they can make it through Hell!"
-Los Hijos Del Topo -
syntinen — 17 years ago(February 20, 2009 09:23 AM)
That was because (a) it had an incoherent script, and the theatrical release made even less sense due to having about an hour roughly chopped out of it to reduce to to a sensible length for showing in commercial cinemas; and (b) it starred Orlando Bloom, who can't act his way out of a paper bag. There's no telling how successful it might have been with a sensible script and a really talented male lead.
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Rueiro — 12 years ago(March 29, 2014 03:25 AM)
A remake??? Half of the final film would consist of CGI effects! And what is worse: the sanctimonious PC brigade would take thorough care that the Christians would be portrayed as racist chauvinists while the Arab wannabe conquerors would be the misunderstood, grossly bullied victims of racial prejudice.
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IndianaMcClane — 12 years ago(March 29, 2014 05:06 PM)
Shortly after
Gladiator
was released and became a big hit producer Arthur Sarkissian intended to do a remake, claiming that this film would be his blueprint, and claimed it would be a superior remake to the original like
Gladiator
was in his mind to
The Fall of the Roman Empire
. (Naturally it's all to our own discretion whether or not we think he's actually right about that.) It got to the point that Martin Campbell was hired to direct and Antonio Banderas to star (the team from the highly successful
The Mask of Zorro
). But things were slowed down/muddled after conflict escalated in the Middle East and definitively killed after
Kingdom of Heaven
(which also dealt with Christian and Muslim conflict and was set in the Middle Ages) underperformed at the box office. With the epic genre as well pretty much fading away with it sans a few exceptions. -
jonathanv_00 — 10 years ago(November 28, 2015 02:00 PM)
The thing about a remake is that it could tell us something interesting about how medieval societies operated, and what the era was really like and how it can inform today. If you could do it right, with historical accuracy, you would have the Castilian kings exacting their parias (protection money, basically) from the Muslim taifa kingdoms to the point where they were too weak to defend themselves from Castile or from each other, which leads them to invite the real fanatics from North Africa. The Muslim taifa kingdoms themselves were a mixed bag, but virtually all of them were tolerant to one degree or another of the Jews and Christians that they ruled over. Yes, there was jizya, there were taxes, and there were dhimmi - non-Muslim, less than full-fledged citizens - but there wasn't the fanaticism that we see later, after 1090 with the invasion of the Almoravids (and later the Almohadids).
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StarshipTrouper — 9 years ago(December 02, 2016 08:05 AM)
Why would anyone want to see a remake of one of the great films?
No one on the planet has the charisma and presence of Heston.
Other films butchered when remade.
Get Carter
Psycho
Alfie
Dial M for murder
To name a few