Who would you pick to star in a remake?
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ae7641 — 21 years ago(October 26, 2004 01:03 PM)
Recently saw this film on tv again and looked for comments on it. Think making this as a comedy is a stupid idea. A drama with some funny moments is okay, but not a complete comedy. But what about this: make the white guy older so he represents the old racist ideas that hasn't gone away, with a modern day black? Just an idea, but its better than a comedy version, I think. Really, though, I don't think this film should be remade as it wouldn't have the impact as the orignial.
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prs42147 — 20 years ago(May 23, 2005 07:43 AM)
I agree that the movie should not be remade as a comedy. What a ridiculous concept. However, I don't think you would have to cast an older white actor to make the racist persona believable. Racism certainly is alive and well among a large enough segment of the younger white (and black, too, I guess) population. I would go for someone of the caliber of Sean Penn for the Tony Curtis role, and, perhaps, one of the rapper/actors (Ice Cube, for example) in the Sidney Poitier role. (But, Cuba Gooding would be an excellent choice, also.) I also wonder if the settings could be reversed. Rather than running through the swamps and hills hoping to make it to the anonymity of a big city, the escapees would be on the run in a large city, where it would be easier for police with modern technology to keep close on their trail, and their goal is to get out of the city to the mountains or swamps (perhaps Montana or Idaho, or southern Louisiana or western North Carolina), where they would be able to "disappear."
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firehazard17 — 19 years ago(November 12, 2006 11:43 PM)
why would anyone even think about tarnishin this masterpiece of a movie into turning it into some circus side show I mean come on hollywood leave the classics alone and start thinking up new ideas you stupid sob's!
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smitty1941 — 17 years ago(April 12, 2008 05:37 PM)
I don't think it should be remade either. This movie is absolutely perfect as it is. People shouldn't try to redo it. It can't be copied, it can't be surpassed, and, as someone else said, Hollywood should quit remaking the good old classics and start thinking up new and original ideas.
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tohu — 15 years ago(May 02, 2010 09:50 PM)
Hear Hear! Hey guys. If you were re-painting the Mona Lisa what colours would you use???!!!
What would be better is if someone bought the rights to the movie and put all the money into marketing it to be re-shown in cinemas all round the world.
"Maybe I should go alone"
- Quint, Jaws.
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jerikaljdkf — 20 years ago(July 09, 2005 10:44 AM)
It would depend on whether it was a comedy or staying as a drama as to who I would cast in it. If it was a drama, I'd get Ewan McGregor (cuz I thought Tony Curtis looked like Ewan in some scenes) or Johnny Depp and Sean Patrick Thomas. If it was gonna be a comedy, I'd get Chris Evans and Martin Lawerence.
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AnonII — 19 years ago(July 15, 2006 08:46 AM)
Re comedy re-make idea: The classic moment of The Defiant Ones was actually lampooned a long time ago (not sure who did it on TV but distinctly recall seeing it). In the iconic(SPOILER alert) almost-final scene where a CU shows black and white hands reaching out to help each other, the parody version has the Poitier character suddenly pulling back his hand from the Curtis character at the last second and gleefully deserting the sucker with a line that went something like: "Bye bye, whitey."
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pug32 — 19 years ago(October 08, 2006 09:03 AM)
i know exactly what you're talking about. a friend and i use to bust up at the early '80's half hour comedy sketch of the george kirby show. most shows will depict kirby and a white guess chained together and the laughs rolled in.
i believe this is where the re-make comedy idea comes from and i share w/ most posters that this shouldn't be done. but for fun i choose chris rock and jeff foxworthy -
hartinm — 20 years ago(December 04, 2005 07:42 PM)
Unfortunately, Hollywood already remade/ruined this classic film with 1996's "FLED". It starred Lawrence Fishbourne and Stephen Baldwin. It wasn't a drama, or a comedy, or really much of anything. The racial conflict is that there is not a racial conflict with the exception of one surly line from Baldwin. If they make this movie again I will only have a question: WHY!?
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Xardas — 19 years ago(September 09, 2006 03:04 PM)
It was also redone with Robert Urich and Carl Weathers in 1986.
He's right, already made. And for what I remember (I watched when I was a kid) it wasn't a bad film.
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