"Alfie" Remake - Why Do They Do This?

[BrianH]

In the remake of "Alfie", released this week, Jude Law plays one of the great amoral anti-heroes as "a gentle soul with commitment issues". Why do they have to remake films and f*** them up by changing the whole point?

What's it all about?

[Melendez]

I totally agree, but we still have the memories.

[Ian Davies]

The ''point'' Brian, is surely that there are few decent script writers left and that the art of the screenplay, like the art of character acting, is on a downward curve.

Planet of The Apes and Get Carter are, IMO, just two examples of remakes which insult the original, as was the American version of Luc Bresson's Nikita.

[BrianH]

Add The Italian Job to your list

[Ian Davies]

Indeed - a bunch of wooden ''beautiful people'' brat pack USA actors and actresses, a load of post Stars Wars special effects and screenplays containing liberal sprinklings of ''whatevers'' and other unintelligible garbage makes for a poor substitute for the real thing.

Christ, I'm getting old.

[PDJ]

After sitting through 2 painful hours last night, I nominate Battlestar Galactica for the list

The Birdcage was nowhere near as funny as La Cage aux Folles either

[trudij]

I'm sorry, but when I go to see Alfie - the LAST thing on my mind will be the quality of the remake........ B)

[BrianH]

You women are only interested in one thing

[Derek.Burgess]

Trudii,
i'm sure he will cook his own meal if you ask him nicely.

[trudij]

who will - Brian?? !!


is it not permissible for me to letch at Jude Law???? you lot will be leering over sienna and all the other ( admittedly gorgeous!! ) ladies.......


PHWOAR !!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!! !!!

[LUKE]

I saw King Arthur on pirate dvd about a month ago.Take it from me-you don't want to see it.

[tetley]

I think the point is that the target audience for this film would know nothing about the original. Not having been born at the time.

[DIVER]

Trudij
Seriously, would you like an intro to Jude Law? I know him and his mum and dad very well, having performed in the same show at Eltham 's Bob Hope Theatre some years ago(his dad directed or he wouldn't have got a part). His dad was a school headmaster in London and a decent actor himself. His mother was/is a very beautiful woman and a delightful and talented actress and director. They live in France now and I'm sure I could get to know when is next visiting them and set up a perchance meeting. Can you make France?

[an capall]

Diver, as you are so well connected, I suppose Angelina Jolie is out of the question? I can get to France quickly.

[DIVER]

An
I am connected to only a few famous people, your hearthrob not being one of them, and I assure you my connector is not what it used to be.

[BrianH]

Oi, leave Angelina alone!

[BrianH]

"I think the point is that the target audience for this film would know nothing about the original. Not having been born at the time"

I wasn't born at the time that, say, Citizen Kane was made. It doesn't prevent me from recognising it as one of the greatest films of all time.

But the point, if anything, is this: if they want to make a film to attract punters such as the lovely trudij starring the lovely Jude Law as a really nice guy who "has commitment issues", then why don't they write a script on the subject? They could call it Albert, Aaron, Archie or anything they like. Why take, and bowdlerise, Bill Naughton's story of a charming but ruthless sexual predator with an eye for the main chance which is still capable of shocking because of it's amorality and nastiness?

[an capall]

I wasn't born at the time that, say, Citizen Kane

I thought CK was made after Nosferatu, and you were in that.

[BrianH]

I was. I'm the one lying down. The other guy is from Dublin.

[Ardross]

So those scurrilous rumours that Alfie is based on the dissolute youth of the young Lord H - are not true !