| re: Couldn't disagree more with this. | |
| Posted by: royscho 02:27 am EST 01/28/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Couldn't disagree more with this. - Chazwaza 01:22 pm EST 01/27/18 | |
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| Again, I think *you* are missing the point. The "they" that are going to remake the movie are the ones that directing and writing it. They acquired the rights. There isn't any entity above them that's assigning directing or writing duties. It's THEIR movie. They got the rights for themselves. If two people, both of them old friends and have a (successful) history of collaborating together want to make a movie themselves, why should they not do it? Because they are white? WSS movie has been around for over 60 years. If anyone else wanted to remake it, they were welcome to pick up the rights. I am sure the estates would be happy for more royalties. The point is that no one has picked up the ball, despite your previous assertion that "many in the Latin community might be desperate" for this movie to be remade. Also, which director and writer do have experience with film adaptations of book musicals? It's not like we're at the 50s and 60s. Musicals get made once a year, if we're lucky. So there are barely A-movie directors who have wealth of experience of directing musicals. And directing or adapting a previous musical doesn't guarantee success. (See Rob Marshall's Nine or Adam Shankman's Rock of Ages). A person like Spielberg who mastered sci-fi, spectacles, drama, action and comedies would likely master another genre. I daresay his body of work is more of a success predictor than the color of his skin. An by "success," I also mean a sensitive adaptation of ethnically-diverse material. You also keep saying that the only reason to do this remake is "more authentic casting" and the "physical production", and therefore it's "ironic" "they" hired a white director. But that's only in YOUR mind. Because, again, no one "hired" a white director, and no one provided any reasons for doing a remake. Maybe Spielberg is doing this movie because it's been his life-long dream to direct WSS? Having a net worth of 3.6B dollar and wanting to do it, does he really need another reason? Or maybe he's doing it because he doesn't care for the original and wants to do something that he considers better? (And, yes, some people don't think that WSS movie is the holiest of holies*.) Then you claim that "no doubt" Laurents would agree with you that a Latin should write the script. Fine. You seem to be making a lot assertion that are not based on facts - just your interpretation of facts - and building up a lot unsubstantial arguments based on them. At the end of the day, you're trying to apply popular identity politics on a situation in which it's really not applicable. Not logically, anyway. (*Some may argue that WSS movie is dated and have terrible pacing. The book is not perfectly written. It's dated and it has aged badly. Bernstein wouldn't see the movie because of the way his music was treated. And consider the arguments in the famous Pauline Kael review for the New Yorker.) |
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