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I’m doing an argumentative paper on the exorcist and why it should never be remade. Can I have some of your reasons why it shoudn’t?
Very interesting paper to write about, grindhouse! Would you be willing to share it with us once it’s completed?
Father Bowdern
fatherbowdern– absolutely! I read it to 3 other kids in my class, like we were supposed to, and It got RAVE review. very opinionated, vocabulary was divine. They’d just like to see more examples or movie remakes that sucked. I mentioned RZ’s HALLOWEEN in my paper, but I said IT DIDNT suck. I liked it…
Wonderful news to hear, grindhouse! Would you post the paper here so we all can have a look? I’m glad it worked out.
FB
I will post it as soon as I can. Promise!! I dont have the paper with me as I am typing this, lolol.
It would be like remaking the Mona Lisa or Van Gogh’s Starry Night. Once you’ve hit the top…there is no way but down. It is the same way I feel about a remake of John Carpenter’s The Thing….what they would do with it with crappy CGI. When all the elements are right, you get the perfect chemical reaction….like Friedkin achieved on the Exorcist. Modern horror is a money making business…..they are the cheapest to produce and return the most money back. The horror directors of the past were not in it for the money, but simply as a love for the genre or to make a statement. I think that the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies are the WORST shit Hollywood has put out….Nothing will EVER compare to Hooper’s original. And hacks like Rob Zombie are in the business simply to show off his untalented wife’s ass, and make a music video of songs he likes (Freebird, etc.) within his films. If Rob Zombie is listening….take some tips from a better filmmaker on how to actually use music in a film—Carpenter and Scorsese come to mind. I’m sick to death of horror remakes and cannot wait until a new resurgence of horror originality emerges perhaps with talents like Neil Marshall. I hope you guys like my opinions (I’ve been studying film all my life including at the University level).
Thanks.Amen, jguthrie. You are preaching to choir! I’ve been saying the same things here on this website. My analogies are not only focused on remakes, but the dreadful TYVNS of The Exorcist. Even if I was not a big fan of the original, I think what WB did to the film is disgraceful by utilizing idiotic CGI to “update” a masterpiece to say it’s a version you’ve never seen. Bull. It’s was a version to milk the cash cow even more to a “newer” audience.
I could argue reasons against an Exorcist remake until I was black and blue. Most of them would be personal nostalgic reasons, and dealing with respect for original material. Truth is, a remake would be extremely interesting and intrigues me a great deal.
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