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they should make a remake who else thinks so?
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Just watched this musical on TCM recently and thought of a remake as you did. Then I started thinking of the logistics and thought, "Why? How could they possibly do any better than Astaire, Rogers and Scott? That kind of magic just could not be recaptured." This movie is an oldie but a goodie, a true gem with Lucille Ball as a tart platinum lanky blonde and even Harriett as in Ozzie and....
I'm not saying to leave it alone, I'm just saying it's a hard act to follow or recreate. Great music and the dance numbers are fabulous and fun to watch.
I'm not saying to leave it alone
I am: leave it alone. You know they couldn't do it any better, so why waste time having them try?
It'd be nice to see some of those Hollywood types earning their money for a change rather than simply recycling old ideas that were done better the first time around. I understand that film/TV production is an expensive business, but I'm also tired of hearing about how only "tried and true" ideas are fit to be produced because of the costs involved. I'll start paying $10 for a movie ticket again when directors and producers start doing something new and worthwhile rather than crap remakes or (worse) crap sequels of movies that weren't all that great in the first place. I mean, enough already.
Anyone who claims that Hollywood is in some sort of second "Golden Age" needs to look again. I would argue that they are almost irreparably stuck in some sort of "Dark Brown Age."
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Definitly NOT do a remake. The only thing you could improve would be the plot but apart from that the heart of the film is fred and ginger and you just can't replace those two. Anyway musicals are dead today and if one made a modern version of this film it would just be seen as dull as the plot isnt very good anyway.
shareOnce upon a time, there was a good reason to remake classic movies. That's before classic movies were shown on TV and available on tape and DVD. But classics are often classics partially because of the stars who, as in this case, are no longer with us.
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I don't see anything wrong with remakes. For one thing, if the original is based on literature, then the remake is really just another interpretation of the literature. If the scriptwriters of the remakes want to give the story their own twist, then why not? A remake is only unnecessary if it's too similar to the original.
Besides, a lot of storylines are used over and over again in movies, even if those movies aren't remakes. For example, the 1960 movie "Where the Boys Are"...This one is about young adults going on spring break and having an adventure during their holidays. This theme has been done a number of times for the big screen. And why not?
Often, people will whine about a movie being remade, without realizing that the so-called "original" version is a remake itself. Some examples include: "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946), "Gaslight" (the American version), and "How to Marry a Millionaire" (1953...it's going to be remade soon, I've heard). Lots of complaints about "You've Got Mail" being a remake of "The Shop Around the Corner", but these whiners don't seem to know about "In the Good Old Summertime" (a remake from 1949) and the Broadway play.
Let's not forget that Hitchcock remade one of his own movies.
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Follow the Fleet itself was a remake of Shore Leave and Hit the Deck!
I've danced with you, I'm never gonna dance again - Lucky to Penny in Swingtime, 1936
This movie is a remake, and it was remade years ago. I wish that people would do the research before posting...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027630/trivia?tab=mc
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Yeah, another poster pointed that out. However, the 1955 HIT THE DECK looks like a case of two movies with the same title but unrelated to each other. The plots and names of characters are totally different from each other.
Anyway as another poster pointed out, it would be difficult to do a decent remake now because there don't appear to be any dance duos like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers around and the public doesn't seem to go for that kind of musical anymore. Also, the depiction of the navy is hopelessly out of date now. The idea of two happy-go-lucky guys on shore leave just doesn't sound appealing with the feelings toward our current military actions.
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Yeah, I see what you mean. A remake in this case would be quite different than the thirties version. It probably wouldn't be a musical, for one thing, and the plot would be presented in quite a different fashion. It's kind of like comparing "Shop Around the Corner" to "You've Got Mail". The basic idea is the same, but they made quite a few changes to compensate for the different time period.
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Fred and Ginger are peerless and unmatched :)
incidently 'I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket' and 'Lets Face the Music and Dance' have found their way into the stage version of Top Hat (just opened in The West End)
I've danced with you, I'm never gonna dance again - Lucky to Penny in Swingtime, 1936
"Follow the Fleet" is perfect. There is no reason to remake it. There are no musical performers on this level in movies anymore, as junk like "La La Land" proves.
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