Identity theft has happened all the time. With current technological advances and a fine tuned argument, this story could be a real success. What do you think? What would you change?
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The big difference is that with social networking, almost everybody has people who know them, and perhaps LOTS of people. I mean, evidence of a person being who they are is probably on various computers all over the world and possibly back up drives that are not hooked in.
The best possible scenario would be some type of NSA advanced "skynet" (from the terminator 3 movie type deal) form of artificial intelligence that is so advanced and hooked up to EVERYTHING that it can override and delete anything it doesn't want to exist at any time.
And then we still have like...hard copies...old hard drives...real pictures...real friends...doctors...dentists...
They would have to be going after one person and that person would have to be hellishly important for some reason and despite that importance, almost unknown.
I just don't think it could work.
they can do it and it can be pretty good. i know plenty of computer people that are introverts and do not use any social networks. besides with nsa and the patriot act you can do a lot worse now :)
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shareI'd love to see a modern day update. Much more feasible to have all that data on flash drives rather than floppy disks anyway. I nominate Tina Fey to play Angela.
Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel...
I'm sure she'd never do it, but I could see Sandra Bullock starring in the remake. Has that ever been done? She's still young enough and relevant enough to pull it off. It could help with marketing, too. "Sandra Bullock stars in the remake of her own 20-year-old film."
sharePersonally, I have never sat back at the end of a film and thought “Well that had bits that were more than five years old. It really could do with a fresh coat of paint. No! It needs a remake! Now who would I cast for the lead from today’s crop of actors?”
This just doesn’t happen in my universe. In fact, I’ve never heard anyone opine about the need for a remake after watching a film.
If a film was good, I think about the plot, the subtext and other clever aspects of the film.
If it wasn’t good, I tend to shrug and forget about it.
But I never, ever think about the need for remakes, and I’ve never, ever heard anyone express a desire for a remake, except at IMDB.
So I suppose these endless speculations about remakes, and who should be cast in them, must come from industry scouts looking for an idea to present to their bosses, or people who are so embedded in the Hollywood “film industry” way of thinking that they act like industry scouts, without even being paid for it.
How bizarre. I don’t view (good) films as “product.” I tend to view the best as works of art, and I assumed most people in film — at some level and at some time in their career — really wanted to make something that was at least new and fresh, rather than rehashing something because the financials look solid.
I know film is just a business to most, and I’m being naive, but it’s hard for someone with my world-view to understand someone with a diamettically opposite world-view, like the OP and industry scouts and scout-wannabes. Furthermore, I want to stay naive.
I refer to anyone who thinks a film should be remade as a f*k*g moron.
How about making something that hasn't been done...idiots.
I, personally, am sick of the rash of remakes. I have yet to see one I have enjoyed anywhere near as much as the original. For example, just today, I was talking with a younger cousin. She and her friends had rented The Great Gatsby over the weekend. She was talking about how Leonardo DiCaprio was so great in it. None of them knew it was a book, which I couldn't believe, but then to make it worse they had no idea Robert Redford had played the role. Robert Redford is Jay Gatsby as far as I'm concerned. I just couldn't by Leo in the role.
shareI wonder if people who saw the 1926 version of The Great Gatsby with Warner Baxter felt that way in 1949 when Alan Ladd starred in the remake. Then in 1974 which was the first I saw in the theater, I wonder if Alan Ladd fans felt about Redford as you do about DiCaprio. I've seen them all and like all of them. The only one I haven't seen is the 2000 tv movie version. Personally I can't picture Toby Stephens as Gatsby or Mira Sorvino as Daisy (although I like both as actors), so I have no burning desire to see that one. I like some remakes, some I've loved, others I've hated. Just don't ever mess with Harry Potter and I'll be okay, lol.
shareYeah I like remakes too as some are great and better than their originals but some are terrible. So as long as it's done right but no matter what there will be upset people that hate it. They've been remaking movies ever since they began making movies and will continue to do so. I'm looking forward to the Transformer movies already being rebooted with someone who won't mess up the original story. This movie could be great if it's done right especially with today's tech we have available compared to 1995. My favorite thing about watching this movie today is the old school internet and windows program we get to see on the screen. Reminds me of those early internet days. Makes me smile.
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