Foreign Remake: Difference between revisions

Say you're a writer/director who has managed to make a good film outside of the Hollywood system. Congratulations! Hollywood is so impressed with your movie that they want make it for themselves and change everything. [[Money, Dear Boy|You say yes]], and heck, they might even let you direct it, but don't hold your breath. First off, your script needs a [[Cultural Translation|total rewrite]] to massage out all the [[Values Dissonance]]. Then all your unknown actors are swapped out for Hollywood stars. The [[Setting Update|setting will probably get changed]], and production values get upgraded by a factor of ten. The resulting Foreign Remake might become a [[Adaptation Distillation]] or [[Adaptation Decay]] depending on the minds at work.

 

Contrast with [[Canada Does Not Exist]], where by design or by imposition, Canadians make their own foreign remakes ''without'' making a domestic original first.

 

=== Films: Listed with American release name and Original name (plus years and country of origin for the original ones) : ===

* ''[[The Birdcage]]'' (1996) -- ''La Cage Aux Folles'' (1978)

 

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