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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.
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** There was also an attempt to bring it to the US during the Reagan years. A pilot was aired, but never led to a series; the audience were shocked to see their leaders satirised so heavily, and objected to the grotesque puppets.
* Among all of the remakes of ''[[Married With Children]]'', the Russian one is notable because not only the entire show was remade (except for some of the less good episodes and some that couldn't be remade for various reasons) , but the show now continues with completely new episodes, some of which are co-written by writers from the original [[Mw C]] staff.
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** ''The Ropers'' - ''George and Mildred''
** ''Three's A Crowd'' - ''Robin's Nest''
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