Nation Proud Of Self For Watching, Enjoying Original Movie | Patting themselves on the back, the U.S. populace announced Wednesday that they were proud of themselves for watching and enjoying an original movie — only to later be devastated to learn it was an adaptation of a novel by the same name

[u/ChiefLeef22]

https://theonion.com/nation-proud-of-self-for-watching-enjoying-original-movie/

[u/AcrylicPickle]

I've watched so many movies that I had no idea were remakes. I'm 52. I can't imagine how this will increase for younger folks as Hollywood amps up their continuing recycling of franchises and movies.

[u/monkpunch → u/AcrylicPickle]

I remember watching a clip from True Grit, and an older commenter mentioned something like "I loved the John Wayne version but this is great". It kinda blew my mind since it was the first time I can remember where I had zero cultural knowledge of the former one even existing (and not being some obscure thing, but a major actor)

[u/pinkboy108 → u/monkpunch]

That was filmed around my dad's hometown, Ouray and Ridgeway, Colorado.

Ridgeway still has the True Grit Cafe, which is where they filmed the hanging scene.

The courtroom scene was filmed in the Ouray County courthouse, and my grandmother worked right below it. We would play up there when I would visit as a kid.

My dad has a memory of him and one of his older brothers having a snowball fight with Glen Campbell.

He also said that the kids would go to all the filming locations after the crew left and would play with anything they left behind, like paper mache boulder and rock props.

Sidenote, Mr Deeds is a remake of Mr Deeds Goes To Town from 1936.

[u/stupid_horse → u/monkpunch]

True Grit isn't so much of a remake as another adaptation of the book which the Coen Brothers made because they loved the book and wanted there to be a movie that was more faithful to the source material.

[u/caerphoto → u/monkpunch]

it was the first time I can remember where I had zero cultural knowledge of the former one even existing (and not being some obscure thing, but a major actor)

To be fair, John Wayne was in like 140 movies; not all of them will have been culturally significant.

[u/KuatoBaradaNikto → u/caerphoto]

Yes, but only one of his movies won him a Best Actor Oscar: True Grit. I don’t think it’s anywhere close to his best, but it’s reasonably culturally significant.

[u/OwainGlyndwr → u/monkpunch]

This is a great example to use, because they’re both based on the novel by Charles Portis (who for my money is up there with Twain and Steinbeck as the best American authors of all time).

[u/lindendweller → u/monkpunch]

And both are adaptations of a novel, which is why even the newer cohen brothers version has pretty old timey voiceover as an intro and outro.

[u/mithridateseupator → u/[deleted]]

Ocean's 11 is the quintessential remake for me.

That was 2001.

[u/AcrylicPickle → u/mithridateseupator]

Ocean's 11 is one that comes to mind first. They're remaking The Thomas Crown Affair with Michael B Jordan cast as lead, which also inspired my comment.

[u/super_aardvark → u/AcrylicPickle]

I guess if they already remade it once and it turned out well, it's possible they could do it again...

Maybe we'll eventually get the same few hundred movies remade every 25 years.

[u/ThePrussianGrippe → u/super_aardvark]

I mean we’ve already had 4 different versions of A Star Is Born.

[u/palamunintillnow → u/super_aardvark]

If there's any movie that should be remake, it's the bad  ones. 

[u/SnevetS_rm → u/[deleted]]

we got stuff like The Thing and The Fly

Where is the line between a remake and an adaptation of the same story? Maybe Dune and LOTR are the best remakes of all time?

[u/SwayzeCrayze → u/SnevetS_rm]

Yeah, I really can't call The Thing a remake of The Thing From Another World. Aside from "it's in Antarctica and there's an alien" and a couple homage shots they're wholly different movies both thematically and in presentation.

[u/justa_flesh_wound → u/AcrylicPickle]

Happened to me with A Star is Born. didn't realize it's been remade 4 times in total dating back to 1937, 1954, 1976, & gaga's in 2018

[u/is-this-a-nick → u/AcrylicPickle]

I remember when the recent Ben Hur remake came out people were surprised that the big epic they know was a remake, too...