City of Angels is an abomination and insult to one of the greatest movies ever
made. Wings of Desire is pure beautiful aching film making genius. The people
who made City of Angels should be forced to sit in an enclosed room with a pack
of gassy dogs until the end of days.
Bosco
--- On Thu, 11/20/08, marian_changling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: marian_changling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Korean Film the Host gets Americanized
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 1:15 PM
I am not optimistic.
It's strange. I've watched several foriegn movies paired with their
American counterparts. The American movies almost always fail with
me. The only exception that I can think of is "The Lake House".
It's not just horror movies that suffer.
"Wings of Desire" became a less worthy american movie, "City of
Angels"
"The Wicker Man" because an absolutely awful American movie.
I prefer "Ringu" to "The Ring".
The Dutch film "The Vanishing" became a lousy film, even though done
by the same director.
On the other hand, other countries eat up our action-adventure
pictures like crazy. Is there a national character that can not be
translated into film? We can make a "Die-Hard" and no one else
can? They can make "Oldboy" and we can't? (and yes, I heard that
there is an American version of that planned.)
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com, KeithBJohnson@ ... wrote:
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> How do you think it will be changed when it's redone as an
American film?
