{"id":2327,"date":"2012-05-18T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2012-05-18T23:56:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T23:56:00","slug":"the-problem-with-remakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/18\/the-problem-with-remakes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem with Remakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>But the point is that when a movie remake is launched, the property already possesses a history, a context, a vibe, and a perception by the culture-at-large.\u00a0 The critical task of the remake-r is to interpret those pre-existing characteristics and determine the &#8220;why&#8221; behind the initial and residual success.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>But that &#8220;why&#8221; isn&#8217;t always easy to understand, and it is even more difficult to replicate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The message &#8230; is that you can&#8217;t go home again.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/reflectionsonfilmandtelevision.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/cult-movie-review-lost-in-space-1998.html\">John Kenneth Muir<\/a>, with whom I tend to agree an uncanny amount of the time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the point is that when a movie remake is launched, the property already possesses a history, a context, a vibe, and a perception by the culture-at-large.\u00a0 The critical task of the remake-r is to interpret those pre-existing characteristics and determine the &#8220;why&#8221; behind the initial and residual success. &nbsp; But that &#8220;why&#8221; isn&#8217;t always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}