Shot for shot
If "Funny Games" feels familiar when it opens March 14, give yourself some indie bonus points. The upcoming film is a shot-for-shot remake of a 1997 feature of the same name ... by the same director, Austrian auteur Michael Haneke.
The film stars Naomi Watts and Tim Roth as a couple kidnapped by a pair of blue-blooded thugs.
Film studios are so sure U.S. audiences don't so much as peek at foreign films that they remake relatively new ones hoping to form a crowd. The same holds true for "The Lives of Others," the award-winning 2006 film currently being remade for stateside audiences.
Subtitles, apparently, are Kryptonite to American audiences.
(Photo: Naomi Watts has plenty to cry about in the forthcoming "Funny Games.")
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posted by Toto @ 1:55 PM
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I saw the original Funny Games to prep for the remake. We'll see if it lives up. The original was stunning. I was glad to have had the DVD, so I could watch the interview with Haneke's comments on why and how he made the film. Cool stuff!
Would LOVE to hear what what he has to say about the films ...
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