Hunter6 said:Finally, A Film-Maker speaks out about and attack all the Re-Made,Re-boot,Re-**** and so on.
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From
http://fridaythe13thfilms.com/blog/stephen-romano-sounds-off-on-remakes-including-friday-the-13th/
and
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=26429762&blogID=470629946
From screenwriter Stephen Romano (Incident On And Off A Mountain Road):
It's OFFICIAL. Everything you love has been destroyed.
This is a distress call from the Planet Earth. The REAL planet Earth. The one that made sense when I was growing up. Not the one we’re living on now. I don’t know how the fuck it happened, but the Earth I used to know has been DESTROYED. Everything I love is gone . . . and all that remains is . . . well, I don’t know what it is, but I hate it and I want it to stop.More at:
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=26429762&blogID=470629946
Yeah, I have felt that way in the past. About a year ago, those sentiments summed up my feelings quite well. But now reality has set in, and I realize, who really cares? The popular things we grew up with are all being remade. Everything that was special is being sucked out of them. It is to be expected. These knew knockoffs are all like pyrite to the gold we grew up with. But as long as their is money to be made, this is going to happen. At least the originals of most things are still around. If I feel the need to revisit past shows, movies, comics books, or video games I grew up with, modern technology allows me to do so quick and easily.
This feeling is the symtom of having grown up with anything, I suppose. These are the feelings I got when I visited the town I grew up in a while back and discovered the giant old tree me and my friends used to hang out at had been torn down, and the surrounding fields had been zoned into a new subdivision, the ditches we used to spend so much time hiding in had all be filled in, as was the pond we used to swim in. The once great world we used to escape to with our bows and arrows and BB guns was another borning neighborhood with grassy lawns, swingsets, and white picket fences. This exotic planet, this deserted island, this piece of a forgotten forest, this small amount of real estate on the moon of Endor, this place me and my pals used to lose ourselves in everyday after school, was gone forever. All that is left of it is own memories. That sucks. It pisses me off. I want to go back to that place, but I never can. Why? Because someone could make money buy selling that land and allowing a new subdivision to be placed on that spot. And who can blame them? It is reality, it is the way the world works. They can't just put this section of land on hold because a few kids have fond memories of it and can't allow it to be damaged for nastolgic reasons. Same goes for the subject at hand.
I get the same sort of feeling when I realize that Star Wars is no longer Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi, but a million other things that kids are enjoying just as much as I loved those films as a kid. The video games I grew up with as a kid and always lost myself in are now considered boring and lame to most kids. The cartoons I grew up with are not fit for them either, and must all be remade, with new actors, art styles, and story lines. The peope who own the rights to those things can't be expected to sit back and let them disappear into obscurity when there is money to be made.
Someday the kids enjoying these remakes, expansions, and poorly done "re-imaginings" of the things we loved as kids, will grow up and go through the same thing we are going through. The world will continue to spin, and ideas will continue to be recycled. Every now and then something original and new will come along, and it will be really great for a while, then it too will go through revisions, knock-offs, remakes and re-imaginings. So it goes.