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Which do people prefer,original works, or Hollywood knock offs? Why am I asking this, you ask? Simple, I have a slight fedish with foriegn films, such as Koji Suzuki's Ring series, or the Irish television series Father Ted. If something like father ted were to be brought to america and remade, I think i would die...Yeah...I digress... Anyhow, tell me which you prefer!
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Coupling the original was far better than Coupling the American version.
But we could also expand this to include Hollywood originals or Bollywood knock-offs. There are plenty of Bollywood movies (as in, a lot, really) that are copies of several Hollywood movies - they combine elements of this, that, and the other to form their own version. For example, Koi...Mil Gaya, which is a lot of E.T. with sprinklings of Flowers for Algernon (the book, really. Don't know if a movie was ever made) and some Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Or Dewaar, which is The Great Escape. Or the one that was a knock-off of Serendipity. Then there was the knock-off of The Invisible Man.
I enjoyed the Bollywood knock-offs. Koi...Mil Gaya wasn't as good as I remember E.T. being, but then, I saw only the last 1/2 of it whenever it originally came back, so maybe that's just a childhood memory coming into play. However, it was still enjoyable. Same with Dewaar - a very good movie, but then it has Amitabh Bachchan in it, and his movies tend to be very good.
But then, they have different intended audiences, which becomes even more obvious when you watch them. Imagine The Great Escape with singing and dancing numbers done by supposedly emaciated nearly dying prisoners. It's laughable to westerners, but expected by the Hindi audience.
Better? Worse? Depends. How about just different?
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I liked the book Flowers for Algernon much more than Charly. I thought it was a better format to tell the story with--the journal entries.
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quote:Imagine The Great Escape with singing and dancing numbers done by supposedly emaciated nearly dying prisoners. It's laughable to westerners, but expected by the Hindi audience.
Actually, that sounds rather excellent. Posts: 7877 | Registered: Feb 2003
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And none of this answers the original question...
My, but we do get sidetracked easily, don't we?
Raia, it was rather good. If you can, see it. If you can't, if you ask me real nice, I might send you a copy. Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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What's it called, again? I couldn't figure it out from your original post. I'll see if the Ozen has it, and if they do, I'll check it out. If not, I'll let you know. Posts: 7877 | Registered: Feb 2003
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Dewaar. It's even linked to itself in the IMDB database. For your ease of retrieval and informational purposes. Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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You could also check out the Bollywood thread for other movie recommendations.
But Raia, I meant that, in this thread, the first time I mention Dewaar, it's linked to the IMDB database. I think you missed that.
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Oh, haha, I did. Oops. Thanks, quid! I don't think the Ozen has it ( ), but I don't trust the website to tell me. I'll have to go and ask them at some point.
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You can also check out the entry labelled Bollywood for Beginners in this thread for even more Bollywood recommendations.
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