It’s quite common knowledge throughout most movie fans, sites and the posts on the MovieBlog that Hollywood are fantastic at taking ideas and movies from other people in other countries and ruining them. Even slight changes can destroy the movie and we see that the original was much better.
The current Hollywood trend is to suck the talent from Asia and bring it to the US polluting it and ripping it apart on the way. Hideo Nakata being the very latest to fall to this bad practice.
Good thing is that the always outspoken Ewan McGregor agrees with the whole corrupting influence of Hollywood. The Irish Examiner have him saying:
“Hollywood’s good at picking up people who are hot, you know what I mean? Someone’s hot in Europe, they try and put them to good use.
“Very often they’re brought over here and not allowed to do what made them great in the first place and they disappear – I’m thinking about the guy that directed Nightwatch, Ole Bornedal, who I made the remake with.
“Miramax started messing around with the end and they took all the interesting things out of the movie. Nightwatch ended up a spooky but bland movie, whereas the original is really weird and terrifying.”
Well there’s a good advert for that movie then! He’s spot on though, and at some point these outside talents need to see that and not be allured in just for the money. They really need to fight to retain their individuality, or remain outside, produce the material and distribute worldwide without a remake, that model definitely does work. What are your thoughts?
