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Essay / Hollywood Film Analysis - 2258
Which seems to be a sentiment that many filmmakers themselves seem to share, as filmmaker Zack Snyder once said about his remake, Dawn of the Dead: "I had no desire to remake the film. For me, a remake is taking a script and reshooting it… A reshoot of the original version was therefore not necessary. Reinterpretation is what we wanted to do. Think again. Snyder actually makes a good point: remaking a movie isn't the way to remake a movie, but rather you have to tell the story in a very different way. This reshooting of a film rarely happens, a perfect example is Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho, which by all accounts was considered a terrible film by critics and audiences. This actually raises a very good point: there are actually many different styles of remakes, which makes the concept of a remake stand out as being a unique form of remake.