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?
I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU EWAN AND I WILL NOT LET ANY ONE MAKE FUN OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE MCGREGORS BABE!!!!!!!!!!
EWAN MCGREGOR IS THE FITTEST MAN EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and he’s british so he’s one of us so put that up ur ass u americans, and he is the best actor ever so do not take the piss coz i’ll beat the ….. out of u!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Many people of today get confused as to what really drives the film indusrty. Morals and many aspects like individuality desperse as prodution comes to be. Money controls this which leads to unessasery influence and corruption.It is entrenched throughout many places in the world especially in Hollywood.
h-town’s stale as lastnight’s popcorn! :P
They made an American version of Nightwatch already??
Let’s you know how stail H-Town has become.
Donna A.
*greatest actors today :P
chow yun fat, jackie chan… they have never been utilized to the best of their acting capabilities in hollywood.
also, a shame that no one has ever heard of one of the greatest actors of today tony leung, outside of north america.
Bring it on Ewan! These Scottish men, how outspoken can they all get? LOL
I dont really know about that Rich, I mean, Hollywood promises big returns because of the publicity their repackaged products would generate, how much artistic control can these “outside talents” really wield over their projects?
Hollywood should just really leave alone these wonderful projects and start coming up with fresh, original ideas. Mind you its not just Asian cinema they are tampering with but their own great original films they recently all decided to make remakes of. I shy away from films that have been repackaged, especially foreign films that Hollywood have “experimented” on, if I can still have access to the original version, I will rather get them.