- The English original is all about the Zephyr - a battery that never dies and can power entire cities - and how Cruise saves it from falling into wrong hands. In the Hindi remake, Bang Bang, the Kohinoor is what Hrithik is after. Not much of a similarity there, but the fact that there's one object that many people are lusting after.
english Knight And Day Remake
The image of George most familiar to us today, the saint dressed in a white tunic bedecked with a red cross, astride his stallion, and skewering a dragon as he rescues a fair maiden, depends more on a late medieval and Renaissance ideal of this miles Christi (knight of Christ) than on his legend in its earlier forms, in which the dragon and the maiden play no part and George's role is one of verbal jousting and violent suffering rather than knightly derring-do.
S. George was a knight and born in Cappadocia. On a time he came in to the province of Libya, to a city which is said Silene. And by this city was a stagne or a pond like a sea, wherein was a dragon which envenomed all the country.
Then said S. George: Fair daughter, doubt ye no thing hereof for I shall help thee in the name of Jesu Christ. She said: For God's sake, good knight, go your way, and abide not with me, for ye may not deliver me.
When Edward III (1327-77) founded the Order of the Garter (c. 1348), the premier order of knighthood in England, he put it under Saint George's patronage. The magnificent St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle was built by Edward IV and Henry VII as the chapel of the order. The badge of the Order shows Saint George on horseback slaying the dragon.
We all know how bad remakes can be. Many are overdone, with too much CGI and too little acting, while others stray way too far from the original to truly be considered a remake. While we could debate the worst remakes all day, there's really no point, because they are better left in the past. Luckily, sometimes all the right factors come together and you get something familiar but also new and interesting. For science fiction films in particular, some of the most influential and successful past films were revolutionary at the time, but as moviemaking technology made such huge leaps over the past few decades, the difference is stark. On the other hand, CGI doesn't necessarily make a movie good. So which remakes are actually worth the effort?
To start off with a really great one, I'd argue that both the original and the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers are neck and neck for which is best. The first film, released all the way back in 1956, was in black and white and centered around a fictional small town called Santa Mira. Kevin McCarthy stars as Dr. Miles Bennell, a man who sees his town fall into hysterics as people start to believe that their relatives are being replaced by imposters who look just like them. Soon enough, Miles and his ex-girlfriend Becky Driscoll (Dana Wynter) find themselves in the middle of a true alien takeover, as people around them quickly get taken and replaced by new versions grown from alien pods.
The film made a huge impact, both on the science fiction genre and movies in general. Because of this, it was no surprise when Invasion of the Body Snatchers was remade in 1978. The movie successfully adapts the story to a more modern setting and presents it in a new way. The movie stars Donald Sutherland as a scientist working at a lab in San Francisco with Elizabeth Driscoll, played by Brooke Adams, who believes that he boyfriend isn't acting like himself. The story is very similar to the original but shocking in a different way, with an ending to rival the best out there. On top of that, it also stars Leonard Nimoy and Jeff Goldblum, the latter of which features in another remake on this list as well.
Fear not, this isn't about the 2001 Planet of the Apes by Tim Burton, which in all honesty, I didn't know existed until I wrote this article. While the original series of films from the 60s and '0s were cutting edge for the time, especially considering how little they could do in terms of special effects back then, the reboot series of films that began in 2011 with Rise of the Planet of the Apes, starring Andy Serkis, James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, and many more big names, are magnificent films on their own and as remakes.
Seriously, who would've thought that movies about apes revolting against humans would work so well not once, but twice, with completely different audiences and moviemaking techniques. While the new films are great stories with complex characters and worldbuilding, they are worth seeing simply for the acting of cast members like Serkis, Karin Konoval, Richard Ridings, and more, who bring real humanity to the ape characters, which are created through performance capture and special effects. The Rise of the Planet of the Apes films are an example of a remake that does justice to the original while also being a true example of how far moviemaking has come over just a handful of decades.
The 1982 cult classic science fiction horror movie The Thing is technically based on the novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr., but it's also a remake of the 1951 black-and-white movie The Thing from Another World, which is also referred to as The Thing. The original film focuses on a team of U.S. Air Force crew members and a handful of scientists who find an alien frozen in ice in the Arctic. Wanting to study it, the trouble comes after they accidentally defrost the creature, only to find that it is still alive and very murderous.
The 1982 remake is directed by John Carpenter, whose name alone should convince you of the movie's integrity as a hit horror film. Starring Kurt Russell as the helicopter pilot MacReady, the movie follows a group of scientists and researchers in Antarctica who discover the titular "Thing," a creature that induces paranoia in the group due to its ability to look like someone else. As you might expect, this leads everyone to suspect one another as they start ending up dead. With a cast that also includes Keith David, Wilford Brimley, Richard Masur, T.K. Carter, and more, the movie has amazing performances and in-depth characters, which are only amplified by the more expansive special effects capabilities compared to in 1951.
A truly international icon of a character, the ginormous prehistoric monster first came onto the scene in the 1954 film Godzilla, growing in prominence through the 30 or so Japanese films that followed featuring the character. With such appreciation, it makes sense that other people have attempted to make their own version of Godzilla, to varying degrees of success. Well, in the case of 2014's Godzilla, the Warner Bros. film directed by Gareth Edwards, the remake was very successful. With modern CGI to depend on, the film presents a more grounded take on the classic franchise, starring the likes of Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, and Sally Hawkins.
Definitely one of the most recent remakes on this list, I'm referring to the 2020 film directed by Leigh Whannell and starring Elisabeth Moss. The movie is a quasi-remake of the 1933 film starring Claude Rains and Gloria Stuart, and both are based on the book of the same name by H. G. Wells. The original film is about a man who becomes invisible after a special experiment. The transformation eventually drives him crazy, with the man performing darker and darker acts while invisible, eventually committing murder.
Along with Moss and Jackson-Cohen, it also stars Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid, and Harriet Dyer as Cecelia's support system who try to help her even when they think she's experiencing paranoia and hallucinations as a side effect of the trauma she went through while dating Adrian. The Invisible Man perfectly blends social commentary with brutal science fiction-based horror to make one of the best horror movies, and remakes, in recent years.
In 1995, Sylvester Stallone starred in a film called Judge Dredd, based on the pre-existing comic book character of the same name. As with a lot of Stallone movies, the film is so bad, it's good (though even that's debatable). Set in 2080, Stallone plays Judge Joseph Dredd, a "street judge" who is allowed to serve his own justice, no matter how intense, to criminals on the street. It's a good enough movie, but the 2012 remake is arguably much, much better.
The movie, named just Dredd, stars Karl Urban as the iconic character, seeking out justice in a dystopian future. Dredd is filled with fantastic actors who were more up-and-coming at the time of release, like Lena Headey, Olivia Thirlby, Wood Harris, and Domhnall Gleeson, and all of the characters are much more multidimensional than their 1995 film counterparts. Seriously, the remake had a very low bar to pass in terms of filmmaking and story with Dredd, but it actually went a bit about that, becoming quite a good sci-fi movie in its own right.
Another H. G. Wells story adapted for the screen, The War of the Worlds began as a 1953 film starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson. The film was a major success both critically and at the box office, and it really does a fantastic job bringing a complicated science fiction story to life with the limited capabilities of the time. The War of the Worlds has a serious legacy in American history, so taking on the story for a remake was a big task. Of course, some might argue that if it's Steven Spielberg behind the camera, it's not an issue at all. 2ff7e9595c
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