They need to push propaganda quotas.

@therapist said:

They need to push propaganda quotas.

🙄 It is the same basic story, they have just changed the ethnicity of the main characters & the country. In the original Ove is Swedish & the new neighbor is Iranian. In this movie, Otto is American & the neighbor is Hispanic. Not sure where you are getting a 'propaganda push'?

In original the Iranian had Swedish husband, so not really immigrant family.

Not that it would matter, remaking it is just stupid, Tom Hanks should better stay at Epstein island.

Americans have a fixation (or presumption) to remake other people's (good) films to make them better: it's not like that. It's not a bad movie this with Tom Hanks, but it just wasn't necessary. They could spend resources and energy to do something else since this story was already beautifully told in 2015

@aiace68 said:

Americans have a fixation (or presumption) to remake other people's (good) films to make them better: it's not like that. It's not a bad movie this with Tom Hanks, but it just wasn't necessary. They could spend resources and energy to do something else since this story was already beautifully told in 2015

The reason isn't always as cynical as that. Foreign films rarely get a major theatrical release in the USA because it costs too much money. Add the fact that people (of every nation) prefer to see movies in their mother language with actors they recognize. Put those 2 together and it's business sense: pick the best foreign movies and remake them.

Every country does it. India has its own successful remake of The Godfather, Japan did a samurai remake of The Unforgiven, and there's a Nigerian remake of Purple Rain which oughta be interesting. I don't think anyone's necessarily trying to thumb their nose at the original; it's just the economics of bringing a successful story to your home country.

I'm eternally grateful for Americanizations like The Magnificent Seven (1960). 12 Monkeys (1995) and of course... Three's Company.

@rooprect said:

@aiace68 said:

Americans have a fixation (or presumption) to remake other people's (good) films to make them better: it's not like that. It's not a bad movie this with Tom Hanks, but it just wasn't necessary. They could spend resources and energy to do something else since this story was already beautifully told in 2015

The reason isn't always as cynical as that. Foreign films rarely get a major theatrical release in the USA because it costs too much money. Add the fact that people (of every nation) prefer to see movies in their mother language with actors they recognize. Put those 2 together and it's business sense: pick the best foreign movies and remake them.

Every country does it. India has its own successful remake of The Godfather, Japan did a samurai remake of The Unforgiven, and there's a Nigerian remake of Purple Rain which oughta be interesting. I don't think anyone's necessarily trying to thumb their nose at the original; it's just the economics of bringing a successful story to your home country.

I'm eternally grateful for Americanizations like The Magnificent Seven (1960). 12 Monkeys (1995) and of course... Three's Company.

Here's a trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-pk03sm9oo

Here is a live video of Mdou Moctar (star of the film) from last August:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzpXXLxhH1o

@bratface said:

@rooprect said:

Every country does it. India has its own successful remake of The Godfather, Japan did a samurai remake of The Unforgiven, and there's a Nigerian remake of Purple Rain which oughta be interesting. I don't think anyone's necessarily trying to thumb their nose at the original; it's just the economics of bringing a successful story to your home country.

I'm eternally grateful for Americanizations like The Magnificent Seven (1960). 12 Monkeys (1995) and of course... Three's Company.

Here's a trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-pk03sm9oo

Ok that looks surprisingly AWESOME. Purple Rain set in the Sahara... the motorbike scenes alone got me hooked.

@rooprect said:

@bratface said:

@rooprect said:

Every country does it. India has its own successful remake of The Godfather, Japan did a samurai remake of The Unforgiven, and there's a Nigerian remake of Purple Rain which oughta be interesting. I don't think anyone's necessarily trying to thumb their nose at the original; it's just the economics of bringing a successful story to your home country.

I'm eternally grateful for Americanizations like The Magnificent Seven (1960). 12 Monkeys (1995) and of course... Three's Company.

Here's a trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-pk03sm9oo

Ok that looks surprisingly AWESOME. Purple Rain set in the Sahara... the motorbike scenes alone got me hooked.

Not sure where to find it though, if you find out, leave a post here.

@bratface said:

@rooprect said:

@bratface said:

@rooprect said:

Every country does it. India has its own successful remake of The Godfather, Japan did a samurai remake of The Unforgiven, and there's a Nigerian remake of Purple Rain which oughta be interesting. I don't think anyone's necessarily trying to thumb their nose at the original; it's just the economics of bringing a successful story to your home country.

I'm eternally grateful for Americanizations like The Magnificent Seven (1960). 12 Monkeys (1995) and of course... Three's Company.

Here's a trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-pk03sm9oo

Ok that looks surprisingly AWESOME. Purple Rain set in the Sahara... the motorbike scenes alone got me hooked.

Not sure where to find it though, if you find out, leave a post here.

Will do! The director’s website says it’s on Amazon Prime but when I click the link it says it’s not available in my location (USA). He has a Vimeo link where you can watch it for $5 which seems totally worth it, but I’ll keep looking for a freebie. Here’s the director’s website (links at bottom of page) —> Nigerian Purple Rain releases

@rooprect said: The reason isn't always as cynical as that. Foreign films rarely get a major theatrical release in the USA because it costs too much money. Add the fact that people (of every nation) prefer to see movies in their mother language with actors they recognize. Put those 2 together and it's business sense: pick the best foreign movies and remake them.

Maybe because they don't have good dubbers like we have in Italy. I've seen both "Mr. Ove" obviously dubbed, and "A Man Called Otto"... and thousands of other German, US, French, etc etc movies. We don't only watch Italian films :-D