Danish 'Speak No Evil' director hits out at remake for rewriting "entire ending": “I don’t know what it is about Americans"

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https://www.nme.com/news/film/danish-speak-no-evil-director-hits-out-at-remake-for-rewriting-entire-ending-i-dont-know-what-it-is-about-americans-3794926

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Warning: spoilers ahead!

The Danish director of the original Speak No Evil has hit out at the new remake for rewriting the “entire ending”, saying: “I don’t know what it is about Americans”.

Speak No Evil – which is an American remake of the 2022 Danish film of the same name – was released in cinemas on September 13. Written and directed by James Watkins (The Woman In Black, Eden Lake), the film stars James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Aisling Franciosi and Scoot McNairy.

Now, the director of the original, Christian Tafdrup, has criticised the film’s remake for a number of significant changes.

The remake changes the nationalities of the families to British and American and Watkins has divided fans by completely changing the ending to the film.

And that is where I am leaving it until I’ve seen both. If you are discussing spoilers innyhe comments, please us the spoiler tags - ! in a triangle in the standard web interface.

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li10@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Either CEOs want something more focus grouped, or nepo babies behind the scenes need to add their own “flair” to it.

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- MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Eh, I’d rather the remake makes some chances, otherwise what’s the point of just doing the same thing again. Generally speaking the closer the remake is to the original the less value it adds. Sometimes these changes work and sometimes they don’t but I’d rather they take a swing. Like Psycho or Funny Games and Oldboy remakes are exactly like the original and feel completely pointless.
  
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  - MBM@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I feel like there’s a difference between remakes of old movies and remakes of very recent movies that just weren’t American
    
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- Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yes to both.
  
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sodalite@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
didn’t even know this “new” movie was another remake of a foreign film. had no interest in watching it but now this makes me wanna see the foreign original, which is always better.

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ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Americans are optimists and having an ending where the heroes die, unable to change their fate, is inherently hard for Americans to agree with. Most Americans will point at parts of the movie and try to find some way they would have done it differently, using the hind sight of knowing the outcome of some decisions, to avoid the Danish ending. It’s a deeply rooted cultural experience and why the people who put multiple millions and a few years into making a movie want to appeal to the audience they are making it for. The same effect can be seen with food - make the food the customers want, not the food that represents a culture few understand.

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- Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Americans are fucking stupid.
  
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NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Probably the same reason why they think they can pump as much shit into the atmosphere as possible for decades and President Rambo will rappel down from a helicopter with a machinegun and blow up Climate Change at the last possible second.

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Fleur_@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Commodified art sells better

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SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don’t watch horror movies, but this article got me curious and I checked out the plot summary and then the snippets of the 2022 movie. Can confirm, I’m an American.

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