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The Ladykillers

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  • #2
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    ...the 1955 black comedy, set in a street near King's Cross station in London, starred Sir Alec and Peter Sellers as bank robbers who used an unassuming elderly woman's home as a hideout.

    Now Joel and Ethan Coen are planning to move the action to the Deep South of the US.

    Agh! :mad:

    You'll never top Alec Guiness, Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom.
    Also part of the vibe of the original was its dark industrial
    very English setting. Another classic about to be murdered
    and I don't care if the Coens are talented they should write something of thier own.

    Mike.


  • #3
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Well, if it wasn't for the fact that the Coen's are doing the round, I'd be as cynical as Mike. But let us not forget that Oh Brother Where Art Thou isn't an entirely original peice of work either, and it still came out tops. We'll see tho...


  • #4
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Like AngelWhore I'd be very cynical about this remake is people like the Coens weren't involved. The few remakes/ripoffs they've done aere good reinterpretations (without getting poncey about it) of the originals (Hudsucker is a remake too - saw the original (musical) last year)

    Tom Hanks, dunno. He can play a country bumpkin, sure.

    Verdict reserved then. I would have put it down as one of those movies (like Casablanca, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Big Sleep*, etc) that would just suffer greatly in any remake.



    *already done - not a failure but missed the point


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