A nostalgia-chasing remake of a singular hit refashioned as “IP for the sake of IP” is exactly what Netflix doesn’t have to make.
and, of course,Nobody tried to pretend that these films, starring the likes of Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd, Health Ledger and Julia Styles, were outright originals, nor did they depend on their source material for popularity. They were, whether you like each individual film or nor, fine examples of “rip-off, don’t remake.
Moreover, the notion of gender-swapping the picture as a way of “fixing” the 1999 film’s “problematic” elements ignores that plenty of folks understood the issues at play inand were able to enjoy the film without embracing its lesser messages. As with Disney’s live-actionremake, Hollywood often attempts to fix gender-specific issues by “fixing” the female character rather than fixing how the male characters treat her.
Even Disney has skewed in this “familiar and nostalgic” direction over the last few years. Again, I blame audiences. However, that rival streaming platforms are chasing media-friendly nostalgia IP revamps means that the alleged disrupters are making the same mistakes that allowed streaming and television to gain a pop culture zeitgeist upper hand against theatrical movies in the first place.
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