Why Do You Think Americans Have To Remake Everything?

[Orbital-Fetus]

 

[HookersandIceCream]

what about britain? they don't remake our shows but they certainly have the capital to do so. they take it as it is.

and you still havent answered what you meant by this

A simple google search shows this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_television_series_based_on_American_television_series

Now theres alot more US versions of British shows but again US is the biggest consumer also

 

[Spaceman Piff]

hollywood been doing remakes since the 50s or something.. maybe even earlier.

it's just that the internet and netflix has made it much more known when a remake is being made in the past 10-15 years.

nowadays everybody knows that oldboy is a remake.

but how many people knew true lies was a remake when they watched it back in the 90s? i didn't.

 

[Kartel13]

what about britain? they don't remake our shows but they certainly have the capital to do so. they take it as it is.

and you still havent answered what you meant by this

U.K. and U.S. lifestyles and cultures are different. The humor is different, the slang is different, it's just different. That's why they are remade to cater to the American audience because people don't get a lot of the British shyt, and vice versa.

 

[Spaceman Piff]

i turn on subtitles while watching british shyt..

i don't understand what they're saying

 

[DaveyDave]

the most amount of stuff that gets remade is british though, so i'm not completely sold on the whole subtitles thing

why remake something when they share a common language?

also I think america is actually one of the most accepting countries when it comes to reading subtitles. if you want to see true laziness go to countries like russia or germany where they dub EVERYTHING. they dont even bother with subtitles

to be fair, they get every hollywood movie just like you do, imagine if it was reversed & Russia was the movie making capitol of the world, would you rather they dub the movies or have subtitles to 95% of your cinema experience?

the average american "can't understand" various british accents when it's not the posh hoity toity Jane Austin accent or they just plain old ignorant to other accents around the world (aussie, any other country when they speak english instead of they're native language)

 

[Jayson_bourn]

As for the OP I have no real answer....but wtf is this ?

 

[rantanamo]

perhaps the question should be why do countries remake shows from other countries to cater to their own audiences instead of just going with the original?

 

[Alexander The Great]

take something that was already there as your own? It's THEE American Way breh

 

[NZA]

the need to see one's self on the screen is not american, it is human. wealth, however is in the hands of the few, so remaking movies is a luxury. most of the time you must settle for localizing the existing movie with subs, dubs, or title changes.

every country would reshoot movies if it made business sense. most of the time, it never will make sense for small markets to do so. it does make business sense for americans to do it in many cases.

if you look at box office numbers, the domestic american numbers often match the worldwide take. it has not been a totally one way street, however. many american movies are severely watered down so they will appeal internationally. many of our movies have a formula that emphasizes broad themes that translate across cultures (love, revenge, heroism, etc.) and feature stars that the widest number of moviegoers will want to see (much of the world is sorta uncle tom-ish, so movies with black leads are said to perform worse internationally while white people seem to be the world's acceptable default movie star) under this international system, american movies with decent budgets cannot risk money on casting actors who may be in a low position internationally (fewer black actors than the 70s-90s) and these movies cant experiment with narrative. they also cant be too american, so focusing on issues that are very relevant to us but not relevant at all internationally is something almost exclusively for small budget and indie flicks.

so right now, good international flicks never get shown to a wide american audience in original form, and american movies have become soulless, lowest common denominator flicks in order to appeal to international audiences. it's all fukked up

 

[MAKAVELI25]

Thank you @HookersandIceCream for coming in and shutting down this dumb ass thread

 

[Gallo]

Because fukk the rest of the world

 

[PS5 Pro]

like instead of taking something as it is (like most countries do) there always has to be an american remake for the american market

why do you think that is?

If Jesus can be remade, so can The Office

 

[MenacingMonk]

There's nothing new under the sun.

 

[StraxStrax]

Last week I attended a Q&A where Baltasar Kormakur (2 guns, Contraband) and he said he's never understood why people hate foreign language remakes. He said for the makers of the orginal version it's the best thing that can happen because their story will reach more people. The orginal filmmakers get paid and there are only two ways that can end for them.

1. The movie is good and people might check out the orginal
2. The movie is bad and people say the orginal is better

In a nutshell; if they people who made the orginal are happy letting it be remade so should the fans.

and I agree.

I don't care how good/bad the Spike Lee version of Oldboy is, the orginal version is still good.