December 5, 2004 Folding in Remakes and Sequels

(deals with parallelisms when seeing a movie and knowing its predecessor. It is two film experiences in one: the seen and the recalled.)

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(King Kong)

(Tortilla Soup)

(Psycho)

(Milla's Joan of Arc, Messenger)

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Shall We Dance (2004): this is an American remake of a 1996 Japanese film. It is very odd in that it retains the Japanese construction which relies on a more rigid corporate structure than in the US, but it cannot capitalize on that structure.

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