The future is going to be weird when we talk to our grandkids about movies that had some impact and really did change the world in someway.
They are going to look at us and think we are senile because they're going to think we mean the new and crap version of everything that is currently being re - made. Yes, I agree there are some that benefit by re - making them, but like the "Wicker Man", "The Man Who Fell to Earth" is not just about how much better you can make the visuals or what actor is in at the moment, it's about a unique feeling that was captured at that moment in time. David Bowie is "The Man Who Fell to Earth' he was that person and I don't think anyone could replicate that right place and at the right time again.
According to Variety, Warner Independent Pictures and Cherry Road Films are remaking The Man Who Fell to Earth, with scribe Oren Moverman set to adapt.
Cherry Road and Warner Independent have optioned the rights to Walter Tevis' 1963 novel of the same name, as well as the remake rights to Nicolas Roeg's 1977 British film starring David Bowie, also of the same name.
The story is about an alien who comes to Earth disguised as a businessman to procure water for his parched planet. Along the way, he becomes the head of a powerful international conglomerate and discovers just how greedy mankind is, falling into a metaphysical crisis.
oddbodd
Re: The Man Who Fell to Earth (2007)
Carl B Harrison wrote:
They are going to look at us and think we are senile because they're going to think we mean the new and crap version of everything that is currently being re - made.
I know my mom's gonna hate this - she loved the film purely because she got to see David Bowie's johnson. Imagine being told that when you're a kid - probably why I'm so warped now.
But you're right, Carl, and it's not just films. It's music as well. Uptown Girl, Tainted Love and Poison are among many that have been spoilt by boy bands or dancey types. Years from now, kids are gonna think that Steve Martin WAS Clueseau, that Drew, Cameron and Lucy WERE the Charlie's Angels, and that Boyzone wrote Love Me For a Reason
If it gets to the stage where kids start thinking that Lindsay Lohan WAS Maria Von Trapp, or that Atomic Kitten wrote Losing My Religion, then that's it - I'm emigrating to Jupiter.
O.
Carl B Harrison
There's Only One Clueseau.
Inspector Clouseau's rules of speech
(How to speak Clouseauese)
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Rule #1: Any word with a 'ah', 'oh', or 'oo' sound, you must add a short 'eh' sound before it.
Examples: bomb = "behm", phone = 'pheone', room = 'rheum'
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Rule #2: Any word with a 'uh' sound, you must replace it with a 'ih' sound.
Ex. monkey = 'minkey.
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Rule #3: Any word with a long 'ay' or 'ee' sound, replace it with a short 'ah' sound, but don't apply rule #1.
Ex. crazy = 'crahzy', repair = 'rahpair'.
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Rule #4: For a past tense word ending with an 'ed', you must split the word in the wrong place or accent the wrong syllable.
Ex. solved = 'sol-ved', received = 'rah-ceived'.
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Review: "Yeuw have rah-ceived a bimp". Can you see the application of rules #1,2,3 and 4?.
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Rule #5: To reflect anger or dissatifaction with an object, animal or person, add the word "swine" before it.
Ex. 'swine' moat, 'swine' parrot, 'swine' maid.
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Rule #6: If you are ever presented with information or facts you are unaware of, immediately respond as if you already had knowledge of it.
Ex. "Yes, I kneuw that... I kneuw that". (remember to apply rule #1 to the word 'know')
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Rule #7: Any person who does not understand a word you are saying must be referred to as a fool or an idiot.
Ex. "Yes, a rheumm... that is what I have been saying you idiot!"
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Rule #8: Any reference to Kato must include the word "yellow".
(Even though this may be considered politically incorrect, it was used affectionately)
Ex. "Kato my little 'yellow' friend, I'm 'heum!"'. (rule#1 again to the word 'home').
oddbodd
Clueseau, for all his Gallic flair, doesn't beat the French Knights from Monty Python and the Holy Grail...
"You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottom, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur King, you and all your silly English k-nnnnniggets. Thpppppt! Thppt! Thppt!"
"I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"
"C'est un lapin, lapin de bois. Quoi? Un cadeau. What? A present. Oh, un cadeau. Oui, oui. Hurry. What? Let's go. Oh. On y va. Bon magne. Over here"
"Allo, dappy English k-niggets and Monsieur Arthur King, who has the brain of a duck, you know. So, we French fellows outwit you a second time!"
"No chance, English bed-wetting types. I burst my pimples at you and call your door-opening request a silly thing, you tiny-brained wipers of other people's bottoms!"
"So, you think you could out-clever us French folk with your silly knees-bent running about advancing behavior?! I wave my private parts at your aunties, you cheesy lot of second hand electric donkey-bottom biters."
God Bless 'em.
O.
Carl B Harrison
Nee
oddbodd
Carl B Harrison wrote:
Nee
No..you're not doing it right. It's, "Ni!"
O.
Carl B Harrison
oddbodd wrote:
Carl B Harrison wrote:
Nee
No..you're not doing it right. It's, "Ni!"
O.
Nasty big pointy teeth
oddbodd
RUN AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!
O.
Carl B Harrison
oddbodd wrote:
RUN AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!
O.
Don't forget your coconuts
Wolf
Carl B Harrison wrote:
oddbodd wrote:
RUN AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!
O.
Don't forget your coconuts
Sounds painful
oddbodd
Wolf wrote:
Carl B Harrison wrote:
oddbodd wrote:
RUN AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!
O.
Don't forget your coconuts
Sounds painful
It's not. You just bash them together and you end up making horsey sounds.
There's Only One Clueseau.
Sounds painful