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  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 16,274
    CommanderRoss wrote: »
    I don't understand why they'd try to recreate a masterpiece. Not that I don't like the actors, it seems like they're doing a good job, but they're going to be compared to the original film and just won't be able to be judged fairly. As goes for the series.

    All in all, it just seems to be another 'safe bet', which then falls flat.

    pity.

    I'm not again adapting again a work of fiction from a different source, in this instance a play. And I'm all for judging this adaptation on its own merits. The National Theatre made a great production of Amadeus a few years ago. But this is terrible: the dialogues in the trailer are sub par, often clichéd and filled with platitudes, they have a scene where Mozart gets beaten up, Salieri and him are depicted as openly confrontational, so they seem to go for sensationalism rather than genuineness. They have the right to be different, they don’t have the right to be stupid and complacent.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
    Posts: 9,103
    Ludovico wrote: »
    CommanderRoss wrote: »
    I don't understand why they'd try to recreate a masterpiece. Not that I don't like the actors, it seems like they're doing a good job, but they're going to be compared to the original film and just won't be able to be judged fairly. As goes for the series.

    All in all, it just seems to be another 'safe bet', which then falls flat.

    pity.

    I'm not again adapting again a work of fiction from a different source, in this instance a play. And I'm all for judging this adaptation on its own merits. The National Theatre made a great production of Amadeus a few years ago. But this is terrible: the dialogues in the trailer are sub par, often clichéd and filled with platitudes, they have a scene where Mozart gets beaten up, Salieri and him are depicted as openly confrontational, so they seem to go for sensationalism rather than genuineness. They have the right to be different, they don’t have the right to be stupid and complacent.

    Oh I'm fine with transforming from one medium to another, and theatre is fundamentally different from film. Abd again, book adaptations are fine. But this looks so much like a remake of the film, it just detracts and makes it all seem like a cheap copy.

    Take Thunderball and NSNA: both are adaptations of the same script, yet totally different films. Now, doing the smae in a period piece is already difficult, especially if the first was such a resounding success. But when scenes are shot similarly, it's turning into a copy, not another creative work.
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 16,274
    CommanderRoss wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    CommanderRoss wrote: »
    I don't understand why they'd try to recreate a masterpiece. Not that I don't like the actors, it seems like they're doing a good job, but they're going to be compared to the original film and just won't be able to be judged fairly. As goes for the series.

    All in all, it just seems to be another 'safe bet', which then falls flat.

    pity.

    I'm not again adapting again a work of fiction from a different source, in this instance a play. And I'm all for judging this adaptation on its own merits. The National Theatre made a great production of Amadeus a few years ago. But this is terrible: the dialogues in the trailer are sub par, often clichéd and filled with platitudes, they have a scene where Mozart gets beaten up, Salieri and him are depicted as openly confrontational, so they seem to go for sensationalism rather than genuineness. They have the right to be different, they don’t have the right to be stupid and complacent.

    Oh I'm fine with transforming from one medium to another, and theatre is fundamentally different from film. Abd again, book adaptations are fine. But this looks so much like a remake of the film, it just detracts and makes it all seem like a cheap copy.

    Take Thunderball and NSNA: both are adaptations of the same script, yet totally different films. Now, doing the smae in a period piece is already difficult, especially if the first was such a resounding success. But when scenes are shot similarly, it's turning into a copy, not another creative work.

    It doesn't only look like a remake: it looks like a cheap, unimaginative, uninspired remake, with little to no understanding of the original. Seriously the dialogues in the trailer are bad and there's already a few stupid plot points.
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