On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Bob Jersey <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Seriously, people, how many cinematic remakes of old TV series were that > faithful to the original? > > Not many. > > I'm not expecting this to be so, either. > When the studios make a film based on a TV series from 40 years ago it's clear that they expect the core audience to be of the younger generation who have not absorbed the canon of the TV series. So they can keep the characters and basic structure and go off in any direction. That's going to happen regardless of which series gets used. Three's Company was a very light version of a sex farce. And it had its success because it followed the rules of farce while keeping things chaste. It followed the conventions of its time but those conventions are foreign to today's young adult audience. The plot of any movie cannot have anything in common with the series because intersex roommates is natural now, demeaning a gay man, or more specifically a straight man pretending to be gay, is bullying and no longer within the accepted bounds of comedy, and the hints of sex which made the farce work back in the day seem pathetic now. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
