There have been hundreds of versions of Oliver Twist
There have been hundreds of versions of Wethering Heights
And lets not even try to count the number of versions of Hamlet have been done.
So, if you can have hundreds of versions of all these clasic works why do we only have two versions of Lost Horizon. I think the story is just as timeless as all those others. Is it because the second one was an annoying musical?
there was an even more recent version of this, the awful "sky captain world of tommorow. That movie at least partially hints at this movie in the part where they go to the mountainous kingdom. Your mind is probably just trying to forget that that particular movie ever happened. Mine won't let me, and that sucks.
shareHey, don't give producers any ideas. Capra's version was perfect. I can't imagine another Conway other than Ronald Colman. I'm sure there are some actors out there who can see themselves in that role though and perhaps there will be a vanity production before too long. One good thing about movies is just cos they make 'em doesn't mean I have to watch 'em.
share"Your mind is probably just trying to forget that that particular movie ever happened"
Why would my mind do that? I liked the movie. But I did just recently learn, after I posted this, from my Media profesor that a copyright expires 70 years after the death of an author. So while works like Hamlet and Oliver Twist are public domain Lost Horizon won't be in public domain for another 19 years.
Also, the story expresses attitudes regarding European colonialism in Asia and the "White Man's Burden" that wouldn't be acceptable today, although in the context of the time the book was written and the film was made they were not intended as hateful or prejudiced. It's the same reason why Talbot Mundy's and H. Rider Haggard's works will never be filmed again.
“Ian Paisley is one of the best agents the I.R.A. ever had..”
Thank God. There's no reason for them to defile the memory of a great movie then. Would that they were so diffident about other celluloid classics.
shareWhen you achieve perfection the first time around, you can only go downhill from there. Really far downhill for that idiotic musical.
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