Is Cloverfield a remake of Beast? - The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) Discussion

[–] kent_osborne 17 years ago

JJ Abrams has all but admitted that I think on AICN.com

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[–] palmercin 17 years ago

I see a lot of similarities. Those snobs on the Cloverfield board though won't listen to any discussion on this topic. They all say JJ said it will be an all american new monster blah blah.

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[–] mderome 17 years ago

I hope it's ol' Rhed, I love TBFTTF.

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[–] thethinganator 17 years ago

I'd be shocked if it wasn't. Beast awakens from the sea in this. The beast is awoken from drilling in Cloverfield. It attacks New York in Fathoms, Cloverfield attacks New York. And if I'm not mistaken both have some kind of infection/parasite going on, and both have roars that shake things to the ground. I might be nitpicking but I think this is a reimagination of Fathoms.

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[–] coheedthrice15 17 years ago

I think cloverfield's viral backstory draws more inspiration from this than the actual movie. Plus, cloverfield gives a reference to this by making Coney Island an important place in the movie.

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[–] mderome 17 years ago

Well, can't say I saw THAT deisgn coming...Ah well, guess the Beast is still open for a remake, which NEEDS to be done.

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[–] Big G-2 17 years ago

Why does it need to be redone? The Rhedasour is Ray Harryhausen's baby, and it looks just fine in stop-motion, thank you.

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[–] obit1 17 years ago

Actually, the Beast WAS remade in several round about ways....Eugene Lourie was told to make BEHEMOTH THE SEA MONSTER as close to the beast as possible...and the American Godzilla film that Beavis and Butthead produced and directed was more like the Beast From Twenty Thousand Fathoms meets Friends...

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Lookie, I just saw Cloverfield and while it had some great things going for it , it still is basically a rip off of the Beast by way of Felicity and the Blair Witch thingamajig.

Oh and the Rhedasaurus looks a hellava lot better than that Japanese Childrens' toy that is jaywalking all over lower Manhattan in Cloverfield.

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[–] mderome 17 years ago

It doesn't NEED to be, but in our little age of remakes/sequals/and other unoriginal ideas, The Beast would be a nice addition. And Rhed is definatly much better than Clover, and I'll agree, he looks snazzy in black and white.

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[–] badeBOOM 17 years ago

Funny, i just watched BEAST again und thought also of the US-Godzilla parallels... well, Emmerich can only steal - badly.

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[–] Hobbes47E 17 years ago

Remake? Footage from this movie, Them, and King Kong all appear in the movie. As I'm sure that connection has already been made. I'm sure there's a reason for this.

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[–] andrewwjohnson 16 years ago

......I suppose you could say "The Beast from 20,000" is a rip off of "Lost Continent" back in the twenties, the first movie to have a prehistoric beast terrorizing a modern city. Then there are all those stories, in all cultures, about dragons laying waste to the countryside. The plots of movie, like liturature, are based on earlier works and old ideas.

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[–] BuffWin 17 years ago

no its not.

one, the monster doesnt look the same and i would think jj would like to keep it similar if it was a remake.

also, jj & matt have both said this is not a remake and they started this movie from scratch. jj was inspired by godzilla.

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[–] humanity_is_cancer 17 years ago

Pretty much whenever you have a giant monster in NYC it can be seen as a remake as Beast. Although I think Godzilla (1998) is a carbon copy ripoff.

Cloverfield has alot more originality then Godzilla.

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[–] BuffWin 17 years ago

yeah clovie is something we've never seen. my roommate keeps saying its just like Godzilla, though she has never seen the movie, but theres no comparison besides its a monster attacking a city. clovie doesnt look like a giant lizzard or dinosaur.

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