I could picture Kristin Chenoweth in the Judy Holliday role. I wonder who would play the Jack Lemmon role. Kevin Spacey? I like that they're both struggling artists living in the same humble NYC building. They would probably have to live in the East Village in a new version of this film.
shareThe role really doesn't require much singing and why else get Kristin Chenoweth? If it were contemporary, even the little bit of song would be out of place. The role does require someone who can play a "ditzy blonde". Sarah Jessica Parker comes to mind, not for "Sex and the City" but "Ed Wood" or "L.A. Story".
The problem is that nowadays it is not unusual for someone to become "famous for 15 minutes". We've seen this done to death on "reality" tv. The film is kind of prophetic that way but is so much so, it would be commonplace today.
I would cast Kristin Chenoweth in this film because she has a Judy-Holliday-like quality, a similar high-pitched speaking voice. Plus she's a good comic actress.
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The problem is that nowadays it is not unusual for someone to become "famous for 15 minutes". We've seen this done to death on "reality" tv. The film is kind of prophetic that way but is so much so, it would be commonplace today.
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Yes, I could see Reese in this role. Although I really like the idea of Kristin. She's so similar to Judy Holliday.
And while we're on the subject of remakes, I'd love to se Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller in an updated Odd Couple. But I guess I need to post that on some other page.
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Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick played them in the Broadway version just recently..From the small clips I saw on an interview they did a great job!
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And while we're on the subject of remakes, I'd love to se Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller in an updated Odd Couple
Not a bad idea. A stiff & a loose wire combo. Hadn't given much thought to
Odd Couple lately but those two would be worth a try. Concept has had enough time for another generation to give it a run. Show biz did worse things.
As to Happen to You maybe a lot of the neg comments relate to the classic insider/outsider feeling about New York or Manhattan. Love Big City or
Hate it reaction.
Once past all the media satire there's the treat to watch the interplay of
the principals and what their dialog was conveying to the public about the
theme of recognition back then. After Warhol the theme has grown shopworn
of course, but why not check out how it was developing before him. Probably
films like this influenced when he hit NY. They were in vogue all thru the
1950s often using advertising as the foil. Artists had already used ads as
a basis in their paintings going back to the Dadaists & Surrealists since 20s.
Capitalism, and planned obsolescence, didn't give it leading play until the
post war economy used rapid turnover as grist for the mill. Savings out and
mass consumption in.
Interesting now that this Great Recession is reversing once again. Discounts,
self-made, savings, recycling. The Old is New again? Another spin of wheel.
Unreasonable.
"You're the ones being un!"
Early 50s sure played Central Park as being safe enough to carry a camera.
Me, I got robbed at knife point one snowy icy afternoon as I tried to take
some shots to base paintings on. Two young ethnic types near the large lake
around the famous walking bridge.
Just repeating the ancient warning....
Sludgehound, are your paintings online? Would like to see them.
Could it be remade? Yes.
SHOULD it be remade? A resounding NO. They'll just screw it up as they have everything else.
Not if I'm the director
Judy
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Did you also go to the Louvre and think, "Gee, I'd love to see the Mona Lisa re-done by Damien Hirst" ?
When are you slobbering re-make-a-philes going to GET it? Movies that work, work because something unique and dazzling happens between between material, director, and cast. Attempts to re-create the magic invariably fail.
Not to mention that all classic movies are set in an extremely different society, one in which a woman's role was so alien to modern sensibilities that virtually nothing in a classic translates into today's world. Plus, media changes in the past 20-30 years have numbed us to what was an enchanting idea back then (= become famous for being well-known rather than for accomplishing something noteworthy).
If you are 17 years old or younger, maybe -- maybe -- you can be forgiven for having this asinine idea about re-making classic movies. If you're 18 or older, you are in serious need of some remedial education in the realms of politics (gender roles, civil rights), art, and, uh, everything else.
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