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Re:Are film critics losing sync with audiences? by stackbutterflow on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @09:54PM (#31010407)
A counter argument to your Shakespearean argument, movies are made once, recorded once, and can then be viewed anytime anywhere.

Whereas a play exists at one point in time and space. It has to be remade in every city and every year.

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Re:Are film critics losing sync with audiences? by bananamerica on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @05:59PM (#31020826)
That doesn't make a lot of a difference, there will always be enough differences between two versions to make the effort worthwhile. 1916s Romeo and Juliet quite different from 1996's Baz Lhurman Romeo+Juliet.

1996

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Re:Are film critics losing sync with audiences? by onpensionsterm on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @05:18AM (#31012613)
But how many films are essentially just Hamlet or The Taming of the Shrew?
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Re:Are film critics losing sync with audiences? by bananamerica on Saturday April 16, 2022 @05:22PM (#31056204)
Every remake is a piece of its own, even if they're based on the same story.
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