No one can replace Kaye
They are remaking this movie with Mike Myers. I don't think anyone will ever be as good as Danny Kaye!
shareThis movie should NOT be remade. NO ONE could replace Danny Kaye. The whole cast was a scream. Like the god-awful remake of "All The Kings Men," this will be a disaster, too.
shareWhile I am not big on remakes, they sometimes create new fans of the original. Agree Danny Kaye was one of a kind, even when he gets 'a little too silly' for me....
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The original was a classic, not in need of being remade. Mike Myers is NO Danny Kaye. The movie will be a trainwreck. It would nearly be as bad as trying to remake "The Court Jester."
share"The movie will be a trainwreck."
Yet it might appeal to modern tastes....I am a huge fan of this movie, and the entire cast (Including Queenie, of course she was just perfect)....cannot see any cast being "better", just more "familiar" with modern audiences....
Love Viginia Mayo, for more of her and Danny Kaye....check out "A Song Is Born", and....uh oh I'll have to look the title up...."Wonder Man"....."Buster!!!!!"
BUT....as much as I love "Walter Middy", I love "The Court Jester" even more.
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You forgot "The Kid From Brooklyn," lol. Modern audience or not, this new movie will be god-awful. They should NEVER remake classics. "The Court Jester' is THE funniest movie even made. Even modern audiences wind up convulsed with laughter. We went to a screening of it, and we were screaming so loudly right from the beginning, that I thought we were going to be thrown out. No way as EVERYONE was ROARING with laughter.
shareAnyone who grew up watching the great films of yesteryear will probably not appreciate those same movies being remade today simply because it's mostly about money now and not about improving on what was for the most part, perfection or even about making a bad movie better.
When they did remake movies (back when they were still making interesting films per se) they were for the most part good or better than the original films they were based on. I'd say that was the case up until the mid 2000's, after that it looks like the creative types in Hollywood just ran out of ideas for new and old projects. Usually the result of all this is something nobody wants to see or something mainly those who don't know about the original movie would venture to check out.
Kaye had a fantastic sense of timing and the quirkiness to pull it off visual gags. Doubt his talent could be matched in a remake.
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