I felt every issue in this version was more black and white - Bowden and all his family were good, Cady was evil. I feel Scorsese blurred the lines a lot more in the remake to make Bowden quite an unlikeable character and Cady easier to sympathise with to a degree (partly due to his backstory with Bowden.
That said, I preferred the original!!!
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Thank you, this film is dark, disturbing, suspenseful and nothing short of BRILLIANT! Classic Film Noir and one of the best films ever. Mitchum shines (in his gritty, evil way)! The new one is too hollywood, Scorsesse + Remake = just short of good
shareWould this really be Film Noir - I know that technically it's a "dark film" but it's not Noir.
It was strange that Bowden wasn't Cady's lawyer in this version - they didn't have to pick a lawyer in that case for Bowden, and it might have made the audience sympathize more with him.
I wonder why they didn't make Bowden the prosecutor in the case - why at one point Bowden didn't say to Cady - "Why am I to blame for your conviction, all I did was tell the truth." Cady seemed to think maybe that Bowden, being a lawyer, was friends with the prosecutor and was paid for his testimony. Who knows.
i think the original version is better cuz there where many surreal elements like the boat scene where the 2 kids hiding for max cady.
the director could do this scene in real nature but he decide to do this in a studio ..it really had a expressionism in it....i am don´t sure you all know what i mean . but if you watch the film be sure to check out the backgrounds.
and lighting especially in this boat scene.
Martin scorsese give a *beep* about that "special view".
You may be thinking of Night of the Hunter.
shareI disagree. I think that the blurred lines of good and evil help the new version. It's more realistic and more dramatic. In life, you don't have people running around who are either "all good" or "all evil." Perhaps they made the choice of blurring the lines to make the characters easier to sympathize with as human beings, and not just stock film tools. And either way, the character changes were made mostly in the script, so it's more Wesley Strick's idea than Scorsese. But to both of them I say, "Kudos to a job well done."
shareI agree to some extent. In the remake Deniro plans a psychotic type of character that uses many biblical references to show his disdain for his situation. In the original Robert Mitchum was just MEAN!
shareSometimes people are just friggin SICK and mean. I hate this smug liberal idea that says "....hmmm.. maybe the bad guy really suffered - that's why he's doing it. Let's look at all the shades of gray. Cady's daddy didn't hug him enough, or maybe he hugged him too much. And whenever you see someone who's leading some halfway decent happy life, you KNOW they're pimping out 12 year olds and have a gimp in the closet so maybe they kind of deserve what they get. Besides, you know the little girl kinda likes Cady anyway..." I think the original was more daring in that rape was not a matter discussed in most major Hollywood productions. The original got pretty frank about the dangers involved especially when Bowden speaks with his wife about what his daughter might have to go through in court and the original had some interesting arguments about the role of the law before they had really established victim's rights. Okay, it ain't nearly close to being "The Accused" but sometimes when you sharpen the image so that the black and white are more clearly defined, then you get a better picture. Ambiguity doesn't mean depth.
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The only problem I have with cutting off hands and genitalia left and right (and even the death sentence) is not that they don't deserve it, but what do you do when you've got the wrong guy? Is the government gonna have to pay off millions in lawsuits everytime they make a mistake? And the death penalty... well, you can't buy off dead people. I agree that guilty people have it coming to them, but all it takes is one smart rapist/murderer who knows how to pin it on an innocent guy and now you've got multiple lives ruined. Or perhaps a system too eager to blame a certain type of individual or a DA eager to rack up another notch on his belt. No, I think lengthy sentences are enough -lengthy but rescindable if new evidence pops up. Never mince justice with totalitarianism.
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How is that a smug liberal idea, wellesradio. That's just how people are, ya know, multidimensional. You're selling humanity short by trying to simplify everything to black and white. Everything is grey. Get over it.
shareYeah, even Hitler was kind to animals. And he didn't smoke!
And Charles Manson wrote some nice music.
Face reality -- some people are just plain EVIL BASTARDS. And they deserve to die.
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