Karate Kid Remake!!! Thoughts...

[disgruntled]

Originally Posted by sirdarksol

As a writer, I'm painfully aware that there is no story that hasn't been told. Everything that is created is merely a new rearrangement of copied material.

i have got to disagree there. not only do other countries present a story in a unique way, but the stories are different. i mean hollywood literally makes the same movie again (The Hulk.... which was a comic so lame x2)...... stories are always lost whenever their is just one view. i would say that bollywood suffers from a similar fate for the same reason. given that those are the only two countries that have a movie industry that is self-sustaining, they have spread further and are much more distributed. thus they are seen more and thought of as typical for the industry. i have seen excellent chinese films and french films that are truely unique, plus i love the canadian film scene...... and yes the US make some good original stuff, but more often than not, it is the independent labels producing it and not hollywood..... they pander to the lowest common dinominator......

rant, rant, rant....

i agree that the movie might not destroy the classic, but i am skeptical by nature

[sirdarksol]

This is a concept that is very much accepted in the writing community. Every writing instructor I have ever had has said this. I've taken a class that explored the links between stories that shouldn't even have links (such as a tale from second century China and a similar tale from African natives), as well as a class on examining how writers harvest what they have read in order to create their art. I swear to you, there is no such thing as a truly unique story concept. There may be an unexplored method of portraying the story, which makes the story itself unique, but it remains rooted in another story.
This isn't something that's easy to explain (other than to say "it's true"). Rather, it's one of those things that can be explored for a lifetime (Joseph Campbell, whom I hate, but can't deny that he's brilliant, has devoted a large amount of research to this concept).

There's nothing wrong with being a skeptic. I can't say that I'm holding out really high hopes, just that I try to remain positive until given reason to feel otherwise.