by Keith Williams

Created on: January 08, 2009

The situation occurs that the older become older, and the younger are the next generation. With this coming, old things may be forgotten. The songs of the old days, the style of the old days, and the movie of the old days, among other things that were great, but got old.

Look at the success of Guitar Hero, the video game. This was a great idea to reinvent the songs of our pasts. It isn't the same format as remaking a movie, but at the core, it does the same thing. It brings the younger generation into the older generation, and they have a common ground.

If a movie is made during the success of a series on television, i agree that the two should coexist. Even if it is only ten years later, yeah, they should try to stay with the same idea and cast of characters. However, if it is a remake, and there is a new generation afoot, i think that a reinventing could be great.

After twenty years of silence, there won't be many people that listen. However, if you finally speak up, no one will really care unless you have something interesting to say. Now, if you are a series, then you have been forgotten, and age has taken it's toll. Different things grab different peoples attention, and lets face it, twenty years later the people who run everything are completely different. I don't mean the people who run the so called "industry". No. I mean the people who run anything at all. Households, Schools, Playgrounds... anything. Now, you have a brand new audience that are into totally different things. So the fact is, if you want to be heard you have to target them and interest them.

What's wrong with something jumping to the next generation and being liked by them as well? You can't take the humor of the fifties and expect to make people laugh fifty years later. Instead you should try to let them see the basics of the original idea, and then connect with them in a way that they are familiar with.

If something was great, why would someone want to hog it all for themselves, or just for their generation? Why not let the next in line enjoy it also? No problem with that, right? Well, they won't enjoy it exactly the same way you did, so let them make it there way, and connect with the characters the way they can.

Kids these days get onto the computer everyday, and use their cell phones everyday. Now, if they watch a movie from the 1980's about some kids that get stranded, these kids can't connect because they could just use their cell phones. But wait, YOU loved the characters in that movie and don't understand why your grandkids don't. Let them watch a version of the movie that they could relate to, then between that, they could relate to the older generations.

Remaking a movie is nothing like changing something that was great. It's more like the brother or sisiter of something that was already great. The old copies still exist, and with the use of the internet, these old copies could probably be pretty easy to find. I'd say it's reasonable to think that if a series was remade into a movie, new people would learn about it and they may check out the older version. Whether they like that is up to them, but it may have spread the popularity of something you originally appreciated.

So, in closing, I'd say i think it's a duty to history to reamke old things that were great.

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