Film Remakes II

Sometimes directors may just want to pay homage to another director. Why else would Gus Van Zandt remake (in 1998)  Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), frame for frame, if not as a labour of love?

Even the music is the same.

Sometimes the director puts his own 'auteur' stamp on the story. Take Zefferelli's 1968 Romeo and Juliet which uses a romantic, muted and rich palette of colours with slow 'renaissance-style' music and costumes to transport us to the world of the C14th/C15th Italian court.

Whereas in Baz Lurhmann's 1996 version we have a very distinctive modern soundtrack, with props and costumes to match, plus overt references to and representations of, the darker sides of the story, all of which are remind us of the style of Luhrmann's other 'remake' films such as Moulin Rouge and the recent The Great Gatsby.

And finally, here's a roundup of the Top 10 best remakes

and, the Top 10 Worst!