{"id":45300,"date":"2014-09-17T07:48:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T13:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/17\/columbo-redux.html"},"modified":"2014-09-18T10:11:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T16:11:21","slug":"columbo-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/17\/columbo-redux.html","title":{"rendered":"Columbo Redux?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I agree with pretty much everything the Guardian<\/i> article says: the basic concept is sound, but works primarily in a feature-length but repetitive (TV, not movie) format. <\/p>\n

If nothing else, a movie would be forced to up the ante, add to the personal drama of the title character, make it about him.<\/i> But "Columbo" isn't about the detective. The detective is simply the avatar of justice — rumpled, underestimated, seemingly blind, even laughed at, but inexorable. No, "Columbo" is about the murderers of the week, how they delude themselves into thinking they have figured out the perfect crime, and how truth and justice slowly, quietly, but inevitably prevail.<\/p>\n

That's hard to do on the big screen.<\/p>\n

As to whether "Columbo" should<\/i> be remade … yeah, I can see that, too. He's iconic without being (to my mind) tied completely to a single actor (and it's a tribute to Falk that's the case). Like I said, it's never about Columbo, but about the murderer.<\/p>\n

Originally shared by +Mark Means<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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T.V.<\/b><\/p>\n

As much as I think Ruffalo could pull off a passable Columbo, I'm still not sure it'd be a good idea to try a "remake", "reboot", or "reimagining".<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nA reboot of Columbo is a fantastic idea – apart from one enormous flaw<\/a><\/span>
\nMark Ruffalo will be great as the character Peter Falk made famous – but not if he persists in making a big-screen version of the made-for-television detective\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I agree with pretty much everything the Guardian article says: the basic concept is sound, but works primarily in a feature-length but repetitive (TV, not movie) format. If nothing else, a movie would be forced to up the ante, add to the personal drama of the title character, make it about him. 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