{"id":5773,"date":"2004-07-20T11:41:56","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T18:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/07\/20\/manchurian.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T10:54:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T17:54:50","slug":"manchurian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/20\/manchurian.html","title":{"rendered":"Manchurian"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>I’ve been following Denzel Washington <\/a>since his St. Elsewhere <\/em><\/a>days, and I honestly can’t think off the top of my head of a bad film he’s been in.<\/p>\n

That said, The Manchurian Candidate <\/a><\/em>worries me.<\/p>\n

Not that I think it will be a bad film, mind you — it’s got a great cast, and the trailer<\/a> looks like a great action\/suspense\/conspiracy flick. <\/p>\n

<\/a>It’s just that I have a great deal of admiration for the original 1962 flick<\/a>, and it looks like the new one is less of a remake than a reimagining of the whole premise, with Marco as a lone conspiracy nut (rather than someone eventually working within the system), Shaw as the VP candidate (rather than his stepson), Manchurian referring to a conglomerate (rather than, well, a part of China). <\/p>\n

And, frankly, any Manchurian Candidate <\/em>that’s missing the Queen of Diamonds <\/a>is sort of like a Star Wars <\/em>remake without the Wookiee.<\/p>\n

I’m sure it will be a good movie, and there may be some plot twists that aren’t yet clear (I can think of a couple offhand). Meryl Streep <\/a>will be hard-pressed to match Angela Lansbury<\/a>‘s Oscar-nominated performance<\/a>, but I have faith in her. And, like I said, Denzel Washington basically rocks. I just sort of wish they’d decided to make a “new” movie that some folks accused of “ripping off” the original, than make something that purports to be a remake of the original while taking such liberties with it.<\/p>\n

Though, of course, then you’d have to wonder why they’d remake it at all. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been following Denzel Washington since his St. Elsewhere days, and I honestly can’t think off the top of my head of a bad film he’s been in. 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