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Are We Lazy Or Do We Just Hate 'Ferners'?

  • Bnet, Friday, September 23, 2011 11:30 AM
Bnet columnist Jim Edwards points out Americans will not be bothered to do anything that requires them to, like, read.



That means they won't see movies where they have to read sub-titles because that would require us to read, and that's not what you bought that movie ticket for. Thus lots of great foreign movies MUST be remade to be American, with American stars we know and love, and a god-awful script and phoned-in acting.



Take the new full-length movie trailer for the American version of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." Edwards (Eds note: who hails from Liverpool) notes that they couldn't even be bothered to make the trailer different. He says the trailer "shows the ludicrous lengths that Hollywood goes to in order to spoon-feed lazy American movie goers."



The trailer, he says, is a shot-by-shot, line-by-line remake of the original Swedish film, using actors (Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara) who were chosen because of their resemblance to the Swedish leads (Michael Nyquist, Noomi Rapace). "For some reason, all good foreign movies must now be made twice -- once in their countries of origin and then painstakingly copied for the massive U.S. market. It's almost as Hollywood has some sort of full employment act for American directors," writes Edwards.

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