Wicker Man - Controversy surrounds US remake

I am not surprised. It is one of my favourite films ever and it simply isnt possible to do a remake. I will watch the film inspired by the Wickerman but in no way will consider it for one second a remake. What a stupid idea that would be.

You would think that at some point US directors would realise that megabucks dont add up to feeling and character.
 
LOL this is my favourite quote :

"In the original, Woodward's character was a virgin, making him ideal for sacrifice. That element has been ditched from the remake, because it was thought that while audiences would accept the idea of an American community that practised human sacrifice, the idea of a grown-up virgin was just too farfetched."

Iain :D
 
The killer bees will be great! Also I can't wait for the new Hollywood ending, where US Marine Corps Apache helicopters arrive at the last minute and gun down the pagans and napalm the island.
 
did you actually watch the film?!? the copper's virginity is central to the plot - remember the temptation scene in the inn?

how anyone thinks they can remake it is beyond me.
 
Be prepared for national outrage when one of the naked dancing pagan girl's nipples is exposed.

One good remake I know of is Ocean's 11
 
If you've read the eye-opening book "Inside the Wicker Man" by Allan Brown, you'll know that virtually nobody who worked on the film was 'best pleased' by Robin Hardy. I personally find the Anthony Shaffer/Seamus Flannery viewpoint compelling -- that 'The Wicker Man' was made despite Robin Hardy's amateurish bumbling, and that very little information offered by Hardy on the 'Wicker Man' subject can be taken at face value.

But of course Shaffer died in 2001, leaving Hardy free to take the credit for whatever he likes.
 
Yes I've seen the film. I taped it last year when it was on C4.

I know the scene your're talking about I just thought he didnt want to shag her, not that he was a virgin. Maybe this is something you only know if you read the book?
 
To be fair to MaxCherry, the scenes that would have proved conclusively that Woodward's character (Sergeant Neil Howie) was a virgin were cut from the version of The Wicker Man that most people have seen. From what is left, we know that Sergeant Howie is prudish, extremely puritanical, and emotionally and physically uncomfortable with any talk of sex, fertility and/or procreation.

It's left to the audience to assume that he has never had sex, which, I must say, was not a judgment I found too hard to make when I first watched the film.
 
Besides that scene above and a few others, there's the scene at the end just before Howie is put into the wicker man, which is more explicit on the issue of Howie's virginity.

The quote from Christopher Lee's character, Lord Summerisle.
Lord Summerisle, "Animals are fine, but their acceptability is limited. A small child is even better., but not nearly as effective as the right kind of adult."

"What right kind of adult?" is the question asked. The three women played by Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento and Ingrid Pitt toy with him and this includes the line "who would come as a virgin"
 
That's because the original is considered very mediocre.

But it does beg the question, why remake classics when then plenty of bad films out there that deserve a second chance.
 
Next thing they will remake Deliverance but the Porcine Alliance will remove the "squeal like a pig" element and instead the inbreRAB will beat the victim with fair-trade manufactured rope of a colour chosen to have no racially motivated undertones whilst saying "you naughty chap we dislike you in a manner which does not refer to your ethnicity nor religious leanings".

Fab.
 
LOL! Maybe they can remake Mississippi Burning and make it about a quiet village disagreement regarding fire safety.
 
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