After seeing Michael Haneke’s shot by shot remake of his 1997 film Funny Games this weekend I started doing a little internet hunting to see what others had to say about the film, it’s take on violence and how it worked as a remake. One of the most interesting pieces I found was in the Chicago Reader On Film Blog by Pat Graham. In his short blog entry he gives us:
Something to puzzle over …
No Country for Old Men: serial murderer, deaf to every human appeal for mercy, goes about his business with implacable dispatch””Academy Awards: best picture, best supporting actor, etc.
Michael Haneke’s Funny Games remake: serial murderers, deaf to every human appeal for mercy, go about their business with implacable dispatch””back of the critical hand, lots of righteous huffing and puffing, etc.
Not much difference between the two, at least in my opinion, yet one movie’s lionized, the other savaged as exploitive swill.
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