The American Adaptations of New and Old Foreign Films
How should one feel about American remakes of Foreign Films, both old and new? One on hand, I personally believe American Filmmakers doing a remake of a foreign film is a waste of both money and resources. If a foreign film is good the first time around, why was the money to recreate what has already been done? I do not see why Hollywood sees the need to rehash a foreign film for the sake of the American audience if the film was successful the first time around. I find it wasteful for a major film studio to recreate a foreign film for the sake of profit to an American audience. In fact, the resources used to create the remake could have been used to dub or subtitle the foreign film into English
However, there is some benefit to American remakes. One example of this benefit is that may be cultural differences within the foreign film that may confuse American viewers, there to get past this, an American remake would do good to avoid these problems. Another benefit would be allowing American audiences to obtain an American perspective of the same film. Thus, giving the film another means of observation.