# Film Remakes With Different Titles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 31, 2009, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-remakes-with-different-titles/523159 "2009-12-31T05:38:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-remakes-with-different-titles/523159/41 "2010-01-01T21:29:24Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > And your post is your cite? I thought Cecil said it was unclear and we should judge it, actually. [Lion King Rip Off?](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1378/did-disneys-em-the-lion-king-em-rip-off-an-old-japanese-tv-series) ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-remakes-with-different-titles/523159/42 "2010-01-01T21:56:00Z")
**Evil Dead II** is just a remake of **Evil Dead**. I always thought that was weird. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-remakes-with-different-titles/523159/43 "2010-01-01T23:02:26Z")
> [@](#): > > I thought Cecil said it was unclear and we should judge it, actually. He also noted there are an amazing number of similarities between the two works. And these are not just common elements that vaguely match and have appeared in dozens of stories. These are very specific items that have only appeared in two works. A villain killing his brother to take his place and the dead brother’s son seeking revenge - okay, that’s a reasonably common theme. The villain being a lion with a scar on his face - name a third movie where that happened. And the defense has always consisted of one thing; the people who were accused of ripping off _The Jungle Emperor_ have continously denied doing so. That’s it. No reasonable alternative explanation of how the similarities occurred. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-remakes-with-different-titles/523159/44 "2010-01-01T23:22:43Z")
**Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House** was remade as **The Money Pit**. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-remakes-with-different-titles/523159/45 "2010-01-02T00:24:25Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > And the defense has always consisted of one thing; the people who were accused of ripping off _The Jungle Emperor_ have continously denied doing so. That’s it. No reasonable alternative explanation of how the similarities occurred. Imagination. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-remakes-with-different-titles/523159/46 "2010-01-02T02:31:18Z")
> [@](#): > > Imagination. Sure, but there are limits to imagination as a reasonable explanation. If I invent a SF series and I have an alien crewmember as one of the officers on a starship full of humans, that’s imagination. But if my officer has an alien father and a human mother and the distinguishing characteristics of his race are logic and repression of emotions and he has pointed ears and says “fascinating” a lot, then I better expect accustions that my “creation” owes more to plagiarism than imagination. And it’s going to take more than me saying “Sure, I watched a lot of Star Trek, but my Commander Spork character is completely original” to convince people otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2010, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-remakes-with-different-titles/523159/47 "2010-01-03T23:37:35Z")
> [@planetcory](#): > > [Yojimbo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yojimbo_(film)) > [A Fistful of Dollars](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fistful_of_Dollars) > [Last Man Standing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Man_Standing_(film)) Also _Hrafninn flýgur_ aka _When the Raven Flies_ aka _Revenge of the Barbarians_. _Ninotchka_, starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas, remade as _Silk Stockings_, starring Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-remakes-with-different-titles/523159/48 "2010-01-04T01:14:56Z")
> [@planetcory](#): > > [Yojimbo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yojimbo_(film)) > [A Fistful of Dollars](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fistful_of_Dollars) > [Last Man Standing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Man_Standing_(film)) > [@mbh](#): > > Also _Hrafninn flýgur_ aka _When the Raven Flies_ aka _Revenge of the Barbarians_. [Lucky Number Slevin](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425210/) ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-remakes-with-different-titles/523159/49 "2010-01-04T01:16:31Z")
The Opposite Sex was a remake of The Women (the good version, not last year’s piece of dreck). ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-remakes-with-different-titles/523159/50 "2010-01-04T04:55:08Z")
_Cruel Intentions_ was remade a year later as _Cruel Intentions 2_. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-remakes-with-different-titles/523159/51 "2010-01-04T05:48:40Z")
Mel Gibson’s “Payback” was a remake of Lee Marvin’s “Point Blank.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-remakes-with-different-titles/523159.md?page=2)