# Great films that deserve great remakes...

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**Created:** [May 26, 2010, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-films-that-deserve-great-remakes/540815 "2010-05-26T13:58:23Z")\
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**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:** [May 27, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-films-that-deserve-great-remakes/540815/21 "2010-05-27T15:09:04Z")

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> Not a remake by a good stretch, but if Pale Rider draws on Shane as a reference for some character and plot ingredients and does its own thing with them, I could tolerate a “remake” by those standards for great oldies like:
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> Night of the Hunter  
> On the Waterfront  
> Jim Thorpe All American
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> In each case, and in others like these, the power of the acting could not be bettered, but the datedness of the production might stand some modernizing.
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> It would be tough.

That way I look at it is that a good remake doesn’t diminish the original. You just end up with two good movies instead of one. You get _Yojimbo_ and _A Fistful of Dollars_. _High Noon_ and _Outland_. _Infernal Affairs_ and _The Departed_.

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