Let's remake it!

[DiggitCamara]

So, based on this I’ve got a killer (heh) idea for a remake:

Take a bit of “Her”, add a splash of “Rear Window”, stamp it “Based on Real World Events ™” and you’d get

A killer asks his electronic assistant for help for a murder and by mistake (design?) someone else gets the answers as well… amateur detectivage ensues

Anyhow… how would you flesh the story out? Or, if you’d like, do you have similar ideas on how to remake classics for this electronic age?

[NDP]

@DiggitCamara

So, based on this I’ve got a killer (heh) idea for a remake:

Take a bit of “Her”, add a splash of “Rear Window”, stamp it “Based on Real World Events ™” and you’d get

A killer asks his electronic assistant for help for a murder and by mistake (design?) someone else gets the answers as well… amateur detectivage ensues

Anyhow… how would you flesh the story out? Or, if you’d like, do you have similar ideas on how to remake classics for this electronic age?

Your story also owes a lot to The Conversation.

[DiggitCamara]

@NDP

Your story also owes a lot to The Conversation.

I didn’t know about the movie, but yeah, it seems my version would be a modernization of it.

[swampspruce]

How about a story of a man who murders his roommate and hides the body under the basement floor that they were renovating. He slowly goes insane as all his electronic devices start swapping over to his roommate’s settings. As the story progresses, we find out that it wasn’t the roommate that died but the murderer, and the roommate stole his identity. Kind of Fight Club meets The Tell tale Heart meets Shallow Grave.

[CalMeacham]

“Gentlemen,” I said at last, as the party ascended the steps, “I delight to have allayed your suspicions. I wish you all health, and a little more courtesy. By the bye, gentlemen, this - this is a very well constructed house.” [In the rabid desire to say something easily, I scarcely knew what I uttered at all.] - “I may say an excellently well constructed house. These walls are you going, gentlemen? - these walls are solidly put together;” and here, through the mere phrenzy of bravado, I rapped heavily, with a cane which I held in my hand, upon that very portion of the brick-work behind which stood the corpse of the wife of my bosom.

But may God shield and deliver me from the fangs of the Arch-Fiend ! No sooner had the reverberation of my blows sunk into silence, than I was answered by a voice from within the tomb! - by a “DROID!”, such as might have arisen only out of hell, conjointly from the throats of the dammed in their agony and of the demons that exult in the damnation.

Of my own thoughts it is folly to speak. Swooning, I staggered to the opposite wall. For one instant the party upon the stairs remained motionless, through extremity of terror and of awe. In the next, a dozen stout arms were toiling at the wall. It fell bodily. The corpse, already greatly decayed and clotted with gore, stood erect before the eyes of the spectators. In its pocket sat the hideous device whose craft had seduced me into murder, and whose informing voice had consigned me to the hangman. I had walled the cell-phone up within the tomb!

–Edgar Allen Poe (with an assist from CalMeacham)

[NDP]

@DiggitCamara

I didn’t know about the movie, but yeah, it seems my version would be a modernization of it.

I highly recommend you check out The Conversation on Netflix or the next time it’s on TCM or some other cable channel. It’s an underrated gem that frequently gets overlooked among Coppola’s films because he made it in between the first two Godfather movies. Also, unless you’ve seen it already, there’s it’s spiritual successor, Enemy of the State, which features Will Smith and Gene Hackman for all due purposes playing the same character he did in The Conversation but with a different name.