#Remake

Adaptation is the artful extraction of profit from a beloved original by reassembling its parts at will. One mutilates the source material into unfamiliar shapes, then calls it innovation. If it succeeds, it is hailed as visionary; if it fails, it is denounced as sacrilege. Under the guise of tribute, the original’s spirit is frequently offered as a sacrifice, provoking fan uprisings. The so-called golden script is but a new commercial formula stitched together for maximum conversion.

A remake is the art of clinging to past glory and re-presenting an existing story under the guise of a second birth. It parades a once familiar world in different attire, feigning to rekindle audience enthusiasm. In reality it is a ritual of forsaking creation and clinging to the shackles known as comfort. The glory veneer painted on the corpse of originality only accentuates the underlying contradiction.