King Kong

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Beery

There's nothing wrong in a remake if the earlier versions were lacking in some way. In the case of King Kong, that's certainly true. The 1970s version was horrible, and the 1933 version is merely a curiosity due to its dated special effects. The folks who made the special effects for the 1933 version were geniuses, but if they were working today, they'd be the first to suggest that King Kong needs a more modern treatment, and Peter Jackson is about the only modern director I'd trust with such a job. Now if this was The Godfather we were talking about, I'd be as anti-remake as anyone, but it's not.

By this logic, it would be prudent and worthwhile to remake Jacques-Louis David's La mort de Socrates with digital technology and recompose Franz Joseph Haydn's 103rd Symphony using modern compositional techniques simply because such features now exist. Sometimes it is best to let the works of the past be.