The Making & Unmaking of a Hollywood Remake

First let me turn your attention to this and then to this.

Freakin' ridiculous! Each of these films is less than 25 years in age, yet both are being remade for the probable reason that Hollywood likely stands to make millions off either and both of these probable cinematic dungheaps, not to mention the overwhelming decline of creative influence in this playhouse of plenty. As is becoming more and more frequent among blockbuster features, screenwriters and producers are selling out local theaters with their on-screen renditions of musicals, video games and movie remakes that truly original screenplays are unfortunately transitioning into slow fade.

Allow me for a moment to apologize. As i read over my words, I recognize I may be coming off as somewhat of a cinematic elitist. This is not my intention. Though I suppose if were truly sorry, I would delete all of the above and refrain from publishing this post. But that would eliminate the reason I undertook this draft to begin with, so (my hypocrisy aside) allow me to ask what your qualifications would be were you given the sole decision making process in allowing a film to be remade. Would there be a list of purely untouchable films that no one, regardless of stature or clout, would be permitted to touch (say Citizen Kane, Casablanca, The Godfather)? What other films outside of this "untouchable" realm would be granted "remake" status? How would you judge what could be remade and what could not?

...Proctor out.

To Be or Not To Be

Ok, here's another question.

Say someone came to you and offered you the chance to portray any character, any role, what character would that be?

A few other photos

Sorry to push your post down, Linda, but I wanted to point folks to a few other photos backstage... Not necessarily anything new and only a few, but if you're interested:

http://gallery.mac.com/cavedog#100020

All time favorites-and all time not so favorites

Ok- so now that Ive discovered this blog thing(thanks Hannah) its all over for you guys.
Im just curious about what some of your favorite movies are and what some of your not so favorite movies are. Feel free to comment why and why not- love this stuff.

Here are some of mine at the present time

Boogie Nights- the writing is brilliant and the acting is amazing(Don Cheadle-Mark Wahlberg- pretty much everyone in the movie)

Pulp Fiction- again brilliant writing and acting-still cant watch the "gimp" scene.

American Beauty- when Kevin Spacey tells off his boss- amazing!

Fargo

Legend of Sleepy Hollow-great storytelling- brilliant character by Johnny Depp

My Left Foot-wow-
Jesus of Montreal- saw this movie in college and still think about it
Walk the Line- love Johnny Cash!!!

Sid and Nancy -but only up to certain point- cant watch the final scene

and now for some really bad movies

Show Girls-soooooooooo bad but i still manage to watch everytime its on

Crawl Space- I saw this movie years ago and it still gives me the creeps

Scarlet Letter-

Grease 2-but I can sing all the songs from it!

Weekend at Bernies- I know some people loved it but not I


Eyes Wide Shut- should have been Eyes Very Shut

People under the stairs-gives my the creeps

When a stranger call- saw the orginal and Im still scared

Cat People- yep, I think the name says it all
Blair Witch Project-YIKES

thats all I can think of but Im sure the list will grow

It Was the Best of Lines, It Was the Worst of Lines

So a few of us discussed during the strike yesterday evening what were our favorites lines from the show, and what lines we hated speaking the most. Click on the comments below and chime in which lines you disliked most while portraying your character, and which lines you most enjoyed.

What say you?

It's hard to say goodbye to such a wonderful group of people. I feel honored to have spent time telling such an important story, and telling it well. Bonus - it was a BLAST! I had almost forgotten how fun it can be to hang out backstage.

So, beloved friends, let's keep "spreading our claws" by blogging from time to time! Possible uses for the Crucible blog:
1. Reminisce
2. Share what you're up to (in your performance life or your "real" life)
3. Plan get-togethers

Blogger is pretty easy to navigate. If you have any questions, send me an e-mail at hannah.labonde@gmail.com.

Happy blogging!

Goody Nurse

p.s. If anyone has e-mail addresses for Cheever (Chris), Mary (Erin) or Willard (Jonathan), please let me know so that I can invite them to join the blog!