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Originally Posted by Joseph
I have not seen either version I admit, but I wonder if your perception of the remake relates more to your age at the time of seeing the original versus now. I know I saw films when I was a teen and in my twenties that were just awe inspiring only to see them 15 years later and ask myself what I ever saw to begin with.
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Interesting question. I saw the original in 1971 (five or six times) when I was 18 years old. It was humble emerging to face an evil world. It was good bucking the odds and triumphing over evil...and it was incredibly violent in doing so.
After seeing the original several times years ago, I have had unresolved questions about the movie. The new version had a different take on some of the important details. The wife character emerges as a fairly heroic character in the new version. We were left with a much more uncertain feeling from the first. The same is true of the two David Sumners. We don't know how to exactly understand where the first one will go from the experience. The second was triumphant and that was it.
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Originally Posted by Joseph
What did your son think?
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At first, he was was tolerant of my desire to see the movie but left wanting to discuss the themes of the movie. He wants to see the original, and we may go look for it tomorrow.