When did you discover a movie was a remake?

[peter johnson]

??? - - Shop Around the Corner --
As far as I can tell, this isn't connected with this post --
What movie were you responding to?
love
peter j.

[RCMerchant]

Gosh,Pete,don't take it personal,but I actually am working on an extensive review of why I like SCARS better than HORROR...(don't get me wrong...I liked HoD ok, but...)

[Fearless Freep]

??? - - Shop Around the Corner --
As far as I can tell, this isn't connected with this post --
What movie were you responding to?

Check the post subject.."You Got Mail" was a remake of "Shop Around The Corner"

[peter johnson]

Of course it was!
Didn't notice the letter heading until you pointed that out -- Big whoops from me, yet again --
Thankyou for allowing me to continue to post here, despite my constant errors --
Rehearsal for War of The Worlds today -- looking really good!
Also, great house tonight for Dearly Departed -- nice to be all involved with live theatre again --
     Now, our War of the Worlds would seem to be in a nether-region of remakes:  We're trying to duplicate onstage the 1938 radio broadcast -- right down to bringing a toilet onstage to unscrew the lid of the pickle jar on to duplicate the sound of the emerging Martians, just like they did back then -- But are we doing a remake of "The Night That Panicked America"?  No.  There was no Theremin in the Foley for Welles' War, yet we're using mine -- an effect that would've been available to sound men in 1938, but Orson chose not to use.  Otherwise, we're using the same Howard Koch script, inside a make-believe version of a 1938 radio studio, amplified to a theatre audience, but not broadcast -- Remake, or simply Weird Art?
peter johnson/denny crane

[RCMerchant]

I wish I was involved in something like that.If you guys ever need artwork done,(Posters or flyers or anything),I'll help for free.If you wanna see an example of my work,go to the bad movie frappr site and click onto my site and I have some posted on my pictures.I think you will be surprised.HEAVY METAL mag,in the early 80's'said I was too outragous.Dale Ashmund liked it,and used some in an undergound zine,though...

[peter johnson]

Dear RC --
I had never been to the Frappr before, so bit of a ditz about getting it to work -- didn't understand that it loads slowly --
BUT  I think I finally DID get to see the artwork you posted --
Before that, though:  Whose autographed Bela Lugosi photo is that?  Do you own that?  Quite a coup if you do!
I like your artwork just fine -- I detect a Basil Wolverton influence in more frames than others -- I have no say-so or control over the artwork for the show, but if you'd like to knock out a poster/flyer/small drawing for us, I'd love to take it to my director & show him --
Pertinent info:
Longmont Theatre Company presents Sorry, Wrong Number and War of The Worlds, from the original radio scripts -- Live, onstage at the Longmont Center for The Performing Arts, 513 Main St., Longmont, Colorado.  Opens Friday, October 13 -- play dates October 13, 14, 15, and 20, 21, 22 -- Friday and Saturday shows at 7:30pm -- Sunday matinees at 2pm (Yeah, it's an abbreviated run -- it's not part of the "regular season", but rather an experimental show -- art for art's sake, and all that).
Maybe a shadowy figure creeping up on a 30's-type gal on a phone on one side of the poster, bounded on the other side by a Martian walking-machine blasting some running people -- anyway, YOU'RE the graphic artist, not me, so your call --
If it'll print on 8X10 as a jpg or something, then e-mail it to petdix@msn.com,
or snail it to Peter Johnson, 530 Main St. Longmont, CO  80501
I'll pitch the hell out of it to our director guy if/when I get it, so good chance anything you produce could be used.
Did you enjoy The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen's take on Wells?
peter johnson/denny crane

[RCMerchant]

GREAT! I'll get to work on it right away! FAR OUT!
(N0,the Lugosi photo is just a cool pic I downloaded,off  of an Ebay auction site...I'm a big Bela fan...)

[peter johnson]

See you in the funny papers . . .
peter johnson/denny crane