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Post by sgev1977 on Feb 19, 2021 23:28:27 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Feb 19, 2021 23:33:40 GMT
The 39 Steps is one of my favorite Hitchcock movies so I'm kind of conflicted! Of course, Edward Berger is great and BC, too so I am sure they will do something original and not another Netflix's Rebecca!
Another con, the story is kind of similar to Rogue Male.
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Post by sgev1977 on Feb 19, 2021 23:50:40 GMT
...And yes, I just bought the book!
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Post by mllemass on Feb 20, 2021 1:02:32 GMT
I’ve never seen the movie, but I hope this series is set in modern-day and not 1935 like the movie. It sounds like it, anyway, from the article.
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Post by sgev1977 on Feb 20, 2021 1:29:03 GMT
Yes, it sounds like a modern version. The movie is just a very fun ride in a very Hitchcockian way, of course. Some of the plot probably would be silly in a modern "serious" version.
I read the first chapter of the novel and apart of the antisemitism, I noticed that Hitchcock changed the sex of the character that triggers the plot! It's interesting because even when the movie isn't explicit there is some sexual tension between her and the protagonist and it kind of sounds more logic that a lonely man invites a probably dangerous stranger to his apartment if he is attracted to her than "hey! that little man there that behaves like a madman and is telling me he has a corpse in his room seems fun and trusthworty, I totally should let him hide in my place!" Lol
I remember there was a thriller some years ago with Jodie Foster that supposedly was based in The Lady Vanishes. Another very enjoyable and uncomplicated British film directed by Hitchcock. It was much more serious and the plot was almost unrecognisable! Foster didn't lost an old lady friend that she just met but her own daughter! In both cases, people tried to convince the protagonist that the other person never existed and that she is basically mad! Also they changed the train for a plane.
EDITED I checked and the Jodie Foster movie was called Fightplane. Apparently wasn't very well received because the plot becomes silly at the end. You could said the same about Hitchcock's but the tone was very different! Again the modern film was serious! Also it was Hitchcock!
Anyway, this made laugh,
I wonder if someone moaned about train personnel being rude and one of them was working for the nazis in the 1930s version! Lol
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Post by mllemass on Feb 20, 2021 6:44:36 GMT
I saw Flightplan when it came out, and it was another Jodie-Foster-in-peril movie. It should have been a good, but it really wasn’t. I didn’t realize that it was a remake of an old Hitchcock movie. One of the problems I had with it was that they want us to experience what happens from JF’s point of view - her daughter has vanished from the plane and nobody believes her. But they also made her character the person who designed the plane (or something like that) so she’s not like you or me at all. She’s a brilliant genius who has to figure out all by herself what happened to her daughter. There was something a bit off about the whole thing.
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Post by sgev1977 on Feb 20, 2021 10:57:14 GMT
I think the premise is great and pretty unnerving in both films. It's proper gaslighting before gaslighting, the now over used term, was a thing! Imagine being in that situation in which you know or sure that someone was there and existed but everyone around you tell you that you are just a crazy woman! Wow!
But yeah, she being the designer of the plane and basically a superwoman was silly. I didnt remembered that! I watched it at the time, too but I don't remember too much apart that the premise was from The Lady Vanishes.
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Post by sgev1977 on Feb 20, 2021 13:09:17 GMT
This is great! I'm reading comments and surprisingly they are overwhelming positive even when it sounds like it's a remake of a classical film (they said it's based in the book). Someone for whatever reason said he is wrong for the part. That's so silly! He is perfect! Probably too perfect if that exists! Lol There were also a pair of extremely dumb comments on TV Line by people worried that Hollywood is doing movies about conspiracies when there a lot of people obsessed with them in the world! *Facepalm* |
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Post by mllemass on Feb 20, 2021 15:08:25 GMT
I also read a comment complaining about “another remake” .
My only complaint: if he has time to do this, why can’t he fit in another season of Sherlock? Or maybe he is doing Sherlock first and keeping it a secret from us! (I don’t care - I’m going to keep hoping!)
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Post by onebluestocking on Feb 20, 2021 16:13:29 GMT
I am excited about this!
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