Remake Film. Communications & Media Research Paper

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Film materialized as one of the foremost bulk creation of cultural forms of the twentieth century, with cinema being its unique and exceedingly persuasive activities. Cinema delivered a different culture mode that modified leisure time and happenings and played a significant role in communal life. Film making was pegged to the developing technologies which worked to represent and the changes of the contemporary world, which included class divisions, fashion and style, crowded public areas, and an increase in the number of immigrants. The motion pictures which are currently known as movies depicted the fast pace of modern life. Their experience gave a chance for the viewers to experience the dynamic world by showing airplanes, vehicles, and railroads, which worked to change the proper understanding of space and time in a rapidly growing world. During its many years, cinema has been a form of art being an avenue in which different kinds of artists converge and get a chance to practice and showcase their talents. Cinema as an art incorporates not only forms like videography where editing, performance, choice of angles while filming and creating frames are crucial, but also the fashion, music, color, and light, which have a high impact on the quality of the production. For cinema, the creators and producers pay attention to a wide range of factors so that they can capture a realistic film based on the social, economic, and political temperatures to echo a timeless film. The visual features that are well thought and discussed before the production of any film such as color, costume, and makeup allow for the end product to artfully narrate the story through the actors/actresses or have the spectator imagine the story. The visual topographies in the film have been one of the prominent pieces of motion picture since its commencement.
Although cinema over time has repeated and replayed its own stories and categories from its origin, film remaking has acknowledged a minimal criticism study in cinema. A film remake is considered as the production and creation of movies based on the previous screenplay. However, Virevis defines it as the unlimited and fluid possibilities presented by all the broad exercise of the culture surrounding a film. The author further explains that a remake is distinguished by the fact of it being a defined, organized form of the replication structure, the ability to be a citation or repetition existing in every film but not by the fact of it being a repetition as assumed. Remaking a film is done in at least three categories, which range from the industrial, textual, and critical category. The categories involved are broken down with commerce, authors, and production being the industrial remaking, the genre, structures, and film plots being the textual category and the public considerations of reception in terms of the viewers and associations falling under the critical category.
Films do not passively mimic or have a direct display of the reality of things out there; instead, they actively reshape elements of the contemporary world, twisting them in new and different ways projected on screens for the audience to take in. The motion pictures offer a glimpse into other worlds, and the viewers are only hoping to escape their world into the projected one in search of ways to improve their world and living.
History of Film Remake
Remakes in the commercial context began early in the 20th century, they were believed to have the upper hand, and producers always thought of them as appropriate simulations for monetary assurance. The remakes are presold to their spectators based on the assumption that there is prior experience and that the target group possesses a previous narrative image and knowledge of the original narrative before being involved with the reimagined film. Motion pictures that were reimagined like Planet of the apes with the original in 1968 followed by a remake in 2001, which was among the remakes in the twentieth century, were revived through aggressive publicizing movements, huge creation budgets as social steamrollers and promotion association (Virevis,2005). When the movie was remade, it was seen as natural to have it done due to the opportunities it provided for the commercial world in terms of promotion and the special effects that were used in the original film that made it a success. For the textural category of remaking a film, it is assumed that the text or structures are the parts that are affected and are produced in line with plot developments of previous film representations. Remakes differ in terms of adaptation to a new medium with regards to the relationship among themselves, the original film under remake, and the uniqueness of the motion picture on which both films are based. The remake, producers do not incur any adaptation fees; instead, they buy the adaptation rights from the writers of the uniqueness on which the film was established. From different literature works, it is gathered that the remake also has a choice to be defined by either the primary reference of the original film or the material that is the foundation of both motion pictures in terms of their textual capacity. In short, the remake can choose to readapt, update, pay homage, or truly remake the original film.
The Lion King
The recent release of the Lion King, directed by Jon Favreau in 2019, is a remake of the original 1994 film with a similar title and storyline. The remake managed to accumulate over 1.3 billion at the international box office, making it the most successful animated film ever produced. The remaking of Lion King ascertains Verevis (2005), the notion of remakes as a financial guarantee. As explained by the author, remaking can be categorized as an industrial product, which is meant to ensure the production company can reproduce the film with the sole purpose of generating revenues. This indicates that Disney might have remade the movie to ensure consistency in revenue generation. The assumption can be supported by the fact that previously, the production company had released another animation movie, Frozen 2, which topped the box office list as the top-grossing animated film of all time. As a result, Disney felt the pressure to release a film that would equally match the achievements of the existing film, and Lion King seemed to be the best option.Further, the original animation released in 1994 was a massive success for the production company, having grossed an equivalent of more than $1.6 billion in today’s economy. Nevertheless, old films compete with one another, and the new films try to supersede the old, mainly through revenues. Such competition is evident...