Classic TV Shows they shouldn't or couldn't remake now?
Nov 16, 2018 0:53:51 GMT
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Post by drystyx on Nov 16, 2018 0:53:51 GMT
You're right. Probably none, without major revisions.
I imagine even if seven people got their cell phones too wet in a ship wreck, a professor would revitalize the phones some how, and no one escapes satellite viewing any more, unless they really want to escape it. But with revisions, it could be done on a "farce" scale, which would work.
The hillbillies striking it rich wouldn't work simply because no oil executive would deal with them fairly, unless the hillbilly family was already related to the mob. I do think they could find the greedy banker who had a soft heart for them, if it wasn't a "national" bank. I could see a "local banker" being fair, but not a big bank, nor an oil company.
The rustic ones in the sticks, like Green Acres, simply because in today's "information world" every farmer in the country has better access to internet and information than anyone in the city who has to deal with city inconveniences, or who only have an hour at the library. Today's "sticks" is the slum and the hood and the trailer park.
A lot of the old Westerns would be great, but the modern day yokel couldn't handle the reality of the characters. Starting around the seventies, writers began writing characters who had to prove themselves to be super Nostradamus types who would predict everything today. Either actors or writers were just too proud and arrogant to demean themselves.
I'll cite an example. On THE RIFLEMAN, there's an episode where the son Mark asks his father if he thinks there could ever be horseless carriages, and the father, the star of the show, ridicules the idea. Chuck Conners was willing to demean himself a bit for the sake of the show and for the sake of the character credibility. That couldn't happen in the seventies or eighties or even the nineties.
I imagine even if seven people got their cell phones too wet in a ship wreck, a professor would revitalize the phones some how, and no one escapes satellite viewing any more, unless they really want to escape it. But with revisions, it could be done on a "farce" scale, which would work.
The hillbillies striking it rich wouldn't work simply because no oil executive would deal with them fairly, unless the hillbilly family was already related to the mob. I do think they could find the greedy banker who had a soft heart for them, if it wasn't a "national" bank. I could see a "local banker" being fair, but not a big bank, nor an oil company.
The rustic ones in the sticks, like Green Acres, simply because in today's "information world" every farmer in the country has better access to internet and information than anyone in the city who has to deal with city inconveniences, or who only have an hour at the library. Today's "sticks" is the slum and the hood and the trailer park.
A lot of the old Westerns would be great, but the modern day yokel couldn't handle the reality of the characters. Starting around the seventies, writers began writing characters who had to prove themselves to be super Nostradamus types who would predict everything today. Either actors or writers were just too proud and arrogant to demean themselves.
I'll cite an example. On THE RIFLEMAN, there's an episode where the son Mark asks his father if he thinks there could ever be horseless carriages, and the father, the star of the show, ridicules the idea. Chuck Conners was willing to demean himself a bit for the sake of the show and for the sake of the character credibility. That couldn't happen in the seventies or eighties or even the nineties.