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Would you say this is like the equivalent to like the Carpenter remake of the thing being closer to who's that knocking at my door than the Hawks production?

They really went back to the source material?

Not in exactly the same way.

I think the idea in the case of the thing is they kind of ignore the source material.

It just take the few elements

that they want and made their own 50s sci-fi movie in the process. They still tell the story

of the Big Sleep and the Howard Hawks version. It's similar to the Count of Monte Cristo.

I'll give a long... Yeah, go for it. And we'll see if it works, okay?

In my opinion, hands down, the best version of the Count of Monte Cristo is a 1934 Robert

Donet version directed by Roland V. Lee.

Every other version of the Count of Monteumont Monte Cristo has all set out to be the definitive

version of the Count of Monte Cristo. But that was not the case with the 34 version. Edward

Small, the producer, and Roland V. Lee, the director, they didn't give a fuck about honoring the Alexander Dumas

novel to the highest extent. They wanted to take the material and turn it into an exciting

movie. And it ends up being the most exciting movie because all the tropes that are usually

kind of a drag and all the other versions, they get through as fast as they can because they

want to get to the revenge part. All right, that's what they want to do. And it's the best. All the other versions, the bigger the period design, the bigger

the production design, the bigger the costume design, the more they shot on location, just draws it

out and makes it not as interesting as the 34 version that you get that they they turned it into a movie

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