How often have we all thought if we could only do something
over would we have done things differently? I am thrilled with the life I have
and I know that the things I did and decided have led me to where I am today.
Once in a while though I do wonder what if… what if I hadn’t gone to the
college I did, what if I had gotten a job with the NYPD, what if I had
continued pursuing a theatrical career. When a movie gets remade, we still have
the option of watching the original version again —
Ghostbusters 1986-style is a part of my (younger) life and it
was funny and I enjoyed it. I laughed at the lines and facial expressions made
by Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Annie
Potts, and Ernie Hudson. I don’t know if I want to see someone else fighting
the ghostly invasion of NYC. Will the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man make an appearance
again?
But I am sort of interested in the new release, I really like
the actresses now playing the parts, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Kate
McKinnon, and I am super excited to learn that both Ernie Hudson and Sigourney
Weaver will make appearances. I guess it never phased me about an all-male team
versus the all-female ghost fighters but that seems to be a big publicity item
about this new version. I wonder how else the movie format will change. The
original movie was filmed in areas of NYC while the new version, even though
the plot is centered in Manhattan, actually features scenes from Boston.
There have been several other movie remakes. In some cases
the new technology available has made scenes more fantastic and memorable;
sometimes the actors cast in one of the versions is better than the other. Have
you seen (original and remake): War of the Worlds; The Thing; The Manchurian
Candidate; The Parent Trap; King Kong; The Fly; Hairspray; or True Grit? Were
you disappointed in the remakes? Be honest, how many of these remakes made you
rush right back to the original version?
Maybe it’s a good thing we really don’t get to do our lives
over, we might not like the new version as much as the original. Unlike the
movies we wouldn’t have Netflix to find the original preferred version again. How
many things might be different in your life? How much of that might you miss
the second time around?
Who ya' gonna call if you had to do your life over again?
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