Birds remake continues
The remake of Hitchcock's classic The Birds is still going ahead, unfortunately, and the head of Mandalay Pictures is telling us that they have a cool new take on the film.
"In the original, the birds just showed up, and it was kind of like, why are the birds here? This time, there's a reason why they're here and (people) have had something to do with it. There's an environmental slant to what could create nature fighting back."
Wow, that will turn the whole thing around. Frankly I don't care if Hitchcock made this, that blurb from Variety through Bloody Disgusting has just won me over and I think they should remake it immediately. Note to all, that's sarcasm.
Giving the birds a reason to attack is actually lessening the idea I think, most of it was that the audience didn't know what the reason was, and that added to the scare factor. They attacked humans for no reason and there was nothing we could do to understand it. Isn't that a great addition to the fear factor? No reasoning, no knowning, thinking it could happen all over again without warning.
Now they want to explain it all, well if there's a reason behind it then human kind can solve it and resolve it. I really don't think this bodes well.
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