 “I Swear I’ve Seen This Before!”
An
Introduction
by Eric San Juan
September 2005
Popular Film, a movie. A film from the past.
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the technology. We have
the capability to build the world's first decent remake. Popular
Film will be that remake. Better than it was before. Better,
stronger, faster.
Remakes. Love them. Hate them. It doesn’t
matter. They’re inevitable. As long as there has been
cinema, remakes have been a part of the process. Hollywood,
as Fark.com is so fond of saying, is out of ideas. Your favorite
film may have already been remade. And if it hasn’t
been, it may well be one day.
Sometimes remakes are a wonderful thing. Witness
1959’s Ben-Hur, a remake of a 1925
film by the same name (though some might argue it’s
actually a different adaptation of the book of the same name
by Gen. Lew Wallace). The latter is widely considered one
of the most dynamic film’s ever created, while the former
has been all but forgotten to time. Then there was 1939’s Love Affair, which became the 1957 classic An Affair To Remember, which became the forgettable
1994 dud Love Affair. We all remember the
remake, but not the remake of the remake.
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