A classic, is a classic, will they match up?
From the trailer, it seems like a more obvious remake than the aforementioned Grease and Dead Ringers, but through a female-lens., and how she wishes the character of Alex would have been given a different edit, in 2019 toshe said “I had so many secrets as Alex. The woman I was playing was not the same one who was perceived by the public. But I didn’t have the dialogue or the scenes to illuminate her backstory.
With my rewatch, I tried to separate what Close has said publicly and my personal reaction to the film. This was the hardest part, and I found that I was unable to. I didn’t find the content of the film all that shocking or anti-feminist, just a little out of date . Alex is not innocent and her actions are certainly extreme, but neither is Dan - he cheated on his family, and led Alex on. Rewatching, I'm stuck at another character who is generally glossed over - Beth.
Above this, I am enraged that the star of the film was not given the creative control she deserved. That, though, doesn’t feel like it’s changed all that much. The percentage of women working as directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers was at just 24% in 2022. In this year’s Golden Globes, not a single female director got a nomination.
I think, as a society, we like to pretend we’ve come further than we have in terms of mainstream societal beliefs and attitudes. But just spend a second on social media, pick up any mainstream newspaper, or read the latest statistics into violence against women and I think it’s abundantly clear that we have not. Let’s hope the upcoming remakes are more than just virtue signalling, and that they actually bring something new to the table.
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