AfAm Strong Representation in Film ~According to Spike Lee

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Originally posted by CrimsonTide4


Cedric...has been tapped for Paramount's remake of "The Honeymooners."


The Honeymooners, too!?!?!!?! Aaaaw dayum. As many books that are out here being written that would make great movies, we keep remaking isht.

I am VERY skeptical that this remake of "The Honeymooners" will be successful. I have seen updated movie versions of 3 classic 50s/60s TV shows (Car 54 Where Are You, McHale's Navy, Sgt. Bilko), and they have all fell flat. Why? Because the movie writers failed to grasp the natural sense of comedy that the original TV scriptwriters had down stone cold that made these shows true classics.

You cannot take the PC laden, sexually charged, and bathroom humor so prevalent in the new millenium, and put these traits in a movie whose characters we loved them for their natural "idiosyncrasies", not because of their ability to tell a dirty joke and blast a loud fart without blinking an eye.

Besides, we already have a remake of "The Honeymooners". It's called "The Flintstones", and it's just as much of a classic as "The Honeymooners" itself. Let it be.