BG-57
07-16-2022, 05:30 AM
Took my eight-year-old to see Paws of Fury. Seemed like it was going to be a typical animation featuring funny animals in a feudal samurai setting. Then I saw a scene early on where an evil lord saved a prisoner from execution to send on a suicide mission to become a samurai to defend a nearby village from bandits. The twist was he wanted the village to be destroyed so he sent the most offensive candidate possible: a dog in a society made entirely of cats. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks: they remade Blazing Saddles as a kid's movie! The original movie was a classic Mel Brooks movie from the 1970's that parodied Westerns. In that one the main villain sends an African-American to become sheriff to a prejudiced lily-white town.
Has it ever happened to you that you've seen a movie to realize that it's a remake of some other movie you've already seen?
Has it ever happened to you that you've seen a movie to realize that it's a remake of some other movie you've already seen?