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Punk Rock Psycho, A Gus Van Sant Travesty

post #1 of 20
2/7/03 at 2:56pm
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I heard Freddie Prinze Jr. is going to write the script. (that's your cue Slater)

While talking to Moviehole about his new film "Gerry", Gus Van Sant revealed that he is in talks to do another version of "Psycho".

"I'm thinking of remaking "Psycho" again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it – we're talking about doing a Punk rocker setting. Viggo Mortensen suggested it. He was married to Exene Cervenka and knows all the right people to get involved – all the right punk rocker etc – so he would definitely be involved if we go ahead.", he says.
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post #2 of 20
2/7/03 at 2:57pm
Good movie, Van Sant. Take a bad idea and make it worse.
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post #3 of 20
2/7/03 at 2:58pm
Hey, sounds good to me. Worked with Return of the Living Dead. (tongue firmly planted in cheek)
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post #4 of 20
2/7/03 at 2:59pm
Wait, wait, wait. Mortensen was married to Exene Cervenka? THAT IS SO COOL.
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post #5 of 20
2/7/03 at 3:02pm
What a wonderful idea.

After all, every time I looked at Viggo in LOTR:TTT, I thought to myself, "You know, self, Aragorn should really have a mohawk. He's so punk that he's not punk at all, and THAT'S punk."

Gus Van Sack is so fucking talented.
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post #6 of 20
2/7/03 at 3:05pm
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Slater: The XTreme Ass Edition:
What a wonderful idea.

After all, every time I looked at Viggo in LOTR:TTT, I thought to myself, "You know, self, Aragorn should really have a mohawk. He's so punk that he's not punk at all, and THAT'S punk."

Gus Van Sack is so fucking talented.
That's a pretty funny post right there, mate.
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post #7 of 20
2/7/03 at 3:05pm
that some fucking bullshit!

guy needs to be smacked in the face and beaten with a stick!

<a href="http://chud.com/board/ubbhtml/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=44;t=000444" target="_blank">man o man</a>
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post #8 of 20
2/7/03 at 8:30pm
I'm all for it. I like his remake better than the Hitchcock one...
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post #9 of 20
2/7/03 at 9:02pm
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Django:
I'm all for it. I like his remake better than the Hitchcock one...
Who shat in your cornflakes?
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post #10 of 20
2/7/03 at 9:20pm
Cooler actors. In some cases...better actors.

And I prefer Vaughan's slow burn to Perkins' quiet obviousness...
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post #11 of 20
2/7/03 at 11:54pm
I'm with Django, I think the remake was far superior.

Now I know thats makin' burgers with some sacred cows and shit, but most of you sweating Hitchcock haven't even watched most Hitchcock.
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post #12 of 20
2/8/03 at 2:10am
I've done far worse.

And four words.

John Carpenter's The Thing...
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post #13 of 20
2/8/03 at 3:17am
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NervousXtian is...:
I'm with Django, I think the remake was far superior.

Now I know thats makin' burgers with some sacred cows and shit, but most of you sweating Hitchcock haven't even watched most Hitchcock.
Fucking christ in a bucket.
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post #14 of 20
2/8/03 at 3:53am
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NervousXtian is...:
I'm with Django, I think the remake was far superior.

Now I know thats makin' burgers with some sacred cows and shit, but most of you sweating Hitchcock haven't even watched most Hitchcock.
Speak for yourself, Nervous. The remake lacked life. That's the long and the short of it. It was counterfeit and a bad impersonation lacking, for one thing, the subtly of the first. Compare the scene when Crane speaks to Norman. In the original, while Crane is put off by Norman's behavior, the scene also conveys in their conversation her moral choice of taking the money back to California. The conversation leads her to it. In the remake, I'm not sure Crane's decision was even clear. In the remake, Crane seemed only to be weirded out by some creep. Something almost snobbish in it. The original is better because Crane pitys Norman, which, in a way he being a pitiful character, made him somehow more scary in the end. But Van Sant seemed disinterested in conveying anything textures like that.

And I sure don't agree that the acting was better in the remake. Vaughn was "slow burn." No way. I saw him as a ham.

I have a feeling that Van Sant is playing a joke with this second remake idea because he knows it'll piss people off. That's pretty punk rock.
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post #15 of 20
2/8/03 at 1:45pm
What I'm trying to say is that most people who say that Hitchcock is the greatest or shouldn't be remade haven't watched anything passed Psycho.. I've come acrossed many who say that he was a master and all this, then when asked which movies they've seen of his they come up blank..

I'm a fan.. and I think he made some great movies that in other hands would of failed miserably.. but he's not untouchable..

But besides all that I think this whole punk rock thing is a bad idea.

That being said I would love to see David Lynch take on Rear Window or Vertigo.
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post #16 of 20
2/8/03 at 1:49pm
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NervousXtian is...:
...or Vertigo.
Vertigo can never be improved on. Period. End of story. Go back to your shanties.

And Gus Van Sant is a fuck-bulb.
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post #17 of 20
2/8/03 at 1:59pm
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Cheese Biscuits:
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NervousXtian is...:
...or Vertigo.
Vertigo can never be improved on. Period. End of story. Go back to your shanties.
Well it can be satired, ie. High Anxiety.

But that is it. No one needs to improve it. Ever.
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post #18 of 20
2/8/03 at 2:08pm
...and I was really hoping that they would do a disco remake.
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post #19 of 20
2/8/03 at 11:04pm
I can't believe there's been no mention of a hip hop version called "Pzycho."
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post #20 of 20
2/9/03 at 2:13am
All I know is that the day someone decides to even consider remaking "Rope" is the day I get medieval on the Hollywood studio suits. And that North by Northwest remake that was rumored the other day certainly doesn't bode well for the future of my sanity.
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