You must admire the audacity of filmmakers who try to remake classic films – after all, it takes a lot of guts to attempt a production that exists solely to one-up its heralded predecessor. But that’s not to say that it cannot be done – after all, William Wyler’s “Ben-Hur” and Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed” were remakes that won the Best Picture Oscar, while John Huston’s “The Maltese Falcon” and “Moby Dick” and Franco Zeffirelli’s “Romeo and Juliet” were superior to earlier film adaptations of those beloved works.
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