PillowRock
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Last night on Showtime (a "premium" cable channel for those outside the US) I saw an ad for a remake of The Lion in Winter starring Patrick Stewart and Glen Close in the Peter O'Toole and Katherine Hepburn roles.
My only question is:
Why?
I mean, Stewart and Close are very fine actors and all of that .... but those characters are designed to be larger than life presences, and for that particular intangible I just don't see these actors measuring up to O'Toole and Hepburn. That's not a knowck on them. There are other roles that Stewart and Close could do as well or better than O'Toole and Hepburn. It's just that when you are talking about this kind of larger-than-life even when just standing quietly role ...... *Extremely* few people in film history have had the sheer presence on screen that O'Toole and Hepburn had.
The odds are good that I'll check it out anyway. I have always really liked the original film. I just don't really expect this remake to stand up to the original.
My only question is:
Why?
I mean, Stewart and Close are very fine actors and all of that .... but those characters are designed to be larger than life presences, and for that particular intangible I just don't see these actors measuring up to O'Toole and Hepburn. That's not a knowck on them. There are other roles that Stewart and Close could do as well or better than O'Toole and Hepburn. It's just that when you are talking about this kind of larger-than-life even when just standing quietly role ...... *Extremely* few people in film history have had the sheer presence on screen that O'Toole and Hepburn had.
The odds are good that I'll check it out anyway. I have always really liked the original film. I just don't really expect this remake to stand up to the original.