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Girls, it seems the green light has been given to a remake of 1992's "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle." Oh, God, do they have to? How are they going to amp it up, because, by today's standards, the original, though shocking and disturbing for its time, is too tame now.
Two nowhere actresses, Maika Monroe and Mary Elizabeth Winstead will step into the lead roles. Monroe will have the sheer gall to portray what became Rebecca DeMornay's signature role of Peyton Flanders, and no one did it better than she. Winstead will step into the Annabella Sciorra role of Claire Bartel, and I don't see her matching Sciorra.
And what about the other pivotal characters--Emma, the daughter, Solomon, the handyman, and Claire's friend Marlene Craven, played beautifully by Julianne Moore in one of her early roles? Will she be on hand? And how about Solomon's dynamic with the Bartels? I am sure there will be a child, but will he/she--yes, they could change the gender--have the spumk of little Madeline Zima, in her screen debut?
What I think, and fear, girls, is that they will keep Peyton and Claire and jettison the rest of the original story and come up with their own. As if they could improve on the original, which I watched earlier this week, and it is just about perfect in its structure, acting, and cinematography. This remake does not stand a chance.
Pray the project falls through, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2 comments:
Not everything needs a remake, and this is one of them. Good luck to this one coming anywhere near as close as the original, on the edge of your seat, nail biter. One of my favorites. I also don't think anyone would top Rebecca DeMornay's crazed performance in that movie. That said I think DeMornay was a very much under used actress. Give me the original classic any day.
Mistress Maddie, I agree Rebecca DeMornay was a vastly underrated actress. The audience is in on the scheme before the characters, and if you watch DeMornay closely, there are moments where her words say one thing but her eyes say another. Seeing this the first time, I was, to a point, sympathetic with Peyton. But when she went after Solomon, all my sympathy went out the window. Too bad Julianne Moore was killed off; her character and DeMorany's would have been some showdown!
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