Hollywood loves a remake. Loves it. Why come up with an original idea when you can pick a good (see: successful) idea that’s already been done, and redo it? Because cocaine doesn’t pay for itself. Not to mention hookers, your brat kid’s private education, maids to fill the parenting void you leave and plastic surgery to keep the whole family looking fresh out of the box, shiny and new. That’s cruel to the few original ideas bandying around there, and of course independent cinema as a whole.
Hollywood loves a remake though, but most art forms prefer to have a crack at originality or at least try and cobble together as many stolen ideas as they can to create the illusion of originality. In art as in paintings and whatnot, the classics are the classics and they are untouchable, or at the very least they should be;
Anyhow, Adobe and Booooooom.com decided to go all Hollywood and via a competition they both held in cahoots a while back, they encouraged entrants to attempt to remakes of classic and universally famous classics. However, the catch was that they needed to recreated in photographic form, and with no touch ups afterwards. These remakes had to be captured exactly as is before the camera, not after the fact with computer based wankery. This sparked a little bit of an internet wide crack at it, beyond the contest, so here is a delightful little gallery of some of the best from the competition or otherwise.
As you’ll see, some have gone for painstakingly spot on remakes (like that shot-by-shot remake of Psycho with Vince Vaughn…), some have taken the element of photography further by modernising the centrepieces of the original paintings, some have opted for interpretations of the originals (be it theme or content), and others… well, bless ‘em, others have just done the best they could.
“Automata” by Edward Hopper, Remake by Or Eitan
“Narcissus” by Caravaggio, Remake by Max Zerrahn
“American Gothic” by Grant Wood, Remake by Jesse John Hunniford
“Nighthawks” by Edward Hopper, Remake by Bastian Vice
“David and Goliath” by Caravaggio, Remake by Miguel Iturbe
“Le Désespéré” by Gustave Courbet, Remake by Stefano Telloni
“Pot Pourri” by Herbert James Draper, Remake by Tania Brassesco and Lazlo Passi Norberto
“The Two Fridas” by Frida Kahlo, Remake by Claire Ball
“The Girl With The Pearl Earring” by Johannes Vermeer, Remake unknown
“The Persistence of Memory” by Salvador Dali, Remake unknown
“Son of Man” by Magritte, Remake by Juan de Ezcurra
“The Ship” by Salvador Dali, Remake by Justin Nunnink
“The Creation of Adam” by Michelangelo, Remake by Gebbs
“La laitière” by Johannes Vermeer, Remake by Justine Rioufrait
“Ugly Duchess” by Quentin Matsys, Remake by Alexandre Mury
“Grande Odalisque” by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Remake by Craig White
“Bedroom in Arles” by Van Gogh, Remake by Joshua Louis Simon
“Weeping Woman” by Picasso, Remake by Frances Adair Mckenzie
“The Murderer Threatened” by Rene Magritte, Remake by Natalie Pereira
“Self Portrait 1889″ by Vincent van Gogh, Remake by Seth Johnson
“Self-Portrait 1889” by Vincent van Gogh, Remake by Tadao Cern
Yeah, that last one was a big phoney. It was all touched up by its uncle (digital photo editing software). Still fucking cool though.
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