Bollywood Fight Club Remake

I tell you, the open-mindedness of human beings never ceases to amaze me. Everybody clings so tightly to their opinions, without stopping to ask themselves how they came to those opinions, that they aren't willing to let anything get in the way of expressing them. Even with the opinion they are expressing turns out to have nothing at all to do with the reality of a situation.

I recently came across a message forum at an internet site called TwitchFilm.net. I'll be honest with you, I don't really even know what the site is necessarily about. I think it's mostly about movies, but I wouldn't want to place a bet on that assumption. At any rate, I don't really even know how it came about that I landed on this particular site, but the subject of the forum had to do with a Bollywood Fight Club remake.

Yeah, that's right. Bollywood, know for their lavish musicals, apparently had in mind the idea to redo Fight Club. Well, as you can well imagine, this didn't sit well with some apparently hardcore fans. The headline of this particular forum was: Bollywood's Riding the Remake Train Again…This Time It's Fight Club. Much of the posting took Bollywood to task for daring to remake American films, though admittedly there were some responses pointing out that American filmmakers have been raiding the vaults of Asian moviemakers for decades.

The center of complaint, however, was this particular choice of a remake. I admire Fight Club as much as anyone. In fact, as of February 2006, I consider it to be the last truly great American fictional film. Yes, I realize that the subtext and the real issues of the film have been overlooked by probably the majority of its fans, but that's not the filmmakers' fault. At least, it's not the fault of the makers of Fight Club; rather it's the fault of all these hacks that have been producing easily digested pablum that requires no critical engagement. You can blame a person for not "getting it" when they're rarely required to do much more than open their eyes to "get it."