{"id":531,"date":"2022-08-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/?p=531"},"modified":"2025-04-24T21:08:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T21:08:03","slug":"secret-life-of-walter-mitty-1947-vs-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/08\/26\/secret-life-of-walter-mitty-1947-vs-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Life of Walter Mitty 1947 vs 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WARNING:<\/mark> <\/strong>This Review May Contain Spoilers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel like I may have mentioned this before, but it is always harder to write articles about films that are based on books as I guess technically they are new adaptations of the written story instead of being remakes of the original film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art of Comedy                                      <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                This is one of the many highlights of the original film in my opinion. Yes, the film has a serious undertone and I\u2019ll come to that a little later but it also has its lighter moments. To make it even better, the comedy in this film is played completely straight by Danny Kaye and even though there are certain parts that you will see coming, I promise it will still make you laugh. On the other hand, I know that it is Ben Stiller\u2019s niche for his comedy characters to, as I mentioned, play the comedy straight but there was something about this film that made those moments seem forced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over exaggeration<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                This is actually one of the things that annoyed me about the remake. What I like about the daydream scenes in the original film is that they come across as mini stories of their own within the main plot of the film. However, in the remake they are more like these tiny little titbits that don\u2019t really make much sense and are over exaggerated. Look at the scene where Walter fights the new boss; there\u2019s no clear trigger and it turns into a fight that in my opinion wouldn\u2019t look out place in an episode of Family Guy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lack of Obvious Transition<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Now, what I mean by this isn\u2019t the fact that you can\u2019t tell what parts are daydreams and which parts are real \u2013 that\u2019s made pretty obvious at times by the above. However, in the original film there are triggers for each of Walter\u2019s daydreams instead of them just randomly happening. For example, when Walter imagines himself as a cowboy saving Rosalind\u2019s life \u2013 it is triggered by seeing the cowboy on the horse while he\u2019s driving. I\u2019m not saying this doesn\u2019t happen in the remake because it does, but only once near the beginning. Towards the end it started to become more confusing about what is real and what isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall Storyline<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Here\u2019s the bit that I promised to get to later and now it\u2019s later. I don\u2019t understand what the plot of the remake is. Part of me feels like it is supposed to be this spiritual, \u2018finding yourself\u2019 style of story, with a touch of \u2018will he get the girl?\u2019 thrown in. For me it feels completely \u2018Walter-centric\u2019 whereas the original has a much broader storyline of mystery and intriguing with, as I already mentioned, a smattering of comedy. Yes, in the end they both get the girl (or so it seems in the remake) but there\u2019s more real world development to the relationship between Rosalind and Walter than there is between Walter and Cheryl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Conclusion<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                In case it wasn\u2019t completely obvious from the previous comments, I prefer the original film of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty <\/em>than the remake. As always I recommend for you to watch both films and make your own opinions and this isn\u2019t saying I have anything against Ben Stiller as an actor because I really don\u2019t \u2013 but as a director it is a different story. Thinking about it this maybe the cause of the remake being, as mentioned, \u2018Walter-centric\u2019 and I think that was a bad move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers I feel like I may have mentioned this before, but it is always harder to write articles about films that are based on books as I guess technically they are new adaptations of the written story instead of being remakes of the original film. Art of Comedy                                                       This … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-to-remake-or-not-to-remake","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}