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Typically our first occurrence with something ascertains not only a “standard†in our heads, but more significantly it forms the basis for our familiarity with something as well. When we see a movie, and then later see a remake of that movie, we instantaneously compare the two in our heads. But we judge the remake not on it’s quality alone, but also on how well it preserved the spirit or essence of THE UNIQUE. Because the original is what we know… it is the touchstone now… not only for quality, but for its own nature.
For this reason, from time to time even if a remake is actually a BETTER film that the original, most people will still complain (me too) unless it properly met those principles of familiarity in our heads. The original came first, and thus never had to face such standards… it could just be judged on its own merits. Not so with remakes. Books are more often than not read first and thus judged only on their own merits when read… but the movie version has those extra principles to be measured against in its place of just its own merits. That’s neither wrong nor right… it just is what it is.
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