Reply #17: Here's a different perspective...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

We enjoy revivals of plays with a different set of actors and directors...

Symphonies are rarely recorded only once...

And old movies never die. They and their remakes will always be with us as long as they're worth keeping around.

I think the tendency to shun remakes is due to the visual aspect of the art form. Most of us would not care to see cheesy remakes of the Mona Lisa or Starry Night.

On the other hand, it might be interesting to see what Van Gogh would have done with Mona Lisa, or how DaVinci would have seen the Starry Night.

I have a hard time imagining The Birds as anything but a Hitchcock masterpiece. Still, would it be such a bad thing if someone else created a new masterpiece?