Why mess with a good thing? As Michael Brashinsky puts it, "the remake is the most explicit gesture of a culture that. Loosely defined as new versions of existing films, remakes appear to occupy a place in American consumer culture much like that of Barbie dolls or Beanie Babies: if it worked once, do it again. Significantly, then, the Nikita narrative that has inspired so many remakes is itself a kind of remake about the process of remaking: it is a high-tech Pygmalion tale about a woman who is rescued from her lowly circumstances and made over into something "better."
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However, her transformation from gutter snipe to professional hit woman is not without its price, for once tamed and released back into society she falls in love, and the rest of the film deals with the strain of leading a double life, and the irresolvable conflict between duty and desire. Aided by her two mentors, Bob and Amande, she learns the finer points of espionage and etiquette. She is caught and sentenced to die, but the authorities are so impressed with her ruthless savagery that they fake her death so that they may retrain her as a covert government assassin. The original film tells the story of a young street waif, Nikita (Anne Parillaud), who runs with a gang of thuggish drug addicts and kills a police officer in the course of a heist. Shin, 1992), and then remade again by Hollywood as Point of No Return (dir. Stephen Shin, 1991), followed by the sequel, Black Cat II (dir.
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It is based on Luc Besson's 1990 French film of the same name, which was remade as a Hong Kong action movie titled Black Cat (dir. One of the most popular and critically acclaimed shows ever to appear on basic cable, La Femme Nikita has an interesting textual pedigree. Opening voice-over to La Femme Nikita (TV series) Their ends are just but their means are ruthless. One night I was taken from my cell to a place called Section One, the most covert antiterrorist group on the planet. I was falsely accused of a hideous crime and sentenced to life in prison. Photographing inside is like brain-scanning a square-skulled cyclops, or taking a picture within a picture.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Ī Pygmalion Tale Retold: Remaking La Femme Nikita It is a form of cheating, exhilarating and rewarding but ultimately unsatisfying. As a consequence, I have been cooking alive now for weeks but it is worth it- I love the big yellow van that is patrolling my ceiling as we speak, the playing children, the bikers looking unbearably fragile- but no fancy pictures for your hungry eyes, because with a long exposure time anyone can make it look like quite something. No wind can find me here, only its shadow, which makes the leaves quiver on the trees that hang from a concrete sky. The agricultural plastic gathers all the street's heat and focalises it, bundles it into a straight, narrow beam that makes a small hot sun in between the clouds. It is surprisingly light, and silent now that the fire alarm has stopped wreaking havoc. In the morning, I'm sitting amidst cartoonish clouds that languidly crawl over the floor. On photos taken from space, the nightly earth glows with the domesticated fire of houses, factories, streets and highways. Over time, we have come to set the world on fire. According to Goudsblom, the human species has a monopoly for one ability only: the control of fire. Some consider the use of language or tools characteristically human acquisitions, but there are plenty of indications that apes and other animals also make tools and master complex systems of communication. Numerous scientists and philosophers have dealt with the question as to what distinguishes man from the animals.
Goudsblom in his book Fire and Civilisation.
Moreover, matches were ‘the only manmade objects that were so cheap that you could ask a stranger for one,’ writes sociologist J. Never before has fire been so user-friendly and mobile. Ever since the invention of the matchstick, the art of making fire has become a piece of cake. It is plausible, however, that it has taken long for early humans to not only transport and maintain fire from a natural source, but to also generate it themselves. How our ancestors learned to handle fire cannot be said with certainty. The matchstick, puny as it might be, is a great symbol for the way in which man has forced the elements under his control.
Destructive force taken hostage in a mass product, tamed nature by the pack. Jeroen Barendse, Thomas Castro, Dimitri NieuwenhuizenĪ box of matches is a pocketsize miracle.
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