Midweek Makeover: The Beat Remains the Same

Inspired by the bollywood music cover, I suggest you start a ‘movie cover’ thread, where you can show movies that were inspired by hollywood, that are remade in bollywood or elsewhere. Here is the first of many –

What is ‘Memento’ about?

Starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Ann Moss in lead roles, ‘Memento’ tells the story of a man named Leonard who is searching for the killer of his wife. The problem is that he suffers from amnesia, which he contracted in a head injury during the attack that killed his wife. With his limited memory Leonard zeroes down on his wife’s killer by keeping notes, taking photographs and making tattoos on his body to remember things.

What is ‘Ghajini’ released in 2005 in Tamil about –
Sanjay Ramasamy (Surya Sivakumar) is a rich tycoon suffering from short term memory loss due to being hit by a metal pole when trying to intervene on his girlfriend’s murder. Because of the severe injury on his head, his memory can only last for fifteen minutes and he doesn’t remember events or incidents that have happened before in his life. He can now only live a comprehendable life by tattooing notes on himself and taking pictures of things with a Polaroid camera to remind himself of the incidents that have happened.

And, What is ‘Ghajini’ to be released in 2008 in Hindi about –

Sanjay Ramasamy (Aamir Khan) is a rich tycoon suffering from short term memory loss due to being hit by a metal pole when trying to intervene on his girlfriend’s murder. Because of the severe injury on his head, his memory can only last for fifteen minutes and he doesn’t remember events or incidents that have happened before in his life. He can now only live a comprehendible life by tattooing notes on himself and taking pictures of things with a Polaroid camera to remind himself of the incidents that have happened.

DT, a movie cover thread needs an entire blog, I would think, not just a thread (or two).

Besides which, I’d recommend talking about movies that *Hollywood* has covered/appropriated from elsewhere, not the other way around; from the relatively decent ones (Seven Samurai into The Magnificent Seven) to the crappy ones (La Femme Nikita into Point of No Return). In fact, you could do an entire subset of posts on all the French movies Hollywood has bastardized (although soemthing like Three Men and a Baby was a lost cause from the original onward…)

I see an opportunity for collaboration, here . . .

But first I need DT’s help in proving my theory that for every Janet Jackson track ever laid down, there were at least three derivative Indian pop songs.