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Originally Posted by merylsilverburg
that was rather shameful on Leone's part though for not giving Kurosawa credit...but wasn't there a legal case that settled it?
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Yes, but the fact he tried getting away with it, maybe thinking it was easy since Japanese movies at that time were not so popular outside Asian countries, that is very shameful and irritating even after law settled it. I doubt anybody would try anything like this with some Hollywood classic
BTW, I too prefer the first Wonka movie. The new one lacks that scary aura the first one has. Also, though I think Depp is an ok actor, I feel the madness of Gene Wilder was more appropriate. And this brings up another reason I often dislike remakes taken from older movies: they try to give a "modern" view at all costs and force everything in that direction, while most of the time the concept of "modernity" isn't the key of revisiting something.