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Okay, so with the Straw Dogs remake being a dismal affair, how would I have done it? Well, I was thinking--instead of just making the same point, why not examine the same themes in a different context? Say, with an all-black cast. Now, just from my obsessive stanning of Donald Glover (he's a stand-up comedian and a rapper!), I know that black culture gives a lot of weight to masculinity, authenticity, 'blackness', and so on. You have guys like Kanye and Childish Gambino who are seen as effeminate for rapping about their feelings and not being 'gangsta'. Which, obviously, can tie into the basic story of Straw Dogs and give it new life.
Say we cast, oh, Terence Howard as David. He and his wife (hmm, Gina Torres, she's always great) are moving back to an inner city district that's been historically "a ghetto" but is being gentrified. Maybe they could be buying and restoring an old hotel, something like that, and they hire Charlie (Samuel L. Jackson. Why not?) and his guys to fix it up. Instantly, there's some tension. David's seen as a sell-out for working at a white law firm or whatever, he listens to Kanye, Charlie listens to 50 Cent. There's a lot of ways you could go with that story. Get John Singleton to direct, he did a Taylor Lautner movie, so obviously he won't say no to a paycheck. Give him thirty million dollars, let him do his thing, boom, remake with a reason to exist.
Say we cast, oh, Terence Howard as David. He and his wife (hmm, Gina Torres, she's always great) are moving back to an inner city district that's been historically "a ghetto" but is being gentrified. Maybe they could be buying and restoring an old hotel, something like that, and they hire Charlie (Samuel L. Jackson. Why not?) and his guys to fix it up. Instantly, there's some tension. David's seen as a sell-out for working at a white law firm or whatever, he listens to Kanye, Charlie listens to 50 Cent. There's a lot of ways you could go with that story. Get John Singleton to direct, he did a Taylor Lautner movie, so obviously he won't say no to a paycheck. Give him thirty million dollars, let him do his thing, boom, remake with a reason to exist.
