And Another

I found this discouraging.

Quoting a recognizable image has its artistic and commercial pros and cons, and isn’t inherently trouble – I dig Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 aping The Breakfast Club as much as anyone – but it becomes problematic when you borrow an image with a more direct tie to the meaning of the text it represents. Glasses and windows, whole and shattered, play a symbolic role in Straw Dogs, and so this feels to me like a lift of the image without an understanding of the weight behind it. But then I haven’t seen the movie version of Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself, or the play it’s based on, so maybe I judge too harshly.

Rod Lurie’s Straw Dogs remake is still in the works. James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, and Alexander Skarsgård have been added as the leads since last discussed.