Originally posted by: McGyver
why can't hollywood make something alike in recent years?
Imagine they're pitching Princess Bride to modern-day Hollywood.
"Hmm, kind of witty dialog...can we dumb it down a bit so that our audience doesn't feel stupid?"
"The action is somewhat boring...maybe if we add some more special effects and explosions, and a loud dramatic music score every time something happens."
"The grandpa reading the story...forget it. Pointless."
"It seems really whitewashed to me! We should cast Samuel L. Jackson as Indigo Montoya."
"Our main character really shouldn't be a pirate. We don't want to seem like we're condoning piracy, or implying that it's 'cool.' Let's make him an admiral in the Navy instead."
"Needs more polical context. I mean, we have two nations initially at peace, with someone trying to fake a kidnapping so that they go to war...maybe we can say that Vizzini is an agent for Florin, and they want an excuse to attack Guilder and take over their oil reserves."
"Rodents are so
ordinary...let's make them some sort of genetically engineered monsters instead. Maybe the Fire Swamp can be a research lab, where something went wrong..."