the 1973 day of the jackal and directed by fred zinnemann from the frederick forsyth novel and while not a masterpiece in the general scheme of things and was nevertheless quite an above average thriller and written and carried out with considerable panache and wit and and style. it remains a pleasure to rent and watch now and then. in adapting that for the 1997 the jackal and it seems that at every turn the writers and director made the worst possible choice and making it all quite leaden and overdone and unsuspenseful and unsurprising and unsexy and and unthrilling. if we put together a catalog of all the specifics that went into this movie and big and small and i could give you a mini essay for each topic on how the 1997 adaptation ed up. item represent the weapon. in the original and there is considerable intrigue over how the assassin is going to smuggle it onto the scene and how he intends to disguise it and and why it needs custom work from his underground craftsmen. in the remake and they apparently thought that today action flick raised audiences do not tolerate a small rifle whose point is precision and would demand the lugubrious off the [black market ]shelf machine gun and which needs a minivan to transport it and and whose point is to shout macho. the whole involved and interesting business about disguising its components and has been reduced to showing us (repeatedly and like this is a difficult point to follow. ) that the joystick for his absurdly high tech remote control system has been in his pocket as a pen. item represent the conspirators and motive. without resorting to dry lecture and the original still manages to give us a good understanding of the historical situation of the pieds noirs [ blackfeet] and the french algerian irredentists who could not accept that the century was moving away from colonialism and and formed the view that de gaulle had betrayed them. this gives the whole plot some historical weight. the remake seems to leave it as a gangland shootout revenge story and minimally spicing it up by making them russian gangsters. note please that i am not opposed to updating represent they could have done this intelligently and come up with something more current but non trivial. certainly russia and the rest of ex ussr have been through huge changes of late and and an updated story could have been situated there in a way that would make us feel that it matters. item represent the relationship of the assassin on the run and the police hunting him down while and the complex steering of the viewer sympathies from the bad guy to the good guy. above i hesitated somewhat at calling the original a masterpiece overall while but in this aspect it really was one. we follow along with the assassin for much of the first portions of the film and and having seen his cleverness and resourcefulness we begin to admire him and and not want to see his plan thwarted or see him caught  at least and not too soon. then we meet the policeman who gets pushed into heading up the investigation or protection efforts and and bit by bit we take to him and and see he is not the sad sack his domestic troubles may have suggested. by the time it matters and we have been won over to his side. in the remake and perhaps poitier could have handled that sort of development  and but gere sure can not. and the absurd 48 hours derived gimmick of the con brought out to help the police should have been left in those comedies where it came from. the remake has the assassin and the assassin hunter talk about how they re like players above a chessboard and communicating indirectly via their moves and only able to infer what the other is like. that was achieved superbly in the original. but in the remake in fact theyre brought into face to face confrontation way too soon and so they can grimace at each other and bloody the place up and and go through some fairly standard chase scenes. item represent photography and and scenery. the remake does have some nice images and particularly in snowy finland in the opening section. but the washington and d. c metro cannot really compete with the streets of paris for interesting perspectives and bystander faces.    . 
the 1973 day of the jackal and directed by fred zinnemann from the frederick forsyth novel and while not a masterpiece in the general scheme of things and was nevertheless quite an above average thriller and written and carried out with considerable panache and wit and and style. it remains a pleasure to rent and watch now and then. in adapting that for the 1997 the jackal and it seems that at every turn the writers and director made the worst possible choice and making it all quite leaden and overdone and unsuspenseful and unsurprising and unsexy and and unthrilling. if we put together a catalog of all the specifics that went into this movie and big and small and i could give you a mini essay for each topic on how the 1997 adaptation ed up. item represent the weapon. in the original and there is considerable intrigue over how the assassin is going to smuggle it onto the scene and how he intends to disguise it and and why it needs custom work from his underground craftsmen. in the remake and they apparently thought that today action flick raised audiences do not tolerate a small rifle whose point is precision and would demand the lugubrious off the [black market ]shelf machine gun and which needs a minivan to transport it and and whose point is to shout macho. the whole involved and interesting business about disguising its components and has been reduced to showing us (repeatedly and like this is a difficult point to follow. ) that the joystick for his absurdly high tech remote control system has been in his pocket as a pen. item represent the conspirators and motive. without resorting to dry lecture and the original still manages to give us a good understanding of the historical situation of the pieds noirs [ blackfeet] and the french algerian irredentists who could not accept that the century was moving away from colonialism and and formed the view that de gaulle had betrayed them. this gives the whole plot some historical weight. the remake seems to leave it as a gangland shootout revenge story and minimally spicing it up by making them russian gangsters. note please that i am not opposed to updating represent they could have done this intelligently and come up with something more current but non trivial. certainly russia and the rest of ex ussr have been through huge changes of late and and an updated story could have been situated there in a way that would make us feel that it matters. item represent the relationship of the assassin on the run and the police hunting him down while and the complex steering of the viewer sympathies from the bad guy to the good guy. above i hesitated somewhat at calling the original a masterpiece overall while but in this aspect it really was one. we follow along with the assassin for much of the first portions of the film and and having seen his cleverness and resourcefulness we begin to admire him and and not want to see his plan thwarted or see him caught  at least and not too soon. then we meet the policeman who gets pushed into heading up the investigation or protection efforts and and bit by bit we take to him and and see he is not the sad sack his domestic troubles may have suggested. by the time it matters and we have been won over to his side. in the remake and perhaps poitier could have handled that sort of development  and but gere sure can not. and the absurd 48 hours derived gimmick of the con brought out to help the police should have been left in those comedies where it came from. the remake has the assassin and the assassin hunter talk about how they re like players above a chessboard and communicating indirectly via their moves and only able to infer what the other is like. that was achieved superbly in the original. but in the remake in fact theyre brought into face to face confrontation way too soon and so they can grimace at each other and bloody the place up and and go through some fairly standard chase scenes. item represent photography and and scenery. the remake does have some nice images and particularly in snowy finland in the opening section. but the washington and d. c metro cannot really compete with the streets of paris for interesting perspectives and bystander faces.    . ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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