The film updates Jay Ward's slyly subversive 1960's cartoon series, whose cold-war satire and groaning puns made it as popular with adults as with children.
Black Orpheus (1959) - This vibrant film updates the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to Rio's riotous Carnival.
Robert K. Elder from the Chicago Tribune stated that the film "updates the zombie genre with an anti-corporate message while still scaring its audience and providing heart-pounding action", while Owen Gleiberman from Entertainment Weekly noted that the film is as "impersonal in its relentlessness as the video-game series that inspired it".
It was rebroadcast, in January 2005, over three days, with the third film updated to take note of the Law Lords ruling from the previous December that detaining foreign terrorist suspects without trial was illegal.
But after a very effective reboot of the series in Casino Royale, taking the story back to its beginnings in the very first Ian Fleming novel, which had never before been made as a feature film, updating its Soviet villains to a transnational network, the follow-up Quantum of Solace showcased Bond on a mission of revenge for his tragically compromised love, Vesper Lynd.
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At the end of her film, she updates the status of its three subjects.
Technical and commercial publications, journal articles, and newspaper articles concerning theatre and film accomplishments, updates, and pop culture.
The result is a spiritual bookend to the obtuse California noir of Robert Altman's Chandler adaptation The Long Goodbye, with that film's updates here converted to melancholy, amber-hued nostalgia for bygone hedonism.
When the film institute updates its list in another five years, at least a handful of lines from the current era will perhaps have aged into greatness, alongside classics like "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown," from "Chinatown," with a screenplay by Robert Towne, in 1974, and "Hasta la vista, baby," from "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," written by James Cameron and William Wisher Jr., in 1991.
In a way, Back to the Future Part II is another example: Zemeckis retains the Hill Valley town square from the first film, but updates it with digital billboards and holographic sharks.
