Are there some classic movies that could benefit from a re-make?
For example - I'd love to see the entire Star Wars saga remade with good acting and some of the obvious plot blunders cleaned up. (The strength of the Force in some one determined by a blood test? Really?) A good writer could explain why Anakin's mother was left in slavery.
The movie I'd really love to see a remake of is Gone With the Wind. I'm reading the novel for book club, and it is stunning what's there is yo know enough to fill in the gaps. For example - do you know why Rhett Butler was jailed by the Federal Army? He was jailed because he killed a black man "for insulting a white woman". Knowing about Emmett Till kind of puts an entire different context to that plot element! Did you know that Prissy was the daughter of another slave purchased just before the war broke out? It's a big deal that Gerald O'Hara bought the wife of his valet from another plantation owner, and bought her daughter, too, so mother and child wouldn't be separated. It's presented as an example of how kind-hearted Gerald is.
Later in the novel there are comments about how happy all the slaves were until the Yankees put ideas in their heads. Yet in the opening pages, a casual reference is made to patrollers - "Slave patrols (called patrollers, pattyrollers or paddy rollers by the slaves) were organized groups of three to six white men who enforced discipline upon black slaves during the antebellum U.S. southern states. They policed the slaves on the plantations and hunted down fugitive slaves. Patrols used summary punishment against escapees, which included maiming or killing them."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_patrol
I don't know if the Mitchell estate would ever permit it, but I'd love to see a remake illuminated by what we now know of history!
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Except, instead of the invasion of Normandy, my remake would cover the storming of Apple stores when a new iPhone/iPad/iPod is released. Like the original, this would cover the doors opening from both sides, from the shoppers climbing over shoppers, and from the store employees bracing for and dealing with the onslaught.
I don't know if the Jobs estate would ever permit it.
starring Justin Bieber.
That would be horrorshow my droogies.
A real remedy to all the myths surrounding Reconstruction!
Retold in the near future...very near 
