Renee Graham’s “Hollywood Warms to Asian Movies, American-Style” discusses the movie industry in Hollywood and Asian countries. Graham describes a movie that came out in 2006 called The Departed. She explains that the new movie is a remake of a Hong Kong drama called Infernal Affairs, a 2002 film. In recent trends discovering remakes of Eastern movies is easy to find in cinemas around the United States. Movies that America has remade were The Grudge, The Ring, Shall We Dance?, etc. were all Japanese originals. Twenty-four Asian films have been slated for remakes using American actors. Some people wonder why the effort of remaking Asian films is greater than promoting foreign movies. Most original films are mostly ‘audacious and challenging” (Graham 229) than the water-downed remakes that end up in American theaters. Remakes are almost never up to standards of the original film. However, some people argue that remakes are good because they provide exposure to the original material. A good bit of Hollywood films are remakes of Eastern films. Not a lot of people know that Hollywood is filled with remakes and most folks are more familiar with American remade movies. Roy Lee makes a living off of finding the best Asian films and getting them set to be remade in America. …show more content…
Movies like those would not have been exposed to Americans or even English speakers because it is different and hard to find out about since Hollywood controls the movies Americans watch. Some Americans are shallow in wanting to understand other cultures so this is why remakes of movies have to be made. Remakes with “recognizable actors and no subtitles,” (Graham 230) are more profitable to the U.S. than foreign films. There is still a good amount of resistance to having subtitles on movies and in the