Disney's ENEMY MINE Coming Soon

[AndyDursin]

How much you wanna bet this remake is going to turn this into some sort of "gender fluid" Lbqtdhs# parable.

https://twitter.com/BoundingComics/stat ... JQLxw&s=19

[Monterey Jack]

...because the original made so much money...

[AndyDursin]

Doesn't matter (plus it developed a cult following on home video/TV over the years).

Disney saves $$ by taking a pre-existing film and remaking it. There are less development costs involved.

At this point any movie they own is going to get remade. SPEED will be next, and soon I'd imagine.

[Monterey Jack]

Hey, to be fair, Enemy Mine was basically a sci-fi remake of Hell In The Pacific...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDfD8J_lJgo


EDIT: Why aren't YouTube videos or Tweets showing up here anymore? Now they force you to click on a link.

[AndyDursin]

The embed plug in doesn't work anymore. Sorry, it's nothing to do with us. I tried fooling around with it yesterday but even the people who developed it don't have any good answers (or answers at all, sadly).

[AndyDursin]

Very frustrating I'm trying to see if I can fix it, will do a board update later and see if it helps.

[Paul MacLean]

How much you wanna bet this remake is going to turn this into some sort of "gender fluid" Lbqtdhs# parable.

It's funny you should say that.

I'm part of a Maurice Jarre group on Facebook, and the other day someone posted this "interpretation" of the film (presumably in complete seriousness)...

Enemy Mine is still a flawed but entertaining survival story, but if I think about it , this was also the first sci-fi film that made me rethink the binaries of gender. Clearly inspired by the '68 film Hell in the Pacific, during a war between humans and a reptilian race, a spaceship pilot ends up stranded on a hostile planet with an alien soldier. As the two struggle to survive, a powerful bond forms between the human and his non binary friend. Things get even weirder when the alien reveals they are pregnant. Slowly, this story of war becomes a story of an unsual partnership that turns these two soldiers into parents who will do anything to protect their child. While I do not think their relationship is romantic, there is something undeniably queer about their story. In a time when movie aliens were either adorable E.Ts. or slimey man-eaters, this sci-fi film asks us to confront all manner of prejudices and rethink how we see 'the other'.

Hey, to be fair, Enemy Mine was basically a sci-fi remake of Hell In The Pacific...

The "Hell in the Pacific" element only constituted the first half of the the novella on which the film was based. The filmmakers jettisoned the rest of the of plot -- which continued the story on Earth, and then later the Drac home world.