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Warning: spoilers ahead!
The Danish director of the original Speak No Evil has hit out at the new remake for rewriting the “entire ending”, saying: “I don’t know what it is about Americans”.
Speak No Evil – which is an American remake of the 2022 Danish film of the same name – was released in cinemas on September 13. Written and directed by James Watkins (The Woman In Black, Eden Lake), the film stars James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Aisling Franciosi and Scoot McNairy.
Now, the director of the original, Christian Tafdrup, has criticised the film’s remake for a number of significant changes.
The remake changes the nationalities of the families to British and American and Watkins has divided fans by completely changing the ending to the film.
And that is where I am leaving it until I’ve seen both. If you are discussing spoilers innyhe comments, please us the spoiler tags - ! in a triangle in the standard web interface.
Americans are optimists and having an ending where the heroes die, unable to change their fate, is inherently hard for Americans to agree with. Most Americans will point at parts of the movie and try to find some way they would have done it differently, using the hind sight of knowing the outcome of some decisions, to avoid the Danish ending. It’s a deeply rooted cultural experience and why the people who put multiple millions and a few years into making a movie want to appeal to the audience they are making it for. The same effect can be seen with food - make the food the customers want, not the food that represents a culture few understand.