Then again i think the reason why american remakes get a lot of criticism is because you have a big film industry that comes to theatres all across the world, and sadly a tendency to remake good/popular foreign movies.

Usually its crap (there are good ones like; “For a few dollars more”).
But some examples like the american remake of “Nikita” and “Pink Panther”.

I mean, how could someone even come up with the retarded idea that its even remotely possible to cast Expector Cloisseau with anyone else than Peter Sellers????

And i believe its scenes like when he eats an hamburger in New York that makes one hate American remakes so badly.

but as stated, most remakes never live up to the originals, and i feel that “Let me in” most likely will not. Not to mention the upcoming adaptations of the Millennium trilogy (i have a hard time seeing those stories beeing viewable in the US without some serious tuning down on the sexual content).

and what am i expecting
DON'T I KNOW THAT THIS IS A COPY OF A COPY OF A COPY

Then again i think the reason why american remakes get a lot of criticism is because you have a big film industry that comes to theatres all across the world, and sadly a tendency to remake good/popular foreign movies.

Usually its crap (there are good ones like; “For a few dollars more”).
But some examples like the american remake of “Nikita” and “Pink Panther”.

I mean, how could someone even come up with the retarded idea that its even remotely possible to cast Expector Cloisseau with anyone else than Peter Sellers????

And i believe its scenes like when he eats an hamburger in New York that makes one hate American remakes so badly.

but as stated, most remakes never live up to the originals, and i feel that “Let me in” most likely will not. Not to mention the upcoming adaptations of the Millennium trilogy (i have a hard time seeing those stories beeing viewable in the US without some serious tuning down on the sexual content).

and what am i expecting
DON'T I KNOW THAT THIS IS A COPY OF A COPY OF A COPY

I think you are thinking too much into it, haha, but very interesting take anyhow, who knows, maybe you’re right.

neighborhood bullies–USSR?
Eli protector–USA/UK/NATO?
Oskar–Sweden?

I think This book is rich in methaphors and hidden meanings.

ELi is a methaphor that represents a type of social decline that seduced swedish society in the Mid eighties.

Eli in the book at many times offers salvation,redemption, friendship and yet will kill without conscience.

If the devil shows up as the devil will you run? But if the devil shows up as a little innocent girl will you be afraid?

I started to think. I know I do that to much. What was going on in the Mid-eighties that had sweden (for that matter all of europe) in a frenzy. Maybe cold war, nuclear holocaust?

I realized too that Eli was made a Vampire 200 years from the mid-eighties. I’m thinking birth of American democracy

so in my over imaginative mind I conclude that ELI is methaphor for American and british democracy that has infected swedish society which at first offers salvation and redemption, but later leads to decline and will kill without conscience.

Now I do not feel this way, I feel this the point the author is expressing.

The ELI-he/she is a methphor for the Ronald Reagan/Margret Thachter Alliance

Oh i wasn’t saying that that scene was scary… just the thought of it happening around me in the same pool that i might just be swimming in or whatever one day…

I haven’t seen knowing… the trailers didn’t really interest me that much… it looked to much like “next” and i didn’t really care much for that either. Haven’t really seen many movies with cage in it that i liked…ill just mention the ones i can remember:

Family man
Con-Air
The Rock
Face Off
Gone in Sixty Seconds
Trapped in Paradise(mainly cause of Dana carvey & jon lovitz)
lord of war
ant bully

Now that i’m looking at it… seems like more then enough really since its cage anyways…lol.

I liked that they did most of that practically instead of making it all CG like most people would do now-a-days. Like that horrible horrible movie Knowing, EVERYTHING was CG!

SPOILER ALERT

Well either way its still creepy on my behalf whether it be an old lady or a man, but i will say this though… ever since seeing it i can’t close my eyes in a pool without thinking about that one scene if its happening behind or around me.

***JUST KNOW THERE WILL BE SPOILERS HAHA***

Then you guys saw a version that completely changes an important aspect of the novel and over simplifies it… Not sure which one is better… I think your more “socially acceptable” version would have been easier to swallow, but deviates too much from the source material. I’ve read that not only did they intend to keep that aspect, they actually filmed scenes that were flashbacks to Eli’s past that ELABORATES on what I was talking about, but they ended up cutting those scenes from the final cut and made the castration scar and Eli’s comments the only indications in the film.

That was also covered in an interview with the director…

Spoiler alert

Trust me what i saw was vertical… i didn’t see it on dvd but i saw it several times in the theater (not in the USA but a friend of ours owned one and we would see movies for free and he would even rewind and pause if we had to go to the bathroom or something)… we tried not to pause it to not look like pedophiles… but since there was money involved in the argument we had to… i don’t exactly remember when i saw it… but i know it wasn’t this year when i did but i do remember winning the bet. Now i do know about the novel where he was castrated and all so i understand what your trying to say but the version that me and my cousins saw had a regular vertical line there.

Ah, I just looked it up again and read one of the articles more completely, Eli was written in the novel as a boy that was castrated by vampire nobelmen very very long ago. This article also confirms what I was saying that the only mentions of this in the film are the times Eli tries to tell Oskar that she isn’t a girl and that brief scene that shows scars of the castration, not of female genitals.

**STILL SPOILER**

Actually, I saw it on DVD and they do show downstairs, and that’s actually where they show it. It wasn’t a female’s downstairs, it was a closed up wound after something else have been removed… From what I know about the novel, Eli is written as an androngynous boy. In the movie, Eli “tests the waters” twice, the first time after she vomits and Oskar hugs her, she asks “Do you like me?” and then “Would you still like me if I wasn’t a girl?” Then later when she goes into his bedroom and he asks if they can be together. At first Eli doesn’t give an answer, and instead makes the remark “I’m not a girl” and only after that remark where Oskar replies if they can be together anyway, then all of a sudden Eli says yes, they are together and from then on, Eli is writing him love notes, being sweet, etc…

My friends actually disagreed with me as well, so we actually went back to that scene where he peeks in on her changing, and if you pause it on that frame, you see the opening is not vertical like if it was a female’s, it looks like rough cuts that didn’t quite heal all the way with the main cut running horizontally. Then I looked it up online to see if it has been discussed and I read in a lot of articles where people mention how in the novel Eli is an androngynous boy, or just a boy that pretends to be a girl, probably because it’s easier for a little girl to get boys to help them than the other way around. Not to mention, getting guys to help kill for her will be easier than getting girls to… It’s pretty much accepted that Eli’s gender is an actual issue and it’s not as simple as it seemed at first…

SPOILER ALERT

Not a girl…? then you must have seen something completely different then what i saw because they actually show her downstairs in the version that i saw… and it was female.

END OF SPOILER…

I liked the movie, I’ve never had any interest in vampire movies, especially how they make them seem so romantic or whatever. This movie wasn’t like that, it was treated kind of realistically, and the focus of the movie was less of the fact that one of them is a vampire, and more of a drama between the two main characters. But the part that kind of bugged me…

**SPOILER ALERT**

was the fact that this “romance” not only was it between a young boy and Eli, a much older vampire trapped in a kid’s body, but also that Eli wasn’t even a girl… So it’s really, if you think about it, technically a romance between an old man and a young boy… I know the circumstances are not typical, but in a way that’s what it was… Weird… Let’s just say I know for sure the crappy remake of it will most likely not include that aspect of the movie…