Many reviews seem to be focused on politics or socially diverging views but please, allow me to draw another comparison.
Imagine visiting a new restaurant and spotting cottage pie on the menu. Having had cottage pie before and having adored it, you place your order. A dish comes, steaming and heaping with food, but instead of ground meat on your plate there are slabs of turkey. Instead of the usual peas and carrots, there are radishes and bok choy. Where your mashed potatoes ought to rest are shoestring fries and atop the whole dish, in place of a savory sauce is an apricot spiked dijon dressing. Hm, I might have to make that but if I did and if it was any good, I'd have no idea what to call it.
I despise labels but sometimes they're useful. If I see cottage pie on a menu I can expect, if not a certain experience, then at least certain ingredients. If a movie is labeled Cyrano but adulterates numerous classic traits of the play then it is not Cyrano, and ought to be presented under a unique title so I can experience it for what it is instead of expecting it to be something I'm already familiar with.
The movie 'The Ugly Truth' has aspects of Cyrano-namely, an inept, would-be love interest using the words of an another to woo the object of their affection. Yet it does not go by the title of Cyrano because too many aspects of the original are absent. That's all. I could imagine some arguing that this is a bit like Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris without the Hunchback, but that's another discussion.
Imagine visiting a new restaurant and spotting cottage pie on the menu. Having had cottage pie before and having adored it, you place your order. A dish comes, steaming and heaping with food, but instead of ground meat on your plate there are slabs of turkey. Instead of the usual peas and carrots, there are radishes and bok choy. Where your mashed potatoes ought to rest are shoestring fries and atop the whole dish, in place of a savory sauce is an apricot spiked dijon dressing. Hm, I might have to make that but if I did and if it was any good, I'd have no idea what to call it.
I despise labels but sometimes they're useful. If I see cottage pie on a menu I can expect, if not a certain experience, then at least certain ingredients. If a movie is labeled Cyrano but adulterates numerous classic traits of the play then it is not Cyrano, and ought to be presented under a unique title so I can experience it for what it is instead of expecting it to be something I'm already familiar with.
The movie 'The Ugly Truth' has aspects of Cyrano-namely, an inept, would-be love interest using the words of an another to woo the object of their affection. Yet it does not go by the title of Cyrano because too many aspects of the original are absent. That's all. I could imagine some arguing that this is a bit like Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris without the Hunchback, but that's another discussion.