Remakes may seem like a contemporary Hollywood trend, but the process has been a staple of the medium since the inception of cinema. Whether it was adapting silent successes for the talkie era, reconfigured pre-code titillations for the conservative mainstream, or the advent of enhanced technological capability, it seems pulpy narratives are prone to resuscitation merely for and because of their mainline familiarity. While melodramas aren’t so much victim to this cycle any longer (at least if they’ve recently been made in English starring American actors), one such popularized item was once French playwright and vaudevillian Alexandre Bisson’s 1910 stage play Madame X, which has been adapted a whopping nine times for the screen.…...
- 6/11/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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