Scientifically analyze the reason why certain movies are remade again and again

ByClara Jordan

A movie released in 2002SpidermanIn 2012, the movie "Amazing Spider-Man"As a remake of popular works such as being remade as remakes and reboots are many. SuchReason why certain movies are remade many times"Is about to be clarified by the latest research using the fairy tales" Little Red Riding Hood ".

The structure and evolution of story networks | Open Science
http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/6/160071


New study could explain why we remake certain movies over and over again | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2016/06/new-study-could-explain-why-we-remake-certain-movies-over-and-over-again/

Many movie fans should have thought of "why so many remake, reboot and sequel work exist?" Hints of the question are Dutch network theorists Folgert Karsdorp and Antal van den BoschRoyal Society Open ScienceIt is included in the latest scientific research published at.

Two network theorists are fairy tales that have been remade and translated in many countries and regions to explore the reasons for remake, reboot, sequel, etc.Little Red Riding Hood"Was investigated. In the survey, more than 200 kinds of remake of Little Red Riding Hood was collected and used for natural language processing and information retrieval etc.Bag-of-words"The similarity of the story" in the Little Red Riding Hood created for various ages using the model is analyzed. Furthermore, in our research, we have created a "story network" that visualizes the common points of each Little Red Riding Hood from analysis results.

BySimon Cockell

Little Red Riding Hood as a work is the Little Red Riding Hood in Fellowship Collection published in France in 1697, but before that Swedish folk tale "Maid of the Black Forest" and fairy tales that are transmitted to France etc. , Similar works have been confirmed, it is unknown when the original was born. However, among them, Little Red Riding Hood has been published early in the year as "Little Red Riding Hood" in the early days, and those remade based on the early Little Red Riding Hood created after that are referred to as "the early Red Riding Hood Remake", 200 Classification of more than one type of Little Red Riding Hood. From the results of the analysis, it is clear that "Early Little Red Riding Hood" has more "pretext (common sentences seen in red shinkai remake etc.)" than the rest of Little Red Riding Hood .

The following figure shows the similarity of the story seen in the "early Little Red Riding Hood" as a story network on the left, and the common point of the story seen between "the initial Little Red Riding Hood" on the right A visualized story network. Points on the network indicate separate works, lines connecting points represent pretexts existing between works, and colors such as black, white and red indicate the age at which each story was created. It is quite obvious that there are many similarities between the works as the initial one.


It was made into a movie many times "Vampire Dracula"If you think of this story network, it was published in 1897Bram · Stalker'S Books · Vampire Dracula will be a pre-text for a number of "vampire Dracula's original works" that will be created afterwards. And the story network will gradually become bigger as sequels and remakes are made.

What was clarified in the analysis is that "remake works are rarely the ones that are close to the initial pre-text, but they will become more favorable to the world by the time they are remade." In the case of "Vampire Dracula", Dracula, which was expressed as a horrible monster when born in the 19th century, became more generalized in recent years, and as a "handsome creature" with sexual appeal in fears There are a lot of things to be drawn. And those who are going to remake the new Dracula are not the first "Dracula expressed as a horrible monster" but are pulled by the image of the recently "horribly charming Dracula", and similar things I will express it in the work.

Speaking of the vampire Dracula, the remake work that has the most influence was released in Bella Rugosi, starring in the 1930'sDemon Dracula"is. According to the research, the influence of the pre-text seems to decline exponentially with time, and as a result, the new remake work can not be returned to the one close to the initial work.

ByVagueonthehow

The big problem here is whether you can understand this analysis firmly and help you in making remakes and sequels. The creation of the sequel is obviously different from the remake of the work, but the franchise work like Star Trek forms a kind of story network. As far as the scenario is concerned, the Star Trek series has parts in common, and it can be said that it forms a small story network. Also, it seems to be said that the small story network formed by the Sator Trek series is part of the huge story network formed by the entire SF work.

Considering this huge story network, it is obvious that Star Trek and Avengers, etc, are preferred works with many preferences, and hence it is the fate to produce large numbers of sequels and remake works , Said Ars Technica, an international news site.