Horror Film Review
PSYCHO
A side-by-side examination of the new and old version condemns the remake without appeal.
Analysis by Steve Biodrowski
“To compose Don Quixote at the beginning of the seventeenth century was a reasonable, necessary and perhaps inevitable undertaking; at the beginning of the twentieth century it is almost impossible. It is not in vain that three hundred years have passed, charged with the most complex happenings -- among them, to mention only one, that same Don Quixote.”
So wrote the benighted author Pierre Menard to his friend Jorge Luis Borges, in a letter which Borges quoted in his essay, “Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote.” Menard’s astonishing goal was to attempt a complete, word-for-word recreation of Miguel De Cervantes’ novel. Although he never finished the task in his lifetime, the fragments he left behind provide an interesting contrast with the original.
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