Making a killing
From our UK edition
When it comes to films and television series there's one word that usually makes me recoil in horror: remake, with English language remakes being a particular bugbear. Whether I'm too much of a purist at heart, guilty of cultural snobbery, or just tired of the seemingly endless supply of inferior versions of successful foreign language originals, I'm not sure — but my gut instinct is to dismiss and avoid these Americanised, and sometimes Anglicised, takes on existing material. The Nordic countries, in particular, have recently had a number of their productions reworked for English speaking audiences.