These two movies are based on a novel called The Getaway by Jim Thompson, which published in 1958. The first movie came out at 1972 and the second came out at 1994. The first movie earned over $36 million in USA. And the remake earned $30 million. The story line are so similar. The first version movie is that Carter “Doc” McCoy was in jail at Texas. He told his wife, Carol, to do anything in order to have a deal with Jack Beyon, who was immoral businessman. Beyon used his power and got Doc a paroled, but he needed Doc to rob a bank with two of his man, Rudy and Frank. In the robbery, Frank shot a guard and Rudy betrayed. Rudy shot Frank and Doc, which Doc shot him back. Doc lived and met Benyon, who tried to betray Doc, but Craol shot and
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It was a bit different from the first one that there are more about the marriage and feelings between Doc and Carol.
Although the remake movie had made different changes from the first version, I believe it made the movie more complete than the one before. Someone might say about it did not really stick to the original story or the first version. I would say that I think it is pretty close to the first version, and the book, which I never read so I cannot really say anything of it, I would just say it is a movie based on and got inspiration by the book, but they should be the different things.
In both movies that both kept the same scene was one of the scene that keeping think about the reason behind and why would people did something like that. The scene is Rudy and Fran had sex in front of Harold. I could not understand that what kind of couple or what kind of evil person would ever do things like that. All I can believed on is the Stockholm syndrome, which is an informal term mental illness, that Fran in a scary situation, she fall in love with Rudy. If I were Harold by any chance, I would do the same thing that might be not hanging but some way to commit suicide. That part is disgusted me a
It was a bit different from the first one that there are more about the marriage and feelings between Doc and Carol.
Although the remake movie had made different changes from the first version, I believe it made the movie more complete than the one before. Someone might say about it did not really stick to the original story or the first version. I would say that I think it is pretty close to the first version, and the book, which I never read so I cannot really say anything of it, I would just say it is a movie based on and got inspiration by the book, but they should be the different things.
In both movies that both kept the same scene was one of the scene that keeping think about the reason behind and why would people did something like that. The scene is Rudy and Fran had sex in front of Harold. I could not understand that what kind of couple or what kind of evil person would ever do things like that. All I can believed on is the Stockholm syndrome, which is an informal term mental illness, that Fran in a scary situation, she fall in love with Rudy. If I were Harold by any chance, I would do the same thing that might be not hanging but some way to commit suicide. That part is disgusted me a