Aveva visto prima la versione di Hollywood (Tom Hanks), che è molto di cattivo gusto. Non avevo idea che il romanzo e il film originali fossero svedesi. Molti riferimenti culturali sono stati persi nel remake. La versione di Hollywood è molto popcorny.
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di yanki2del
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One of my favourite Swedish movies and movies in general. I really need to watch the Tom Hanks version just to see what things they changed and what Hollywood thinks doesn’t work for an American audience
As I understand it, when it comes to Swedish films adapted by Hollywood – despite cheesy, “Otto” is not the worst. Perhaps it was even alright.
People usually talk quite poorly about “Let Me In”, which was an adaption of the Swedish film “Let the Right One In”, but I disagree. That Hollywood adaption was alright too, same as A Man Called Otto.
The first place for awful adaption goes to the 2020 film Downhill, which despite well-established comedy actors (which is a clue – having comedy actors playing roles which were meant to be serious/dramatical) fell far short of the originalb 2014 film Turist (english title ‘Force Majeure’) by Ruben Östlund.
Summa summarum, Hollywood remakes are rarely good, but I dare say that Otto is one of the less bad ones.
For reference, I am not Swedish, and speak a very rusty Norsk as 3rd language, so I was struggling a little bit with the original Svensk audio without sub, but still the movie really impressed me. My absolute favorite Swedish movie thus far, and I have admittedly only watched like 10 Swedish movies. I wonder what other great Swedish movies I have missed. Please help me with your suggestions.