‘Straw Dogs’ leave out the point of the violence

The first rule of remakes, said the character of Neve Campbell, Sidney Prescott us this year in "Scream 4" is that "you can not [bleep] with the original." In "Straw Dogs" vicious and senseless, writer-director Rod Lurie - who was a film critic before he made films, so he should know better - violates this rule, to disastrous effect. He turns Sam Peckinpah devastating 1971 exploration of masculinity and violence in a crowd-Rousse schlocky and bloody. David and Amy Sumner, played by James Marsden and Kate Bosworth, a Los Angeles screenwriter and actor. They have temporarily relocated to Hollywood in Blackwater, Missouri, hometown Amy - and a place where she was unenthusiastic about recovery. (The original, starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George in the lead roles, was set in rural England.)

The farm is owned by the late father of Amy, David is busy working on the screenplay, about the siege of Stalingrad during the Second World War. His glasses, preppy and sporty sneakers for the Jaguars, David is nothing like a pickup-driving, Confederate flag flying on Sunday to listen to a preacher-men, who were left, when Amy left town. And men, as personified by Amy muscle ex-boyfriend Charlie (Alexander Skarsgard, from "True Blood"), David refuses to be forgotten.

First, the harassment is sweet, as when Charlie and his friends - hired to repair a barn on the property of Sumners - Amy Ogle, a sweat jogging. But events escalate, the questions for David Amy gets up at Charlie. And that's where Lurie considerably different - and fatally - the script and David Peckinpah Zelag Goodman wrote in 1971. In the original, the final showdown in the house of Sumners' becomes the last position of David Dustin Hoffman, where he said his manhood and, finally, he said. "Do not allow violence against this house"

Lurie in the remake of that crucial dialogue is missing, as well as the motivation behind it. Confrontation - with a band of temperament will help Coach Charlie Hedden (James Woods, up to his standards) to seek revenge of the mentally challenged sex offender (Dominic Purcell) - is reduced to a simple scenario of "kill them before they kill us", which deprive the violence of his dark purpose. Lurie carefully choreographed copies of many of Peckinpah's special situations, particularly violent in the end (even though he has not made the necessary changes, so that a key scene of violence, with the character Bosworth). But Lurie said the melody without eating. The result is a film that is a word or neutered.

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