Best Reinterpretation Quotes

"Anime has over the years reimagined many classic Western stories."

"It's not killing history, it's preserving it for future generations."

"Jesus Christ wants to recategorize some of the things in your life that you saw as a coincidence."

"King Kong Escapes is a delightfully quirky gem of a movie, a distinctly Japanese take on the American monster."

"Michael Jackson album version of the video game now historians that Adam vows a bad note."

"It's a really, really neat idea, it's a neat concept for a twisted take on Monster Hunter."

"Imposter syndrome isn't a bug, it's actually a feature."

"The Last Jedi came in and was like, 'What you think you know doesn't matter.'"

"Aladdin might not be set centuries in the past, but thousands of years in the future."

"He introduced me to a Jesus that's much bigger than I ever imagined."

"A good sample should help reimagine or re-interpret a song, and simultaneously worldbuild for the artist’s own song."

"In a way, the Grinch never actually stole Christmas, he actually saved Christmas."

"The Secret Message of Jesus challenges us to put aside our sterile certainties about Christ and reconsider the imaginative world of Jesus's stories, signs, and wonders."

"Stories and characters only achieve immortality once they've been reinterpreted by somebody new."

"Tarantino's aim is to recontextualize our present knowledge with the past."

"I'm getting so many ideas for my new play, Hamlet. I would not include a scene where they high-five and milk a man who turns into a cow."

"Watching 'Dororo' has left me wishing that more adaptations would reinterpret their source material quite so radically."

"Ryan Johnson said about this movie was to essentially look at Empire and do the opposite of that."

"Beneath our feet HECO T is rewriting them in her own language."

"Enemy of the State is a Christmas movie. Christmas movie!"

"The destruction of art by someone else's disdain for it redefines the original work’s intent into a new form of art."

"If Moses showed up today, he'd say to Joseph, 'You have created a nation of priests and priestesses.'"

"That word fan, F a.m. or we gonna take the and turn that shit into an M."

"Video game music has been around long enough that it is itself an equally important and vast catalog of music that is now set to be reinterpreted."

"It's about time for a conclusion isn't it? How's this: Superman isn't Jesus."

"The Quran is aware of the stories, it's retelling them and correcting them."

"The SCP Foundation's version of the Yellow King but in classic SCP Foundation manner, this one is equally terrifying in its own right."

"You weren't given away, you were chosen with love... same event but reinterpreted, an interpretation that empowers me."

"The Jesus we never knew is the Jesus who came to fulfill this ancient hope but to do so in a way nobody had seen coming."

"There's that natural tendency in all of us to resist doing what we're told so it's no wonder really that plenty of classic bad guys in fiction's past would eventually be reclaimed and reinterpreted by audiences."

"A new type of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ in which the beauty is someone you can relate to -- not a perfect princess."

"Koda's background was a smart reinterpretation of brute strength."

"I love sort of the familiar iconic imagery but in this sort of new context."

"In the end, it was not a god, 'twas a mortal named Jane."

"This time the bride of Frankenstein is stepping out of the shadows and taking her fate into her own bloody hands."

"It's fascinating that that's the same rock that now Islam has completely given a whole new narrative."

"The only duty we owe to history is to rewrite it, rewrite it, rewrite it." - Oscar Wilde

"James Blake's remixes fundamentally changed my whole perception and the perception of many others on whether or not people should [ __ ] with the classics of the 140 scene."

"So it's nice to put a little bit more layers and meanings into already existing things."

"Ghostbusters: Afterlife doesn't mean that Ghostbusters 2016 doesn't exist anymore."

"It didn’t feel like you were just resurrecting that character for the hell of it. It felt like a very reverent re-examination of him through the 21st century, but with such adoration of the original material."

"It took everything that made Batman the Animated Series so great and gave it a twisted adult spin."

"Nope, this cupid is much scarier looking, much like a porcelain doll with the kind of blank emotionless eyes that befit the creepiest predators."

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a documentary."

"This isn't flying, this is falling with style."

"This version of Ariel is frustrated at the fact that she's constantly ignored and controlled."

"It's the story of Red Riding Hood with a badass young girl, a chill detective wolf, a yodeling nice woodsman, and a stunt-crazy granny."

"What we call the fall of Dhaka is actually the rise of Dhaka."

"The Gospels are just basically rewrites of each other, each author trying to change it up the way he wants."

"People love to make fun of the mega man games on dos but by looking at their backstory it's easier to see these titles in a new light."

"That makes sense to me from its origins to do a very, very bloody, graphic Cinderella."

"Can we be Romeo and Juliet but we live happily ever after instead?"

"What if you were to say, 'No, I'm going to retell this story where Abraham refuses God's command?'"

"Harry Potter itself has become this sort of weird remixed religion for some people."

"Passengers is like a modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast, a cosmic journey of awakening and temptation."

"Neo had a chance to recognize that he was a trans woman, that he came out and recognized the problems of the system, not just as a trans woman but the entire world was wrong."

"Jesus didn't need to die on the cross, in fact, he says it's actually your false self that needs to die, not someone else."

"I sort of invert the meaning like being the hammer of the witches as opposed to hammering, which is like killing them or whatever."

"People can and will rewrite the original media in their head and daydream it into whatever they want to see."

"Renfield is a fresh twist on a classic gothic tale."

"This is not a pumpkin pie. A gratin of pumpkin, but look how beautiful it is."

"The fact that in this book Hado was reimagined as a villain I thought it worked so well because the Mad Hatter would make a great villain."

"Donald Trump's top immigration official Ken Cuccinelli... saying the Statue of Liberty poem should basically be rewritten based on this new Trump policy requiring immigrants to prove they’re unlikely to need public assistance."

"Bride of Frankenstein Lives: A beautiful love story."

"It's Santa and he's not the Santa you know and he is going to fight a bunch of bad guys."

"Brings back beloved characters in a new light."

"It's kind of fascinating to see this really reimagined with the Daniel Craig Bond style."

"I think we need to take this tragic emotional breakdown of a character and... make him sexy."

"Congratulations are in order for crafting an exceptional reinterpretation of a modern Enterprise."

"Ancient Egyptian gods... They're actually just men."

"These would be great: Bear in the Big Blue House of Horrors."

"You heard Alien versus Predator, we're the predators the whole time, what a twist."

"I think it's really great to see that people can take our culture and twist it."

"Jesus brought nothing new, he reintroduced what the ancestors already been given us."

"That’s like calling a rear naked choke a 'hug with benefits.'"

"The uber-talented Fernanda Suarez has tackled a whole host of beloved cartoon characters."

"Every popular media iteration of a folklore character always adds something new to analyze."

"Lilith in the 20th century was rebranded from a malevolent figure to one worthy of respect."

"She was conceptualized not as a wild-haired vengeful witch but as a powerful female figure."

"Religion has to be completely reinterpreted. Religion as being a second step in the evolution of reality, which Hegel called 'Vorstellung' or picture thinking."

"Evolution doesn't threaten your religion, it just forces you to reinterpret part of it."

"Peter Pan is actually an angel of death who takes dead children to Neverland, aka the afterlife."

"It becomes clear that these are not really gods, they are simply extraterrestrials."

"Led Zeppelin stood on the shoulders of two great bands and absolutely took this arrangement and this song into the stratosphere."

"This game is excellent... a unique take on the pac-man concept."

"Godzilla has been reinterpreted as everything from the embodiment of a nation’s fears to a symbol of the planet’s strength."

"Technology is changing our whole understanding of the past."

"Overwhelming evidence that the Sphinx was actually an attempt made by a pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty to claim the works of those before him."

"It's interesting how new people are putting spins on old things."

"...Reynolds called Deadpool one a love story masquerading as a comic book movie."

"The image of Tutankhamun as a frail boy king has to be reassessed."

"The Crusades through Arab eyes wouldn't that be a novel idea."

"Its data might lead to different conclusions than the one that we've been telling for so many decades."

"Jesus was in fact challenging traditional interpretations of the law by introducing new perspectives on well-established precepts."

"Seriously, after Belle erased Gaston earlier, I erased Mother Gothel."

"It's not stealing, it's borrowing. It's feeding upon and doing a reinterpretation."

"There's literally nothing wrong with reimagining a character who is white as a POC person."

"Moon Gundam doesn't overstep or contradict other Tomino stories; it adds a new transform light to his ideas, much like the Moon does to the Sun's rays."

"The film Romeo plus Juliet should instead have been named, minus Romeo minus Juliet."

"Peter Pan being a psychopathic adult in a child's body is kind of a fun way to write the character and the Eternal youth angle he's a good villain."

"This twists Ender's misunderstood actions all the more tragic."

"Even if I do have a strange way of showing it... and by strange way of showing it I mean ruining your childhood memories of beloved characters."

"Karna Sora is technically based on a 1984 novel of the same name, but broken down, scene by scene, the two have very little in common."

"The law says don't kill. But I say don't get angry. The law says don't commit adultery. But I say don't look with lust."

"Wandavision not only does great character work on its own, it does so by taking throwaway moments from earlier films, and shaping them into a coherent arc."

"'Mr. Miracle' is a modern reimagining of the classic Jack Kirby character."

"...it's like taking those classic '60s stories, not that there's anything wrong with the Silver Age, and just giving them more of an adult feel to them."

"This is a love story but it is not the love story we've always thought it was."

"Well done and just like such an interesting take on like how our mythologies aren't always what we think of them."

"The idea that imagination and taste can recreate something that is totally different than the original but as good if not better in its own way."

"New research is suggesting dinosaurs were warm-blooded, not cold-blooded."

"You found like Quentin Tarantino who can take 70s 60s 80s even television cheese what most people dismiss is garbage and find absolute gold at the center of it."

"Beauty and the Beast is about radical love."

"This is a classic kind of turned on its head."

"You can't change the past but you can reinterpret how you see it."

"The true artisanship, in addition to what you said, is also in the fact that you recontextualized it. It's not just about making a John Wick movie, it's about casting Steven Seagal in the role and telling the story as if Steven Seagal is the star."

"We need to change the narrative of how we view slavery. Celebrate our ancestors' brilliance, courage, creativity, resilience, and their ability to still love despite hardships."

"When things happen to you, when you permit things to use you, you can't change the past but you can reinterpret how you see it."

"You've heard the fairy tale of The Three Little Pigs, right? Well, in this myth-busting moral, one got away and the other two have been quietly decomposing in a 1987 Corvette for 2 months, huffing and puffing, you bet."

"The froggy godmother could have told Cinderella she can stand as long as she wants just make sure to leave her contact info before going instead of this whole planned accidental leaving of a magic shoe."

"It's a great, unique twist on the Dracula mythology."

"Jaime Lannister was all about recontextualization to present one perspective and then present it again through different eyes."

"Cinderella's act of kindness is rewarded instead of the Godmother magically appearing."

"The Smurfs are actually the bad people, the evil people, and they represent the seven deadly sins."

"We can take the positive from religion and walk right through the church with it."

"These are the same character. This is the Riddler and this is also the Riddler. It's the same thing but with a different vision. Am I the only one that thinks that's actually amazing? Like, that's a really, really good thing."

"you had a new arrangement of the national anthem"

"That's mark of a classic, you can watch it over again in new perspectives."

"These last few chapters have recontextualized so much of the series."

"This is his universe's version of Gwen Stacy and her father who is the police captain."

"What kind of sick person would take a beloved character like the Grinch and make them a murderer?"

"Classics never die we are just seeing a few more with a '90s Twist."

"Through its combination of reinterpretation and direct adaptation, the series is able to create a version of the Batman mythos that is simultaneously universal and uniquely its own."

"Mehmed the Conqueror, known for taking Constantinople, is depicted in an unusual light - smelling a rose, showcasing a different side of Ottoman rule."

"Anderson took a lot of creative liberties with the source material."

"When you realize Captain America's suit doesn't have 50 stars so he's actually Captain Puerto Rico."

"...I think it's pretty rad to see people remixing elements from ancient mythology and making something new out of it while still clearly knowing and respecting The Source material..."

"Freddie Mercury in particular took the songbook, ripped it up, threw it away, and then came up with a stream of consciousness that was remarkable."

"It'd be like if in the original Home Alone, it's explained that Harry and Marv are fostering Harry's orphaned terminally ill niece."

"I do gotta say kids have a tendency to rewrite memories based on what they learn later."

"There's a new version of this legend... standing in the middle between these two facing mirrors."

"The music that kicks in here is Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, but the disco version."

"I'm obsessed with how he maintains the spirit and mystery of the Original Stories while cracking them open to bring in contemporary themes and conflicts and crucially not simply just copying them beat for beat."

"I'm totally turning it on its head what a core is."

"I love the idea of an alternate universe retake on a thing."

"Jesus himself was a pacifist but with a twist."

"Lucifer's origin here draws inspiration from classic Mythos and gives it a good-natured Twist."

"One of the best things about Batman the Animated Series is the way the show's writers took established comic book villains and reimagined them as bitter tragic characters."

"Failure of prophecy often leads to reinterpretation, not abandonment of belief."

"Batman has gone through so many interpretations over the years and this is one of the few times we get to see the exact same team reinterpret themselves in a different way."

"We have the entire FF mythology to play with and we can start it over and do what we want with it."

"I liked it because like it was just a whole spin on the original song and they have like brand new visuals and everything."

"A lot of what we find in the Bible, not all but a lot, is just simply myth reworked and rewritten from previous myths."

"Tillich strove to give the idea of God a new lease on life. But for him, if that new lease is to hold up, it requires the reinterpretation of the idea of God, transforming it into the idea of what he called 'the God above God.'"

"The serpent, who came to Eve in the garden, far from being a deceptive tempter like we've been told, is actually the underdog hero of the whole narrative."

"Upside down only in reference to the way we've understood how the world looks."

"In the original story, she basically tortures herself for him. Geez, yeah, that's what we need. We need like the dark actual fairy tale."

"The concept of a good guy Green Goblin presented in the way they did here actually kind of worked, Batman by way of appearing homicidal and unhinged."

"I wasn't interested in doing a remake or a sequel of the original Planet of the Apes film, but I was intrigued by the idea of revisiting that world."

"Even Professor X is a murderous genocidal madman in this world."

"Badoo is less a descendant of Billie Holiday and Diana Ross than a comment on those predecessors on the Styles and ticks that gave them their power."

"It's like now when I watch 'Goodfellas,' I watch it as a comedy."

"The magic of anti-semitism is that all the facts are reinterpreted as showing the opposite."

"When there are so many that take happy songs and turn them on their heads to be sad, it's nice to have a sad song being reclaimed with positivity in its reprise."

"It's nice to have a sad song being reclaimed with positivity in its reprise."

"This book is called 'The Cancer Resolution: Cancer Reinterpreted Through Another Lens'."

"Modern historians changing their minds about the big picture."

"We're now applying the same criticisms of the Bible, and we're bringing people home."

"He changes it so much more sick, would you love everybody changes history, that's the thing, like historians change history, he'll change the ending of how Hitler died or the Manson Murders but I'm like I love seeing that my boy, that's what they do."

"I love how they recontextualized Yondu."

"The church fathers campaign against Mary Magdalene culminated in the 6th century when the pope declared in a sermon that the seven demons she had been cured of by Jesus were in fact the seven cardinal sins."

"The real story emerges: Jesus had a large extended family and they lived here in Galilee."

"What Shrek does takes the fairy tale vibe and twists it on its head by being crunchy. It worked with Shrek because the characters are likable, they have growth, they learn lessons."

"The original T-Rex and the raptors are the good guys who only show up to save the protagonists. They cry when they're sad, they show mercy to others, they smirk when they're playing tricks."

"For me, really great works of art are precisely the ones which cannot be limited to a specific historical constellation every new Epoch reinvents them."

"The shark is the hero of this [ __ ]. It just took y'all [ __ ] movies to realize it."

"Herman Melville's immortal story is playfully retold through the eyes of the great whale himself."

"Now let me tell you a story all about how this classic literature got flipped, turned upside down!"

"It revitalizes and recreates Batman's history in a way that nobody expected."

"The grave pit warriors may not have been helpless victims at all."

"Ivan the terrible' was not so bad."

"You can take your imagination in the word of God and you can paint a new picture."

"You really get the best of Lupin when modern artists do the same; when they take advantage of every trick they have to create something so good you don't see the lines being drawn in the sand."

"...Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, absolutely a kaiju."

"Greek mythology as reconceived through this Americana lens with American creatives."

"It's this feminist reworking of it."

"And I found myself wanting to see this new take on more Bikini Bottom characters."

"Excalibur does a great job in covering all aspects of the Arthurian myth by staying true to the core of the story while changing up certain aspects."

"He is trying to put a different, a modern viewpoint onto James Bond."

"...instead of saying whosoever holds this Hammer if he be worthy shall possess the power of Thor that instead they'll possess the all Vengeance."

"What is needed is that this certain and immutable doctrine to which the faithful owe obedience be studied afresh and reformulated in contemporary terms."

"In our times, there's an undoing of emancipatory achievements; achievements become reinterpreted as privileges."

"Love is never attacked, it's redefined."

"He had the balls to take a song that is loved by so many people and make it his own."

"He was still able to keep the essence of the original Bittersweet Symphony, which is amazing."

"I want to take the opportunity with this series to allow you the space to re-read these stories from a different perspective."

"...charity love and compassion, this is the new way of looking at God."

"We need to go back to Mecca in the 7th century. Not from what the 9th and 10th century have redacted back that's what we're going to be doing next."

"We can reinterpret that situation as beneficial for us."

"He was a gangster, he was a criminal, blah blah blah, be like, no he wasn't, he was a saint, he was our Lord and savior Hal Al Capone."