Hmmm…who among our current crop of actors would be the best one to play “Paul Kersey” in a remake?
Steyn ends his piece by saying
Bronson’s first outing as Paul Kersey represents a rare moment when Hollywood tapped into a genuine populist anger, as opposed to mere cocktail-party causes. By the Nineties even Democrats felt obliged at least to talk tough on crime, to the point where in most American cities the lawless dystopia of Death Wish came to seem as remote as anything in a Miramax BritLit adaptation. It’s said that a neoconservative is a liberal who’s been mugged. That’s what de Laurentiis, Winner and Bronson gave us in Death Wish: a liberal mugged by reality, in one of the defining documents of a wretched decade. Reading some or other story of New York’s decline the other day, I found myself musing on when some studio or other would be announcing a reboot of this franchise. But I wonder if they’d dare…<
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