'An Affair To Remember'

It is said that "Hollywood has run out of ideas" concerning the propensity for producers to "re-make" old films or old TV shows.

Often, people ask why they would re-make something that was already good.

This, apparently, is not a new phenomenom.

An Affair to Remember, starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr was released in 1957. It was a huge hit under the direction of Leo McCarey.

The thing is, it was a re-make. It was a re-make of a McCarey film titled Love Affair released in 1939.

Someone in 1957, despite the star-studdedness of Grant and Kerr, might have asked why they would re-make something that was good the first time. Love Affair was nominated for six Academy Awards. An Affair to Remember was nominated for just four. Losers.

An Affair to Remember does address one of the ongoing themes in old films: the cruise.

In a number of films it's the event or circumstance in which the film revolves. This is what people did between the 1930s and 1960s. When you think about it, I guess it makes sense. It's structured, they're typically long and you get to wine and dine for weeks on end visiting these far-out and exotic locales all around the world. It's romantic.

It is a call back to a simpler, more patient and slower age. When things were just about the destination, but just as much about the journey.