I actually started to watch the original movie, "Let the Right One In" but gave up part way through because I found it disgusting. It was painfully slow, there were extensive scenes of the young boy with his nose dripping and the snot would just hang there on his nose (and that totally grossed me out) and then, like in every European art movie since the dawn of time, there were many way too long scenes of the boy standing around in his ill-fitting underwear. Why do art movies always have to show scantily clad male children?! There's this Italian art movie called "Malena" (with the smoking hot Monica Belluci) which is all about a young boy's obsession with a totally hot older woman, just HAD to have a scene of a bunch of young boys standing around in their underwear having a penis measuring contest. It was messed up.
I've heard a lot of weird things about the Swedish version. I've heard that the female lead was actually playing a castrated boy or something. I haven't really seen it so I can't say much about it. The general consensus seems to be that the remake is superior.
There are some very short scenes of the male lead in his underwear or in a bathing suit in the American version but it never becomes weird or excessive. The bathing suit scenes are all when they're actually at their local pool and the one underwear scene is in the very beginning and it's very brief. They also never have any close-ups of snotty noses.
As for explaining European art movies and the weirdness involved, I couldn't even begin to try. I once took a class on German cinema and I think I'm still traumatized.
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There are some very short scenes of the male lead in his underwear or in a bathing suit in the American version but it never becomes weird or excessive. The bathing suit scenes are all when they're actually at their local pool and the one underwear scene is in the very beginning and it's very brief. They also never have any close-ups of snotty noses.
As for explaining European art movies and the weirdness involved, I couldn't even begin to try. I once took a class on German cinema and I think I'm still traumatized.
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When did you take the German cinema class? Was it at Whitman? Because that sounds a bit masochistic to me.
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