How can staging a scene differently completely change how we feel about a character? TOTAL RECALL in both 1990 & 2012's adaptations had to stage the same beat: the scene where Douglas Quaid discovers he's a killing machine by, y’know, killing. But each film took different approaches to the staging of the scene; and that staging changes how we feel about Quaid (Arnie in 1990 and Colin Farrel in 2012)
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Staging the violence in TOTAL RECALL 1990 vs…
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How can staging a scene differently completely change how we feel about a character? TOTAL RECALL in both 1990 & 2012's adaptations had to stage the same beat: the scene where Douglas Quaid discovers he's a killing machine by, y’know, killing. But each film took different approaches to the staging of the scene; and that staging changes how we feel about Quaid (Arnie in 1990 and Colin Farrel in 2012)