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"You really have to do something incredible to either improve or replace what is great about the old to make it new again."

Exactly. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales were based on Bocaccio's Decameron in format, and Shakespeare used existing sources as the source of some of his plays. And I do it often with the animation I know and love...

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Indeed. Maybe some of my favourite adaptations are things like 10 Things I Hate About You and Cruel Intentions. Both based on other things.

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