How "Speak No Evil" Misses The Point - A Comparison

So the original was a critique of what society is becoming, while the remake panders to it.

"Why did you make me rewrite the final Act of this screenplay?" "Because you let me."

It's poetic that the end of the remake is, literally, the reason why the original is thought-provoking in the first place.

Original: Don't be a doormat. Remake: SLAY QUEEN!!!!

Man, that's some dark shit, that I would absolutely never want to watch. But that one line is a perfect summation of a certain modern view that thinks that people are basically good, and we all should just get along. "Why are you doing this?" "Because you let me". Simple as that. Evil doesn't respect anything but strength. You want peace? You better be ready and willing to fight for it.

The woman is the hero? Damn, I didn't see THAT one coming......

Learning to say "No" may be the most important lesson you can learn in life.

A cautionary tale about being weak bastardized by weak people. It's almost poetic.

Kind of reminds me of Backcountry. It’s “based on” a true story about a couple out on a camping trip who get attacked by a bear. The bear mauls the wife and the husband fights it off with a pocket knife before carrying her all the way back to their car. Tragically, she died before getting to help. In the movie, the couple isn’t married and the boyfriend is an idiot who gets shown up by a handsome stranger before they go into the woods. He proposes, she rejects him, he gets mauled by a bear and she runs away before being rescued by the handsome stranger. It is mind boggling THE MESSAGE they’ll push when adapting stories, even true ones.

The biggest problem I had with Speak No Evil is that it has absolutely no reason to exist. The Danish original is 95% in spoken English and it’s less than 3 years old. I get remaking a 25 or 30 year movie, especially if you can add something new to it, but something that recent. I’ve got sneakers older than The Guests.