Comparing movies is not an easy task. Each movie is different and has specific particularities that define that piece of art. Remakes, which are movies that are inspired from an old movie in order to realize a brand new version of it, are interesting to analyze as we compare the old and the new version of these movies. Depending on the remake, the old and the recent version can be very similar or at the contrary very different. Of course, it is certain that some differences remain obvious and necessary taking into consideration the different time periods of the movies compared or the different culture depicted. This paper will compare an American comedy, Dinner For Shmucks (2010), to a French comedy, Le Diner De Cons (1998).…show more content… First of all, their plots are about the same concept. It is about a dinner party where a group of friends and co-workers each bring a special guest. These gests are selected based on one and only criteria: what they consider someone “stupid”. In fact, the guests think they have been selected because of their skills or abilities to do incredible things. This dinner eventually happens at the end of the movies and in reality it is only a small part of the movie. The rest of the movies are about the two central characters, the successful business man who invites the idiot and of course the special guest of that dinner, where in Diner De Con it is Pierre Brochon who invites François Pignon and in Dinner For Shmucks it is Tim Conrad who invites Barry Speck. Throughout the movies we get to know these people and their relationship, which started by the wrong reasons, and notice that their relationship begin to take shape little by little until they actually become close friends. We notice that these two plots of these two movies have the same basics. Also, one other similarity is in the characters’ roles. François Pignon (idiot in Dinner De Con) and Barry Speck (idiot in Dinner For Shmucks) have the same attitudes and are nothing but to worsen the situation of their respectable hosts Pierre Brochon (Dinner de con) and Tim Conrad (Dinner for Shmucks), who are both suffering from back problems not…show more content… Overall, these two cultures have some aspects that they share and others that they do not. For example, the French laugh at inside jokes like when Francois Pignon referred indirectly to the political system in a scene; whereas in the American version the humor is more focused on direct situations where no inside jokes are involved and actual and concrete situations are shown on screens where characters act in a funny
