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Which seems to be a sentiment that many filmmakers themselves seem to share, as director Zack Snyder once said about his remake, Dawn of the Dead “I had no desire to remake the movie. A remake, for me, means taking a script and shooting it again… So a re-filming of the original version was not necessary. Reinterpretation is what we wanted to do. See it again. Snyder actually raises a great point: reshooting a movie is no way to remake a movie, instead you have to tell the story in a very different way. This reshoot of a film rarely happens, a perfect example being Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho, which by all accounts was considered a terrible film by both critics and audiences. This actually raises a very good point that there are actually many different styles of remakes, which makes the concept of remakes stand out as a unique form of