If instead of rebooting movies, retelling them from a different point of view became popular, which movie would you like retold?

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Julian · Accepted Answer

A disabled and disfigured war hero, long past his prime, hunts down a cell of terrorists, capturing one of their leaders, but not before she's able to send a message call his former mentor out of retirement. In the process of retrieving the message, a family of locals is caught in the crossfire, which said former mentor uses to his advantage to radicalize the adopted son of the family. The boy manages to destroy a critical military base, giving the terrorists legitimacy, and builds up a name for himself over the years. As the boy's exploits become more and more legendary, our hero comes upon a shocking revelation - the boy is his own son, hidden away by his former mentor. He tries and fails to convince his son to join him, but the son rejects him, forcing him to choose between his honor and his family.  Star Wars would be fucking wild.

Ambros · Answer

The Life Of Brian from the perspective of Jesus

nataliia · Answer

The Wizard of Oz but from the perspective of the Wicked Witch of the West. It could even be a musical with a score by Stephen Schwartz. That would make an awesome movie. Someone in Hollywood should really get on that

Sabrina Maier · Answer

Every Star Wars movie from the perspective of R2D2.

illona · Answer

Similar to how Disney retold the story of Maleficent. It would be cool to see multiple villain remakes and why they became villains in the first place, starting with Ursala from The Little Mermaid.

zlata · Answer

The marvel movies from each stan lee cameo's perspective

Melka · Answer

Fight Club, but from the POV of one of the people who becomes part of their club. Possibly from Angel Face so we see how he was going about life and how he got roped into everything and his justification for continuing to stay. Could be an interesting movie to see it maybe start out with him as a kid and make it seem like hearted and then show the fucked up life he would have that would make him want to take this dark spiral.

Dov · Answer

"It Follows. Perspective of the "It". "

Tanja Pabst · Answer

The story of how Grandpa Joe got into bed and then decided to just stay there the lazy old cunt. Explain yourself.

Axel · Answer

heathers, jds point of view would be really interesting

Malanie · Answer

Fight Club, from Marla's.

Juliane Zweig · Answer

Star Wars - The Phantom Menace, but from Palpatine's perspective.

Lockwood · Answer

"The Blues Brothers, from the perspective of Twiggy. Just how bad was that "prior engagement" that hooking up with a gas station rando sounded like a good idea? "

JOSPHINE · Answer

"THE SHINING, employing the perspective of Tony, the "imaginary friend" of Danny. Focusing on how Tony reckons the situation, start to finish, from inside Danny. "

Marry · Answer

Semi-related. I didn't believe in this concept being worth a whole redo till i read ender's game and ender's shadow. It's cool going over the same base material but adding a whole second perspective and explanation for things that may not have made sense from the original.

Adina · Answer

Dark Knight but just follow the Joker at all times Star Wars only told from Vader's viewpoint  The Fifth Element from Ruby Rod's perspective  The Sandlot - from the cool kid's view

Partha · Answer

Harry Potter from Voldemort's perspective. Gimme that dark magic

Andrea Meier · Answer

"The original Star Wars trilogy, told from the viewpoint of soldiers in the 501st Legion in a "Band of Brothers" format. I would watch the shit out of that! :) "

Riikka-Mari · Answer

Ferris Bueller's Day Off told from Cameron point of view is something I always wanted to see. Glad I found a thread that I could say this in!

Melanie Braun · Answer

Biff Tannen POV retelling of Back to the Future 1 & 2 where he vaguely remembers the other timelines and descends into madness trying to destroy his arch nemesis Marty McFly.

Henka · Answer

The new Artemis Fowl movie. I can already tell it's going to be shit and I want it redone appropriately.

Dela · Answer

"I want "The Tragedy of Lo-Pan." How Lo-pan. Was cursed and how he wanted to be human again but the centuries turned him cruel and resentful to others. "

natasja · Answer

Little mermaid from Ursula's perspective

Leanne · Answer

The Matrix from the perspective of the Architect.

Bathsheba · Answer

Inception, but from the perception of someone who's only dreaming.

Kerstin Jager · Answer

I always thought a Superman's opponent perspective would be amazing. You barely see Superman the whole movie, yet you can feel this inevitability. You just see a blue red blur and in a blink everything is finished. The sheer difficulty of overcoming something too powerful and unstoppable. The unfairness of him being on earth. It could be done really well. Maybe if we had an awesome Lex Luthor. Maybe.

Henrika · Answer

Mean girls but Regina George's POV

AYANNA · Answer

I have a couple of unoriginal ideas that I would like to see on film:  Snow White from the evil stepmother's perspective. Snow White is basically a vampire child in this iteration and the stepmother is a good witch trying to banish her (Snow, blood and Apples by Neil Gaiman) Lord of the Rings from the perspective of Sauron. Only Sauron is a corporate guy frustrated by the ineptitude of his orc army. (Based on The Very Secret Diary of Sauron http://www.ealasaid.com/misc/vsd/sauron.html)  And one original but obviously not unique idea of watching the end battle in a New Hope unfold from the perspective of the many regular people who worked at the Death Star, played out like a disaster movie.

Floria · Answer

Jenny in Forrest Gump. It's be a very said yet interesting life to see. Maybe Jenny gets shoehorned into historic events too.

Ximenez · Answer

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but Clementine's procedure

Saxe · Answer

Harry Potter from Draco Malfoy's Perspective

Costa · Answer

The Simpsons from Ned Flanders perspective.

Annett Fruehauf · Answer

Castaway

JOVITA · Answer

Mulan but from Shang's POV- his bisexual awakening Edit: My first Gold! Thank you :-)

Shamso · Answer

Titanic- two hours of an iceberg floating peacefully in the water, until we see a ship approach, crash and sink. All in real time of course!

tone · Answer

Peter Pan (the version with Robin Williams) from Rufio's point of view. Edit: the movie I'm referring to is actually titled Hook

Feyza · Answer

The Truman Show from Sylvia's POV would be an interesting film

Ozzy · Answer

Halloween/Jason......I want to see how the fuck these two get everywhere so fast while being so slow. They gotta be opening portals or something.

Heleena · Answer

I'd want to see the kickass Nick Fury movie that's lurking in the background of Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Silke Farber · Answer

The Bee Movie following Ken and his experience of losing his girl to a bee

TEOFILA · Answer

Deadpool 1 from the cab driver's perspective.

Larine · Answer

The Big Lebowski from either Walter or Donny's POV could be pretty interesting.

Anne-Kristina · Answer

Jaws from the shark's POV. They hunted him down and blew him up because he was hungry.

Renate · Answer

Passengers, but told from the perspective of Jennifer Lawrence.

Jerrine · Answer

Final Destination from Death's perspective. I imagine it would just be skeleton hands setting up deadly rude goldberg machine with some classical music in the back.

Laura-Emilia · Answer

Groundhog Day, from everybody else's perspective on the last day/repeat. Just a movie about a small town and some weather guy who shows up at random points in people's day to make their lives better, for no apparent reason.

Laily · Answer

Not a movie but I would definitely watch Breaking Bad but from the perspective of Gus Fring. That dude has a crazy story to tell

Bradford · Answer

ET .. From his point of view

farzaneh · Answer

Avatar The Last Airbender from the point of view of anyone but M Night Shyamalan

Jennilee · Answer

500 days of summer would be really interesting to see Summers perspective on everything.

Rufus · Answer

Passengers, told like this.

DANN · Answer

"Aladdin, from Jafar's perspective. A college theatre group did a very R-rated version that is absolutely hilarious, which can be found on YouTube under "Twisted: The Story of a Grand Vizier". What I would really enjoy is a late 80s/early 90s hand-animated Aladdin where Jafar is the defender of the Sultan's realm against some nefarious interloper who is bent on stealing the princess' heart and worming his way into the royal family. AND he has a genie. "

Danelle · Answer

A Lion King prequel from Scar's perspective. Show what really happened before the Mufasa era and see how Mufasa cheated Scar out of the throne.

hamida · Answer

Tom Riddle: Becoming Lord Voldemort I just think it would be interesting to watch his journey and his story.  Although, maybe not all that interest as it seems like he took a 30 year break to do whatever.

Belma · Answer

Robin Hood from the Sheriff of Nottingham's perspective. It'd be great to watch a movie about a medieval cop trying to catch a highway man.

Nyyti · Answer

Well this isn't my idea or suggestion because Orson Scott Card already did it but he wrote Enders game a second time from Beans point of view and called the story Enders Shadow.

TAWNYA · Answer

Groundhog Day: A Day in the Life of Ned Ryerson.

Bobine · Answer

Mean Girls told by the girl who doesn't even go there.

Rafe · Answer

Forest Gump told from Lt. Dan's perspective. Could be really good focusing on his training then getting sent to Vietnam and being in charge of an idiot. Then the struggles of a soldier returning from war and the way the VA treated him. Just for him to reunite with the idiot soldier who saved his life.

Corey · Answer

PRINCESS. AND. THE. FROG. We got Maleficent out of Sleeping Beauty, so where the FUCK is Dr Facilier's backstory? He had a debt with literal demons and nobody seems to give a shit

STEPHAINE · Answer

Sir David Attenborough's Jaws

Franziska Schmid · Answer

How about Cloverfield from the view of a professional camera crew?

Shelton · Answer

This is what makes Cobra Kai so damn good.

Eeva · Answer

"I would think "Aliens" from Newt's perspective would be pretty substantial. How a girl survived all that and the loss of her family alone on a foreign planet. Edit: and to clarify as i wasn't expecting this to blow up lol (thank you all): it would be essentially the story of Newt living on Hadleys hope, some background with her and her family, to the point her parents get face hugged, how the aliens slaughtered the colony, how Newt survived in the air ducts, and what she lived through while ending with Ripley finding her and bringing her back to the marine operations base. It would be set as a claustrophobic horror movie. With a good script this movie could easily do $300 mil imo. "

sundus · Answer

Air Bud, but told from the POV of the kid who was pulled out of a basketball game to be replaced by a dog

julija · Answer

Horror movies from the monster/ghost POV.

Silke Ziegler · Answer

I want to see a super hero movie from the perspective of an insurance adjuster. It could be a comedy, but just like everyday he wakes up and he's enjoying his morning coffee and a bowl of oatmeal, then he flips open the morning paper and sees Iron Man went full Michael Bay again or The Avengers were back in town.  long sigh stands up, chair squeaks on floor clicks pen straps iPad to hip tightens camera strap He's the real super hero.

Sukhwinder · Answer

A Batman movie from Alfred's point of view.

MERRI · Answer

RoboCop: the Clarence Boddiker Story Edit: I'm 100% serious. A breaking bad type story about a regular man who got driven to violence and a life of crime in order to make it an old Detroit. It would make a good movie.

Anea · Answer

Rambo first blood, is about the struggle of an honest sheriff trying to stop a sociopath from creating chaos and death in his town.

Mical · Answer

Joker but from the perspective of that kid whose parents were killed in the end of the movie.

Denyse · Answer

Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Germans explain why this ineffectual American tried to interfere with their efforts to unleash the power of God.

Hashim · Answer

"Just explaining why the villain did what the villain did without the vague bullshit of "to get power" or "to become all powerful". Like Black Panther gave a legit motivation to killmonger, that this resource rich secret African nation exists even back in the day of the Atlantic slave trade and they never lifted a finger to defend their fellow Africans... Wakanda is pretty messed up. No one is a villain from their own perspective, why does the villain think they are the good guys? "

Christin Lang · Answer

Any rom com told from the perspective of the hardworking businessman whose fiance left him for the ruggedly handsome guy from her hometown.

SHARITA · Answer

The Sandlot From the perspective of James Earl Jones. How he grew up in the pre-Depression, pre-civil rights era (assuming he was born in 1890-1900s). How he fell in love with baseball, went blind, what his life was like? And more details on how The Beast came into his life and why rumors ran rampant about the pup.

Marco · Answer

Men in Black in point of view of K. Instantly changes everything

Sargent · Answer

Star Wars as a goofy storm trooper buddy-cop comedy

Genny · Answer

"An alien invasion movie told strictly from the aliens' perspective, complete with their confusion about why the humans are responding the way they are. It would make sense to us but would take the narrative form of a mystery for them. It could be a clever way to illustrate cultural misunderstanding.  An example could be "let's show them we are friendly by revealing all our weapons, to demonstrate we aren't hiding anything," which the humans would take as a threat.  I always liked that about the Borg on Star Trek. They genuinely thought they were helping the people they were conquering. A villain is scarier when it thinks it's doing the right thing. "

Jessica Bayer · Answer

Forrest Gump from Jenny's perspective

Miriam · Answer

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory from Willy Wonka's point of view. I want to hear his wicked thoughts.

Lena Kluge · Answer

Shawshank Redemption told from the warden's point of view. Idk that may be to dark of a story.

Ashli · Answer

I want a movie and a book called Neville longbottom and the sword of griffindor about life in the school while the big 3 were wandering around the woods

Sabine Pfaff · Answer

Nice try, Disney

Jackie · Answer

I want to see a Batman movie from a goon's point of view.  Like, he wakes up and eats some cereal before meeting up with the crew. And just by chance he hung out with Joe the goon that day instead of Bob. Now he is just gooning around at night when all of a sudden he gets his ass gets kicked in by fucking BATMAN. He can't believe his bad luck. And just like that, he was gone. Coolest fucked up thing to ever happen to him.

Gerdh · Answer

The Princess Bride from Humperdinck's POV.

Bethena · Answer

Scrubs but from Cox's POV.

If instead of rebooting movies, retelling them from a different point of view became popular, which movie would you like retold?

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