Lessons about staging from side-by-side comparisons.
Nerdwriter compares the same scene from two adaptations of the same source material, The Shop Around The Corner (1940) and You’ve Got Mail (1998)…
… and does so again, with the same scene from German director Wim Wenders‘ Der Himmel Über Berlin (aka Wings of Desire) (1987) and American director Brad Silberling‘s remake, City of Angels (1998):
Further Viewing
In Depth Cine looks at how different episodes in a series (in this case study, Pachinko), “which use the same crews and locations, each take a unique creative approach based on having a different director and cinematographer team”:
Compare and contrast two film versions of the same story made within two years of eachother, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo:
Or how about the same film made twice by the same director?
Our look at Steven Spielberg‘s 2021 remake includes a comparison of the two film versions of West Side Story: