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Remake: A Novel Paperback – January 1, 1995

3.8 out of 5 stars 86

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Winner of more Hugo and Nebula Awards than any other science fiction author, Connie Willis is one of the most powerfully imaginative writers of our time. In Remake, she explores the timeless themes of emotion and technology, reality and illusion, and the bittersweet place where they intersect to make art.

It's the Hollywood of the future, where moviemaking's been computerized and live-action films are a thing of the past. It's a Hollywood where Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe are starring together in A Star Is Born, and if you don't like the ending, you can change it with the stroke of a key.

A Hollywood of warmbodies and sim-sex, of drugs and special effects, where anything is possible. Except for what one starry-eyed young woman wants to do: dance in the movies. It's an impossible dream, but Alis is not willing to give up. With a little magic and a lot of luck, she just might get her happy ending after all.

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Willis (Doomsday Book), a fan of old movies, uses them cleverly and thoughtfully in Remake, her fourth solo novel. Roughly 20 years into the future, computer graphics have ended live production in Hollywood. Tom, the narrator, reluctantly pillages old films for remakes starring dead actors or alters them to suit the politico-social correctness of the moment. When he meets Alis, who has come to Hollywood burning to dance in movies no longer being made, he falls hard. As in Willis's Lincoln's Dreams, while boy is obsessed with girl, she is obsessed with her purpose. Boy loses girl, then sees her, impossibly, dancing in old musicals which couldn't have been altered. After several red herrings he finds both her and an explanation, but, given her higher passion, finders aren't necessarily keepers. Willis's writing, as usual, is transparently clean and deft. She has fun playing with old film references and with the levels of illusion in a Hollywood more irreal than ever, and is discerning both about the way movies inform our imaginations, giving us roles to play, and about desire, purpose and possibility. One flaw is a scene of requited love that neither the form nor tone of this bittersweet romance can support. But if the characters are mostly stock and the sentimentality easy, this is still popular fiction at a high level, entertaining, thoughtful and often touching.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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The 21st century's film industry is as big as ever, but there are no live actors to speak of and no new movies, only remakes controlled by F/X wizards who rely on technological sleight-of-hand to simulate creativity. Against this backdrop of soulless glitz and surface glamour, Willis (The Doomsday Book, LJ 5/15/92) tells the story of Alis, a dancer who wants to be in the movies (as herself, not a "remake"), and Tom, an F/X technician who tries to make her dream come true although doing so will make his dream impossible. Willis has established a reputation as one of sf's most lucid writers, and her latest effort demonstrates a rare capacity for evoking both humor and regret. Most libraries should acquire this title.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House Worlds (January 1, 1995)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 172 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0553374370
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0553374377
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.43 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis has won, among other accolades, ten HUGO Awards and six NEBULA Awards for her writing, and was recently named an SFWA Grand Master. She lives in Greeley, Colorado with her husband Courtney Willis, a professor of physics at the University of Northern Colorado.

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Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2021
Set the scene number and frame number - just picture it:Fred and Ginger and Alis.
Wait, who’s Alis?
Well, let’s get these cameras rolling!
The details in this story are an absolute joy to read and conundrums you can’t ignore.
You want Bogart in Star Wars? You got it.
You want Brad Pitt in Stagecoach? No problem.
Marilyn in Pretty Baby? Thought you’d never ask.
You appearing in - you name it.
I read this when it was first published and didn’t understand most of the references. It was WAAAAY ahead of its time. The cyber attacks and copyright infringements escaped me. Now we take these for granted, yet I find it remarkable to read about characters that make their living doing this sort of underground work.
Highly recommended. BTW - the star and movie references above are my own. You’ll have to read the book to get the insight.
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2011
It's a concept that seems all too probable--Hollywood studios producing "new" remakes of great old movies, using digital images of iconic stars and few actual live actors. Besides that, old films can be edited and revised in various ways by those who have the technology and the techniques. The first-person protagonist in "Remake" is a young fellow who is adept at those techniques, though he's kept busy doing things like erasing all alcoholic beverages from old films (leaving no plot motivations for "The Philadelphia Story," and turning Rick's Cafe Americain into a lemonade bar) on the orders of the latest studio mogul. He's enamoured of Alis, a pretty young dancer who doesn't want to be another one of the ubiquitous "Marilyns" and "Lanas" who hope to get fill-in parts, and her passion to "dance with Fred Astaire" intrigues him. He can slip her face over Ginger Rogers' for a number, but that's not what she wants; her dream is to get into the dance with him, replacing Ginger or, in her final triumph, Eleanor Powell. The problem with the plot is the juxtaposition of technology and emotion, and neither one works out too well. However, the basic concept of the necessity to have a passion for something real, and to see it clearly and determine the possibilities that lie within the impossibilities, is downright inspiring. In a world that often seems to be run by people who have no fundamental reality, for people who prefer superficial rewards to hard-won satisfaction, this story resonates.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2014
Love Connie Willis, especially her time travel books, but this was not her strongest work. Kind of odd and not that compelling.
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2015
Arrived fine in excellent condition. Thanks!
Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2010
About half way through the book, I finally got tired of waiting for the story to begin and quit reading. She does a good job of building a world, but it's not one either I or the characters want to live in.

One of the odd things I noticed is that while the narrator is supposed to be a guy, his personality feels like that of a woman. This may be one of the hazards of writing in the first person where the character is the opposite gender, but it was a bit off putting.

The idea is ok, if dystopian, but in the end, I felt that the main insight came early in the book, where the narrator observes that it is strange that so many people want to be someone they aren't, when the main asset they have to offer is their own uniqueness. I was hoping for more strong insights and a gripping story, but sadly, the other main interest in the book is a compilation of good movie quotes.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2014
Though I'm not sure of the exact spot in the sequence this lies, "Remake" fits into Connie Willis' time travel sequence. Like most of the novels in the sequence, this story stands on its own: (most of) the characters don't appear in other volumes. "Remake" seemed to paint a little of the backstory for the whole sequence, but has its own beginning and end; its own plot and can be enjoyed independently.

I usually score Connie Willis' books with five stars, but this one seemed a little bit less nuanced, a little bit less developed than other things I've read by her. That's why I gave it four stars. Even so, I think it's an enjoyable book that's worth your time.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2002
Connie Willis is undoubtedly a genius, but even geniuses have their failures. One is tempted at first to think that Remake will be one of her lesser works, even if by no means a failure. But really it's up there with her greater books. The characterizations, of the narrator/hero in particular, are good and entertaining. And the premise/setting of a Hollywood in which thanks to digital technology every actor is entirely interchangeable (but good scripts are obviously still in short supply or can't get made) works vividly well.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2014
Connie Willis always provides a good plot and decent character developement. And, do you REALLY want to live back in the "days"?

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AReader
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 24, 2017
So compelling that I had to go away and watch a lot of Fred, Ginger and Eleanor on Youtube. Do read it.
V. Joyce
4.0 out of 5 stars cheerful novella
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 28, 2013
Cinnie Willis does little that is new here. Her work is always clever and mostly heart warming and this is no exception but it is pretty much full of her usual tropes. If you're new to Willis start with Doomsday Book -her finest novel.