![]() ![]() ![]() Demme and his actors - Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber (and even minor players like Jeffrey Wright) - create characters that are fleshed-out and human. The original was compelling mainly due to its novel and intricate plot, but the acting was no-frills. Demme immediately establishes his own distinctive approach: Bring characterization to the foreground. After achieving only so-so results in reworking an old classic with the timid "The Truth About Charlie," director Jonathan Demme confidently updates "The Manchurian Candidate." Here he prevents the viewer from being distracted into keeping active count of the differences between his film and the original the viewer can relax and watch an "original" film from the beginning.
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