Second Nature ; Hollywood Just Can't Resist Another Take On a Good Story

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Tell me that story again. Puh-leeze.

You know, the one about the little old lady and the crooks ("The Ladykillers," 1955, 2004). Or Davy Crockett and the Alamo ("The Alamo," 1960, 2004) Or the zombies in the shopping mall ("Dawn of the Dead," 1978, 2004). Or the tough sheriff who cracks skulls and names names ("Walking Tall," 1973, 2004).

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Second Nature ; Hollywood Just Can't Resist Another Take On a Good Story

There are lots of reasons for Hollywood to remake a movie, but the most basic is that pesky inner child in all of us. If it's a good story, we want to hear it again. And again.

"People love the experience they had at the original movie, and they want to have it again," says Zack Snyder, director of the new "Dawn of the Dead."

His blood-soak...

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