I believe the question can be articulated at the level of redundancy and
security.
We have heard the same stories over and over. We want to hear them again.
We want to be entertained in a safe, harmless, surprise-less way.
The age of Romance is seriously at risk; narratives don't change from
form (sitcoms, tv drama).
The remake is yet another gear in this drone-machine. Rarely does it
change anything but the
significants; the signified is barely moved.
I think you'd be more successful by actually doing your original
research. Compare the cultural
matrices and the conditions of production in the original culture and
the "hollywood system".
This constrast will ( I believe ) show more of the film-machines in both
spaces.
It's not hard to obtain a copy from a foreign film nowadays. I'd suggest
the Japanese-horror syndrome
that assailed hollywood. You'd get about three or four remakes to work
with (a huge corpus to work with,
actually, if you intend to dissect the scenes in terms of image and
technique and discourse.)
Hope I've helped.
Pedro
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