Modern film is a hell of referential reboots

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3. We've been rebooting stories

since the time that cavemen and women sat around a fire talking about the mammonth they came up against.

We see the same thing in religion and myth where stories are told and retold, evolvng into different iterations each time.

Shakespeare was the quintessential rebooter, fashioning classic and popular stories into something new using his eclectic and inventive vocabulary. And each time one of his plays is performed it is rebooted (Baz Lurhman's "Romeo + Juliet" being an excellent example IMO).

There are usually two sides to the reboot discussion: the pro-traditionalists and the pro-innovators. I'm more one of the latter, I like to see something new, a new spin on an old idea. I like both Tim Burton's and Chistopher Nolan's Batman movies because they tried something different.