Clint Eastwood’s $104 million action movie is getting a darkly subtle remake in a new crime comedy, 46 years later

Warning: Major spoilers for Amazon Brothers below!Brothers Offers a dark flipside to one of Clint Eastwood’s most profitable movies. Brothers Appears to be heavily inspired by the Arnold Schwarzenegger/Danny DeVito joint TwinsWhere the unlucky stars played identical twins. Although not an official remake by any stretch, Brothers Reefs on Twins In some ways. This includes the main characters going on a road trip that involves meeting their mother, while also being stalked by a relentless criminal trying to obtain an item they are holding on to.

This even extends to brothers’ Ending sequence, where the twins are chased around by the movie’s villain (played by Brendan Fraser) with a shotgun. The key difference between the two, however, is tone. Twins is a goofy comedy suitable for the whole family, while Brothers is translated with pitch-black comedy. The figure of Brothers 2024 – including leads Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage – have a great time reveling in the grimness of the screenplay, although there is some warmth beneath all the bad taste gags.

Brothers’ creepiest scene homogenizes Clint Eastwood’s every which way but loose

Brothers’ orangutan set piece is designed to dig people

One of the main sequences Brothers‘ trailer showed involving Josh Brolin’s Moke being pursued by a loving orangutan. What the preview didn’t Show was what happens between the pair, which in the final movie involves Samuel the orangutan using Moke’s hand for a most obscure act. It’s a sequence that feels right out of the bad taste comedies that followed in its wake American pieAnd one that people who watch the film are unlikely to forget in a hurry.

This Brothers‘ scene calls to mind Clint Eastwood Either way but independent too. The quirky 1978 comedy received poor reviews upon release (it’s currently 48% on Rotten tomatoes) but was a shock box office success. Eastwood himself recalled people advising him against making the movie, where he plays a bare-knuckle boxer whose best friend is an orangutan named Clyde. The film derives practically all of its humor from Clyde, be it the way he drinks beer alongside Eastwood’s Philo or the way he flips people off.

The scene with Samuel in Brothers is a super dark twist on dress and the whole idea of ​​a comic relief orangutan. Brolin’s moke is initially charmed by Samuel’s weed-smoking antics, but in keeping with the Amazon comedy’s willingness to get dark, the scene takes an unexpected turn. Needless to say, Clint’s Either way but independent Didn’t feel the need to go in such a dark direction.

In Every Way But Loose is still Clint Eastwood’s most successful movie

The Every Which Way… series is Clint’s most unlikely franchise

Looking back on Clint’s career as an actor and director, he is surprisingly open to taking risks. They it less business projects like Honkytonk Man Or White Hunter Black HeartTo star in a sappy romance like The Bridges of Madison CountyEastwood took a few gambles with his screen image. Another of Eastwood’s big risks was Either way but independentA film that no one believed would work, only to become one of the biggest releases of 1978 When it arrived.

actually, Either way but independent is Clint’s most successful movie. It grossed $104 million (via The numbers), which amounts to around $500 million by 2024. It was such a hit that Eastwood and Clyde quickly returned for the sequel. Any way you can. The follow-up was another hit – although it grossed notably less than its predecessor – and from Clint Eastwood’s franchise, the Every way…Duology is easily the strangest.

Brothers’ orangutan sequence subverts every way, but the entire premise of the loose

No, orangutans do not make great pets

The reason why Moke ends up in such a sticky situation with Samuel is because his brother is visiting Bethesda (Marisa Tomei), a hippie with whom he was corresponding in prison. Bethesda keeps Samuel as her pet/roommate, despite the orangutan’s tendency to get overexcited. now, Part of Every way but Luce’s Success in the 1970s was due to the novelty of Clint interacting with ClydeAnd seeing the orangutan acting in such a human manner.

Of course, the reality of keeping an orangutan as a pet would be much less wacky and lighthearted. in this sense, Brothers Really flips Every way but Luce’s Concept on its head, underling that making an orangutan a pet is a terrible idea All around. It still works out in Beshesda’s favor later in the story when Sammy saves her from Brendan Fraser’s Farful – with the movie implying that Farful’s encounter was no less distressing than Moke’s.

While they were talking about Ann Either way but independent remake during the 2010s, Brothers Shows why this is unlikely. Keeping an orangutan as a pet isn’t a funny gimmick for audiences anymore, with Amazon’s comedy deciding that dark laughs are the only way to make it work. It’s certainly the most memorable scene of BrothersAlthough in keeping with the movie’s issues, it’s not as funny as it should be.

Source: Rotten tomatoes, The numbers