Line #20 Main/ShotForShotRemake


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2	[[caption-width-right:320:Above: ''Funny Games'', the Austrian version (1997)\
3	Below: ''Funny Games'', the American version (2007)]]
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5	->''"This 2011 version is so similar--sometimes song for song and line for line--that I was wickedly tempted to reprint my 1984 review, word for word. [[ButThatWouldBeWrong But that would be wrong.]]"''
6	-->-- '''Creator/RogerEbert''' in his [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/footloose-2011 review of the 2011 remake]] of the 1984 movie ''Film/{{Footloose}}''
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8	The Shot-for-Shot Remake is a remake that is nearly identical to the original, in almost every way. It'll use most of the same dialogue, have the exact same plot, and change very few things.
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10	See also SettingUpdate. May lead dissenters to say ItsTheSameNowItSucks In animated works, often overlaps with StockFootage. Sister tropes with the MultiAnimatorProject.
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17	* Much of ''[[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Evangelion: 1.0 You Are Not Alone]]'' is reanimated shot-for-shot from the original TV series. The most prominent exception is the (much-improved) battle against Ramiel. It gets {{subverted\|trope}} with its sequel, as the plot diverges rather quickly.
18	* When fans upload HD "remastered" Creator/{{Toonami}} intros on Website/YouTube, it really means this, but using superior HD footage.
19	* The cutscenes for the 1993 Japan-only video game ''[[Anime/DragonBallZ Dragon Ball Z: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans]]'' received an OVA release of their own that year (also Japan-only), and in 2010, ''that'' received an updated shot-for-shot remake as a bonus feature on the video game ''Dragon Ball Z: Raging Blast 2'', though shorter and with a more coherent plot. It was also on the US version of the game, though subtitled-only.
20	* ''[[Creator/JunjiIto The Junji Ito Collection]]'' goes into this a little too much, and suffers due to the small budget. Some of it is that it recreates some stuff shot for shot, but doesn't take advantage of the medium and has either cheap or no animation at all, all while losing detail as if it were animated. Some of it is animated, but it suffers from missing smaller details Ito put into the original work to make it scarier, or just does a poor job making it work.
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24	* The 2004 ''Marvel Age'' line by Creator/MarvelComics was this to the company's UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks publications, being beat-for-beat retellings with new art and the dialogue slightly adjusted to be more modern. Occasionally other details would need to be altered, for instance in ''Marvel Age Spider-Man'' #6, retelling ''Amazing Comicbook/SpiderMan'' #7, the Vulture's plan to rob the Daily Bugle on payday is established to be ridiculous, because Bugle staff are paid by check, while ''Marvel Age Spider-Man'' #8 corrects the backwards physics of ''Amazing'' #7, in which Spidey ''earths'' himself so that Electro's bolts will pass through him harmlessly, instead giving him rubber boots.
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28	* In ''Film/TheParentTrap1998'', it's surprising how much of the dialogue was almost exactly the same as [[Film/TheParentTrap1961 the 1961 original]]. It also kept several of the important plot lines from the original (i.e., the camping trip, the grandfather discovering the identity of the two girls, and the recreation of the wedding dinner). Having said that, however the remake did deviate pretty heavily at times. The recreation of the wedding dinner happens much earlier in the remake and ends up failing, unlike the original, leading to a heavily altered third act. Aside from the camping trip, it almost completely deviates from the original.
29	* ''Film/Psycho1998'' is regularly criticized for being ''[[ItsTheSameNowItSucks too much]]'' like [[Film/{{Psycho}} the original]] and, consequently, entirely pointless. Van Sant went so far as to give himself a [[CreatorCameo cameo role]] talking to a Hitchcock lookalike. There was an added scene with Bates masturbating, though.
30	* The Bollywood remake of ''Film/SomeLikeItHot'' is nearly identical to the original, though possibly with more gratuitous musical numbers.
31	* Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer remade the 1937 film ''Film/ThePrisonerOfZenda'' in 1952 with Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, and James Mason in the Colman, Carroll, and Fairbanks roles. The film was more or less a Technicolor carbon copy of the 1937 film, reusing the same script, score, and even camera angles -- the director, Richard Thorpe, actually sat watching the earlier film in an 8mm viewer, and copying from that.
32	* ''Film/AnAffairToRemember'' from 1957 (with Creator/CaryGrant and Deborah Kerr) is a remake of the 1939 film ''Film/LoveAffair'' (with Creator/CharlesBoyer and Creator/IreneDunne). It uses the exact same script, with very minimal alterations and additions to the story. The songs were also updated. The film was remade again in 1994 under the original title (with Warren Beatty and Annette Bening), but this version, while keeping the basic story, had a new script. The original film is also responsible for several Bollywood films, a couple of which also use the same script.
33	* Enforced in the Chinese remake of the short film ''Film/TearsOfSteel''; because the film and its assets were open source, it was possible for a team of Chinese students to obtain the original CGI files and edit in the live action parts with Chinese actors -- but as they weren't capable of changing the CGI files on a large scale, they had to do each scene shot for shot.
34	* ''Film/{{Algiers}}'' is nearly a carbon copy of the original French version ''Film/PepeLeMoko'', right down to shot angles. The only difference is the ending; the original has the AntiHero opt for BetterToDieThanBeKilled while the remake has him shot by the cops.
35	* The American remake of ''Film/FunnyGames'' was directed by Creator/MichaelHaneke, who also directed the original German version, to be almost exactly the same, but English-speaking actors (like Creator/NaomiWatts and Creator/TimRoth) are used instead of German and Austrian actors.
36	* ''Film/TheOmen2006'' for [[Film/TheOmen1976 the original film]], apart from changing the dates and adding a bit at the beginning which included modern signifiers of the apocalypse. They can be practically synced into one another as they are word for word the same.
37	* The 1931 Spanish language production ''Drácula'' was basically this to [[Film/{{Dracula 1931}} the 1931 Bela Lugosi film]]. In the early 1930s (before dubbing and subtitling), it was common for studios to simultaneously film foreign language versions of their films at night using the same sets with different casts and crew. The Spanish "Dracula" is by far the most famous of these. The final product is almost identical to the English-language film in most respects. The dialogue was a direct translation, and the staging was mostly the same. However, many scenes were longer since they used the entire original script (the English version had bits cut out to quicken the pace), and the Spanish film's director used more creative cinematography in an attempt to make the better film. Franchise/UniversalHorror fans do generally consider the Spanish film's pacing and cinematography to be superior, but the performances aren't considered to be quite as good, especially Carlos Villarias' Dracula not comparing to the legendary Creator/BelaLugosi. Interestingly, the Spanish film's female star, Lupita Tovar, lived to the age of 106 (passing away in 2016), and the film itself can be easily seen with subtitles on most Dracula DVD and Blu-ray releases as a bonus feature. It was reissued to theaters in 2015 as a double feature with the Lugosi film, and was even inducted into the UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry later that year.
38	* ''Film/LetMeIn'', Film/HammerHorror's [[SettingUpdate Americanized]] version of ''Film/LetTheRightOneIn'' is virtually identical to the original. The only differences aside from cosmetic changes are actually giving a date, an InMediasRes prologue for about a minute, removing a scene where the protagonist visits his father's drinking buddy, the [[spoiler:vampire's transgendered aspect, and explicitly making the vampire's helper someone who has been with the vampire since they were a child, something that was only vaguely hinted at in the original]].
39	* ''Film/TheDebt'' (American, 2011 remake) features an identical plot, the same characters ([[DubNameChange some names changed]]). The only significant difference is the pace; the American version features more atmosphere shots, and stretches scenes out more than the original did, and adds a single action scene.
40	* The only changes made to ''Film/ComeOutAndPlay'', a remake of ''Film/WhoCanKillAChild'', is the removal of a handful of scenes, mostly the war footage.
41	* ''Film/{{LOL}}'', a French film from 2008 was shot-for-shot remade in 2012 in America with Music/MileyCyrus, Creator/DemiMoore, and Creator/AshleyGreene.
42	* ''Film/Carrie2013'' is identical to [[Film/Carrie1976 the original film]] to the point of including scenes that weren't in the book and mirroring the original film's changes to the book such as Carrie telekinetically impaling her mom rather than stopping her heart, the massacre taking place with Carrie in the middle of the action, and an homage to the infamous final scene of the original. This is all in spite of both director Kimberly Pierce and lead actress Chloe Moretz saying this film would adapt the book, not the original film. [[SarcasmMode Thank you,]] [[ExecutiveMeddling MGM]].
43	* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShowLetsDoTheTimeWarpAgain'' is pretty similar to ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' apart from the lips singing ''Science Fiction Double Feature'' being replaced with the Usherette from the original play.
44	* Some of the Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes have been criticized for this:
45	** ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019''[='s=] "Circle of Life" sequence is a maddeningly direct remake of [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 the original film's]], differing only in the use of photorealistic CG and a new recording of the song. While the rest of the movie isn't quite that slavish, it still follows all the plot beats of the original with little deviation, and uses many of the same lines of dialogue, to the point of keeping the ActorAllusion to ''Film/ReversalOfFortune'' even though it now makes no sense due to Scar's recasting.
46	** ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'' added some things, but a common complaint is that those additions don't matter, as the story still repeats as though nothing was different. For example, in this version the Beast has a magic book that can teleport you anywhere. Does Belle use it when she needs to rush home and save Maurice? No, she rides off dramatically on a horse, like in the original. She's also an inventor instead of Maurice, but does this become a ChekhovsSkill? No; it's used early on and never again. Et cetera.
47	* The American remake of ''Film/{{REC}}'', ''Film/Quarantine2008''. The [[CulturalTranslation greater changes]] to the plot are the result of it being set in Los Angeles rather than Barcelona and [[NotHisSled changing the virus]] from a demonic possession to a HatePlague created by a doomsday cult, but way too many scenes copy the original, especially the final sequence in the blacked-out room that provides TheReveal.
48	* There are [[https://youtu.be/8-v2BHNBVCs a number of scenes]] where ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' follows its source material, ''Film/ZeroHour1957'', almost shot for shot--though, obviously, in ''Airplane!'' situations taken seriously in the first film are largely played for laughs.
49	* ''Film/ColdPursuit'' is this to ''Film/InOrderOfDisappearance'', as both were directed by Hans Petter Moland.
50	* ''Film/WildCard'' is a remake of the 1986 Creator/BurtReynolds vehicle ''Heat''. Beside some shuffling of the action sequences and Nick's desire to move to Venice being made less specific in ''Wild Card'', they're mostly the same movie.
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54	* The second episode of ''Series/{{Ahsoka}}'' ends on a shot for shot recreation of the final moments of the epilogue of the animated ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' wherein Sabine Wren meets with Ahsoka Tano to go on their journey to find Ezra Bridger. The ''Star Wars'' social media account would confirm this is the exact scene being retold by posting a side-by-side comparison of the two sequences, differing only in the medium of presentation and some details like Ahsoka's outfit, Sabine's haircut, and a few minor actions being excised.
55	* Though ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' deviates from ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' most of the time, there are some seasons that are close to the source material. However, ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'' was criticized for being almost exactly like ''Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger'', with many episodes being shot for shot remakes, the only changes being the main BigBad, and the two crossovers that occurred that season. ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'', the Western adaptation of ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'', went in this direction as well, though it did deviate in a few parts.
56	** ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' and ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'' had some major deviations from the source material, and yet still needed to do some scenes that were exactly like the sentai to fit that portion of the plot - mostly villain scenes, who had some storylines that really were word-for-word adaptations of their counterparts. It is nearly impossible to tell which scenes in Dai Shi's temple are from ''Jungle Fury'' and which are from ''Gekiranger,'' and the same with the Underworld/Infershia. Some of it is for actor purposes (Dai Shi's actor doesn't look like Rio's at all, but Dai Shi is often doing what Rio did) and some of it is for censorship purposes (Morticon and Branken both execute a {{Mook\|s}} who failed, but Morticon does it with one slash where Branken stabs him on the ground and raises him into the air like a freaking meatball). This may mean extensive recreations of sets, or it may simply mean the PR villains are green-screened into villains' lair shots.
57	** As mentioned above Samurai is almost identical to Shinkenger yet a few minor details are changed such as Kevin being a swimmer instead of being a Kabuki performer like his counterpart and [[spoiler: Jayden and Lauren being siblings instead of Jayden being a decoy for Lauren like Takeru was for Kaoru]].[[labelnote:spoiler]][[ArtisticLicenseHistory However]], this is a plot hole, since anyone who's familiar with the rules surrounding historic Japanese clans will tell you that the first born son is automatically the heir, regardless of if they are not the first born child.[[/labelnote]] Deker and Dayu's backstory was the biggest departure from Shinkenger with Juzou and Dayuu being unrelated in Shinkeger but the former being husband and wife. This was one of the few things the series was praised for.
58	*** The similarities were pretty much shot for shot. Considering that Samurai had Megamode new cockpit scenes were filmed but as stated tended to be shot for shot of many of Shinkenger's.
59	** Even for seasons that deviate the most from the source, it's still rare for a season to not have at least one episode that just straight up reshoots the Japanese episode. ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'', ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'' and ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'' have all done it. However, some seasons will mix it up and swap out the main focus ("All About Beevil" from ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'') or apply one episode's story to another episode's monster footage ("The Dome Dolls" from ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'').
60	* The pilot of ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' was an almost exact copy of [[Series/TheOfficeUK the U.K. version]]'s pilot. The U.S. ''Office'' later [[GrowingTheBeard deviated from the U.K. original and became its own show.]]
61	* And speaking of growing the beard, ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' had a tendency in its early years to copy episodes from [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the original series]]. The most blatant example is "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E2TheNakedNow The Naked Now]]", which is virtually identical to "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E4TheNakedTime The Naked Time]]" aside from being HotterAndSexier and with [[CreatorsPet Wesley Crusher]] saving the day.
62	* The pilot for ''Series/ThreesCompany'' was a near-shot-for-shot remake of the first episode of the original BritCom ''Series/ManAboutTheHouse'' with the only major changes being the [[AdaptationNameChange names of the characters]] and some of the jokes. The second episode of ''Three's Company'' was also a remake of an episode of the British show.
63	* The pilot of the US version ''Series/{{Skins}}'', was one of the British pilot, almost down to the letter. Needless to say, it didn't get much better after that, and was canceled due to a negative reaction from MoralGuardians and fans of the original.
64	* The pilot episode of the German version of ''Series/TheITCrowd'' was this--except they didn't get the punchlines and butchered them, as can be [[http://www.clipfish.de/video/1789043/vergleich-the-it-crowd-vs-das-iteam/ seen here.]]
65	* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' also got a scene-for-scene German remake, titled ''Hilfe, meine Familie spinnt'' ("Help, My Family is Crazy"). It worked out just as well as the remake of ''The IT Crowd''.
66	* The second of the two unsold American pilots for ''Series/RedDwarf'' recycled dialog and even footage from the original, but with a new cast.
67	* Several of the scripts for the short-lived American version of ''Series/{{Coupling}}'' followed the original closely. The U.S. version's failure is a good example of how transatlantic adaptation requires more than simple transcription.
68	* Wylie Draper's re-enactment of Music/MichaelJackson's ''Motown 25'' "Billie Jean" routine in ''Series/TheJacksonsAnAmericanDream'' was nearly 1:1 with the original, with the main differences being the stage setup and some of the camera angles.
69	* There are several points in ''Series/TheNewEditionStory'' where the actors re-create scenes from the group's most iconic music videos, most notably, "If It Isn't Love". ''The Bobby Brown Story'' also features shot for shot remakes of "Girlfriend" and "My Prerogative".
70	* ''Series/BreakingBad'' received a Spanish-language, Colombia-set remake in 2014 called ''Metástasis''.
71	* ''{{Franchise/Dragnet}}'' would reuse storylines from the original [[{{Radio/Dragnet}} radio]] broadcast and 1950s TV series. Three of the most famous examples are [[Recap/Dragnet1950sS1E14TheBigLamp The Big Lamp]], [[Recap/Dragnet1967S1E17TheBullet The Bullet]], and [[Recap/Dragnet1967S2E15TheChristmasStory The Christmas Story]]. The only change would be Friday's partner and setting update to reflect the passage of time.
72	* Episode 18 of ''Series/KikaiSentaiZenkaiger'' has the Zenkaigers unleash the abilities of Sentai Gear #15, which is a recreation of the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue of ''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman'' as a special attack.[[note]]The scene of Ryu and Kaoru's wedding and Gai's death[[/note]]
73	* ''Series/{{The Walking Dead\|2010}}'':
74	** As the show is an adaptation of the comic [[ComicBook/TheWalkingDead of the same name]], many scenes are framed and shot exactly as they appeared on the printed page such as the iconic shot of Rick entering Atlanta, Aaron’s introduction, and the characters learning the victims of the pike massacre. Many monologues and lines are pulled directly from the comic such as Gareth’s monologue (taken from his comic counterpart Chris). That said, the show does a lot of changes such as some characters outliving or dying earlier than their comic counterparts so the story is still fresh for comic readers. This also sometimes results in shot-for-shot recreations of the comic but with different characters when appropriate, such as [[spoiler:Hershel being in the same position to be beheaded like Tyreese's comic counterpart.]]
75	** Negan’s introduction deserves special attention as not only are most of the shots framed exactly how they were in the comic, but his monologue is also almost entirely lifted from the comic, up to and including his [[spoiler:brutal murder of Glenn, with Creator/JeffreyDeanMorgan taking many of the same poses and stances his comic counterpart took.]]
76	** The 100th episode "Mercy" features a ColdOpen that is a shot for shot remake of the ColdOpen of the pilot episode to commemorate the landmark episode, this time with Carl in the place of his father Rick. As an extra nod, Addy Miller, the actress who portrayed the first walker of the series, returns as another walker dressed the same way to hammer home the reference.
77	* A lot of the important scenes in ''Series/TheLastOfUs'' are 1:1 recreations of the cutscenes from the original videogame.
78	* A lot of key scenes in ''Series/AvatarTheLastAirbender2024'' are near-shot-for-shot remakes of ones from [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender the original animated series]], or at least have identical dialogue. Aang’s encounter with Koh and Katara’s duel with Master Pakku are notable examples.
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82	* Music/TaylorSwift: Due to Big Machine, which has since been purchased by Scooter Braun who then sold it to an investment firm, retaining the rights to the original masters for her first six albums, Swift opted to record and release "Taylor's Versions" of said albums that she would own the rights to. These versions were designed to sound almost-identical to the originals, to the point of bringing on many of the same musicians and engineers who worked on the originals.
83	* The music video of ''Music/{{Audioslave}}'''s song "Show Me How To Live" is a highly condensed (as in five minutes) remake of ''Film/VanishingPoint''.
84	* When [[{{Fanvid}} fanvids]] are "remastered", it usually means this. Usually done by the original editor, when they obtain superior copies of the source material and/or superior technology with which to edit videos (for example, making a jump from VHS to digital or from basic editing software to fancy, expensive software).
85	* Music/WeirdAlYankovic Loves This Trope. On at least two occasions, he even got permission from the original artists to use their sets ("Smells Like Nirvana", a parody of Music/{{Nirvana}}'s "Smells Like Teen Spirit", was filmed on the same set, and "Fat", a parody of the Music/MichaelJackson song "Bad", was filmed on the same set as another parody version of the video from the ''Film/{{Moonwalker}}'' feature film).
86	* The hilarious remake of Music/KanyeWest's 'Bound 2', done by James Franco and Seth Rogen. It can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRckgn36lzY here]]. A side-by-side comparison can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BWTNYFCNVs here]].
87	* Aimee Mann's video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA1cX-wgMdM Labrador]]" is a shot-for-shot parody (complete with the original dialogue) of the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uejh-bHa4To Voices Carry]]" video from her former [[TheEighties 1980s]] NewWaveMusic band, 'Til Tuesday, under the (fictitious) concept that Aimee was forced under contract to comply with a PrimaDonnaDirector.
88	* Music/{{Muse}} used this trope in the UK video of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dm_5qWWDV8 "Hysteria"]], being a direct reference to the hotel trashing sequence from the movie adaptation of Pink Floyd's Music/{{The Wall}}.
89	* Music/{{Weezer}}'s video for their version of "Lost in the Woods" from ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' was a live action remake of the song as it appeared in the movie, with Rivers Cuomo as Kristoff and Creator/KristenBell as Anna.
90	* Music/JenniferLopez's "I'm Glad" is a near-identical remake of ''Film/{{Flashdance}}'', to the point where she got into a major copyright dispute with Creator/{{Paramount}} over it.
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94	* As part of the advertising campaign for the release of the Platform/Nintendo3DS [[VideoGameRemake remake]] of ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', Nintendo released a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kggOvvbLVO0 trailer at E3 2011]] that was a remake of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JntHVUp7m4E launch ad for the Nintendo 64 version]].
95	* The 2013 ''TabletopGame/SpaceHulk'' video game is this trope for the board game (specifically, the Third Edition released in 2009).
96	* While both the ''VideoGame/CrashBandicootNSaneTrilogy'' and ''VideoGame/SpyroReignitedTrilogy'' were mostly marketed as remasters, the actual creation of each game evokes this. As the original trilogies were from the Platform/{{PlayStation}} 1 era and therefore their code was unusable for remastering on the [=PS4=], the dev teams simply remade the games from the ground up copying the original level geometry. Vicarious Visions have even coined the term for this difference as a "Remaster+".
97	* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'''s Platform/GameCube remake, ''The Twin Snakes'', is an interesting example. The level design is almost identical to the original, but the gameplay has been updated to include features from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' with very few level design changes and only a small ArtificialBrilliance upgrade to compensate for it, leading to a game with far more SchizophrenicDifficulty than the original.
98	** The cutscenes, directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, were [[WhatCouldHaveBeen going to be]] completely faithful carbon copies of the original, but Creator/HideoKojima demanded new cutscenes that used Kitamura's [[SignatureStyle signature over-the-top action]].
99	* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' frequently does this with movies that it adapts, starting with ''II''. So much so that it was specifically mentioned prior to release that the third game's ''Franchise/ToyStory'' world was ''not'' an adaption like it would have been assumed to be. Even with the added characters, the scenes are often criticized for being ''[[ItsTheSameNowItSucks too much]]'' like the originals and, consequently, entirely pointless.
100	** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'': The stories in the worlds of ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen\|2013}}'', and ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'' are almost shot-for-shot remakes of the original movies, [[SugarWiki/AwesomeArt details and all]].
101	%%*** Most notably, the "Let It Go" musical sequence in the ''Frozen'' adaptation cuts to a different angle below Elsa during the infamous hair clipping animation error before recovering back to the original angle since the game's animators couldn't fix that either.
102	* ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved Anniversary'' and ''VideoGame/Halo2 Anniversary'' are remakes of the first two games in the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' series that update their graphics to the standards of the Platform/Xbox360 and Platform/XboxOne, respectively, while keeping the gameplay exactly the same. To demonstrate how faithful the remakes are, and to serve nostalgic or purist fans, they both have a feature to toggle the original and remastered graphics on the fly during gameplay.
103	* Similarly, there are plenty of remakes with retro graphics toggles that allow seamless switching to the original graphics. They include ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland Special Editions'', ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle Remastered'', ''VideoGame/GrimFandango Remastered'', ''VideoGame/WonderBoyIIITheDragonsTrap'', ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII Turbo HD Remix'', ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D 20th Anniversary World Tour'', ''VideoGame/RType Dimensions'', ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer Remastered Collection'', ''VideoGame/StarCraftI Remastered'', and ''VideoGame/DiabloII Remastered''.
104	* Though it's less noticeable due to the original not getting localized, ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'' is this. Most (if not all) of the script is kept from the original right down to the dialogue, character models and animations are the same as the sprites even in animation (such as the dancing shopkeeps), so on and so forth. While there are a few additions, they're small in number and tend to be additions rather than any actual changes.
105	* The reveal trailer for [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]]'s introduction to ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' as a DLC character lovingly recreates several moments from ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren'', as compared [[https://youtu.be/gpw4s9V1uSo here]].
106	* Creator/BluepointGames did this with their remakes of ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' and ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls''. Both of these remakes strove to have near-identical gameplay to the originals, to the point of reusing much of the same code, only with massively revamped graphics that makes them look like modern AAA games.
107	* ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}} [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl]]'', one of the series' vanishingly few [[BTeamSequel B-Team Sequels]] (handled by ILCA instead of series creators and primary developers Game Freak), is closer to a port of ''Diamond & Pearl'' than an outright VideoGameRemake. Besides expanding and updating the Underground into the Grand Underground, [[spoiler:some ArcWelding for ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'']], changing Pal Park to Ramanas Park, as well as the obligatory system-wide changes between Generations IV and VIII (Fairy type, buffed EXP share, etc), things are more or less the same as in the original games. No new areas or characters have been added, the original GraphicsInducedSuperDeformed art style is kept, and Flint still uses a Lopunny. It's such a direct remake of the ''Diamond and Pearl'' version that precious few of the QOL changes from ''Platinum'' in particular made it in--with the back button for Pokétch apps being one of the most notable omissions. Of the few additions from ''Platinum'' that did actually make the cut (such as the aforementioned Flint actually using his all-Fire-type team from Platinum in later rematches), most are not accessible until post-game.
108	* A deep cut: the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atAHyO3AoLE trailer]] for the ''Creator/{{SNK}} 40th Anniversary Collection'' was a shot-for-shot remake of Atari's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtTORd0JOTM 1981 advertisement]] for ''VideoGame/{{Vanguard}}''.
109	--> "Luthor destroys the Gond/Big Bat."
110	* The Retro Engine remakes of the 16-bit ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' games, first released on mobile phones, and ported much later to PC and consoles via the ''Sonic Origins'' compilation, could at first glance be mistaken for UsefulNotes/{{Emulation}} or ports; however, they were actually coded from scratch by a group of {{Promoted Fanboy}}s who spent years reverse engineering the original games in order to perfectly recreate them on modern platforms with enhancements like widescreen and lag elimination that wouldn't be possible with emulation.
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114	* One of the main varieties of MultiAnimatorProject is essentially this, with the segments animated by each person split by "scenes" or shots.
115	* Erik of Internet Comment Etiquette has become well known over the years for his sophisticated and well written ad segments. In his lesson "Jump Scares" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfv4DACERso]], Erik presents a shot-for-shot remake of a scene from ''Film/MulhollandDrive'', except the two characters discuss [=NordVPN=] and internet security.
116	* According to Creator/TomSka in "[[https://youtu.be/MqQuDLFYpiY?t=1033 Fun Facts & F**k-Ups]]", the sketch "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI2AbCy1NVw The Fallen]]" was a word-for-word remake of a sketch called "Colonial Morons", which was a cancelled brand deal with ''VideoGame/AliensColonialMarines''.
117	* An especially weird case, horror host Joe Bob Briggs presented a marathon on Shudder of {{Film/Halloween1978}}, {{Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers}} and {{Film/Halloween5TheRevengeOfMichaelMyers}} in 2019, then presented just the original again for its 45th anniversary in 2023. The 2023 presentation used an almost identical script for the host segments as the marathon, which was still available on Shudder.
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121	* The 1934 WesternAnimation/{{Classic Disney Short\|s}} "Orphan's Benefit" was remade in 1941, with the same soundtrack and animation but in color and with modernized character designs. And apparently, Disney planned to produce color remakes of other black-and-white cartoons, which unfortunately never got made either due to the Disney animators' strike or the outbreak of World War II. Animation drawings for a scrapped remake of "Mickey's Man Friday" exist.
122	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''
123	** "Dough For The Do-Do" was a color remake of the classic black-and-white short "WesternAnimation/PorkyInWackyland". Animation and soundtrack are the same, but the backgrounds were redesigned in the style of Creator/SalvadorDali. Not an exact shot-for-shot remake, as there are several new or reworked scenes, including the ending.
124	** A similar example is "Tick Tock Tuckered" (1944), a remake of "Porky's Badtime Story" (1937). The main change was replacing [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome abandoned character Gabby Goat]] with WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck.
125	** "Slightly Daffy" (1944) is a color remake of "Scalp Trouble" (1938); it reuses some animation and adds a few gags like the Indian who keeps accidentally shooting his horse in the head and angering it and the way the scout contacts the other Indians, and a few gags are omitted from the original like the Indian swallowing embalming fluid and breathing fire to burn a hole in the fort to enter and an Indian being cut in half by a cannonball.
126	* Two of ''WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons'' shorts, "Wags to Riches" and "Ventriloquist Cat", were remade for Cinemascope as "Millonaire Droopy" and "Cat's Meow" by using the original animation and reformatting it for widescreen. Tex got screen credit despite having left the studio years earlier.
127	* A common target for ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'''s SeasonalRot has been how most, if not all, of their {{Cutaway Gag}}s have become these: the scenes are ''so'' identical to their source material, both visually and [[OverlyLongGag in length]], that whatever joke was intended (if one was even intended at all) is completely lost. A clear example of this would be "Oceans 11 And A Half," where Stewie creates a music video for a song he wrote, which turns out to be an identical remake of Music/BryanAdams' video for "Everything I Do (I Do For You)" in its entirety.
128	** In-universe example: Carter offers to help Lois if Peter does a shot-for-shot remake of ''Film/LiarLiar''.
129	** Herbert also performed a rendition of "Somewhere That's Green" from the ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'' that was pretty much identical to the scene in [[Film/LittleShopOfHorrors the movie]].
130	** The spinoff, ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', followed suit in an episode where Cleveland performs a literally identical version of the Montgomery Flea Market ad meme (aka, "It's Just Like A Mini-Mall") and then went for the hat trick by using a ChristmasEpisode to recreate ''Film/DieHard'' (with the justification that it's Cleveland telling the movie's plot as a story to kill time while he's posing a Nativity scene).
131	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': The MadeForTVMovie ''WesternAnimation/AbraCatastrophe'' features a flashback which chronocles how Timmy's parents became neglectful which led to him being tortured by BabysitterFromHell Vicky; the flashback ends with a scene where he angrily throws his Magic 9 Ball at the wall which breaks open and leads to the arrival of Cosmo and Wanda, his fairy godparents. Said scene was completely redrawn from the original ''Oh, Yeah! Cartoons'' short.
132	* In 1967, Creator/WarnerBros, having acquired the TV rights to all the black-and-white Looney Tunes that were previously held by Guild Films, had 75 of those cartoons sent to Korea to be redrawn and embellished in color. It was slipshod to say the least; sound synchronisation faltered at times, objects were off-color, the trace jobs were sloppy (it was done on six-field cels as opposed to the normal 10-fields), and some animation was eliminated altogether.
133	* [[Creator/HannaBarbera Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera]]'s 1955 MGM short "Good Will To Men" was a remake of the studio's 1939 cartoon "Peace On Earth." Both films received Oscar nominations. Aside from the animals' designs, the main difference between the two versions is the nature of humanity's downfall. In the '39 version, made as [=WWII=] was breaking out overseas, humans literally fight to the last man for increasingly arbitrary reasons; in the '55 version, the Cold War arms race culminates in a nuclear apocalypse. Towards the end of their tenure at MGM they also did remakes of some of their WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry shorts to make them compatible with Cinemascope. These remakes are done in LimitedAnimation, unlike the originals.
134	* The 1942 ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} short "Me Musical Nephews" was remade in 1950 as "Riot in Rhythm".
135	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' featured a parody of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' that for some reason actually copied scenes from the song "Circle of Life" at the very beginning of that film. Here are comparisons between the two versions:
136	** African sunrise
137	** Birds flying over river
138	** Zebras and [[MisplacedWildlife Leafcutter ants]]
139	** Approaching herd of elephants
140	** Mt. Kilimanjaro
141	** Animals migrating toward Pride Rock
142	** Pride Rock (Zazu is a generic white bird in ''Animaniacs'' version)
143	** Rafiki/Yakko moving through crowds of animals
144	** Animals giving way for Rafiki/Yakko
145	** Rafiki/Yakko climbing Pride Rock
146	** Mufasa and Sarabi with Simba (portrayed in ''Animaniacs'' as [[MisplacedWildlife tigers)]]
147	** Closeup of baby Simba
148	** Rafiki/Yakko with Simba
149	** Overhead view of Pride Rock
150	** Animals below Pride Rock
151	** Rafiki/Yakko holding up baby Simba
152	** Sun shining down on Pride Rock
153	** In the ''Slappy Squirrel'' short "[[WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}} Bumbie's Mom]]", while not exactly shot-for-shot, the animation of Bumper the rabbit giggling and falling over looks like it was copied directly from animation of Thumper.
154	* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'':
155	** "Tops with Pops", a 1957 cartoon, is a remake of 1949's "Love That Pup". The only differences are that it is shot in widescreen instead of fullscreen, thicker and more detailed outlines of the characters, and more stylised backgrounds.
156	** Many shots in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryWillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' mirror those of [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory the 1971 film it's based on]], sometimes even including details that one would reasonably expect to be left out or changed in an animated remake, such as still using the chocolate egg-laying geese rather than restoring the squirrels, emulating the effect of Violet's face turning blue (via an off-screen blue light) from the original movie, and even going as far as keeping the {{blooper}} that was left in the original film wherein the candy shop owner accidentally clocks a kid with his countertop gate as he opens it during "The Candy Man". Arguably [[JustifiedTrope justified]], as the movie was an AshcanCopy made so Warner Brothers could hold on to the movie rights to the original book (which backfired; the movie was so badly received that they lost the rights to the book anyway).
157	* In ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'', some parts of the Phoenix arc were word-for-word from the comic to the point of Creator/ChrisClaremont getting credit. Some of the changes were mostly due to the cast being different (Gambit puts the power inhibitor on Dark Phoenix instead of Nightcrawler, who is not a regular team member) and some of it is due to the medium (telepathic duels become the ''awesome'' astral plane battle sequences the series always jumped at the chance to create; in the comics, telepathic duels are more "they glare at each other until one drops.") There's even a line of ''alien language dialogue'' that is kept (and no, Shi'ar is ''not'' a full-on ConLang like Klingon.) It's not that the show didn't have its own (very good) storylines or was afraid to deviate from the comic; ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga is a case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
158	* The first 6 episodes of ''WesternAnimation/PostmanPat'' used a generic crown logo on the side of Pat's van, but from episode 7 onwards they got permission from Royal Mail to use their actual logo. For consistency they re-made the title sequence, and it is essentially a shot-for-shot remake of the original.
159	* For his sixth guest CouchGag on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' (attached to the episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS29E13ThreeScenesPlusATagFromAMarriage "Three Scenes plus a Tag from a Marriage"]]), Creator/BillPlympton remade his short film ''WesternAnimation/YourFace'' but with Homer in the starring role, [[AdaptationalAlternateEnding and a happier ending.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbI8kJuSkkY It can be seen here.]]
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