Alejandro Amenábar

Uh, Alejandro...

Amenábar.

Amenábar.

Amenábar.

That's the guy.

Yeah, yeah.

[laughs]

... with Nicole Kidman and some just very particular children in Alejandro Amenábar's The Others.

Ooh.

Probably botched that pronunciation.

It could be anyone.

But yeah, I really, really loved it and I saw it, um, I think it was the first film from Amenabar which I'd seen.

I'd seen it before seeing...

So he, he went on then to, um, direct The Others, which is his most famous film.

yeah

alejandro oh god forgive me alejandro amenabar probably saying the last name wrong i apologize he made open your eyes known in spain as abre los ojos in 1997 tom cruise saw it bought the rights to it really wanted to you know have it remade cameron crowe comes aboard and So, but just to talk about that film really quick, the most interesting thing, this really hasn't been done.

I did some extensive research and couldn't find too many other examples of this.

Penelope Cruz plays the same character in both movies and it's not the same performance.

then.

Vanilla Sky in 2001, which is a remake of Alejandro Amenabar's Abre los Ojos from 1997.

The Spanish original is the better film, and I'll die on that hill.

Vanilla Sky took the reality-questioning premise and moved it into romantic drama.

He said the original, Abra Los Ojos, felt like a great song for their band to cover.

Amenabar apparently agreed, said the original was a classical piece, and this version could be the rock companion

piece.

Right.