The Vanishing (1988/1993): side-by-side comparison
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This side-by-side, shot-for-shot comparison is intended to illustrate the variety of choices possible when creating an original motion picture and a remake. 
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This movie has always disturbed me. Glad to know that I'm not alone; Stanley Kubrick said that the Dutch version of this movie was "the scariest movie he had ever seen". Kubrick reached out to the director (he directed both versions btw) to ask him about the editing. Apparently Kubrick was impressed...
Seth Stine I just saw the American version & I agree they completely spoiled the ending. It is extremely unsettling.
The original movie was Dutch not French. Almost all Dutch movies are shit so when there is a good one I won’t let the French take credit.
Not French - feel like that’s important to correct
@@tgarz23 corrected 👍
@@henkjarnosla1991 corrected
It's amazing how the same general film can have vastly different philosophies to share.
Spoorloos was about the danger of obsession. It's was one man's frantic search for an answer, under the mistaken belief that you can make sense out of something senseless. It was more of a character study.
The Vanishing was a more traditional film. It was a man (and his girlfriend) vs a villain. The obsession was more of an accent piece. There was no utter consumption of the main character's life, like in Spoorloos.
Both villains had similar motives, but only Spoorloos's villain felt like a true psychopath. He killed without any emotional reason -- just to see if he could do it; in The Vanishing, he claimed to have the same reasoning, except the film clearly shows he has emotional attachments.
If you're looking for a three act structure with a more cinematic ending, watch The Vanishing.
If you want to leave the film contemplating the danger of relentless obsession, and the gut-wrenching reality of one man's capacity for cruelty without a conscience to guide him, watch Spoorloos. It's a tough film to get through, but it is more thought provoking.
WRONG! The American one DID dive into the character not moving on and becoming obsessed. You're taking out of your ass
@@shaymicah4194 I said the obsession was there in The Vanishing, it just wasn't the central aspect of Jeff's character. It was about
Jeff wanting to know the truth, still wanting to move on, and his girlfriend's frustration with his inability to do just that. The Vanishing was about BOTH of them. She was there to try to break him out of his obsession, because The Vanishing--at its core--was something of a love story.
Spoorloos was just about the main character and his obsession. The girlfriend leaves him in Spoorloos and doesn't come back, because Spoorloos isn't a quasi-love story. She's only there to show that his obsession IS his life now. There's no redemption arc. It's just one man alone with his all-consuming desire to know what happened.
I say again, the obsession was an accent piece in The Vanishing. It was there, it was just secondary to the girlfriend's attempts to "save" him. In Spoorloos, it was the central aspect of the film, and the main character. I stand by that.
Spooeloos is the true version
Oh just watch the original and ignore the remake completely.
It’s also about the banality of evil. The being middle class respectable man meticulously and coldly calculating his murder and then vanishing back into respectable middle class life only to methodically murder his next victim like planning a train trip.
Conclusion: Hollywood remakes of foreign films are mostly watered down and don't do justice to the originals.
What about The Departed?
You don’t know what the departed is? It’s only a best picture Oscar winner based off internal affairs. But ya, your right so unknown.
Hollywood prefers a happy ending in its films.
Well it does not do justice to the original, but there was justice. :P
Yep, big money prevails...
I prefer the darker Dutch version.
The American version is the shitty version. The power of the story was the end of it. And what do the Americans do? They change the end into something..... Well, let's leave it at that.
@@filmer25 Keifer Sutherland & Nancy Travis were excellent in the remake. Jeff Bridges was creepy and gross. The Vanishing 1993 disturbed me as a kid
@@filmer25 What did the Americans do? Who directed the remake, my friend?
@@possiblepilotdeviation5791 The quesion is: who was responsible for the screenplay? And who was it written for?
@@filmer25 That's right, a European made the film and changed the ending because he is a sellout for cash.
The ending to the Dutch version is the scariest thing imaginable. I can’t think of a worse way to die.
It's basically the movie buried. It's a suck ass way to die for sure but the movie on an overall view is amateur at beat compared to the top notch cast of 1993
@@shaymicah4194 top notch cast doesn't save a film, the ending for the dutch film has so much gravity to it
@@shaymicah4194 buried came out 22 years later so the implication of the original copying buried is ridiculous. spoorloos is infinitely superior to the remake due to the script being written by the original author, not watered down and dumbed down for american audiences. no cast could save the cheap, badly-made movie the vanishing is.
@@shaymicah4194 That is the silliest opinion I have ever heard
@@mulalula they never said it copied the original though.
Jeff's character portrayal was creepier in every way than any monster I've ever seen on film.
stanley tucci comes close…
Johanna ter Steege, the actress in the original is irreplaceable! She is so authentic and likable, truly a girl next door. Hollywood remakes are always to be avoided!
You sound dumb. During the 90s Sandra Bullock was the epitome of lovable gf on screen. And KS is a legend...something the original nose dives in
Lol
@@shaymicah4194 You sound brainwashed by mainstream "culture".
The ending in the original is purely haunting
The original can't be bettered. UK film critic Mark Kermode describing both called the original "The Banality of Evil" and the remake "The Evil of Banality". Sums them up so well.
there’s no competition, the original is a masterpiece.
No way, the remake has better ending and is overall just better.
@@BennyBlanco-gh3zd how is that a better ending??? it misses the mark on the whole point of the original.
@@graet67 What point, nothing happens in the original, atleast in the remake there's a conclusion.
@@BennyBlanco-gh3zd a conclusion thats stupid and misses the point of the whole story. it was stated multiple times in the original that the obsession would get him nowhere. Rex acknowledges this and still continues to persevere due to his desire to find out what happened. it was never supposed to have a happy hollywood ending, its realistic.
@@graet67 I understand your point, it was just more satisfying seeing the remake.
Dutch(original) version is one of kubrick’s fav movie.no gore,no jumpscare just pure fear
Sutherland's scream at the end is so chilling, I like his acting better when he is in the box, but overall the original ending is profoundly more terrifying.
You mean his overacting right?
@@Gmthekiller yea because screaming when your buried alive is overacting
@@Gmthekiller you’re clueless
The only reason I liked the ending in the remake better is because the villian was beaten to death by his own shovel.
Hollywood ending made me laugh
It's just so trite and ridiculous!
I can’t watch the end again. Still gives me nightmares after seeing the original years ago.
wow whose idea was it to rob the ending of its impact by having a dumb happy ending, I doubt it was the director's
From what I understand he’s the same director from the original and he only did the remake cuz they offered him a boat load of cash lol
Blame the writer 💯
News flash: Most people want a happy ending. You are part of the 1% Enjoy living in nothingness
@@shaymicah4194 I didn't know you were the spokesperson for 99% of the world's population
@@DonCannoli OH, my mistake, I didn't introduce myself. I'm the spokesperson for 99% of the world population. You're welcome.😆
The small details, the big details, and the whole thing is just better in the original.
Hollywood made the director ruin his own masterpiece by rewriting an ending that could have been used by a Disney movie. It also missed a lot of what made the original awesome.
First, the crux of the novel and the original is that obsessions can be fatal. It reminded me of movies like Oldboy. Had the protagonist not been overly obsessed with revenge, he would have avoided his tragic fate. The original is similar only that the protagonist is obsessed with finding out what happened to his girl instead of revenge. He could have had the upperhand. He could have beaten the crap out of the villain and then reported him to the authorities, more than likely he would have found out where his girl was buried. But no! Because he is so desperate for closure, he acts recklessly and falls right into the trap of the villain. The remake completely erases this because at the end, the protagonist is saved from the tragic fate. Moreover, they kill the bad guy. So apparently, thanks to his obsession and recklessly risking his life, he does get his revenge! Horaaaay.
Second, the Villain in the original is a textbook psychopath. He is unable to feel for anyone but more importantly he is very narcissistic. He is fascinated on himself and of what he is capable of doing and getting away with. He talks about his daughter's love and how his family admires him for saving a young girl from drowning, but he does not actually live for their love or admiration. They are just there to validate his narcissism. That he is awesome, because he is "worthy" of love and admiration. He is so overly confident, he walks into the protagonist declaring himself as the man responsible for the abduction, seemingly not worried that he will either go to prison or be killed by the protagonist in a fit of rage. He knows he can easily manipulate the protagonists obsession, and he does successfully. Again this element is taken away because in the remake, there is really no emphasis on what motivates the villain. He does what he does just because. Also unlike in the original, he is emotionally attached to his daughter which is why he ends up drinking his own drugged coffee and gets killed later on. Awwwww so he is not such a monster after all.
Never knew they made a 1993 version
Amazing! I wanted to watch…got both versions…i might watch the dutch version now
please could you give me the name or the link of the first soundtrack?
ruclips.net/video/aUd5KUijVug/видео.html
interesting Sandra Bullock and the Big Lebowski are in the American version. got to see it.
The ending of the original totally shocked me. Most disturbing and shocking end to a movie, I’ve ever seen.
First saw the original back in the 90s on SHOWCASE and saw it again last year(library borrow). Still a great,unnerving film. SHOWCASE host Ann Medina made sure,inadvertently of course,that I would have little interest in the remake because she gave away its ending. Then again,even if she hadn't done so,I'm pretty sure I would have figured out there would be a happy ending of sorts. That's Hollywood.
I never hated a villain more
93 ending undermines the film.
Hollywood always has its way of ruining foreign originals in remakes. Look at what they did with Old Boy, same thing. I watched this comparison, never watched the Hollywood version, and you can see right away its Hollywood. That's why I always watch foreign, with subs not dubs. Hollywood always playing for the stupid masses. Look at this version, a woman comes out of nowhere in the end and is able to incapacitate the villain with a stupid plank board, so realistic.
Look the remake was garbage no doubt but there are plenty of remakes that we did that were even better than the originals. Example: girl with the dragon tattoo and the departed (remake of infernal affairs). Also to be fair there are a lot of country’s that steal from us. I know India did a remake of memento. They seem to always take from us.
Cool.
You want a medal or something?
@@maciek8159 indian film industry is not as big as hollywood in terms of resources and money.
So I don't think it's fair to compare it with an industry as giant as hollywood
@@maciek8159 Ooof, I don’t doubt there are remakes that are better, but IMO The Departed is not a good example. I much prefer Infernal Affairs.
I prefer the dutch version it is much scarier than the american one, Remakes are always crap.
Richard Bool and some are really good
@@MatthewtheMD just watched the remake of true grit and guess what it was crap
False, John Carpenter's The Thing is a master piece and much deeper than the original black and white version.
@@epichal4883 The thing is a different movie all together
@@richardbool4232 Which is exactly why it's a master piece, thank you very much. If you're going to remake something then make sure it's outdated af but has a good ground concept.
I prefer the '93 over the '88. I preferred the American actors over the Dutch ones and the ending not as disturbing. Got that with Se7en, The Wicker Man, The Mist, The Prestige, Primal Fear, Oldboy, The Skeleton Key, Buried, and The Omen.
The original 1988 ending version was waaaaaay better than the other one.
so no5t cool
Seems to me that Americans will go to the huge expense of remaking a perfectly good film (that could be overdubbed) rather than watch the original. I wonder why is that and I come up with very ungenerous answers, ungenerous to the American public. Is it because they need to have the surface furniture of language, location and faces rearranged for them to gather the energy to watch? It's not wonder that on the whole, so I'm told, they know very little about the world and think there's nothing worthwhile out there. Why, the people who watched the remake probably thought the idea of this film is theirs!
Hey! I’m an American and I loved the original. In fact I love it so much that I refuse to watch the dog shit version we unfortunately made. But it is the same director as the original who does the remake. Not all Americans are into remakes or whatever else you were suggesting. Hollywood is a business unfortunately and instead of making quality movies they keep it safe and do super hero movies with a million sequels.
Manic Rhymes Yes, apologies, I know it's a sweeping generalisation, glad to hear there is interest in Europe in the US. 👍🏻
Cesar Camba It’s all good. Hey, do you have any recommendations for some good foreign mystery thriller movies like this one? I’m just getting into foreign films and love them!
@@maciek8159 roman de garre 2007
Tell no one
Nattevagen 1994
Thesis 1996
The invisible guest
The body (el cuerpo)
Les diabolique 1955
Repulsion 1965
The apartment 1996
The girl with Dragon tattoo 2009
1. Spoorloos is clearly the superior film. I thought The Vanishing was trite and soulless.
2. Money. I imagine Hollywood studios (more often than not) make much more money licensing the I.P. and producing and distributing a new movie than they can just distributing an overdubbed film.
3. "[Americans] know very little about the world and think there's nothing worthwhile out there." Do you realize how insulting and ignorant that sounds? Remaking foreign films is not unique to Hollywood. Here are a few notable ones: Russia remade 12 Angry Men; Japan remade Unforgiven and Ghost; Italy remade Jaws and Groundhog Day; France remade Maniac and Assault of Precinct 13; The U.K. remade The Longest Yard; Turkey remade E.T. and Star Wars; Nigeria remade Titanic; India remakes EVERY Hollywood movie they can. Those are just some of the most prominent.
Well the Bride from Kill Bill can escape that :3
Hollywood remakes are unnecesarry and just an excuse to show their actors XD
Lmao the us ending is ridiculous
Wunderschöner Film . Aber die amerikanische Verfilmung kann da nicht mithalten.
Stupid happy ending remake....
It really wasn’t a happy ending? He looks over and sees that the love of his life was buried alive and slowly suffocated to death after years of agonizing pain and obsessing over her and hoping she was alive only to find out she probably died shortly after she disappeared. I think it’s way more disturbing than having both die and that’s the end
Jeff Bridges is brilliant in the 1993 film. Still haven’t seen the Dutch version. This movie has stuck with me ever since I saw it when I was younger. One of the most creepiest movies I’ve seen. I wanted to turn it off, but couldn’t because I had to see what happened next. I am claustrophobic so maybe that’s why I find this movie so scary.
If you're terrified by the American remake, than you'll probably be haunted by the original. Its really good though
@@bloandon I really need to watch it. I read the book The Golden Egg by Tim Krabbé which is what the movie is based on and it was really good. A short story really, the book was only a little over 100 pages, so I read it really fast. It just ends so dark and I imagine that’s how the original movie ends. Gotta watch it with my hubby tho, don’t wanna watch it alone. Lol
Agree, this movie is simply haunting.
Didn't watch the Hollywood version but loved the Dutch one.
Check out my trailer reaction to this movie if you have time😁
Everyone complaining why would u wanna see the same ending?? I'm glad they changed it if u gonna remake it change something I hate seeing the exact same movie beginning to end
Take your meds.
@@davehuisman8241 Star's right and that is a CRAPPY ending to have the guy just die? Wow, how artsy fartsy and deep. Always really liked the 93 version, never watch reviews.
@@williamkoppos7039 You are the reason why Hollywood made a remake for the US market, which was also known in Europe though. Typical American audience can't stand a movie without a (sorta) happy end. They need their justice, because MURICA! But especially the USA should know that the family man is fake and monsters exist. Of course it is depressing when a movie ends dark, but you can only feel that way when the acting and execution was decent. These days people root for the anti hero though, but the movies are sorta dull, yet it is praised as, like you put it, arty fartsy and deep. Btw, I only knew the 93 version till today.
@@eadghe Have you gotten over that seething hatred for "Murica" you apparently were bottling up for a while and unleashed on the random internet person...
I like the US version better. Jeff Bridges was excellent….
If you watch the original version there is just an awful ending which can you give a bitter taste. You watch the whole movie and the ending shows you that there is no progress or positive outcome. While the conclusion of the American version is more of a retribution and shows that bad people get what it comes. I’m Dutch btw and our books and movies always have unnecessary negativity. Heartless and depressing
The only difference (only watched 1:43 of it) is that one of them I can understand ✌😁
Don't worry, subtitles do exist! No need to bother with the childish watered-down Hollywood version.
That 1988 is to depressing he just goes in the box and that's it no I don't like that
U.S remakes are a joke
If you don't speak french then watch the 1993 remake, if you speak french then watch 1988, however I love the 1993 remake as it's in English and the ending is better.
For me it's better the American version, except the end.
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though the movie has its errors and not the best make i still liked it and enjoyed it better than Spoorloos. I thought the french version was boring though the ending much more disturbing. But why not have a happy ending after going thru all that!!! Still makes me shudder trying to imagine waking up in a coffin ...
Sad being you...
@@Byezbozhnik hey dummy your bus is leaving
I don't understand the appeal of either film. I think they're both incredibly stupid, neutered ending or not.