Movie musings, a what-if game

[caramida]

rmjwell posted a brilliant idea on his journal, about what if X person had written Y book? For example, what if Miss Manners' Guide to Excrutiatingly Correct Behavior were written by Dorothy Parker? or what if The Handmaid's Tale had been written by Harlan Ellison?

Much madness ensued. It got me to thinking, what about movies? What if had Y directed Z? For starters, I'll provide a few, but I really want y'all to chime in with your own twisted ideas:

A Clockwork Orange, as directed by Rob Reiner
Cocoon, as directed by Clive Barker
My Dinner With Andre, as directed by Kevin Smith
Fiddler on the Roof, as directed by Mel Gibson
Schindler's List, as directed by Mel Brooks
V for Vendetta, as directed by Ron Howard
Amelie, as directed by the Wachowski Brothers

Ok, I've done enough damage. Now it's your turn.

(p.s. finally, a post worthy of the Dr. Tran icon!)

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[mr-pandakun.livejournal.com]

Here's a few odd ducks or should-haves (you pick):

V for Vandetta - as directed by Martin Scorsese. I dunno, it just seems *right*.
The Tuxedo - as directed by Wes Anderson. It was a silly concept, and after seeing The Life Aquatic, maybe something more could have been put into it.
Clue - as directed by John Carpenter. It'd have a lot more guns, I'm sure ("they're comin' out of the walls! They're comin' out of the goddamn walls!")
Marie Antoinette - as directed by Akira Kirosawa. In the same vein of Throne of Blood perhaps? Maybe that's not historically fair...
Richard III - as directed by Sofia Coppola. I don't know what to say about that.
Grease - as directed by Spike Lee. Probably the only re-make I'd pay full admission to see.
The Last Samurai - as directed by Clint Eastwood, mostly because he never would have picked Tom Cruise.