Hi, my name is and like most people I am bored sometimes, not for lack of ideas but for lack of money. But what if money was not a determining factor and you could do and have done everything within the rules that worldly possessions can allow you? Whoever this person is, he or she would undoubtedly not derive the same pleasure from activities that you or I would. This is the main theme of the remake of the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair. The original Thomas Crown Affair was written by Alan Trustman and directed by Norman Jewison, who also wrote In the heat of the night and the 2003 film The Statement. It starred Steve McQueen as the Financier, Thomas Crown, and Faye Dunaway as an insurance investigator Crown's counterpart, Viki Anderson. In 1999 the original was rewritten by Leslie Dixon and Kurt Wimmer, and was directed by John McTiernan who also made the first two Last Action Hero. It featured Pierce Brosnan as Crown and Rene Russo as Catherine Banning, the remake version of Viki Anderson. In addition to changing most of the characters' names, McTiernan's version features many differences from the original. The first big difference I noticed was in the cinematography. In the original, Jewison used techniques that were new to the industry at the time. He used the split screen technique to enhance the action scenes by allowing more than one point of view, giving the film more suspense. However, in the remake, McTiernan chose not to use this technique or any other newer techniques in filmmaking. Mctiernan's makes it easier for the viewer to follow the plot and focus on what is happening in the film. In this way, the remake loses some of the intensity of the action and suspense scenes. Likewise, the remake makes it easier for the viewer to know more about what is happening by showing both sides of the story than the original film. original. There is more mystery in the original because, although Jewison gives the viewer all the pieces of the puzzle, he makes them put the story together themselves. McTiernan's version "connects the dots" for the viewer thus allowing them to better understand what is happening. McTiernan did this to make the film more accessible to the viewer because this was the movie audience of the time.