[1] Remakes are sometimes near copies, such as the 1952 The Prisoner of Zenda, nearly identical to the 1937 black-and-white version, but shot in Technicolor; and Psycho (1998), a shot-for-shot color remake of the black-and-white Psycho (1960).
More frequently they introduce some changes or new elements e.g. in the original The Front Page (1931), a male newspaper editor tries to keep his male star reporter from quitting; in the remake His Girl Friday (1940), the reporter is female and the editor's ex-wife.
Technological advances can allow a remake to include features that were not possible at the time the original was made.
Several animated films have been remade as live-action productions, such as Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Cinderella (2015).
The English-language color film The Magnificent Seven (1960) is a remake of the Japanese black-and-white film Seven Samurai (1954), transferring the story from Sengoku period Japan to the American Wild West.