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Veldstraat zkt. bewoners

14/08/06, 15:54 door Icey · Gent

Volledig artikel in De Standaard van vrijdag 11 augustus 2006 (reportage: Wouter Verschelden) als deel van haar Monopoly-reeks.

Commerciele slagader van Gent heeft nauwelijks bewoners.

Ondanks stevige subsidies van het stadsbestuur, woont er haast niemand boven de winkels in de Veldstraat. Oppervlakte is er schaars en duur, de eigenaars hebben liever veel opbrengst en geen last van enige bewoners. Officieel heeft nu nog een handvol mensen zijn adres in de Veldstraat, slechts twee winkeliers wonen nog boven hun winkel. Na sluitingsuur ligt de commerciële slagader van Gent er morsdood bij. De eigenaars van de winkelpanden zijn voornamelijk grote patrimoniumvennootschappen, die elke beschikbare oppervlakte te gelde willen maken.

,,Als triple-A locatie ( bij de duurste van het land, red. ) is de Veldstraat eigenlijk veel kleiner dan soortgelijke straten als de Meir in Antwerpen of de Nieuwstraat in Brussel. De eigenaars verdienen tot 1.250 euro per vierkante meter per jaar aan hun gebouw. Vooral de verdieping op de begane grond levert veel op, want mensen zijn minder geneigd om te kopen in een kelderverdieping of hoger in het gebouw'’, legt Tonny Verhamme uit, die voor de dienst Economie van de stad Gent retail development doet. ,,Een eigenaar wil dus niet meteen oppervlakte opofferen aan een aparte ingang voor de woonruimtes, sanitair en nutsvoorzieningen boven de winkel. Bovendien stijgen de kosten van de verzekering voor een gebouw dat bewoond is, aanzienlijk.'’

,,Ik woon hier nu 87 jaar in deze straat'’, zegt André Vermeiren die jarenlang een apotheek openhield op nummer 66. Vandaag is zijn zaak overgenomen, maar hij en zijn vrouw wonen nog altijd boven de winkel. ,,Ik heb iedereen hier langzaam zien wegtrekken, alleen de familie Bloch woont nog boven de bakkerij. De stad zou inderdaad graag weer meer bewoners in onze straat krijgen, maar de meeste infrastructuur is hopeloos verouderd omdat er al zo lang niemand meer woont. Binnenkort trekken wij waarschijnlijk ook naar een rusthuis.'’

Meer over de stadssubsidies: www.eengoedezaak.be
Over de geschiedenis van de straat: Veldstraat-Gent, Hendrik Defoort & Wout De Vuyst (ed.), 160 blz., 1995, Lannoo, 24,95 euro.

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Remakes

13/08/06, 13:27 door Icey · Film en TV

Remakes are a controversial theme among film aficionados. They certainly are the subject of recurring complaints on the IMDB message boards, with some trolls prominent members going out of their way to proclaim that these films are a waste of celluloid, purely designed to grab some easy box office cash. This makes for some interesting comments like "It’s Official, Hollywood ran out of scripts", "There’s still creativity in Hollywood, just no risk" and "What’s with all the Remakes?"

While I have to agree that remakes are rarely as good as the originals, I am always excited when I discover a film I fondly remember is getting a new treatment. It’s partly because of the the same sentiment why people look forward to sequel, we just want more of the same. However, sequels frequently dissapoint, and are often careful not to tie in with their predecessors too much, as not to alienate viewers who missed the previous installment for some reason. Remakes, on the other hand, give exactly that - more of the same. With some luck, the director truly understands the original film and manages to approach it from a fresh new angle, some even taking the effort to reexamine the source material and trying to get even more out of it. Things can also go horribly wrong, of course, with the director completely ignoring the point of the script, going for the main plot gimmick and maximum crowd-pleasing effect instead.

In any case, there’s an undeniable trend towards remakes in Hollywood the last couple of years. When producers are not busy adapting comic books, they’re pulling old scripts out of the archives. Recent enjoyable examples: Poseidon, The Ladykillers, The Amityville Horror, The Hills Have Eyes, The Omen, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, King Kong, …. And because american audiences refuse to read subtitles, popular foreign movies also get the Hollywood treatment, with particular interest towards japanese horror, like The Ring/Ringu, The Grudge/Ju-On and Dark Water/Honogurai mizu no soko kara.

And the trend goes on. Some upcoming remakes:

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