I apologize if I'm slow, but I'm not keeping up this morning: why can contrarians be contrarians from a surfeit of generosity? And why would consternation be avoided if wide application were granted to the principle that anyone who wants to remake Casablance deserves to? I have a guess on this one -- is it that we we're supposed to take it easy on people who remake Casablance rather than tearing them apart for both their aspiration and their product?
Talk to me after coffee, eh...
Contrarians: because they'll take up the side of the criticized. In a land of critics, the generous are contrarians.
Avoiding consternation: the principle is that often doing a stupid thing is its own punishment, so those who are (at the moment) not being stupid needn't concern themselves with pillorying those who (at the moment) are.
All I can say is this: What the hell are you doing linking to (and thus presumably reading?) a site called Teen Hollywood?
I googled for the remake story and chose the Teen Hollywood site because the story bordered on self-parody and because I thought you'd make fun of me for reading it. Score!