NJ About the Beguiled: Sofia Coppola makes amendments to the original script that are so equivalent to sexual cleansing as to render her whole retelling of the Don Siegel original indefensible. And between 1971 and 2017 what have we lost? Everything. Style over substance. I should never have done that to Sofia, whose every single other films I loved, even and above all its least popular, Somewhere: I should never have watched Don Siegel’s jaw-dropping, menacingly mesmerising fi lm, 1971 The Beguiled, the day before I went to see her remake of it. I could go on and on about all that’s missing, all the things she decided to cut out of the original, like (SPOILER) Miss Martha cuts out the leg and symbolic masculinity of the Caporal - from the onset, it was shocking to see Coppola deleted that kiss between Eastwood and the 12 year old Amy, which takes you by surprise and by the throat right from the start of the original - one of many WTF moments of the whole ...