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By 'descent' I just meant revealing something under the surface, but if you remember, their two dogs are called Beauty and Beast, so maybe 'duality' is a better description. I remember reading somewhere that Craven's only request for the remake was that it retain the two dogs and not change their names as he felt they were key to understanding the nature of the family.
Given what we've been talking about, you should see the remake. It has its problems but isn't a bad film by any means, and its only real problem is the way it makes so explicit what the original deals with implicitly. Not that the original is exactly subtle.
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