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Originally Posted by joie
I wrote something like, "Is The Criterion Collection the place where films go to die?"
Aren't there similarities between the "Criterion Treatment" and the funerary arts?
Preservation : Embalming
Restoration : Restoration
Case, artwork : Casket, makeup and funeral clothes
Booklet and Supplements : Obituary and Eulogy
The Collection : The Crypt
Release Announcements : Funeral Invitations
There are additional similarities: the inevitable familial squabbling over the artwork and cost, for example; The tendency to gloss over the deceased's faults. ...
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The funerary arts are for the exclusive purpose of preparing something that has transferred into a new state (death) for its final presentation before being stashed away or destroyed forever. Since film's in the CC are generally transferred to a new state (format) on purpose, after being made prettier, and before being mass produced and shipped out to the public, I don't know if your analogy quite works.