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Originally Posted by HD Goofnut
My choice would have been Luke looking at the twin sunset on Tatooine.
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It's already been done before. I like this artwork better actually. I don't like rehashing the artwork that's already been used before. Except in the case of music, but that's completely different.
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Originally Posted by martydmc12
Actually, we are entitled to the originals, as it's considered a work of art that is considered historically and culturally important. The National Film Registry alone is proof of that. And the vast majority of filmmakers, even Lucas' friends and colleagues all agree that once a film is released, that it's done and over with; that is the final product. Scorsese, Spielberg, Zemeckis, Coppola have expressed this; Spielberg even retracting the changes he made to E.T. for the 20th Anniversary, and Raiders of the Lost Ark, in which the DVD release he removed the reflection of the snake in the glass, then went back with the original for the Blu-ray release. Even Lucas' own friends have urged him to release the original theatrical cuts, yet he won't. And as far as the National Film Registry is concerned, they still don't have prints of any of the Star Wars films in their library, because Lucas has only offered them the special editions, not the originals, which they've refused, because that's not what they inducted into the library...
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Not true at all. You are not entitled to anything. Especially if it is art the creator owns outright. Look at it like this: if I buy a famous work of art, the Mona Lisa for example, at an auction but decide not to share it with the world that's my prerogative. it is mine. You are not entitled to see that piece of art just because you saw it once. Or maybe a better example would be if a musician who owns all of their master recordings decided to suddenly stops printing them, remove them from digital/streaming services, and vault them for all eternity. He has the right to do that. Should that work of art be preserved and out there for the world to hear just because you heard it once before? Only if the artists want you to hear it. How many artists out there right now have lots of their music gone from the world because the stuff is out of print? Too many. Does anyone care? No, not really.
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Originally Posted by martydmc12
I've said this before, and I'll say it again. I've got no problem with director's cuts, or special editions, but Ridley Scott's Blade Runner box set is what I consider the gold standard in how to do it right. Include all cuts of the films, properly remastered and restored, and give the audience the option to choose which version they want to so.
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Yes, that would be a nice option. However, it is the choice of the artist and if he doesn't want us to have that option then who are we to say otherwise. Have you created any works of art? It's a very wonderful and amazing thing. but just because you make that piece of art and put it out there doesn't mean that it leaves your possession and becomes someone else's. It still yours to do with as you please. Sometimes you may want to make changes. You may decide after years of living with said art that it needs to be reworked. You, as the artist, have that right. And there is nothing wrong with that. We are just consumers of the art. Nothing more. We may not like it when the art changes (if it does), but we don't have to like it. Or even accept it really. There are a lot of things in life that changes. Some for good and some for worse. We cannot stop that. My life changed for the worst when my fiancee killed themselves and I would love to change that. I cannot and I have to live with that. I hope I am making sense.
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Originally Posted by martydmc12
Yes you are right, they're not completely erased from the home video format; I own a copy of the LD Definitive Edition. My biggest concern isn't even about availability at this point, it's about the condition of the original negatives, if Lucas hasn't already destroyed them. The longer they sit on a shelf with our proper preservation and restoration, the faster they're going to deteriorate, and they'll be gone forever. If you really think that that's okay, and we lose the original negative's forever because of the filmmaker himself being unsatisfied with the work because he was restrained by the technology at the time, that's pure ego driving him, not at sake of the art.
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We don't know though that George Lucas has destroyed them. In fact, I think it's safe to say he hasn't. As A New Hope OUTR* was recently screened. So they still do exist. However, if Lucas did burn them in order for the new special editions to be the canonized versions, then so be it. It's his art. He can do whatever the he-- he wants to with it. And how do you know it's ego vs. art? You didn't create the art so you can't possibly know. It's just assumptions here. Don't mistake what I am saying for me loving what has been done. I'm not any happier about it than you are. However, it's not my art so I have no say. And this is obviously what George Lucas wants. in that end, I have learned to deal with it, accept it, and move on. I am not going to stop watching the movies either.
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