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Post #1304032

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Broom Kid
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StarWarsLegacy.com - The Official Thread
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Date created
8-Nov-2019, 8:46 PM

It hasn’t disappeared from the collective conscious at all. This site is part of that, but even if this site had never sprung up in the wake of Lucas (not a corporation, but a specific man) refusing to release the original versions on home video (and then releasing them again anyway, only to not release them again, only to later give the okay to the screening of a 70mm print at the Academy) the original versions wouldn’t have disappeared from the collective conscious, if only because it was literally too successful for it to have done so. The idea that Star Wars could suffer from cultural erasure of any kind is pretty far-fetched considering how huge its pop-cultural footprint is, was, and will continue to be for some time.

Film history isn’t being ignored. Our desires to be able to purchase an original version of the movie is being thwarted, and has done so for a long time now - and it most definitely sucks, and I don’t like it. But there is most definitely a difference between film preservation, and film restoration, and being able to buy a blu-ray on Amazon. What we’re upset about is a consumerist concern, not a preservationist one.