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Post #231945

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Obi Jeewhyen
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The "original crawl" on the new DVD is NOT the original crawl! Screenshot inside!
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3-Aug-2006, 3:04 PM
Heheh, even I gotta admit I was kinda pleased when they finally fixed Vader's white light saber blade, post-Obi wan duel, in the uber director's perfect final special edition of Star Wars.


But I still prefer any movie with warts and all, if that's the way it was in theaters. Yeah, the snake reflection removal in Indy bugs me .... especially since they left so many other visual errors untouched. (Just as it bugged me in '97 when they bothered to "fix" so much in Star Wars, but left that blatent white saber blade mistake).

If you're going to fix the errors, fix them all. I prefer original every time, but nothing bugs me quite like a selective, half-hearted effort to mend the ways of OOOPS that are endemic to all films.


The original crawl, though is a different animal. It's not simply a matter of whether a re-creation will be visually perfect. It's a matter, in large part, of the music match to John Williams' score. If they don't re-create that precisely, a big part of the emotional wallop of the opening crawl will remain lost. When it comes down to a choice between seeing the opening of Star Wars the way George Lucas conceived it and the way John Williams conceived it .... well, the latter version is infinitely better, imo.