Originally posted by: Obi Jeewhyen
Interesting, though, that people seem willing to give J.R.R. a pass on revising The Hobbit to fit with the later-composed The Lord of the Rings .... yet Lucas gets no such pass for sticking Hayden in Return of the Jedi, or deleting Yub Nub.
I don't think it's valid to say the practice is alright if you happen to like the change, but the practice is immoral revisionism if you view the particulary change unfavorably.
I don't like the practice at all, and object to it on principal rather than on individual merit of case-by-caseness. I don't give Tolkien a pass ... and considering his rather clever solution of making the original version a "lie" told by Bilbo, it was completely unnecessary to change The Hobbit at all.
Still, the Tolkien precedent ... (and there are surely others) seems to give George a little bit of artistic cover for his revisionism.
Grrrrr.
Interesting, though, that people seem willing to give J.R.R. a pass on revising The Hobbit to fit with the later-composed The Lord of the Rings .... yet Lucas gets no such pass for sticking Hayden in Return of the Jedi, or deleting Yub Nub.
I don't think it's valid to say the practice is alright if you happen to like the change, but the practice is immoral revisionism if you view the particulary change unfavorably.
I don't like the practice at all, and object to it on principal rather than on individual merit of case-by-caseness. I don't give Tolkien a pass ... and considering his rather clever solution of making the original version a "lie" told by Bilbo, it was completely unnecessary to change The Hobbit at all.
Still, the Tolkien precedent ... (and there are surely others) seems to give George a little bit of artistic cover for his revisionism.
Grrrrr.
Or my psychology textbook. It's changed to a new edition every year... Grrrr.
I tend to view book changes differently than films since well not only are books different from films but now in the digital age old editions of text are probably easy to find online. Usually the original film is presented in the same quality format as the revised one, giving us a choice with little consequence. I have ET the special edition disc and convieniently can pop in the original if I want to see it again. Both are on equal ground as far as dvd treatment goes as far as I know. And I don't know why GL didn't do the same for the original star wars and the rest. We probably have the original theatrical cut of Willow on anamorphic quality dvd but not star wars, a classic part of cinema history. Something just seems wrong about that.