Don't give me any crap about many individual scenes and shots remaining. The original negative - if permantently altered - no longer exists.
And yeah, despite the fact that we non-filmmakers have every right to opine about filmmaking - as members of the public to whom all public art belongs in perpetuity - - I gave the contrasting opinion of another filmmaker and not simply my own.
Don't diss Nick Meyers' single-person filmmaker opinion by claiming that George Lucas' single-person filmmaker opinion is somehow better or more correct. They are simply two differing viewpoints from filmmakers - one of which I happen to agree with, and the other of which I find abhorent, insane, insecure, and psychotic.
And yes - destroying the negatives of The Wizard of Oz, Citizen Kane, Gone With the Wind, Vertigo, Singin' in the Rain, Lawrence of Arabia, or Star Wars would be crimes ... absolute evil, villainous crimes against art history. I take that stance quite seriously. Are you claiming otherwise? If I come into legal ownership of Forbidden Planet, is it ok for me to destroy the negative? What the fuck are you on about?
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