I always enjoy the AFI specials each June, as it is a time for me to reflect on all the great films I have come to love. I have read that George Lucas will presenting Star Wars as one of the 11 films to honor the 40th Anniversary of the AFI Institute, and I believe he will be presenting the wrong version from 1977.
Star Wars is my favorite movie of all-time, and that movie has become beloved the same way the Wizard of Oz has done to multiple generations, but Mr. Lucas changed the version that won 7 Academy Awards in 1997 and later updated it in 2004. It is now known as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. It has new scenes, changed scenes, and new special effects that were updated to make the movie look more like the present day movies, instead of its ground breaking time of 1977.
I can only hope that you are showing and honoring the 1977 film, because that version revolutionized movies, and I think it deserves the respect to a new fanbase that this was the film that took the movie public by storm that summer. I am not against director cuts, or extended cuts of any classic film, as I own several movies that do have multiple versions, but I believe that when you honor a film, it should be the original version, not the updated version.
Thank you,