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Originally posted by: R2-G2
All the quote from Williams implies is that more music will be added into ANH. Williams, as a musical director, is not an authority on what is being done in the areas of visual effects, sound design, etc. For all either of us know, Lucas simply wants to add the Imperial March to ANH and maybe some other things as well, but has nothing else in mind for that film.
That is still a change, and a fundamental one at that. Do you really think Lucas would stop just there?
I haven't seen any confirmation from him or a representative of Lucasfilm to make me believe that more work is being done on the original trilogy. I could see a lot of wisdom in doing so, but I haven't seen any evidence of that. For all any of us know, maybe he is doing more work on them, but more minor things like matte lines, corrected lightsabers and maybe some new or different musical cues in ANH.
The point? WE DON'T KNOW!
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I understand your feelings. I support releasing the original versions of the Trilogy on DVD as much as anybody on this forum. My point though is that, sooner or later, a new format will eventually put DVD out of business. Is Lucas supposed to release the original versions of the Trilogy on that format as well?
yes.
Well hell, maybe Lucas should just skip releasing the original versions of the Trilogy on DVD altogether and release them on Blu-Ray Discs when that format hits the market place. How cool would that be?!
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It's not an either/or proposition and it shouldn't be. Lucas could release the original versions of the Trilogy on barebones DVD (without any extras at all) in four months and they would sell a mint and earn him two or three more fortunes. If he's as greedy as some of you say, he would've done so by now.
This is the case where Lucas' ego and pride outweighs his greed.
No it's not. He's either a greedy SOB (that fable about how he supposedly rereleases the Trilogy 90 gamillion times with almost no differences, even though the reality contradicts that idiotic statement) or he's not. He hasn't released any version of the original trilogy on DVD. He knows as well or better than anybody else how successful those discs would be... yet he hasn't released them. So he's not greedy. Maybe neurotic, but not greedy. A greedy man would've released vanilla versions of the original versions of the Trilogy along with vanilla versions of the Special Editions (spaced six months apart) and follow both of those sets up with collector's editions of both (spaced six months apart) by now.
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I've never met Lucas, but I think of him as being a fairly obstinant man. It's all well and good for people like you and me to beg for the original versions of the Trilogy. In my opinion, he doesn't understand why we want them since (1) they're not his original vision and (2) the Special Editions are far superior in every technical way. He may very well not understand the sentimentality of seeing Han shoot first or my geeky need to compare the two versions to each other with friends and debate the merits of both.
I take that to mean he is severely out of touch with fans. Of course, he simply looks at his bank statements and sees that Episode I and II have made him millions and millions. So he finds it easy to dismiss our criticisms. Like when he dismissed criticism of Jar Jar saying that people thought C-3PO and R2-D2 were stupid, which was most certainly not the case amongst the fans.
If I were him, I would dismiss your claims too. C3P0 and R2 were characters for the kiddos. Jar Jar is too and all you Jar Jar-haters can get over it. C3P0 was an overall pretty endearing character in the original trilogy... but he had moments in ESB and ROTJ that pissed me off more than anything Jar Jar ever said or did.
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I'm coming up with a laundry list of things I hope Lucas will fix that he didn't fix in the Special Editions. Hopefully someone at ILM has already noticed these. Of all the corrections that one list claimed were being made, the one I find most laughable is that Han shooting first will be restored. Fat chance, I think Lucas will keep that in there just to spite us. No, it was not his original vision, because there is no mention of it in the scripts, and no mention of it in he novelization. To claim that that's what he intended back in 1977 is just plain false and and outright lie. I would respect Lucas more if he just said "I was uncomfortable with the idea of Han shooting first and that's why I changed it."
If Lucas paid no attention to the fans, we wouldn't have any SW DVD's now and certainly none this year. Will he restore Han shooting first? I don't know, but I'd think he might. Fan reaction has been vitriolic, as you all know. Everybody can find some aspect of the Special Editions that they like, but I've never once read anybody say that they think the scene works better with Greedo shooting first or that they even like it. NOT ONE!!!
- Trentobi