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Originally posted by: Idiot Basher
If he does do and Ultimate Edition, won't you people just keep whining?"
No, I'm quite looking forward to the ultimate edition. Everyone is. Nobody had a problem with the Special edition being made. Some like the results others didn't, but in the end nobody really cares. What bothers us is that he is deleting the Original versions which are historically signifigant, and which many of us prefer.
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"I guess I don't understand why this is such a big deal."
Because the OT are three of our favorite movies and we'd like to be able to see them on DVD. In addition its destroying a piece of history, one of the most important achievements in cinema, its also insulting to the ILM artists who created those original FX which were monumental for their time.
Again its the same thing as putting bigger tits on the mona lisa. Its one thing to make a poster of that, or a poster of mona lisa smoking pot, fine, do whatever you want. Its another thing to then burn the original and say that this is the only version.
Why don't we add some electric guitar to all of Beethoven's symphonies while we're at it, and turn the roman collesium into a modern soccer arena?
The OT is old, there's nothing wrong with that. Art should not be updated. If GL makes the OT special edition, or directors cut, or ultimate edition or whatever, it becomes a new movie. They are two seperate pieces of work that represent two different eras and two different sensibilities. THe OV represents GL as a filmmaker from the 70s, the SE represents the GL of the nineties, revisiting his work. A GL who wouldn't have Han shoot greedo in cold blood. Spielberg said if he made close encounters today, it would be totally different because he would never make a movie where a father abandons his family. So should we change CLOSE ENCOUNTERS because Spielberg feels differntly 25 years later? Of course not.Small changes, but changes nonetheless. And in filmmaking these small changes are all important. Look at the attention to detail we see GL taking in the supplements for the PT. Ever little thing is important.
Artist change with time, they mature and grow and evolve, but they should not expres this by changing their old work, but rather by creating new works that represent them in the present.
You can't change the past, and thats what GL is trying to do. He's saying in affect that the OV's never existed and is going out of his way to destroy any record of them.
At a filmfestival where ANH was suppose to represent the 1970s era of film, he would only allow the SE to be shown. Which means he is actually trying to pass off that the SE was made in the 1970s! This is patently absurd since digital technology didn't even exist back then. He refused to give them the original version, instead of being honoured that amongst some of the greatest films of all time (the 70s being a golden era of movies, not that you would care because its too "old" for you) they chose Starwars as the film to show at this festival. But Lucas ignored the honour and shoved his own agenda down their throats. Shameful.
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"I guess I'm not a true fan if I'm not selfish and think that everything the director does has to be all about me."
Now your just putting words in our mouths to insult us, rather then actually argue your points intelligently.
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"Who cares what he wants to accomplish as an artist."
We do! Thats the whole point! We think he accomplished something really great with the OV OT, and we'd like to be able to enjoy it.
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He shouldn't change anything because that's the way I like it, even though I didn't create it and he did.
Again you've proven that you can't read posts and understand what has been said. Look at the mission statement of this thread: nobody has a problem with GL making different versions of his movies, we just want the original version, the one that made cinema history and made us like SW to begin with to still be available.
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It's his child, not mine, so I should be the one to decide what should be done with it. Yeah, that seems logical to me (note the sarcasm).
Again your just putting words in our mouths. Your arguing against something we never even said.