Molly said:
Meat Loaf. I don't recall anything else he did?
To be fair on the old guy he drew a line under doing 'that' for love and you have to respect him for it, oh and Bay did the video for I Touch Myself for which he deserves some sort of sainthood.
As for the re-framing business if someone can back up their suggestion with hard evidence I can't see why anything should be out of bounds in terms of suggestions.
As the creator of this project it's Ady's call what goes in it but when someone says to me something like, "You should go stick your head in a pig" I want to see a demonstration of that idea from the originator of the proposal, backed up with a doctor's report.
If the head in the pig idea is fine for both parties I might give it a go, once (but I won't do 'that' for love).
To some by even thinking about doing this project Ady has already blasphemed so if someone can prove that re-framing some of these shots can improve them and improving the SE is the goal of the project, it seems churlish to not even consider it but at this late stage it also seems a bit daft to be making all these potentially work undoing suggestions now.
There were plenty of quiet moments earlier in this thread when Ady hadn't got so much done yet and nobody (to my increasingly fallible memory) was suggesting anything about re-framing the shots (of this film) then.
If you did manage to talk him into it how much hard graft would be snipped off the sides now which wouldn't have been if it had been suggested earlier?
Ady has already given us a beautiful version of the film that maintains Kersh's decisions and presents them in a much better way than the official release.
This is a different project, it is the SE, made extra special with Adywan's choices, some of which may have come from suggestions on this thread.
Re-framing a shot for a genuinely perceived improvement of quality is no more disrespectful to Kersh in this project than replacing a matte entirely for the sake of continuity.
Calling a matte painting crap is an opinion, you may find yourself agreeing with or may not find yourself agreeing with.
The swamp matte in question is probably better than anything I can do and it didn't stick out like a sore thumb on my first viewing back in 1980 but I was ten and it was my first viewing and now I can see it doesn't fit the shot very well because I am old and I've seen the film lots of times.
It's up to Ady what he wants to do with it but lets applaud creative suggestions even if they aren't used by Ady.
The Revisited series will probably not be the last incarnation of the SE.
An idea not suited for Ady may find new life in a new project.