doubleofive said:

I'm not seeing the static grain in the GOUT to get a picture of it.

What they're talking about may not even be on the GOUT, it could also be hard to see due to the heavy DVNR applied, or the bad resolution. Just their description of it should be enough, besides you cannot even do a proper comparison of what they accomplished when the telecine turned out like this...

1997 SE

I actually think both shots were recomped for the SE, but it's impossible to know for sure though, besides the weird choice of colortiming the white sun always looked different to me in the SE, smaller and more spherical in shape...

...in the original film it is equal in dimension to the lower red sun, it cannot just be the clipped white levels that make it look that way, it looks like that in other transfers as well.

There's only one thing that is weird about all this, IIRC the bright white sun was the real location photographed one and the red one inserted in post or am I wrong?