CatBus said:

If the detailts were meant to be blown out, they wouldn't be on the film in the first place. That's as close as we can get to a statement of intent from the cinematographer.

Not necessarily true. Films get graded after they are shot, in fact after the o-neg cut is assembled and the actual technical process of the grading occurs while the interpositives are being made, and since the 2004 scan is sourced from the o-neg, it's colours, brightness and contrast aren't in any way indicative of the original grading. And the original film-makers don't necessarily know what their films looked like - the grading of SW was personally approved by George and look at what kind of mess that is.

However, I'd say that BOTH screenshots are too cyan. If you're color-adjusting this scene, I'd cut that back quite a bit.

Mine isn't so much cyan, as it is blue, just like most of the newly surfaced sources seem to indicate (including the GOUT, when you increase saturation). I don't have the GOUT at hand but as I timed the whole film to saturation boosted GOUT, I'm pretty sure that it is how it appeared there - both the blue and the brightness.