danny_boy said:

Baronlando said:

danny_boy said:

And I guess you don't remember this:

the first two Godfather films had sustained additional damage in the 1980s, when Paramount sent them to an optical house to make new prints. The original rolls were disassembled and then reassembled incorrectly, a cheaper but chemically damaging fill was used, and the films’ lyrical 12' and 16' dissolves were replaced with dissolves of generic length

Hey no shit, what does that have to do with anything? Some lab goon working for Paramount home video did that.

Everything.

Where was the fan outrage between the early 1980's to 2006/7 that should have been induced by this error to one of the most influential films in american cinema?

Can't seem to find it anywhere-----it's probably because The Godfather had not been dissected frame by frame by narrow-minded "so called fans" who had/have nothing better to with their time.

There is a marked difference between an unrelated, random person accidentally screwing something up, after which a comprehensive restoration is made, and the creator deliberately going out of his way to keep his original films out of the way. It has nothing to do with "narrow-mindedness" (unless you're talking about George) or over-dissection of the movie. Being mad at Coppola over that would be like being mad at Lucas because an intern spilled Coke on the Yoda puppet. But that's not a fair comparison because you're comparing something Coppola had no control over to something Lucas has every control over and wondering why no one is mad at Coppola. To use marketing speak, it's the difference between, "Oh, shit, we screwed up. Sorry about that," and, "It's a deliberate, creative decision."

I do, however, see what you're getting at, although I have a different reaction. I say it's a shame that it wasn't widely documented back then, and that tools like home video and the Internet have made it much more difficult to get away with crap like that.