yoda-sama said:
RATLSNAKE said:
yoda-sama said:
Not sure if anyone else has noticed this yet, but the project is getting a little more attention (a coworker that didn't know about this project or that I follow it found this article and showed it to me).
http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/the-making-of-the-best-version-of-star-wars...-which-of-course-you-cant-get
The moment I saw the author refer to this movie as 'A New Hope', I stopped reading & died a little inside.
Jackasses like this are a small part of what killed Star Wars as it was. When you have a few million small parts like this, you get a world where it's accepted & we get films like the prequels & the 4th Indiana Jones film. :(
In all fairness, it is not his fault he grew up with the ANH crawl, it is Lucas' fault. All we can hope to do is reeducate with accurate restorations and resolutely correcting inaccuracies when we find them (perhaps you should leave a comment on that page to make the author aware of his misinformation). But I get where you're coming from, and it is sad how well some aspects of the revisionist history of Star Wars have stuck so well.
(Oh, and another way it could be taken [now that I've reread the article], besides him just trying to be clear to others who know even less than him about the project and earlier changes to Star Wars, is that when he says "Despecialized Edition of A New Hope", it could be referring to the SE Star Wars as A New Hope, which the Despecializtion effectively undoes... Or to better word, while the film Harmy made is specifically original theatrical "Star Wars", it would still be accurate to refer to it as the Despecialized Edition OF A New Hope, since that was the source it was despecialized from. Just a fun thought. And actually, that line of thinking would even clear the way for BD cover art with Ep IV ANH DeEd emblazoned across it. Let the arguments commence.)
I also grew up with the newer crawl, however until the 1997 fiasco, the movie was still billed as Star Wars as was every home media release of it. No one called it A New Hope until after the dreaded 97 releases. Even then upon their release it wasn't even billed as A New Hope, more so just "Star Wars: The Special Edition".