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The Changes That Nobody Talks About — Page 3

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Easterhay said:

Was Matthew Woods involved with the sound on the DVDs in 2004? Sorry, I thought he only became involved with the blu-rays. My mistake.

Yes, Matthew Wood was the Supervising Sound Editor on the 2004 DVD production. He may or may not have been directly responsible for those "deliberate creative decisions."

But, even if he hadn't been involved in the production back then, stuff like professional audio and video presentation should normally be expected by customers. But when it comes to Lucasfilm they instead make a promo piece of correcting past mistakes.

We want you to be aware that we have no plans—now or in the future—to restore the earlier versions. 

Sincerely, Lynne Hale publicity@lucasfilm.com

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skyjedi2005 said:

But Marquand was dead and he had also been given final cut by Lucas but had his film changed posthumously by the director of the first film also known as star wars.

Actually, if I remember correctly, J.W. Rinzler's excellent Making of RotJ tells a slightly different story. Marquand and his editor did submit a cut to Lucas, but he had to do so before all of the special effects were done, and Lucas was not too thrilled with Marquand's take. Lucas basically re-did the whole thing from scratch  and that is what was released to theaters in 1983. (Again, I'm going from memory so I could be wrong!)

Still, that's not to say I don't agree with your point; I do. But if Lucas did the edit back then, maybe he feels he has some minor grounds to "update" that edit later. That's debatable. I just wish he hadn't! :P

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Easterhay said:

It surprises me, though, that on a forum such as this, where fans will pick up on anything and everything (from colour coding to the different fonts used for the subtitles), no-one appears to have noticed the dialogue change that I mentioned. Or has it become de rigeur to just post endlessly about the changes that we don't like? Perhaps that's why the audio cock up with the music during the Death Star battle on the DVD of A New Hope drew so much stick and yet, when Matthew Woods changed it back to how it was originally, there was barely a murmour.

I seem to remember Bill Hunt mentioned the audio fix when he got to go to Skywalker Ranch to preview the Blu-Rays.

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