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Post #79307

Author
MeBeJedi
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Censorship of the original films
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Date created
25-Nov-2004, 4:02 PM
"Picasso - All prints of paintings done by Picasso are edits."

Didn't Picasso paint over the paintings he didn't like, or was that someone else?

"What if the original Picasso was destroyed in a museum fire?
Then wouldn't the truest reproduction be the most important thing to preserve?"


No offense, but we are nowhere near that scenario.

"@MBJ: true about the rights to distribute it, but that's a different argument. You didn't really make a point against my Ark thingy."

Then let me be more blunt, I have the right to do whatever I want with my transfer on my computer. Please point out where your or DanielB's beliefs affect that in any way. Otherwise, this "no right to change it" really doesn't exist except in a legal aspect. You may wish we didn't have the right to change it otherwise, but that doesn't make it real.

"Yes the other versions are named by their creators, but that's only to us. To the general public, or the "world" they are still the original movies that have been transferred (to varying degrees of success). Edited versions could not be viewed by the "world" as representations of the original films."

That reasoning hasn't stopped the SW DVD's from breaking sale records.

"That's a terrible argument. If digital technology had existed in 1934 then surely King Kong would have been done digitally. Therefore we should edit King Kong and replace it with the digital version from Peter Jackson's new version....
As cliche as this sounds, that is the exact reason Lucas gave for his 1997 SE's."


Just because it can, doesn't mean it should or would. Spielburg doesn't want digital cameras, and many directors/effects shops still prefer models and physical effects over CG. Not everyone is Lucas.

Then again, the technology Lucas used at the time was groundbreaking and highly experimental. He even built computers to control the cameras! Nonetheless, I don't see anyone here complaining about that!