second, Title crawl argument. So what it was replaced before the entire trilogy was complete, it was still a change to the true original version. Using that argument i can argue that all the changes in the 2004 DVD's are acceptable because they were done before the 6 movie storyline was complete.
thirdly. if my memory serves me correctly Zion stated that he did not sign the petition (if i am mistaken on this my apologies) but even if he did, he is working to clean up any imperfections on the film that it suffered from age and dirt, and finish stuff (and very few minor things, like rotoscoping all the sabers) that lucas would have done had Fox not cut him short as far as production time goes.
Also, is removing sand grains from the tatooine scenes inappropriate, because obviously by filming in a desert lucas intended the sand particles to get on the film and cause damage to the film over time...so fixing that is obviously 'censoring' the original work
The censorship argument... you said, and i quote "And no, censorship is not stoping something from being seen, but rather controlling what is being seen. You can ban something - that isn't strickly speaking censorship. But if you say "yes, you can show this so long as it's like THIS" - that is censorship. "
where is this happening here...how are they controlling what is being shown....did they ever say you have to watch my version and any other bootlegs (and the official releases for that matter) no longer exists. Nope, dont beleive they did. So they arent controlling how anything is viewed. They are only offering an additional version to what already exists, kinda the opposite of censorship dont you think? But from what you said, I guess Lucas IS censoring the original movies, because he is making sure that future generations dont get to see the original version and only get to see his new digitized version (and as far as the existing copies, ok, but its limited, not everyone has them, I had to track down a version of them because my brother had the set, but now that we are grown and on our own, he has the set, so i needed to get my own if i wanted the original, plus lucas knows the VHS copies, and even the laserdisc copies wont last as long as the new dvd versions he released.
if you really are the pure preservationist that you make yourself out to be, than nothing short a direct copy of the original theatrical release should make you happy, and as was established in some other thread, even these prints varied from one another as far as sound mixes. Yeah, you also said how these changes were all from original material and none were digitally tampered with, but thats cause the tech to do so didnt exist (as was stated earlier). So I ask you, is physically cleaning the dirt off the films (which i dont think is even really possible to do without causing more harm) acceptable whereas digitally cleaning it off not. And as for color. So if Leia's dress has a yellowish, or bluish tint to it because of the age of the film is it wrong to restore that to the white that it was when Carrie Fisher was actually wearing the dress? What about color differences cause because of the capturing on film process itself...it can be argued that the picture isnt a true representation so wouldnt any variations that may occur due to that process be considered 'censorship' because it is altering the true color of the dress she wore. not to mention those damn color blind people...how dare their eyes censor the film by removing color or even worse switching two colors. I say lock them all up...there all evil
-Darth Simon
p.s. sorry for the long thread, and none of this is meant as a personal attack at anyone, on anyside of this argument.