SilverWook said:
doubleofive said:
Let’s see it.
Ok! Here goes. And please keep this on the forum for now. And keep in mind this is a draft, not etched on stone tablets yet. I’ve been revising and chopping this down for a while.
*Dear Disney and Lucasfilm,
Today is the 40th anniversary of Star Wars, the film that started it all. Yet, where is that film? No, not the special edition, the original 1977 film. The one we grew up with. The film that changed our lives forever.
I Like this^
It’s not hyperbole to say that. Those of us who were there that incredible summer of '77 had never seen anything like it. It was a major event in our lives. Some of us came away wanting to know how it was made, some even wanted to make movies, or tell stories of our own because of it. No matter the path we chose, George Lucas lit a spark [of creativity?] that remains within us today.
See my addition?^
One thing we all share are the memories of where we saw it, who we saw it with, and even shooting down imaginary TIE fighters out the back window of the car on the way home. For others, it was a bright shining light in the middle of a turbulent childhood. If Luke and his friends could survive their trials, and eventually triumph over them, maybe we could too.
We saw the movie over and over again. Probably more than any other movie before or since. We know the lines by heart, we love the characters. Seeing our heroes again on the screen for the first time in 32 years was like reuniting with family. Star Wars is a very emotional thing to us.
I assume the 32 year line is a reference to TFA? might want to come out and say that.
All these years later, we would love to revisit the original trilogy that we remember. To recapture those memories of a long time ago, in a movie theater far far away. To those of us with families, we want to be able to show our kids what we actually saw when we were their age, and relive it with them. It should be such a simple and easy thing to do.
I like this^, but i think it could be trimmed and joined to the paragraph before it?
Only it isn’t.
We’re limited in our choices to old video formats, that become more difficult to obtain, and inch closer to extinction with each passing year. And the now out of print Bonus DVD discs from 2006, utilizing ancient video transfers done in 1993, are hardly better, if you can find them at all.
None of us ever imagined as kids that we would have to resort to “alternative methods” to keep these historic versions from fading away to memory, before nobody remembers them at all. We live in a era where even a “bad” movie is loved enough to get a meticulous restoration, and can be easily purchased.
We have nothing against the Special Editions. They simply aren’t the versions we grew up with and loved. The Original Original Trilogy, or OOT for short, deserves to be seen again, in the best possible quality afforded by modern cinema and home video formats in the 21st century, and loved again by all.
There is room for both(all?) versions of Star Wars, The Empire Stikes Back, and Return of The Jedi to happily coexist. And we want to give you our money for them, we really do! Please give us that opportunity. At least give us hope that we will be able to do so soon? Some of us aren’t getting any younger! That is all we ask for.
Sincerely yours,
The Staff and Members of Originaltrilogy.com*
Just my thoughts. I think you have something pretty good. i agree it needs to be cut even more, and i have tried to cut anything that seemed overly ‘old person looking back’, but kept the part about sharing with our families. i like that. I also worry that it is getting a little to nerdy when getting into the 2006 bonus disk being bad transfer, maybe just say its not HD.