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Ah, just messing. There once was this guy here who made me laugh a lot.

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darth_ender said:

Ah, just messing. There once was this guy here who made me laugh a lot.

I have ran into people like that on the Internet sometimes, just like you.  Just check out Youtube, it's full of that kinda stuff.

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Not terribly important. Just a guy who asked lots of questions. You can track some of our discussion over here.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-Troll-Speculation-Thread/topic/15007/

But I believe we were discussing what we like about George Lucas. Frankly, I'm happy he sold Star Wars to Disney. It's hard to part with something you care about, and if I'm certain of anything, it's that George loves Star Wars. He did a hard thing, but it was the right thing, and I'm proud of him for it.

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The Mandarin said:

Who was this guy? What was his account's username? And why did he make you laugh a lot?

You're being pretty transparent, Sam.

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darth_ender said:

Not terribly important. Just a guy who asked lots of questions. You can track some of our discussion over here.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-Troll-Speculation-Thread/topic/15007/

But I believe we were discussing what we like about George Lucas. Frankly, I'm happy he sold Star Wars to Disney. It's hard to part with something you care about, and if I'm certain of anything, it's that George loves Star Wars. He did a hard thing, but it was the right thing, and I'm proud of him for it.

Just don't bring Darth Vader back to life, Disney, please!

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Have a nice wedding, George.

There, I said something nice. :-)

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Glad Mr. Lucas is engaged. 

One day we will have properly restored versions of the Original Unaltered Trilogy (OUT); or 1977, 1980, 1983 Theatrical released versions (Like 4K77,4K80 and 4K83); including Prequels. So that future generations can enjoy these historic films that changed cinema forever.

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I wonder if Harrison, Mark & Carrie will attend. If so, it will be the first time they've all been together publicly since the GL tribute.

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He has been a damn nice roadblock for everything this site stands for. And he has often taken the time to respond to the fans of his films in the media:

1997

"On your special edition, do you expect any backlash from fans who might resent your tampering with a classic?
 
"I don't know. It's my classic. On the one hand, I'm doing this, while on the other hand I'm on the Artists Rights Board, a foundation that's trying to protect films from being changed--which I feel very strongly about, because with the technology we have today, anybody can go back and do this kind of thing. I can sort of see the future, and I want to protect films as they are and as they should be. I don't want to see them colorized, I don't want to see their formats changed, I don't want to see them re-edited, and I don't want to see what I'm able to do now, which is add more characters and do all kinds of things that nobody even contemplated before."

"There will only be one. And it won't be what I would call the 'rought cut', it'll be the 'final cut.' The other one will be some sort of interesting artifact that people will look at and say, 'There was an earlier draft of this.' What ends up being important in my mind is what the DVD version is going to look like, because that's what everybody is going to remember. The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won't last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version. I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie."

2004

"The special edition, that's the one I wanted out there... the other movie, it's on VHS, if anybody wants it... to me, it doesn't really exist anymore. It's like this is the movie I wanted it to be, and I'm sorry you saw half a completed film and fell in love with it. But I want it to be the way I want it to be."

2006

Jim Ward, President of LucasArts and Senior Vice President of Lucasfilm Ltd: "We returned to the Lucasfilm Archives to search exhaustively for source material that could be presented on DVD. This is something that we're very excited to be able to give to fans in response to their continuing enthusiasm for Star Wars."

Lucasfilm's PR Response Regarding the 2006 DVD Box Set:

I wanted you to know how much we appreciate the passion and enthusiasm you have for Star Wars, and thank you for sharing your concerns about our upcoming DVD release.

The DVDs being released in September will contain two versions of Star Wars: Episodes IV, V and VI—the Special Editions (which represent George's vision of the movies) and the first versions, which will be included as bonus material. We hoped that releasing those "original" movies on a bonus disc would be a way to have some additional fun with the debut of the movies as individual DVDs. We certainly did not want it to become a source of concern or frustration for any of our fans.

As you may know, an enormous amount of effort was put into digitally restoring the negatives for the Special Editions. In one scene alone, nearly 1 million pieces of dirt had to be removed, and the Special Editions were created through a frame-by-frame digital restoration. The negatives of the movies were permanently altered for the creation of the Special Editions, and existing prints of the first versions are in poor condition.

So many fans have requested the original movies, we wanted to find a way to bring them to you. But since these movies do not represent George's artistic vision, we could not put the extraordinary time and resources into this project as we did with the Special Editions. The 1993 Laserdisc masters represented the best source for providing the original versions as DVD bonus material. Although these are non-anamorphic versions, they do preserve the original widescreen composition of the movies.

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

We hope you will understand our decision and, again, want to let you know how much we appreciate your interest and enthusiasm.

Sincerely,

Lynne Hale

Lucas: "It's just the original versions, as they were. We didn't do anything to it at all. But we're not sure how many people want that... Now we'll find out whether they really wanted the original or whether they wanted the improved versions. It'll all come out in the end."

2010

Mr. Lucas said that to release the original versions of these films on Blu-ray was; "kind of an oxymoron because the quality of the original is not very good. You have to go through and do a whole restoration on it, and you have to do that digitally. It’s a very, very expensive process to do it. So when we did the transfer to digital, we only transferred really the upgraded version."

2012

"Changes are not unusual — I mean, most movies when they release them they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world."

"The controversy over who shot first, Greedo or Han Solo, in Episode IV, what I did was try to clean up the confusion, but obviously it upset people because they wanted Solo to be a cold-blooded killer, but he actually isn’t. It had been done in all close-ups and it was confusing about who did what to whom. I put a little wider shot in there that made it clear that Greedo is the one who shot first, but everyone wanted to think that Han shot first, because they wanted to think that he actually just gunned him down."

"If you look at Blade Runner, it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday and there are all kinds of different versions of it. Star Wars, there’s basically one version — it just keeps getting improved a little bit as we move forward. All art is technology and it improves every year. Whether it’s on the stage or in music or in painting, there are technological answers that happen, and because movies are so technological, the advances become more obvious."

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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I wonder how George proposed?

From the moment I met you, all those years ago, not a day has gone by when I haven't thought of you.  You are in my very soul, tormenting me... what can I do?- I will do anything you ask: ... if you are suffering as much as I am, PLEASE, tell me.

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Interesting he would use Blade Runner as a supporting argument.

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Where were you in '77?

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"The controversy over who shot first, Greedo or Han Solo, in Episode IV, what I did was try to clean up the confusion, but obviously it upset people because they wanted Solo to be a cold-blooded killer, but he actually isn’t. It had been done in all close-ups and it was confusing about who did what to whom. I put a little wider shot in there that made it clear that Greedo is the one who shot first, but everyone wanted to think that Han shot first, because they wanted to think that he actually just gunned him down."

Wow, that is so very blatantly untrue.

Frustratingly, stuff like this can be said, and many people having never seen the originals will just go along with it.

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Bester said:

I wonder how George proposed?

From the moment I met you, all those years ago, not a day has gone by when I haven't thought of you.  You are in my very soul, tormenting me... what can I do?- I will do anything you ask: ... if you are suffering as much as I am, PLEASE, tell me.

He probably carved her a custom engagement band out of Japor Snippet.

By the way, msycamore, that's a nice post. Really shows you all the positive qualities of George, such as his honesty and consistency. I can't figure out why people criticize him. They're just haterz.

I think we need another Lucas appreciation thread!

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 Im sure Luca$'s courtship, up to the wedding plans with this bride-to-be was marvelous!  All the "aggressive negotiations"!    Im sure Luca$ truly,deeply, loves her.  And Im sure he'll have his wedding filmed,  that way in the years to come he can go back to the editing room and tinker with it, digitally adding some sfx or digitally removing unwanted guests or some cake that got stuck in his beard.        ;)

"There's no cluster of midiclorians that controls my destiny!" -Han Solo, from a future revision of ANH

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I think this thread has become the "Let's all say something sardonic about George Lucas.  No direct insults allowed."

 

;)

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Bester said:


I wonder how George proposed?
From the moment I met you, all those years ago, not a day has gone by when I haven't thought of you.  You are in my very soul, tormenting me... what can I do?- I will do anything you ask: ... if you are suffering as much as I am, PLEASE, tell me.


I don't even know what that is, lol.

Seriously, he probably proposed to Melody and then told her he'd had the roof fixed* in lieu of an engagement boulder.

;-)

*(obscure reference to GL's 1st marriage).