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The following text is from an article I just found on the msnbc website:
Stooges DVD revives colorization debate
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“Star Wars” creator George Lucas, who testified with Steven Spielberg before Congress in the 1980s against colorization and other forms of alteration, said the process yanks such slapstick performers as the Stooges out of the black-and-white universe they belong in.
“Would color distract from their comedy and make it not as funny anymore?” Lucas said. “Maybe just the fact that they’re in black and white makes it funny, because their humor is dated. But by putting it in black and white, it puts it in a context where you can appreciate it for what it was.
“But you try to make it in full living color and try to compare it to a Jim Carrey movie, then it’s hard for young people to understand. Because you’re then thinking you’re comparing apples to apples, when you’re not. You’re comparing apples to oranges. I’m saying it’s not fair to the artist.”
WHAT!!!
He testified AGAINST film alterations BEFORE CONGRESS!!!
Alright GL, B&W is what makes Stooges funny, and “cheesy” rubber suits and Han shooting first makes Star Wars great.
As Mark Hamill once said (paraphrasing) “He cannibalized thousands of battleship model kits…it was amazing how Lucas could take glue and popsicle sticks and makes something out of it.”
Mod Edit: a working link to the article above can be found below:-
https://www.today.com/popculture/lucas-talks-star-wars-trilogy-returns-wbna6011380