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#212987
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Bond, James Bond
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212987/action/topic#212987
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Originally posted by: Warbler
I am curious, how would you have tied it together?

The outgoing James Bond 007 recruits his replacement, who takes on the name to further his image of invincibility and ever-present youthfulness.

And in a bit of fan boy gushing, it actually had each of the previous James Bonds return to teach him something about his character. My favorite was actually Lazenby, teaching him the art of changing his voice. It also got into the fact that he prematurely left after making the mistake of falling in love and getting married, which, upon her death, forced the "original" James Bond to return to clean up the mess.

Connery and his skill at cards (esp. Baccarat) was going to play in significantly into the plot of Casino Royale, which would have been his first assignment as the rest of the film plays out.

It was all written a bit Remo Williams-ish, with the new recruit being obtained in a black-ops type maneuver by Brosnan and taken to an undisclosed facility to begin his training. It also smacked of Andy Garcia's recruitment in The Untouchables. But even my wife bought into it and supported me trying to solicit the idea to EON. If any of my silly notions ever convince her to be positive, then the material must have legs, because she's argumentative by nature about just about anything.

Even if nobody else returned, these skills and the 007 history could have been passed down by the "recruiter" explaining his 40-year longevity.
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#212976
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Addresses and contacts for various media outlets go in here
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212976/action/topic#212976
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I am recommending this thread for the posting of email, snail-mail, and other contact information for media outlets to write to directly or to cc when . I recommend this thread not be used for discussion, as plenty of threads are discussing the DVD release already. Rather, this thread should be kept as a one-stop shopping mall for all the media contacts we can gather. Jay, if you think this merits a sticky, please do.

Entertainment Weekly
letters@ew.com

CNN
Contact Us form

NBC/MSNBC
Living@MSNBC.com
viewerservices@msnbc.com
Today@NBC.com
Dateline@NBC.com
Nightly@NBC.com

ABC News
20/20
World News tonight
Niteline: niteline@abc.com
Primetime: abc.news.magazines@abc.com

CBS
You gotta go here and click the "contact us" link at the bottom of the page to open a javascript window.

FOX
(I'm not bothering because the Star Wars DVD is a Fox product and unlike other networks owned by media conglomerates, Fox never has the balls to criticize their own products.)

Time Magazine
letters@time.com

Newsweek
Letters@newsweek.com

The Washington Post
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The L.A. Times
Op-Ed "Contact Us" form

The New York Times
letters@nytimes.com
the-arts@nytimes.com

The Chicago Tribune
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The Dallas Morning News
letterstoeditor@dallasnews.com

The Denver Post
newsroom@denverpost.com

The Miami Herald
dwilson@miamiherald.com
features@miamiherald.com

The Atlanta Journal & Constitution
Contact Us form
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#212957
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The Official Lucasfilm Response
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212957/action/topic#212957
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Originally posted by: iamstillhiro1112
Ha ha, that's funny. The originals were not anamporphic but people want Lucas to alter it to be Anamorphic. Don't f*** with my Original star wars. I want them to be in the real perspective and nothing more or less.

Know what you're talking about before you start typing. Anamorphic is not an alteration, it is a video presentation method. It analogous to the difference between scanning a picture at web resolution vs. scanning it at print resolution. The image is the same, just with sharper detail for more modern equipment. No alteration or enhancement. Just a more detailed scan. But if you like, I suppose you can have your frames printed out on a dot-matrix printer to take advantage of 1983 resolution.

Lynne's response shows, just as the "Deliberate Creative Decision" debacle of 2004, that LFL isn't even taking the time to familiarize itself with the issue. She keeps talking about what would be involved in a restoration, and doesn't actually address the issue of an anamorphic presentation. Either they are stupid, or they think we are.

I think it is wonderfully ironic that THX is responsible for creating these legions of videophiles across the globe.
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#212760
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The Da Vinci Code Movie
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212760/action/topic#212760
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Wouldn't there be an uproar if there was a movie depicting Mohammad at all, since, like that comic uproar a few months ago, it is against their law to represent Mohammad in any way?


Google a movie called The Message and you'll learn a very sordid history about what happens when you try to make a movie about Mohammed. Muslims protested the depiction of Mohammed in this film and he wasn't actually depicted in it. You'll never see The Passion of Mohammed. Therein lies the great difference ... you cannot depict Mohammed even in a positive light. As an American protected by the First Amendment, I will support any Muslim's right not to see such a depiction just as I will salute any artist's desire to create such a depiction. Neither has the right to shed blod over the issue. That is the ultimate affront to God.

On a different subject, I think it is interesting how many more people raised Catholic have developed a negative taste for all organized religion when compared to those raised Protestant. I think it is indicative of how the Catholic Church conducts itself. Its inflexibility and monarchial structure and is causing it to snap apart. The structure is beyond passe, it is damn near despotism in today's enlightened, democratic world. On the flip side of the coin, you have the Baptist approach, which like The Ol' South from which it was born, thinks that whenever you disagree on something, you just break off and start your own new system of governance. Jefferson Davis would be proud.

I'm quite particular to the core Protestants: The Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans and Episopalians, who engage in theological debate and apply democratic process to the administration of their respective denominations. But the democratic process was established way, way back at the Council of Nicea. The Great Schism between Catholicism and Orthodoxy (predating the Protestant Reformation by roughly nine hundred years) was caused largely on the Pope's assertion that -- (insert Jack Nicholson voice here) he ... was the #1 ... guyyyyy -- and not one voice among many bishops. Every attempt at reconciliation failed upon the Pope's unwillingness to relinquish absolute power over the church and recognize a reversion that all bishops had an equal voice in affairs of the church. They had a constitution, the Pope chose to ignore it, and set up an absolute monarchy over the Western world. Wasn't the first time in history, wasn't the last.

Now, all religions have been and continue to be abused, but don't discount the good that it has brought to those who actually "get it" when it comes to religious enlightenment. Whenever I feel cynical about organized religion, I look at the mission work that smaller churches do both in their communities and globally. I admire average people who give up not just their money in the offering plate, but their time and energy, either to feed the homeless, or to build a roof in an Appalachian home, or who take a week's vacation to pour concrete floors for impoverished villages in the third world.

Those are whom I choose to align myself and support. They are everywhere, doing good every day. But they are neither boastful nor do they give of themselves to be seen doing so. Those are the REAL Christians.
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#212631
Topic
Star Wars - The Sound
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212631/action/topic#212631
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Here is some information taken from this thread that may help. I know this has been answered in detail somewhere.
Originally posted by: BadAsh71
What are the differences between the so-called '85 audio mix and the sound mix used for the Faces/DC set?

The DavisDVD site includes information about the changes to ANH but nothing about ESB or ROTJ. I know in the old "bootlegs" thread there was a big discussion about the audio differences, specifically about ANH. Someone mentioned that ESB had some different sound effects.

The '85 audio mix was first made available on a VHS remastered set and later came out on LaserDisc between '89 and '90 with an ANH reissue/correction in '92.

I know that the '85 ANH audio mix has significant changes that would warrant an inclusion on a fan-based DVD transfer but what about ESB and ROTJ. Is it worth it?

MeBeJedi, you had discussed some ESB sound effects only found on the '89 LaserDisc. What are your thoughts on this?

For those of you who think you might have the '85 mix, here are some links to help you out:

Blam Entertainment - '89 ANH Release

Blam Entertainment - '89 ESB Release

Blam Entertainment - '90 ROTJ Release

You can check out more information on all Star Wars releases in any format at the DavisDVD Site:

DavisDVD

And for everything LaserDisc specific, check out Blam Entertainment:

Blam Entertainment Group


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#212617
Topic
Bond, James Bond
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212617/action/topic#212617
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I tried to contact Eon for ages on a plot that would have tied together all five incarnations of Bond over the 40 years and made the entire franchise make sense. But of course, without a lawyer, they wouldn't even take my call or open my letter. Returned unopened. Funny how they knew it was creative input in the letter though. Hmmmmmm.

Whatever, they've screwed themselves.
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#212314
Topic
Original Trilogy Novelizations
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212314/action/topic#212314
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According to my tattered first edition, sixteenth printing dated November 1977:
Solo sat down slowly. Jabba's minions were apt to be cursed with nervous trigger fingers. The alien took the seat across from him, the muzzle of the ugly little pistol never straying from Solo's Chest.

"I haven't got it here with me. Tell Jabba --"

"It's too late, I think. Jabba would rather have your ship."

"Over My Dead Body," Solo said unamiably.

The alien was not impressed. "If you insist. Will you come outside with me, or must I finish it here?"

"I don't think they'd like another killing in here." Solo pointed out.

Soemthing which might have been a laugh came from the creature's translator. "They'd hardly notice. Get up, Solo. I've been looking forward to this for a long time. You've embarrassed me in front of Jabba with your pious excuses for the last time."

"I think you're right."

Light and noise fille dhte little corner of the cantina, and when it had faded, all that remained of the unctuous alien was a smoking, slimy spot on the stone floor.

Solo brought his hand and the smoking weapon it held out from beneath the table, drawing bemused stares from several of the cantina's patrons and clucking sounds from its more knowledgeable ones. They had known the creature had committed its fatal mistake in allowing Solo the chance to get his hands under cover.

"It'll take a lot more than the likes of you to finish me off. Jabba the Hut [sic] always did skimp when it came to hiring his hands."

Leaving the booth, Solo flipped the bartender a handful of coins as he and Chewbacca moved off. "Sorry for the mess. I always was a rotten host."


Draw your own conclusions.

Edit: Jabba the "Hut"'s scene is in this book, as is the Biggs material.
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#212306
Topic
$36 pre-order (AR) for all 3 titles...anyone found it cheaper??
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212306/action/topic#212306
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Originally posted by: Jay
With some of the posts I'm seeing around here, I'm almost convinced this release really is exactly what the majority of Star Wars fans truly deserve.

Kind of sad how people are ready to accept whatever Lucas throws at them in the hopes that he'll bless us with a copy of the holy trilogy that finally meets industry standards.

Count me out.

I hear you, Jay. It's that attitude that I keep trying to correct, reminding people this isn't a gift it's a product for which we're being asked to fork over our hard-earned cash. If Lucas were giving this out free to everybody who bought the 2004 set, then it would be a gift that we would have less room to bitch about. But that is not the case. He's essentially selling us the same crappy movies in 2004 and charging full-price for new "bonus material" in his words. $90 for Bonus Material. The balls on this guy must be bigger than his goiter.

Difference is, yes, I'll buy it -- but not before selling my 2004 set. I'm going to buy it for one main reason: To preserve my license to possess the X0 project. Especially given that both of these discs will have come from the same master, posessing the official Unaltered Trilogy will give Lucasfilm no legal ground to stand on.

Edit: I thought this quote was applicable. I'm not sure if Gandhi actually said it, or if it was just from the movie, but it's a good one:
They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me, then they will have my dead body. NOT MY OBEDIENCE!
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#212302
Topic
New DVDs NOT 16x9
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212302/action/topic#212302
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For starters: Entertainment Weekly. letters@ew.com.

This is a widely read magazine published by Time Warner, and they pay attention to important stuff like this. Even before all of this "bad news" they were ho-hum about another Star Wars DVD release. You can bet they're watching this debate right now. The more letters they get, the better.
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#212294
Topic
The Da Vinci Code Movie
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212294/action/topic#212294
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I saw the film last night. Here be spoilers. Read at your own risk.












I liked the book. I liked the film. I found the film to be rather faithful to the book. A time-compressed telling of a detailed page-turner that actually works.

My one beef: There was absolutely, positively no good reason for them to have changed Sauniere being Sophie's real grandfather. This actually did the story a great disservice. In both the book and the film, Sophie was emotionally scarred from having witnessed her grandfather in the middle of a sex rite. But in the book, this is germane to the plot, as either her grandfather or grandmother (we don't know which) was part of the actual bloodline of Christ. Therefore, their coupling around the time of the equinoxes would have been celebrated. In the film, these flashbacks were never expounded on and therefore, without the explanation AND by changing Sophie's grandfather to being an adoptive grandfather, Akiva Goldsman really screwed the story up.

Also, I would have added in a single line when Teabing first defends the honor of Mary Magdelene. When Sophie repeats the long-held misconception that she was a prostitute, Teabing simply said "She was no such thing" without backing up his assertion. While the book expounds on this for a couple of pages, including the fact that even the Vatican reversed the edict in the 1960s, the film doesn't touch it. A simple line could have distilled all of this down to a few words: "Re-read the story ... Mary Magdelene doesn't show up until several verses after the prostitute's story." It would have probably even sent neophytes to the story to their bibles to see it for themselves. (Personally I've known about this misconception far longer than Dan Brown wrote about it so I wish more time had been spent on it in the screenplay.)

Other than that, I had no beef with what was added in and what was taken out. The subplot of Langdon falling into the well when he was a kid was great from a theological perspective. The notion of immersion in water, praying to Jesus, and ultimately being saved was not overt, but I got it. Also, I particularly liked how Langdon was a little more skeptical of the Magdelene/Sangreal theory, as he played the part of the masses, who are given no real voice in the book. He either brought up or answered many of the legitimate factual criticisms about the book, making the script that much more airtight. For example:

1) Constantine did not pick the books of the bible, the Council of Nicea did.
2) Jesus' divinity was not a "new idea" brought forth by the Constantine or the Council. Many held Jesus to be divine. Many did not. The Council merely codified the notion. But it was certainly believed since the time of the Resurrection, not just the council.
3) Opus Dei is not a villain; Aringarosa merely uses his Opus Dei to carry out his dirty work. The people of Opus Dei are strong believers in what they are doing. But I'm glad they pulled no punches showing the kinds of corporal mortification and blind adherance to the will of the clergy that Opus Dei are willing to commit.
4) They even handled the admitted hoax of the Priory of Sion very well. In typical conspiracy theory fashion, the film addresses the "hoax" as exactly what "they" want you to believe. Simple, but genius. It gives the skeptic nowhere to go other than faith.

On the whole, it's a very enjoyable film. Not earth-shattering (at least, not to me, because I've studied these plot points and lost gospels academically for far longer than Dan Brown has been writing), but certainly not worthy of the bile the press has spewed its way. Casting was excellent, Direction was sharp, and the writing was above-par for Akiva, whose dreck I usually cannot stand in the least. No Oscar material here, but worth the price of a ticket nonetheless.
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#212079
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Make your voices heard! (again) - re the 2006 GOUT DVD being in letterbox format
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212079/action/topic#212079
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Shim, we are not "lucky" to be getting this. This is not a gift from Lucasfilm. This is a product, made for sale to the general public. We the consumers are being asked for our hard-earned money in exchange for essentially the same release as before, with different bonus material according to Lucasfilm's view. So if that is the expectation, the Bonus Material had very well better be worth it. Content alone does not justify a $90 sticker price. Content plus presentation are at issue, and presently, the presentation is a complete embarassment for all involved in the project. Lucasfilm is spitting in our faces with this release.
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#211815
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Make your voices heard! (again) - re the 2006 GOUT DVD being in letterbox format
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211815/action/topic#211815
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Don't just stop at Lucasfilm. Start emailing about this grassroots campaign to every media outlet you can think of, from your local newspaper to Entertainment Weekly. The latter can be reached at letters@ew.com and I'm certain if they get cc'ed on all your correspondence, they'll take note and run something about it.