As with many restorations made with the cooperation of living directors, the “Star Wars Trilogy” introduced content changes, mandated by Lucas, to conform narrative and look and feel in the original trilogy with characters and visuals introduced in the later films. Some were controversial with fans.
apparently some now means all or most i guess, someone alert webster
Jim Ward deflates the issue by scaling the controversy: “At the end of the day an artist has a right to do what he wants to do to his work. For many years, George has worked to achieve the original vision he couldn’t achieve in 1977 or in 1997 (Special Edition).
why couldnt he acheive it in 1997? Im pretty sure i read quite a few interviews where he said the 1997 version was the way he always wanted it to be.
The he can do what he wants with it defense has been beaten to death. a) he only has the ability to make these changes due to its enormous success...a success that came from the same fans he's now taking the movie away from. Plus once he released the movie to theaters, weather he likes it or not, relinquishes some aspect of ownership to the audience as far as im concerned. And if you dont agree with that, well how about all the other artist that worked on the movie? What about there work? George is eliminating the work of other artists.
So it makes maybe a good headline, but it’s hardly a controversy. We sold over $100 million in one day of this DVD around the world, so I don’t think anybody’s too upset about it. And any changes that George made, they might be controversial to about 5 people.”
