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Posted by selaboc on 06/07/06 14:53
Derek Janssen wrote:
> Harkness wrote:
>
> > And in 2006, Lucas decided to fuck his fans again, with the non
> > anamophic release of Star Wars and its sequels in their original form.
> >
> > Of course, George's fans were asking for it.
>
> The official company party-line is, George really *did* destroy the
> original prints, and all they had left to satisfy noisy fans with was
> the old '93 pre-SE LD masters in the vault.
>
> The thrust of the whole "skeptic" fan movement contradicting this seems
> to be based on:
> 1) "George is just greedy, so he can sell them again!" (thaaank you, next?)
> 2) "George is just throwing a tantrum because he doesn't want fans
> telling him different things about his movies than he believes!" (mmm,
> possible, but...)
> 3) "Oh, George wouldn't have been stupid enough to *really* destroy his
> old prints because he likes his new versions so much, would he?"
actually it 4) it contradicts what George and ILM said in the
documentaries about the making of the special edition about George
being a "packrat" and never throwing things aways, they were able to
recreate scenes digitally because they still had all the film elements
used to create it the first time, etc etc etc
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