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So, will the Fox fanfare return to all Star Wars films, past and present, from now on?

rjohnk 9y ago
The Uber Nerd in me says the purchase was to secure rights to Star Wars: ANH and the fanfare. This will also open up the doors for a complete unedited despecialized edition of the original trilogy, not some bad laserdisc scan.
- OtterCoder 9y ago
  Oh good. Surrendering the entire mythos of the English speaking world to a single, domineering company opposed to freedom of speech and information is totally worth a cleaner copy of Star Wars.
  - e12e 9y ago
    Aw, come now. All those public domain fairytales and legends were struggling to gain an audience in the contemporary media landscape without a company willing to take the risk of developing a new presentation and monetizing distribution - with the mere caveat of trapping all those dusty ideas in permanent copyright. We're lucky that our new shared stories will never be I in danger of fading into unpopularity due to copyright not being able to guarantee a framework for for-profit distribution.
upvotinglurker 9y ago
Serious question: why do people want this so badly? Just nostalgia? (Too young to have see the OT movies in theaters, so I don't have that) For me, sticking the cheesy fox logo and fanfare at the beginning of the movies would make them worse, not better.
- azemetre 9y ago
  People want a re-release of the unaltered OT.
  - upvotinglurker 9y ago
    Sure, the actual movie part - but the 20th century fox fanfare at the beginning? (I have heard nostalgia expressed specifically for that)
    - azemetre 9y ago
      I don't know what you're referring to but I think people want the version where Han shoots first and less of the CGI enhancements that Lucas put into the film over the years.
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- pkamb 9y ago
  > cheesy That's the point. Star Wars was/is an homage to Flash Gordon / Buck Rogers -type serial pulps, and the moviehouse feel of that 20th Century Fox fanfare can't be beat.
- rjohnk 9y ago
  Another interesting tidbit: John Williams put the opening theme to star wars in the same key as the Fanfare (b-flat major) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century_Fox#Logo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century_Fox#Logo
  - jedberg 9y ago
    He wrote the fanfare too (the one that comes before Star Wars, which was an adaptation of the original).

The Uber Nerd in me says the purchase was to secure rights to Star Wars: ANH and the fanfare. This will also open up the doors for a complete unedited despecialized edition of the original trilogy, not some bad laserdisc scan.

OtterCoder 9y ago
Oh good. Surrendering the entire mythos of the English speaking world to a single, domineering company opposed to freedom of speech and information is totally worth a cleaner copy of Star Wars.
- e12e 9y ago
  Aw, come now. All those public domain fairytales and legends were struggling to gain an audience in the contemporary media landscape without a company willing to take the risk of developing a new presentation and monetizing distribution - with the mere caveat of trapping all those dusty ideas in permanent copyright. We're lucky that our new shared stories will never be I in danger of fading into unpopularity due to copyright not being able to guarantee a framework for for-profit distribution.

upvotinglurker 9y ago

Serious question: why do people want this so badly? Just nostalgia? (Too young to have see the OT movies in theaters, so I don't have that) For me, sticking the cheesy fox logo and fanfare at the beginning of the movies would make them worse, not better.

azemetre 9y ago
People want a re-release of the unaltered OT.
- upvotinglurker 9y ago
  Sure, the actual movie part - but the 20th century fox fanfare at the beginning? (I have heard nostalgia expressed specifically for that)
  - azemetre 9y ago
    I don't know what you're referring to but I think people want the version where Han shoots first and less of the CGI enhancements that Lucas put into the film over the years.
    - deleted 9y ago
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pkamb 9y ago
> cheesy That's the point. Star Wars was/is an homage to Flash Gordon / Buck Rogers -type serial pulps, and the moviehouse feel of that 20th Century Fox fanfare can't be beat.
rjohnk 9y ago
Another interesting tidbit: John Williams put the opening theme to star wars in the same key as the Fanfare (b-flat major) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century_Fox#Logo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century_Fox#Logo
- jedberg 9y ago
  He wrote the fanfare too (the one that comes before Star Wars, which was an adaptation of the original).