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What did Lucas do?
by zx8080 4y ago
What did Lucas do?
- yreg 4y agoHe remastered Star Wars several times and some people are apparently convinced that he 'destroyed' the work by doing that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changes_in_Star_Wars_re-releases#Significant_changes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changes_in_Star_Wars_re-releas...
- Findecanor 4y agoGeorge Lucas has claimed that he cut and spliced the original negative when editing the Special Edition of the original trilogy, so that the master copies of the original films don't physically exist.
- danparsonson 4y agoHe didn't just remaster, he repeatedly altered the films, even changing the sense of some scenes, perhaps most notably and notoriously the stand-off between Han and Greedo. Most of his revisions have been questionable at best, ham-fisted and cringeworthy at worst. Count me among the purists who think he ruined his good work ;-)
- caseysoftware 4y agoWhile Han vs Greedo is the most egregious, the style is the most jarring. You can tell all the inserted scenes because the colors are off, the animations are not blended well, and it feels off uncanny valley style.
- philwelch 4y agoI think the Jabba scene is arguably worse because it simply repeats the same lines we already had in the Greedo scene for no real gain. It also undermines the dramatic reveal of the much-discussed but never-seen Jabba in ROTJ. Plus the unnecessary fan service of Boba Fett literally turning and staring at the camera at the end.
- red-iron-pine 4y agoI'll make an exception for authors who want to tweak or improve their work. Sometimes directors have to give into the limitations of their medium -- time, money, meddling producers, etc. If they want to revise it later to meet their original vision, more power to them. Also entirely possible it was a cash grab; Skywalker Ranch needed a new wing or something.
- OkayPhysicist 4y agoFor a positive example, Ridley Scott has a bunch of edits of Blade Runner. The huge improvement over the narration-riddled theatrical release was huge, and the pathological edits around hints towards Decker's replicant-ness are just kind of fun, in that different people are likely to have different views on the subject depending on which cut they watched.
- Pinegulf 4y agoDid Han shoot first? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_shot_first https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_shot_first