if every copy of a film was slowly being erased from the records, you'd rather preserve copies of the film than have the director's cousin remake it based on so

if every copy of a film was slowly being erased from the records, you'd rather preserve copies of the film than have the director's cousin remake it based on some pictures and your grandpa's diaries. you can obviously do both, but option 1 is clearly going to be more popular any number of analogies are applicable: breeding extant animals to resemble extinct ones based on what some self-appointed human reckons they were like is not comparable to preservation. it's nostalgia, it is ego, it's a vanity project, essentially. no surprise it was inspired by the Nazis