Spielberg comes to his senses; Likely Lucas never will.

This is what is revelant in our society? Please, there are bigger things to worry about in the world than Spielberg altering a 30 year old film which wasn't that great to begin with. Get over it, Ronnie and Sam are back together and that's what truly important.
 
If you haven't been around DVXuser cafe in recent weeks, the topic of retouching films, especially Star Wars (with quite a bit of discussion of ET) has been a recent big topic at this film-making forum. It is relevant to our society if you appreciate a film as a work of art. Just as paintings, sculptures, and literature has shaped generations and has given an open window for the future to look back upon the world through, motion picture films is our modern medium.

In fact, the United States had passed an act decades ago, that recognized historical and significant works of American Cinema and made it illegal to show or display any altertered versions of those works. This was in the very early 1980's. Star Wars was listed among those significant films. Ironically, the law which was meant to stop others from altering the works as they were intended, failed to stop the creator of those works from altering the film... Mr. George Lucas.

If you think this is not relevant to society... I think we ought to rewrite Huck Fin, get rid of all those confusing old-english words in King Lear, paint some lipstick and cleavage on the Mona Lisa, and call it a day.


Films touch and inspire generations. They also tell us things about society at that time. Changing films decades after being originally created, slightly robs the cultural significance from the piece. ET is a timeless story told in the world of the late 1970's... Sure what he (Steven) did wasn't a big deal, but it's a slippery slope, and changes could be much more drastic if we begin to allow them to be.

This is a film making forum, and I think the protection and preservation of our American motion picture masterpieces is worth discussing and culturally relevant; just as any work of art is. Culture without art is devoid of life.


EDIT: Hahahaha!~ Are you being sarcastic? I just had to google search who Ronnie and Sam were, and now I think you might be sarcastic.
 
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I never cared much for "Star Wars" or "ET". Thought Darth Vader was cool and light sabres were awesome, but I never got into it. The toys were nice though. I was into James Bond, Chinese martial art movies, some westerns (not space westerns) and swashbuckling films (hence me enjoying the light sabre angle) from back in the day. I did like Indiana Jones though.

I saw two of the new SW trilogy because friends went and everyone kept talking about Darth Maul. I liked the martial arts, not too much else. Hard for me to speak on this because no one's ever altered anything I really cared about. I guess if some took the guns from "El Mariachi" and turned them into walkie talkies, I might not like it. Or if they re-cut Reservoir Dogs to finally make it clear who shot who shot Nice Guy Eddie that might irk me (I go with Mr. White). But then again I also don't care about remakes either. I saw the new "Fright Night" and liked it as much as I did the old one, though they could've done more with Peter Vincent. So this kind of stuff doesn't really get to me.

What I don't understand with Lucas, purely from a profit stand point, why not make the original available? That's what I don't get. When 3D becomes big well have another altered cut in 3D. If Lucas really wants to mess with people, he should go back and re-edit the Christmas Special and sale that on Blu-Ray. In Real 2D!

-Nate
 
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tylerindo1 said:
This is what is revelant in our society? Please, there are bigger things to worry about in the world than Spielberg altering a 30 year old film which wasn't that great to begin with. Get over it, Ronnie and Sam are back together and that's what truly important.
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