Re: can you answer CHICAGO question?

On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 15:00:51 -0700, Michelle Steiner
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>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Mike Kohary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Lucas, unfortunately, doesn't seem to "get it", and still plans to 
>> stifle the original Star Wars films that millions thrived on.
>
>The ones released in 1997 and subsequent are what Lucas had in mind 
>originally; the originals had been edited for length at the insistence 
>of the studio.

That's simply incorrect.  Where did you get that information?  The
fact is, George Lucas had full creative control over Star Wars, and it
was made just as he wanted to make it at the time (within financial
restraints, of course).

>Of course, there were changes; originally, Jaba the Hut was going to be 
>a human being, and if he had not been cut from the original of Episode 
>4, he would have been human in 5 and 6.

This is true.  Lucas decided better of it, knowing he wanted Jabba to
be a beast, but he was unable to technically pull it off at the time,
so he axed the scene.  I would give you this one scene, and only this
one scene, as an example of part of Lucas' original vision that he
wanted to correct in the Special Editions.

But all the other changes to the original trilogy easily fall into the
"revision" category - from Greedo shooting first (which looks
ridiculous, by the way) to the spiffed up special effects (removing
much of John Dykstra's original Oscar-winning work).  I'm sure he
would have liked to have access to CGI effects at the time, but the
fact is that he didn't, and with a lot of ingenuity he created one of
the greatest sci-fi epics of all time in spite of that.  He's wrong to
go back and revise these films, but that's his prerogative, so there
it is.  What I object to is if he stifles the originals - that's *not*
his prerogative (even if it is his legal right), and I and millions of
others will be mad as hell if he goes through with it.

Hopefully he'll see the light and release the original versions along
with whatever else he releases (word is that he's going to revise the
Special Editions, making Extra Special Editions, I suppose.  At what
point does it simply become ridiculous?)

Mike

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