People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians, and if the laws of the United States continue to condone this behavior, history will surely classify us as a barbaric society. The preservation of our cultural heritage may not seem to be as politically sensitive an issue as "when life begins" or "when it should be appropriately terminated," but it is important because it goes to the heart of what sets mankind apart. Creative expression is at the core of our humanness. Art is a distinctly human endeavor. We must have respect for it if we are to have any respect for the human race.
These current defacements are just the beginning. Today, engineers with their computers can add color to black-and-white movies, change the soundtrack, speed up the pace, and add or subtract material to the philosophical tastes of the copyright holder. Tommorrow, more advanced technology will be able to replace actors with "fresher faces," or alter dialogue and change the movement of the actor's lips to match. It will soon be possible to create a new "original" negative with whatever changes or alterations the copyright holder of the moment desires. The copyright holders, so far, have not been completely diligent in preserving the original negatives of films they control. In order to reconstruct old negatives, many archivists have had to go to Eastern bloc countries where American films have been better preserved.
In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be "replaced" by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten.
There is nothing to stop American films, records, books, and paintings from being sold to a foreign entity or egotistical gangsters and having them change our cultural heritage to suit their personal taste.
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There are those who say American law is sufficient. That's an outrage! It's not sufficient! If it were sufficient, why would I be here? Why would John Houston have been so studiously ignored when he protested the colorization of "The Maltese Falcon?" Why are films cut up and butchered?
Attention should be paid to this question of our soul, and not simply to accounting procedures. Attention should be paid to the interest of those who are yet unborn, who should be able to see this generation as it saw itself, and the past generation as it saw itself.
haha... mega provo oplevelse. Var i Axel musik på Odense banegård lørdag. Her lå 2 stk. Star Wars Blu-Ray på hylden med en fedtede håndskrevet seddel på "må ikke sælges". Grrrr...
YES! Det ser ud til, at jeg har fået fat i Matthew Wood - manden, der ikke blot lagde stemme til Grievous i Episode III, men som også har stået for den grundige, mangeårige lyd-restaurering af HELE Star Wars-sagaen til Blu-ray. Glæder mig til at høre ham om det kontroversielle lydarbejde mm. på den nye udgivelse... Især om Vaders nye "noooooooo!!" :-)
#31 Corgan 13 år siden
Hmm... ok. Jeg mener at der var noget om det i dvd udgaven, men er det sikkert at den også er censureret i BD udgaven?
#32 MMB 13 år siden
Hehe, true :P
#33 Highland Park 13 år siden
Du siger noget...
#34 Patriarch 13 år siden
#35 Slettet Bruger [1453668938] 13 år siden
Det er vel for at sikre offentligheden imod Lucas? ;)
#36 Patriarch 13 år siden
Er der nogen der har fået deres sæt endnu?
#37 Collateral 13 år siden
Nope, det er undervejs (anslået ankomst d. 15.)
#38 Æsop9000 13 år siden
http://i.imgur.com/xWweh.gif
#39 The Insider 13 år siden
#40 Slettet Bruger [1453668938] 13 år siden
Haha, yes.