Jun. 21st, 2012

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For me, it depends on what the changes ARE. For example, if GONE WITH THE WIND or THE WIZARD OF OZ got tweaked into a widescreen version that lost none of the visual impact but instead enhanced it, with remastered sound and clearer picture quality, I'm sure everybody would want that. But I've said before that colorization doesn't always work.

When ET: THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL was tweaked by Spielberg, there was some justified contraversy about him changing the Deputies' riot shotguns to walkie-talkies in the bicycle chase scene. And, of course, George Lucas' meddling with the STAR WARS movies hasn't won him a lot of friends. If changes are made, they have to benefit the work as a whole, not just add gimmicks.

I'd been thinking about the movie MIDWAY. So much of that was stolen from other movies, that if it were me, I'd use modern tech to redo the parts that were from archives and so make it more honest and authentic. I'd redo the Doolittle Raid sequence so it wouldn't be from THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO or even the PEARL HARBOR remake. I'd redo the sinking of the USS Lexington in the Coral Sea. I'd redo the Japanese raid on Midway Island so it isn't footage from TORA TORA TORA and THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN. And I'd redo thing's like George Gay's crash into the ocean and the ordeal of USS Yorktown. But I wouldn't think of changing the scenes with Fonda, Heston, Mifune and company. The drama is where it's good. It's the other elements that work against it.

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