George Lucas Making More Changes For Star Wars Blu-Ray Release

[daltysmilth]

And let's face it, the 20th Century Fox Fanfare is almost as much a part of the music of Star Wars as the Main Title theme itself. 

The fanfare even appears on the soundrack CD's.  At least, I know it was on the Phantom Mennace soundtrack.

It was on both my record and CD soundtrack for episode 4.

I have the original LP for A New Hope and I'm pretty sure it's not on that.  I thought they weren't added to the soundtracks until the Special Edition release.

[MrTorso]

Besides which, if you get rid of the grain using digital scrubbers, you lose a lot of other incidental detail and the people come out looking like wax mannequins.

Exactly. The latest Predator Blu is a fine example of that:

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[Johnny Unusual]

And let's face it, the 20th Century Fox Fanfare is almost as much a part of the music of Star Wars as the Main Title theme itself. 

The fanfare even appears on the soundrack CD's.  At least, I know it was on the Phantom Mennace soundtrack.

It was on both my record and CD soundtrack for episode 4.

I have the original LP for A New Hope and I'm pretty sure it's not on that.  I thought they weren't added to the soundtracks until the Special Edition release.

That's correct.  I usually skip it; I'm not listening to the movie, I don't need Alfred Newman to tell me that it's a 20th Century Fox release.

What, me compose?

[daltysmilth]

Still, it's just, like, 20 seconds out of the whole soundtrack.  What, are you in a hurry when you listen to them?

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

If i hear imperial march in the next 15 seconds someone is gonna die

[D.B. Barnes]

It's kind of a moot point seeing as Lucas is replacing the fanfare with this:

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[sarcasm_made_Easy]

Its how fantasia starts

[Doctor Who?]

I wish i could find the interview but i did read one where John Williams said that he considers the Fox fanfare to be part of the soundtrack and that is why it is on the CD.

[gbeenie]

Here's a question: Has the DGA ever weighed in on Lucas altering The Empire Strikes Back and Return of The Jedi, neither of which he directed?

[Sideswipe]

Yeah, that is an interesting point.  ROTJ was directed by a non DGA memeber too.

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

blood money so lucas could butcher the cult of star wars.  hehe

[Russell]

blood money so lucas could butcher the cult of star wars.  hehe

There's a lot of people who keep telling fans who hate the changes to get
a life, and I want to respond by asking "Would you be saying the same if
Picasso decided to make changes to Guernica by pissing all over it?"

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

blood money so lucas could butcher the cult of star wars.  hehe

There's a lot of people who keep telling fans who hate the changes to get
a life, and I want to respond by asking "Would you be saying the same if
Picasso decided to make changes to Guernica by pissing all over it?"

And i would say that is a comparison that just doesnt work lol.  Even at the HEIGHT of my star wars fandom when i buying books with cross sections of AT-ATs and what have you i NEVER thought it was art. 

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

shitty art is still art and star wars still is not.  At least not in my book. 

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

How is that thing coming along anyways?