(May 12, 2014 at 10:36 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I appreciated some of the "fixes" that Lucas did when he went through and updated some of the scenes back when he first did it; when he fixed the smudging out the wheels on Luke's speeder and CGIing windows in Cloud City and a couple things like that because it added ambiance or updated what they couldn't do with SFX in the 70s.
Those blemishes are part of the original work of art, and tampering with that changes the original artistic statement. Imagine if J.K. Rowling went through the Harry Potter books and started changing the language that she decided could have been done better.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
