The article even mentions Star Wars and George Lucas, something that happened 20 years ago, yet pretends this is the start of a dangerous trend. Cause it's TV (or streaming) instead of a movie / home video release I guess?
Plus in the case of Lucas it was in a new "Special Edition" which contained other edits too. It was never passed off as the original version, and part of the selling point was the edits. Rather than an update in place without any notice.
Is that true? If so, it didn't last for long. There's no way to legally watch the original Star Wars now, unless you can find a physical VHS or Laserdisc.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20060517020346/http://www.starwa...
That can easily be changed if the DVDs are manufactured on demand. It would just mean changing the source files.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_entertainment_affected...
History happened. No need to create a past and future-projected vacuum as a consequence of past events.
I’m guessing this along with the other changes to the film post 9/11 but pre release were the creators wishes and reflections after the attack. You have to remember it was less than a ~6 months after the attacks. This wasn’t history. This was the here and now and it was a massive trauma on a lot of people at the time.
There are other, older movies with the towers in them, and yes, seeing them certainly stirs up emotions unexpected by the directors at the time.
But the World Trade Center existed as a structure. And something terrible happened to it.
Avoiding it now, even by omission, feels like avoiding an important part of history.
Are you saying that the movies/trailers/TV shows should be retroactively edited to re-include the towers? Isn't retroactive editing a bad thing that we want to avoid. That's what this entire post thread is about.
I didn't get that from their post at all. In fact I think you are in agreement.
If your movie is set before 9/11 it should include the towers.
If your movie was released before 9/11, it shouldn't be edited to remove the towers.
Obviously that was never the intention of the producers but it ends up being a huge distraction from the rest of the story of the special.
Torrents as a whole may seem like the cockroach that never dies, but individual torrents die all the time.
https://www.xxlmag.com/kanye-west-the-life-of-pablo-changes/
And yes Greedo still shoots first because we live in the worst timeline.
To be honest, I just personally don't care because I didn't trust the streaming platform that made 'Cuties' and '13 Reasons Why' with moral matters to begin with.