mechanicjay writes:
While a bit pop-culture and light hearted, it's an indelible part of every geek's soul, so perhaps it's worthy of a front page discussion:
Over at Movie Pilot, Alex Rosenhiem puts forth a compelling argument for preservation of art and of shared cultural experience and why that matters. He couches it in the context of revisionism as applied to the Han/Greedo Cantina scene, long a source of nerd rage, countless arguments and is even it's own meme. The moment is a pivotal one for the development of the Han Solo character, but more importantly Rosenhiem argues that Art, Star Wars included, gives us access to the past and where we were at a certain point in time when we first experienced it.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by lcklspckl on Tuesday March 25 2014, @08:52PM
Google it. I'm not going to post a link, sorry. This guy took the best visuals out there and from what I can tell painstakingly removed all of the "special" from Star Wars, tESB and RotJ, leaving the fixed mattes and such. A pretty good job. I'm having a viewing for my buddy's boys here soon. All they've seen is Han shooting first and disco Jabba.
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(Score: 1) by lcklspckl on Wednesday March 26 2014, @03:19AM
Yeah. I meant Greedo shoots first and the Muppet show at Jabba's palace.