Why Star Wars Should be Left to the Fans

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 18, 2011 @09:35AM from the don't-make-us-shoot-first dept.

Aguazul writes "The BBC has an interesting take on George Lucas's meddling with our memories: 'Fans of Star Wars are not happy. Someone has been tampering with their movie history.' They speculate on who really owns a piece of art. Even the artist doesn't really know what he's created, and a work doesn't become 'something' until given value by an audience: 'the artist is merely the medium for his or her work.' Many people contributed to the Star Wars trilogy. Is Lucas' over-inflated idea of his own importance in the process the reason he is stopping people seeing the unmodified originals?"

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Re:All I can say is... by Truekaiser · 2011-09-18 10:15 · Score: 1, Redundant

Because as soon as he edits it he throws out the older version considering the edited one the 'canon' and the older one his imperfect vision due to technology limitations at the time.