• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I thought he manually edited the masters, so the original Star Wars without CGI additions no longer exists.

    I do love the Harmy Despecialized editions. Also check out the Anti-Cheese edits of the prequels.

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      8 months ago

      The cheese is why the prequels are fun to watch though! We’ve all worked through our collective trauma about how trashy the prequels are, now we’re ready for good ol fashioned hate watching.

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        8 months ago

        I’m not sure “we’ve all worked though” it, but I’m glad I’m not the only one with this perspective. I tried to explain “rage watching” the prequels to a non Star Wars fan not long ago and they looked at me like I had 3 heads.

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      8 months ago

      You can destroy the negatives with extra processing but you can’t destroy the prints. Lucas has original prints and if he didn’t he had the millions to acquire them. If fans did it, Lucas could have.

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        8 months ago

        The rumor I heard decades ago (so a mountain-sized grain of salt) was that he didn’t want to admit he fucked up the originals when making the specialized editions, and just acted like he didn’t want to release remastered theatrical versions. He was also fiercely defensive of the specialized versions, saying that they were closer to his “vision” than the originals.

        Master negatives can create higher resolutions than what you get from the prints. The fan-made versions did a ton of upscaling from the best quality digital versions they could find.

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          The negative is 35mm like the print. There is technically a generational loss between negative and print but that’s far far below the resolution of a 480p DVD when Lucas claimed he couldn’t release the original. 35mm film print is higher resolution than 4k. The 4k77 version does not use upscaling.

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            8 months ago

            Lucas had just re-released the Specialized editions in the theaters, and they did very well. There’s no way they go through the effort of remastering the originals without releasing them to theaters.

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            8 months ago

            There is the negative that was in the cameras when it was originally filmed. Prints are made from those original negatives of which there are many.

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      8 months ago

      Also check out the Anti-Cheese edits of the prequels.

      Why would you want that? People nowadays have no appreciation for theatre…

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      Nope. JJ Abrams tried to get the Theatrical OT released while he was working for Disney. He said it couldn’t be done “for reasons I don’t understand.” Which means there’s no technical reason, so it’s likely a legal reason they can’t be released.