Not gonna lie? I agree with this. For me, the movie is supposed to portray or give an illusion of something, and these mistakes ruin the illusion once discovered. Fully agree.
Of course, it’s curious trivia that these mistakes were released as final cuts, but we can remember them as extras on the BluRay or something. Cleaning up these scenes is fine IMO.
Yep. Especially when it comes to these obvious mistakes. It’s not like Zwick wanted his US civil war kids to be wearing Casios. The artistic intent is most of the examples here is being restored, not changed.
The article is coming at it from viewing the movie as a frozen artifact, which is reductive and nonsensical. Especially when these changes are made along with a medium change where a remastering is needed anyway. Hell, for a bunch of us many of these old movies were first seen in 4:3 pan&scan at a resolution were most of this was cut off or indiscernible anyway.
Not gonna lie? I agree with this. For me, the movie is supposed to portray or give an illusion of something, and these mistakes ruin the illusion once discovered. Fully agree.
Of course, it’s curious trivia that these mistakes were released as final cuts, but we can remember them as extras on the BluRay or something. Cleaning up these scenes is fine IMO.
Yep. Especially when it comes to these obvious mistakes. It’s not like Zwick wanted his US civil war kids to be wearing Casios. The artistic intent is most of the examples here is being restored, not changed.
The article is coming at it from viewing the movie as a frozen artifact, which is reductive and nonsensical. Especially when these changes are made along with a medium change where a remastering is needed anyway. Hell, for a bunch of us many of these old movies were first seen in 4:3 pan&scan at a resolution were most of this was cut off or indiscernible anyway.
You are hitting all the nails on their heads for me here. Agree with everything. The artistic intent, definitely. That’s what I want to experience.
I feel like the author is clinging to nostalgia.