MovieChat Forums > MovieMadness > Replies
MovieMadness's Replies
And who knows what deteriorated state the film is currently in. "Preserved" doesn't mean just "having a copy." It needs to be RESTORED, and regularly too. And you can bet Lucas with all his money isn't likely to do that, and leave it to some independent company with much less resource to do it, if ever. Can you at least try to get informed first instead of getting schooled the hard way?
P.S. I bought that DVD you mentioned it looked awful and unrestored, as expected.
The original versions are films that made history and set the standards and without which you wouldn't even have today's movies. Therefore we should preserve them in their original forms for their historical significance, and it's sad their own creator can't even bother to do so. You seem like the kind of run-of-the-mill movie "fan" that treats movie-watching as some second-rate activity. Rest assured that there are much more devoted fans, scholars even, that consider this a very serious issue.
"Their real reason", as I said earlier, was more about ABC's bottom line (mainly advertisers) than the "political" reasons you alluded to. You can offend people and get yourself fired with behavior that has nothing to do with politics, such as ruining the national anthem in public, etc.
Please don't pile conspiracy theories on top of an already ugly situation. Looking for a pretext?? Did ABC ask Roseanne to send that tweet? It was no fault of anyone but Roseanne.
P.S.
Btw, I worked for a garment manufacturer back in the early 90s that was making a line of clothing for the "Roseanne Arnold" brand, until we dumped her because of her crazy behavior (national anthem incident, etc.) that was ruining our brand. The point is people get fired for a lot less! Conspiracy theories are nothing compared to a company's bottom line.
Cosby was not "found innocent." His first trial was hung, hence the retrial.
Some filmmakers create two versions for theaters and TV: the theatrical version would show a wider screen and less screen at the top and bottom, while the TV 4:3 version would show less picture left and right but more picture top and bottom. "Terminator 2" was done this way.
Also want to add that all these goofs we see on IMDb's trivia (or goofs) section may not be goofs at all for reasons I stated earlier: that the filmmakers intended those portions of the screen to be cropped. But sometimes there were true goofs, especially in low budget films, understandably.
Her acting could always improve as she is still young. And it's always better for actors to start young, as they will have that much more time and chances to succeed.
The movie was shot in "open matte" format and was supposed to have the top and bottom portions cropped off for theatrical release. That was why Kubrick left the helicopter shadow there, since he knew it would be cropped. It was uncropped later mainly because of TV broadcast and VHS tape releases, which showed the film in 4:3 full screen. In the old days when we watched full-screen movies on 4:3 TV sets, we saw goofs like that pretty often because of this reason. Most of the goofs were microphones hanging at the top of the actors and such.
That is another indication that Jack can "shine," just like his son and the chef. Danny can see past events (the Grady twin girls), just as Jack can see the past and communicate with people in the past (bartender, Grady, the woman in the bathtub, etc.). His picture on the wall is perhaps just a coincidence: that someone in the past looked like him. The film may even be implying that his lookalike could shine as well, and that there may have been many "shiners" throughout history. When Wendy sees ghosts in the hotel, she may be shining too. The whole story is obviously a metaphor about the mental distress suffered by this family that manifests itself as ghostly visions and such. It has been done before in films, notably in Roman Polanski's "Repulsion," where a depressed woman sees all kinds of repulsive hallucinations.