GatoradeNipples

GatoradeNipples t1_j4zhdm1 wrote

Reply to comment by cerreur in DYN SÏHE ÏAM by OwnWasabi9402

Doesn't look like it. The message is written with too coherent of lettering, the anatomy is too good, and there's too much of... well, an artistic vision behind this (even if I can't quite suss it out).

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GatoradeNipples t1_j2eug3h wrote

I don't know why you're getting downvoted for this; ANH gets resubmitted every time they do a new edit of it, and gets the same PG every time, but they've had to trim the movie down to keep that PG.

We still don't know why exactly Greedo shoots first in the cantina in the newer edits, but one of the more smell-test-passing theories is that the MPAA griped about Han, a heroic character, gunning Greedo down in cold blood and threatened the movie with a PG-13 unless they changed it (and Lucas' apparent displeasure with having to make the change, with him going around wearing Han Shot First shirts in public, seems to indicate it wasn't his idea even if this isn't the case).

On top of that, while it's way, way more subtle, in the shot where Obi-Wan cuts that one alien's arm off, the current edits have the shot last for a much shorter amount of time (and, while I haven't actively checked against Harmy or 4K77, it seems to be a little zoomed in to hide the blood pool, with the blood being color-graded to be darker and more obviously alien). In the current edit, it's only on screen for about a second, whereas it's a pretty clear shot in every version up to at least 97 (the one I had on VHS as a kid).

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GatoradeNipples t1_j2eti02 wrote

Because it has a weirdly outsized effect on the American film industry (which is a disproportionately massive slice of the global film industry).

Studios factor in the whims of the MPAA heavily when deciding what movies to make and how to make them. Entire movies have just gotten shitcanned and sent back to the drawing board before filming because the script turned in wasn't going to hit the right MPAA rating. Entire genres die out or go to shit when the MPAA decides to tighten up on them (if you remember the plague of god-awful PG-13 horror movies in the 2000s, for example).

It's one of those things that feels goofy to care about, until you actually dig into it a little and realize it extremely isn't.

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