Re: He is Risen

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Gene Ward Smith  <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>mchary@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Oh, and they shot more footage after Sta Wars came out as 
>> well. 
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>Unless you mean the re-release footage, Wikipedia says not:

I don't wish to shatter any preconceived notions you might have about a 
source that anyone at all in the world can edit, but this is one of those 
occasions for which wikipedia is absolutely wrong.

Spielberg has said in interviews and the like that he went back to deal 
with some of the special effects after he saw Star Wars (which, I suppose,

could actually have been before the May release depending on his 
relation****p with Lucas) and when they showed it on tv, it did not fit the

slot, so they filmed yet more stuff for the tv release. I remember that 
personally because I play the third alien to the left inside the ****p on 
the third level in the extended footage. (Okay, I made that up. But the 
new footage was a big deal at the time.)

In any event, that's irrelevant to my point, which is not that Star Wars 
somehow dramatically altered the way Spielberg made the flick, but rather 
that Star Wars changed audience expectations of science fiction enough 
that more people actually went to see the movie. I know I was looking 
forward to it while playing with my Star Wars toys.


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