Saturday, June 04, 2005

George Lucas and Redaction Criticism

Seeing this site makes me wonder what would happen if we took all the bible scholars and redaction critics and had them go at it with the Star Wars Original Trilogy DVD set. The site chronicles the many changes which Star Wars 4/5/6 have gone through from original release, through special edition release, to the DVD set. Someone coming to the DVD set after the fact and trying to work backwards would have a hell of a time unravelling the many layers of edits over the multiple releases.

I couldn't help but think of the kind of mind boggling detective work redaction critics have to do trying to piece together the various layers of edits and 'multiple releases' of the biblical texts.

Just a thought.

Kev

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