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In the 1982 science fiction film “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial” It was a great success worldwide, becoming over the years one of the director’s great classics. Steven Spielberg. In 2002 a restored version of the film was released, in which the weapons held by some men when chasing some children were digitally replaced by walkie talkies. That, from a distance, makes the filmmaker uncomfortable, who He did not hesitate to regret having made that decision.
In a talk he gave on the occasion of the world summit of the magazine TIME, Spielberg spoke about it, defending the original concept of films as artistic works at the time of their release, and that despite the changes in society by subsequently interpreting certain themes differently, the films are the product of their time: “ That was a mistake. I never should have done that. No movie should be reviewed based on how we see it now, either voluntarily or forced to look at it in such and such a way…I should never have messed with my own work files, and I don’t recommend anyone do that. All of our movies are kind of a sign of where we were when we made them, what the world was like, and what the world was getting when we put those stories out. So I’m really sorry I did that.”
Steven also gave his comment -with some humor- about classic books, pointing out that words and other content that was included in their original versions should not be altered in these either: “No one should ever try to take Willy Wonka’s chocolate away! To me, that is sacrosanct. It is our history; our cultural heritage. I don’t believe in censorship like that.”
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