Re: The official BLADE RUNNER SE thread. (Check out page 8 and #790.)
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Originally Posted by rich_d
If one's goal is truly an historically accurate presentation of the DC, that would mean watching it at a theatre where it was originally shown with pre-1992 speakers. I don't say that to be facetious, rather than get back to the real issue (at least to me).
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By that logic, we should just throw out any hopes of accurate presentations of all films, since hardly any of us have, say, 35mm and 70mm projectors at home. As the mission statement of HTF states, we want the "film product to be recorded and reproduced as closely as possible to the way the original creator(s) of that particular film intended." Having the original soundtrack in its original format reproduced on DVD or HDM accomplishes that goal, it's then up to the end user to play it back. Thus, with respect strictly to the goal of historically accurate presentation, a new 5.1 remix of an original 2.0 surround track, when that 2.0 track is also present on the disc, is just an extra.
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| Hopefully, most of us want what we pay for. You start going down the path of what is truly 'essential' versus 'non-essential' we'd all be in cars with manual roll-up windows. If we go down the route that a botched 5.1 track can be ignored, does one make the same argument to ignore the (correct) 5.1 track on the Final Cut? I doubt it. Thus, I just don't see any reason to sugar-coat the issue at hand. |
I don't see the comparison to the Final Cut. I never said that all 5.1 tracks are irrelevant. It just so happens that (as best we can tell) 2.0 surround is the original format for the DC soundtrack, but 5.1 is the original format of the Final Cut. There's no comparison.
I think the much better argument is the one you bring up about getting what we pay for. Given that the Final Cut sets hold themselves out as containing a 5.1 track for the DC, that track should be error-free. This is why I limited my prior comment to the "goal [of] historically accurate presentation," and nothing more. This doesn't mean there's no argument whatsoever in favor of the 5.1 track being corrected (or, preferrably, having been correct from the start).
Damin
(And I agree 100 percent with it.)
