Speaking of gaslighting, you're kinda gaslighting all of us by making us feel that this is some major crime against cinema. He's fixing some things that bother him. He is retiming and regrading. He is not re-editing, reshaping, recasting and shooting new scenes that are inserted. It's not a new...
Of course I know that. I was simply making a joke about what might have occurred in 1968 with the people who take the decision of a filmmaker to revise his/her work as an existential threat.
Well said!
Artists have been revising works forever. DaVinci. Stravinsky. Bruckner. Matisse. Picasso. Chaplin. Countless authors. Countless others. Sometimes money is the reason. Sometimes creative decisions. Sometimes both. As the authors, they are entitled to do what they want with their creations...