Messing about with history

A conversation about modernising existing films recently cropped up and was focused around this.

Cgi Replacement for the TOS Enterprise bridge by Kevin George, originally found here. https://vimeo.com/12023417

It reminds me of Lucas treatment of Starwars, and howe the 'enhanced version' had more things in it, even a new song. I'm sure that a lot of work and effort and I wouldn't imagine that many hours of toil would go into each scene.

It features a short sequence, well executed but I feel there's a few things that are wrong, but I think it's more subversive tho. Look at the handrails, they've been turned into rails instead of future standing stations. What if the original had no top plate, could then the set of TNG potentially not have standing stations like they had done now. I look at things that were from the old series and think, hell, they could design that like this (in my mind). It gives me initiative to do something better.
On the other hand, the work made in modifying and mapping camera angles and such is pretty good. But the burning question is is it a good thing to do? That comes down to the context.

I mentioned Lucas before, with him updating movies; I feel the quaintness of 'at the time design' is what I find a bit unsettling, why would I watch Metropolis if for the fact that it's an iconic film, a modern version could see digital displays inserted, this is how I feel about 'modernizing' such existing films. They loose their quaintness, their time desgn. How they fit into the psyche of people in that universe. They might be subtle things, but it erodes from the narrative of the story.


ARGH!!!!!!