![]() ![]() Speaking now, Spielberg said it’s not just his own films that should be left alone – but any old classics that include outdated phrases and thoughts. “I got overly sensitive to to ‘E.T.’ and I thought if technology ever evolved … it was OK for a while, but I realized what I had done was I had robbed people who loved ‘E.T.’ of their memories of ‘E.T.’” ![]() Not because of fan outrage, but because I was disappointed in myself,” Spielberg said in 2011. the Extra-Terrestrial,” Spielberg said a future Blu-ray release would restore the film to its original version. In 2011, just before the 30th anniversary of “E.T. While his comment generated headlines across the media landscape – yes, even right here at this very site – Spielberg has expressed his regrets before. So I really regret having that out there.” All our movies are a kind of a signpost of where we were when we made them, what the world was like and what the world was receiving when we got those stories out there. ![]() “I should have never messed with the archives of my own work, and I don’t recommend anyone do that. “‘E.T.’ was a film that I was sensitive to the fact that the federal agents were approaching kids with firearms exposed and I thought I would change the guns into walkie-talkies… Years went by and I changed my own views,” Spielberg explained. The edit in question – which has long since been reversed – used digital effects advances to change guns in the hands of federal agents into walkie-talkies. “No film should be revised based on the lenses we now are, either voluntarily, or being forced to peer through.” ‘E.T.’ is a product of its era,” Spielberg said. the Extra-Terrestrial” for a home release. Speaking at the TIME 100 Summit recently, the Oscar-winning filmmaker said he made “a mistake” years ago when he edited guns out of “ E.T. ![]() Steven Spielberg is not in favor of changing past art to adhere to modern cultural sensibilities. ![]()
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