The “ Star” in the name; won’t make you George Lucas
Seven Academy Awards were given out that year for the film Star Wars. The original version, George Lucas’s first of a planned seven-part story, is impossible to obtain. In fact, the first release of Star Wars was very tough to obtain. That’s not what Lucas wants you to see. His preferred method of consumption is a series of special editions, which include additional CGI and sound effects as well as entirely reworked sequences.
According to some fans, every feature that motivated the Academy to recognize the original Star Wars has been modified in these new versions. And some of those fans are now taking it upon themselves to rebuild the original Star Wars in a process they term “despecializing.” They convene in internet forums and discuss their work—painstakingly reassembling the movie from a number of various copies of the picture, from VHS to DVD to 35mm print scans using photography and animation tools.