Steven Spielberg regrets this change in 'E.T.'s 20th anniversary re-release.
Steven Spielberg has spoken out against his own decision-making while participating in a master class at the Time 100 Summit and announced he regrets editing guns out of the 20th Anniversary release of his masterpiece, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.
Another twenty years on from that decision, Spielberg has changed tack on his decision, stating his belief that films should be products of their own time, and that attempting to erase the past will only lead to regret. Read Steven Spielberg's Quotes in Full That was a mistake. I never should have done that. ‘E.T.’ is a product of its era. No film should be revised based on the lenses we now are, either voluntarily, or being forced to peer through. 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.
Following those remarks, the editor of the event for Time 100 brought up the recent news regarding the works of Roald Dahl and others, whose early works were now being censored due to what was deemed "offensive language" and republished to be considered more 'inclusive' by the standards of today.
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