Joss Whedon Angry Over BUFFY: THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Widescreen Remaster
Recently Fox began airing remastered reruns of Whedon's Buffy: The Vampire Slayers. These changes started an uproar with fans and it seems Joss Whedon also isn't a fan of remaster.
In August the TV station, Pivot, started airing reruns of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but in a HD/widescreen version. The show was originally in a 4:3 format (widescreen is 16:9) but now the show has been cropped, brightened, and re-colored by 20th Century Fox. These changes have led Joss Whedon to voice his opinion on this subject over his Twitter account.
Whedon always had reason for his choice in a 4:3 format even when the fourth season when almost everything else at the time was starting to format for widescreen. Whedon explained this decision by including a personal message with the release that said:
“Adding space to the sides simply for the sake of trying to look more cinematic would betray the very exact mise-en-scene I was trying to create. I am a purist, and this is the purest way to watch Buffy. I have resisted the effort to letterbox Buffy from the start and always will, because that is not the show we shot.”
In case any of you haven't seen the difference between the original and the remaster below are comparison images.
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