yeh, i thought that as well. scoured both the tv and the blu-ray player menus and made sure that wasn't the case.
i'm convinced now that the 4:3 version we see floating around today is the full, spherical shot 35mm film dump, and not the matte'd pov the director intended. very interesting.
i was perplexed. the blu-ray looks fantastic - it would have been weird for them to clean the film up to that degree, do great re-scans, and have the result look as good as it does, but then BUTCHER the framing. seems they didn't butcher anything. i'd just seen the unmatte'd version a few times, so the newly constricted shots on the disc at 1.85:1 seemed off to me.
i learned everything i know from KC
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