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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
I'd much rather have pillar boxed or letter boxed, and be able to see the scene the way it was filmed.
There is a scene in the movie Desk Set, with the 3 main characters at a small dining table. When cropped, you only see the center character, and the hands of the other 2 on each side. It ruins the scene completely. It's a perfect example of why pan and scan for 4.3 aspect ratio is terrible.
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There are exceptions to this. Kubrick shot many of his later films so that they would work on TV screens as well. A version of Full Metal Jacket shows more in 4:3 format. I actually think that it shows too much. The later part of the movie works better cropped, as action and framing is constrained to a narrow screen. A modern example are imax versions of Dune movies. They also showed more at top and bottom in squarer format.