On Jan 2, 5:13 pm, "Tony" <t...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Khal" <damagere...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Jan 1, 3:18 pm, "Tony" <t...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> <jessealanre...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> > Maybe half joke. I think for a good Dune movie you would need to go
> >> > the way of Jodorowsky and make sort of an interpretation off of it.
I
> >> > think that guy as the Baron (voice and all) would be the
cornerstone
> >> > of a really weird and powerful Dune movie.
>
> >> I think it would be fun to have a mostly Japanese/Chinese cast and to
> >> slant
> >> the movie toward a martial arts direction. However, I would not
include
> >> weirding modules. The music would be very im****tant, and I'd avoid
> >> Arabic
> >> sounding melodies. I suppose I'd hire a Japanese anime composer to
write
> >> the score.
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> > Would that be almost a different movie? Wondering because the Atreides
> > seem to be a Spanish line, while the Harkonnens are Germanic, and the
> > Fremen more Araby.
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> It might not be different because FH never really described what
everyone
> looked like, and they could look Asian in the future. Who knows? Maybe
> that's what everyone will look like. However, the characters could
still
> have their Greek ancestors, etc.
>
> > However your idea has merit. A complete anime version of Dune would be
> > good also.
> > I would say that I do really like the Lynch, and would love to see it
> > cleaned up a Tad more. Some of those bluescreen but don't quite work.
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> > I'd like a movie to just look at the material freshly and try to see
> > what Herbert had in his head.
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> There's a lot that FH didn't really describe, and so he left it up to
the
> reader to imagine. He described some intense fight scenes, and I think
it
> would be cool to depict the scenes as if the characters were super
martial
> artists, so to speak. The way I figure it, since mankind had thousands
of
> years to perfect the techniques, the resulting martial arts scenes
should be
> spectacular.
Yup, you're right about that - if they don't use too many tricks, it
will be just amazing. (tricks= overdo the effects; just speed the
reflexes).
Yes very cool indeed.
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