On Jan 2, 6:13=A0pm, "Tony" <t...@[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.
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> >> > think that guy as the Baron (voice and all) would be the
cornerstone
> >> > of a really weird and powerful Dune movie.
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> >> I think it would be fun to have a mostly Japanese/Chinese cast and to
> >> slant
> >> the movie toward a martial arts direction. =A0However, I would not
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> >> weirding modules. =A0The music would be very im****tant, and I'd avoid
> >> Arabic
> >> sounding melodies. =A0I suppose I'd hire a Japanese anime composer to
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> >> 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. =A0Who knows?
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> that's what everyone will look like. =A0However, the characters could
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> have their Greek ancestors, etc.
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> > 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. =A0He described some intense fight scenes, and I
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> artists, so to speak. =A0The way I figure it, since mankind had
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FH described most scenes in detail, down to the tint of the sun and
color of the sand. He said what hair and eye color almost everyone
had, even the shape of their face, what they're wearing and then there
is the ever present Atreides aquiline nose.
IMO there is no excuse for taking those kinds of liberties when it's
all written down for you.
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