"Oh goody. Anther op****tunity for some director to make completely asinine
changes to a sci-fi classic."
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> --Ty
Hear hear. IMHO, every single attempt to "translate" Dune or the DC into
pap for the m***** is unsuccessful, simply because the concepts and
crafting
that make it as popular as it is do not suffer watering-down well. Given
the nature of the mass entertainment audience, the only choice for any
director to make is to water it down to the simplistic "Paul Good, Baron
Evil" level, at which point...what's the point? Why make just another
Space
Opera that bears only the *name* of Dune? Without extensive cheesy
voiceovers, the book can't be done, and *with* extensive cheesy
voiceovers,
it's just...cheesy. The DC is more about what ISN'T said, what ISN'T
seen,
what DOESN'T happen. I can't imagine any filmmaker doing justice to that
in
a medium like film. There are some things that simply aren't meant or
intended to be watered down.
Hitch
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http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2007/12/21/confirmed-peter-berg-will-direct-dune-talking-with-tom-cruise-about-edwin-a-salt/
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>> Saw this on Fark.com, I guess there's some credence to it. We have the
>> Lynch version that strayed a bit with artistic license, the SciFi
>> channel version that was close to the plot (but no thought-voice,
>> which always annoyed me), and now a new version to ponder on.
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