"Hitch" <hitch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote on 04 Jan 2008:
> Lastly, I also suspect that Berg is more interested in Dune as an
> Iraq War allegory, and less about the sci-fi. JMHO. Nothing wrong
> with Dune as political commentary - after all, it IS political
> commentary - but I prefer it as FH's political commentary, not
> someone else's spin thereupon.
>
I found the Lynch version interesting and embarrassing all at the same
time. I loved the book, had read it three times before the movie came out
and was critical of some of the changes (and some of the acting) but
accepted the film as merely Lynch's oddball interpretation. I still have
not seen either mini-series.
As for the vision thing: FH had a vision and it's pretty much on every
page of Dune. Whether film, series, sequel or stage production (none that
I know of), any interpretation of the original by other artists will
invariably include the perspective of the artist which may differ wildly
from FH's.
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