<jessealanreese@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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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.
Have you actually read Jodorowsky's description of his planned movie? By
his
own admission, he didn't even read the whole novel. From his descriptions,
it would have been horrid, in that early 1970s artsy-crppy way. Worse, it
would have born no resemblance to Dune (other than titles and names of
characters).
From "The Dune You'll Never See" [and thank God for that!]:
"[The purpose was] to show the process of illumination of a hero, then a
people, then a whole planet (which in its turn is the Messiah of the
Universe since by giving up its orbit, the holy planet leaves to spread
its
light throughout all the galaxies)..."
"I did not want to respect the novel, I wanted to recreate it..."
"I felt in enthusiastic admiration towards Herbert and at the same time in
conflict (I think that the same thing occurred to him)... He obstructed
me... I did not want him as a technical adviser ... I did everything to
move
him away from the project... I had received a version of Dune and I wanted
to transmit it: the Myth was to give up the literary form and to become
Image..."
"In film, the Duke Leto (father of Paul) would be a man castrated in a
ritual combat in the arenas during a bullfight (emblem of the Atreides
house
being a crowned bull...) Jessica - nun of the Bene Gesserit -, sent as
concubine at the Duke to create a girl which would be the mother of a
Messiah, becomes so in love with Leto that she decides to jump a chain
link
and to create a son, Kwisatz Haderach, the saviour. By using her
capacities
of Bene Gesserit - once that the Duke, insanely in love with her, entrusts
her with his sad secret - Jessica is inseminated by a drop of blood of
this
sterile man..."
Okay, at this point, I gotta stop. The eeeew! factor is just too high.
This
lunatic would have made Lynch's heart plugs and cat milking look subdued.
You can read the whole gibbering mess at
http://www.duneinfo.com/unseen/jodorowsky.asp
.
--Ty
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