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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on May 24, 2024 11:42:52 GMT -5
I watched Jodorowsky's Dune, which was excellent. What a team he built, and what a passion he had! And how heartbreaking it was that every studio passed on his dream. One of the best parts was when they showed the influence his storyboard of Dune had on later sci-fi films - everything from Star Wars to Alien to Flash Gordon to The Terminator to Raiders to Contact and so on. All these films were important to young me - would they have been made without him?
Toward the end he says he'd be happy if someone picked up his dream and made it into an animated film: 'I can die, they can make my picture'. But until Genndy Tartakovsky makes that picture I'm out of Dunes to watch.
I loved Jodorowsky's Dune, and while it's a shame that he never made it, we're lucky that so many other amazing things germinated from that project. Aside from all the movies, his graphic novel collabs with Moebius and others, and everyone inspired by Blade Runner and Aliens. A friend and I saw JD in the theater, and we were the only ones laughing. It was a serious enough film, but Jodo is gloriously insane. I'd punch a baby for a copy of that Bible featured in the film. I'll share a link to a bunch of pages once I get home, but apparently some collective bought a copy at auction and had plans to make replicas. I think it would have been a terrible movie and had less to recommend it than Lynch's adaptation and if it had been made we may not have gotten things like Giger recycling material from this film for an actual classic like Aliens. It's not the "best film never made"; it's simply "a great bizarre story that made a cool documentary about a creative project that fortunately never got off the ground due to being obviously completely unworkable". |
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Post by songstarliner on May 24, 2024 19:41:04 GMT -5
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on May 24, 2024 20:05:50 GMT -5
Damn, how did I miss that? |
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Post by ganews on Jul 8, 2024 17:56:23 GMT -5
Terrible news, everyone: I realized that I have the original four books in my house after all. I probably will re-read Dune Messiah even though it's a mistake.
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