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Any fans of Dune should check out the exceptionally good documentary about the aborted film version by surrealist film maker Alejandro Jodorowsky.

The vision he had for his film far outstripps anything seen in the Lynch film or TV show.

Trailer here: http://youtu.be/GOaGoFqTWtw

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It would have been amazing if Jodorowsky's Dune actually got made and released. He really was too far ahead of his time for the studio.

I feel that in order to make a roughly 2-hour long film on as complex a subject as what the novel portrays, the only way to illustrate that complexity properly is to ascribe to surrealist elements. That is the only form that can provide the necessary density, if done properly. Lynch knew this, which is why he took on the project, but was later pressured by the studio and his vision was lost. He did a pretty admirable job considering.

Lynch's pedigree speaks for itself:

Blue Velvet: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_23 Lost Highway: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116922/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_16 Mulholland Drive: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_14 Twin Peaks... etc...

Jodorowsky is an avant garde filmmaker. I suspect we would have gotten more of an interpretation than an adaptation. It still would have been interesting, but I don't think it will fill the void that a lot of people seem to have for a true Dune movie. I felt like this documentary sold it as a adaptation. Regardless, this documentary, and Jodorowsky's works are worth checking out.

I really liked "Jodorowky's Dune" but I'm convinced his film would have been a disaster. For example, the ending would have consisted of Dune, the newly sentient "enlightened" planet, flying around the galaxy to enlighten the other worlds.

It really had little to do with the book.

I'm not sure whether or not it would have been a good movie, and its deviations from the source material would surely have driven me up a wall, but there we parts of that documentary that gave me goosebumps.

Absolutely recommended to watch.

The soundtrack was recorded:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExNDte-KrCA&list=PLYhc50FbOD...

I have to assume Jordorowsky was trying to be so excessively exuberant about the film making process just for the hell of it.

I've seen the movie about the movie, and I've seen some of Jodorowsky's work.

I dunno, man.... :) Too bad CGI wasn't available earlier in his career.

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