Comments on: Dune to be Hard PG-13 Adventure

By: Edvin

Edvin — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:44:31 +0000

Many books have internal dialog, it’s usually fixed by giving the characters some sort of body language or minor changes to the dialog to portray what the character is thinking about.
Internal dialog can be translated into images or a sound.

By: Harry

Harry — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:42:42 +0000

The book contains a lot of sex and orgies and homosexual behavior. They’re necessary to the plot too…

By: Mladen

Mladen — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:29:40 +0000

Another problem would be all the ‘jihad’ stuff in the book. Especially since Paul’s Jihad (Paul is the hero of the first book, to those not in the know) goes on to kill 60 billion people… Which is better than what would have happened if he hadn’t done it, but still not quite ‘heroic’ in the hollywood sense of the term. Can’t see them wanting to put this to film.

And I don’t think they’ll ever make God Emperor. Can audiences handle a sequel set 3000 years after the previous film where the previous main character is now a giant worm and Emperor of the Galaxy?

Let alone the sequels where things just get wierder?

By: vargas

vargas — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:33:12 +0000

I love Dune and I’m glad to hear that someone wants to try their hand at this masterpiece yet again.

However –

So how will this new director handle the large amounts of internal dialogue that’s in the books. Lynch didn’t handle that very well – amongst other things.

By: SlashBeast

SlashBeast — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:16:22 +0000

I find that a lot of people who demand R-Ratings fpr films that don’t otherwise need them generally lack imagination. I don’t need to SEE everything in order to know what’s going on. Sometimes the thought of what’s happening alone is enough.

By: David Lopan

David Lopan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:58:21 +0000

Man, talk about a visionary; jodorowsky, you gotta see his films. So intriguing, all his films have strange metaphysical and alchemic themes. El Topo is a leone style western with religious and demonized themes and don’t get me started on the Holy Mountain. If you like strange, cryptic, and hypnotic cinema (like lynch), jodorowsky is a name to get familiar with.

By: JeffGrey

JeffGrey — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:24:05 +0000

Star Wars used many devices to avoid violence and dark atmosphere. People get stabbed with lasers that self cauterize. When someone dies it’s a quick blip and then it moves on – and it almost never happens to a main character. Storm Troopers are faceless enemies without any trace of humanity. They might as well be action figures.

In Dune we have people disemboweled so that their “Water” might be taken. It’s going to be hard to get around that. Quick cut to the protagonists facial expression? Gross off-screen sound-effect? See, that type of garbage just takes me right out.

By: Jeremy K.

Jeremy K. — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:12:31 +0000

Oddly enough, Eraserhead being one of his most recognizable movies, I have never gotten around to seeing it. I really need too. I also Need to finish Inland Empire, I started watching that with my girlfriend and she was so lost we had to watch something else. Haven’t heard of Wild at Heart, but now I’m curious to see it.

On another note, just read about King Shot. Being produced by Lynch and directed by Jodorowsky. Marylin Manson as a 300-year-old pope! That should be interesting.

It is discussions like these that really make something like themovieblog.com shine. Opening my eyes to things I might have otherwise overlooked.

By: Jeremy K.

Jeremy K. — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:58:51 +0000

Holy crap! Thanks for posting the name “Jodorowsky”. I hadn’t heard of him, but just read about his planned take on Dune back in the day. That would have been an insane, and mostly amazing, undertaking. I am really curious now what his version of Dune would have been like. My eyes were bulging out of my head just reading about it. Thanks for this post!

By: David Lopan

David Lopan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:43:16 +0000

What about eraserhead and wild at heart? Those are definitely some w-t-f movies within themselves. I agree with you about the lynch comment. His vision of dune was definitely atmospheric and really moody