I like Lynch and e’ything, he for sure came closest out of the bunch but, still, he didn’t really go far enough. He maybe couldn’t within budget constraints but it’s not arcane enough by a long stretch.
It stands on its own as a testament to Lynch’s imagination, that I don’t dispute. But I think that same imagination got in there and fucked up a lot of the substantially important ideas for the sake of brevity.
I still live in hope that the 6 hour DC version turns up some day.
Both good points. I’ve always assumed Paul was white. I need to re-read it and see whether that’s projection. But even if he isn’t explicitly white, he occupies a white/imperialist/aristoricatic/privileged position within the narrative. I agree with the parallels between Dune and other stories, although I would observe that Lawrence of Arabia is not a fictional character, although one who was fictionalised.
I don’t have a problem with people interpreting Dune; I’ve enjoyed all the interpretations. They have all been failures, though. Lynch’s film in particular is easy to analyse; it contained too much superfluous additional stuff (weirding units, heart plugs) which had no narrative value or even undermined the original idea from the novel, to be enjoyable for those familiar with Dune, and was pretty much completely unintelligible to those who aren’t familiar with the novel.
Not even for the sake of brevity - all the weirding units do is turn the phrase ‘my name is a killing word’ into something to be taken completely literally.
(Note that this has not prevented me from attempting to train my 17-month-old to say “Muuuuaaaad DIB!”)
The same Hugo awards that Vox Day/Scott Beale and John Wright were nominated for? Nomination is not always a guarantee of quality. Actually winning might be.
I’ll just say there are some really awesome pieces to the movie. Where David Lynch gets to do his freaky Lynchy stuff with the Harkonnens. The fact that the Atriedes are also pretty much Nazis, just nicer Nazis.
And the vagina faced Navigator.
But the Special Effects needed more skill. The story is difficult to get viewers to take seriously, and Lynch just isn’t a SciFi Action movie kind of director.
You could still share that opinion and not be an insulting ass about it. But as we can see with your immature responses you aren’t ever going to grow up.