Film director David Lynch dies at 78, family says
Film director David Lynch dies at 78, family says
The Oscar-nominated writer and filmmaker is also famous for the surrealist cult classic, Mulholland Drive.
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Personally I liked the 1984 Dune. Would watch all 4 hours if it was released.
Peak 80s movie moment: Listening to the weird wacky otherly world soundtrack, when all of a sudden ripping guitar solo. https://youtu.be/jzj6b2YV2aA
Lmao someone put it on the 2024 Dune https://youtu.be/NaaJRGYSyGo
Toto and Eno!
My first encounter with Dune was staying up all night to record it off Sci-Fi on VHS. I was just a naive teenager, I didn't know what I was in for. By the time Feyd Rautha showed up I was so tired and confused...
It took many years before I read the books but I'm glad I did, and I'm glad we'll actually get to see Paul's story wrapped up for once.
The Sci-fi channel made a Dune miniseries, and then a Dune Messiah + Children of Dune series. They're really good versions of the story. Better than Villeneuve's in my opinion. It doesn't look nearly as good, obviously, but it's well done. Go into it expecting more of a screen play though, not a blockbuster movie. I highly recommend it.
Edit: I thought I should add, the first series is called "Frank Herbert's Dune".
It's not terrible, but some of the changes were so strange... Using their voices and those weird phaser looking things to attack? "My name is a killing word"? The fuck was that shit?
Love the visual effects of the personal shields though lol
Their voices was because the book had a lot of internal dialogue (so the movie mimicked that). The sound shooting thing was because he didn't want kungfu in space, which I would have liked.
I was only referring to the one thing with my example, that is, using words to shoot people.
Lynch had a problem with visually representing the voice control that Bene Gesserit use. I think the new Dune did a good job with the sound processing to convey that. But I guess back then he thought audiences wouldn't catch that the victims of the voice weren't just following commands but were in fact unable to disobey the commands. On the book the Bene Gesserit actually taught the Fremen some of the weirding way, which is indeed kungfu in space. On Villeneuve's Dune they also dropped that part of the plot and instead leaned more heavily on the access to atomic weapons and the military use of worm riding.
I don't recall having an issue with how they made "the voice" sound. Again, not what I was referencing though.
I was specifically just talking about changing "the weirding way" from a form of martial arts into yelling someone's name through a megaphone to kill other people. Just made shit up out of whole cloth for no apparent reason. And it was fucking corny.
All that being said, I'm still glad Jodorowsky was not able to release his abomination that was for some reason titled "Dune," despite bearing no resemblance to the source material.
Could have made a cool film, but it wouldn't have been "Dune." Dude hadn't even read the novel, and was proud of it.
The movie started fine but went absolutely off the rails halfway through. It's certainly entertaining at least
Yeah, Denis had the right idea splitting the book onto two films. There's just too much there to squeeze into one...
I do still love the way he added the blue to the Fremen's eyes, there is something very otherworldly about it.
Also, Alia saying "My brother is coming" is such a dope moment.
I can't remember the moment and I have to be quiet and can't find my headphones, so I'm going to assume the music is from Wyld Stallyns
The Dune soundtrack was done by the soft rock band Toto, which was something incomprehensibly weird to me at the time, but makes some sense when you realize that one of the band's members was the son of composer John Williams. It's actually good, standard orchestral music with the exception of the guitar power chord moment you linked to, which actually made me laugh out loud when I saw/heard it in the theater for the first time. Personally, I would have preferred this as the soundtrack; it was created by the band Jade Warrior as an attempt to get the gig for Lynch's movie.
The only part of the movie which made me laugh harder than the guitar was Sting's appearance. Just wildly out of place in a movie that was at least a visual masterpiece. And you can't go wrong with Joergen Prochnow.
I think it is ironic that most of Villeneuve's Dune Soundtrack by Hans Zimmer has a ton of heavily processed electric guitar.