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A formerDunedirector criticizes the trailer for Denis Villeneuve ’s 2020 adaptation , saying it ’s too predictable . An avant - garde filmmaker known for his furor moviesEl TopoandThe Holy Mountain , Alejandro Jodorowsky in the seventies became the first director to go to work on adaptingFrank Herbert ’s classic novel of the far future .
As was related in contingent in the memorable documentary filmJodorowsky ’s Dune , the ambitious filmmaker indeed had magnanimous plan for his adaptation of Herbert ’s taradiddle . Most infamously , the director desire Salvador Dali to play the Emperor , and when the far-famed artist asked an outrageous fee , Jodorowsky planned to exchange Dali with a full - sized puppet . Jodorowsky also had big ideas about his movie ’s soundtrack , intending to hirePink Floydto compose music ( Pink Floyd of course at last became associated withDunewhen a cover of their song " Eclipse " was used in the late first laggard for Villeneuve ’s motion picture ) . Unfortunately , Jodorowsky ’s programme were far too ambitious and his version of the movie never come to life beyond a record book of elaborate and beautiful storyboards .
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Now , decennary after Jodorowsky ’s go bad effort to put on afilm version ofDune , the managing director has count in on the recently release trailer for Villeneuve ’s adaptation . Perhaps not surprisingly given his reputation as an uncompromising artist , Jodorowsky sees Villeneuve’sDuneas simple bodied filmmaking with nothing illusionist or surprising in it . As the famed director told the Gallic publicationLe Point(viaHeroic Hollywood ):
“ I bid his Dune would be a great success , because Denis Villeneuve is a nice theater director , about whom I have been tell a set of good things . I saw the preview . It ’s very well done . We can see that it is industrial cinema , that there is a batch of money , and that it was very expensive . But if it was very expensive , it must pay in symmetry . And that is the problem : there is no surprises . The form is superposable to what is done everywhere , the lighting , the acting , everything is predictable . ”
Jodorowsky then poke out his critique to New movie house in general , saying “ Industrial cinema promotes entertainment , it is a show that is not stand for to change humanity or guild . ” Jodorowsky of course visualise his own version ofDuneas a movie that would alter humanness or society , but unhappily he never get down a chance to deliver whatever message he intended to get , as no one in the 1970s was unforced to put up the budget his take on Herbert ’s storey would have needed to be brought to life . Indeed , it was n’t untilGeorge Lucas ’ massive success withStar Warsthat studios began spending immense amounts of money on skill fabrication property .
And of track , Dunewas one of the first major sci - fi novels to get the handsome budget treatment in the early eighties withDavid Lynchat the helm . That version ofDune , which Jodorowsky has also criticized , ended up failing at the box government agency and make Lynch to become deeply disillusion with studio filmmaking . It remain to be seen if Villeneuve will bring home the bacon where Lynch give out , but at least plump by the first trailer , his version ofDune is visually impressive and has the electric potential to be the truly inspiring levelheaded sci - fi heroic fans have long crave . However , it seems Jodorowsky has already made up his mind that even if Villeneuve redeem the goods with his rendering ofDune , the film will be mere empty entertainment and not a truly impractical work . Jodorowsky of course likely still harbor a lot of bitterness about his own nonstarter to makeDunehappen , so his vox populi may be somewhat biased . But the fact that he ’d slam advanced daytime movie theatre is indeed in keeping with his own reputation as a maverick film director who refuse to compromise on his sight ( even if it means his film never get made ) .
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Source : Le Point(viaHeroic Hollywood )
