Subject: Re: _Wild at Heart_
From: cjr@cs.bham.ac.uk (Chris Ridd <RiddCJ>)
Date: 1990-08-14, 01:26
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: cjr@christopher-robin.UUCP (Chris Ridd )

(This probably isn't the right newsgroup for this thread, apologies!)

In article <26BDF2F1.26364@ics.uci.edu> bvickers@ics.uci.edu (Brett J.
Vickers) writes:
> >I understand that the original version of Dune was something like
> >6-8 hours long but had to be sliced to get it into to movie format.
> >Where can I find the original-length version?  I've been wondering
> >for some time now.

  Frank Herbert wrote about the film Dune in the introduction to a
short-story compilation of his called 'Eye'.  Basically he said that
about 5 hours were filmed, of which only 2 made it to the cinemas.
_Some_ of the scenes/plotlines that were filmed and were then cut are:

o Stilgar spitting on Leto's desk (gift of water)

o Relationship between the Shadout Mapes and Jessica

o Relationship between Paul and Chani

o Paul killing Javid and his grief at the funeral

o Elaboration on Kynes, and no explanation of melange's role in
society

o Relationships between Paul and his tutors: Duncan, Thufir, Gurney
and Yueh

o Death of Thufir Hawat

o Harah's relationship to Paul

o Scenes with Jessica and RM Mohiam on Caladan, and lots of
explanations of the Bene Gesserits

  Dino (de Laurentiis) and his daughter Raffaella have talked about
restoring the out-takes and making a mini-series.  This may happen
because Dino wanted a longer film all along.

  There's more info in Ed Naha's book "The Making of Dune", and in
Harlan Ellison's 2-part essay in "magazine of Fantasy and Science
Fiction", neither of which I have read.

   Chris

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