Subject: Dune (was Re: _Wild at Heart_)
From: chari@math.utexas.edu (Christopher M. Whatley)
Date: 1990-08-15, 07:10
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

cjr@cs.bham.ac.uk (Chris Ridd <RiddCJ>) writes:

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

I think this group should be alt.david.lynch instead of twin peaks.

> >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.

Dune was pretty weak in some areas but I think it is probably the most
perverse and subversive Lynch film. You have this messiah who
essentially becomes a hermaphodite when he drinks the water of life.
The mood and Lynch's alteration of the story is great. It is just
those holes in the story that make it "bad".

> >  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:

The really pathetic thing about Frank Herbert's ultimate contribution
to Dune was the TV version which added a whole lot of meaningless
garbage. He narrated it and they added little paintings of the
"important" things that did not make it onto celluloid. Eck.  At least
the original Dune, with all of its flaws, could be taken seriously.

In some ways it was nice to see the extra footage (about 30 min) but
the overall effect of his narration and the cheezy paintings destroyed
the mood of the film.

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