First the facts:
1. Before Jodorowsky (hereinafter referred to as Jodorus) decided to shoot Dune, although he was famous for his director's "Holy Mountain" and "The Mole", the content of these films had nothing to do with science fiction , and after his Dune project aborted, his films have nothing to do with sci-fi. He even admitted in this documentary that he wanted to shoot Dune simply because his original novel was selling well at the time.
2. In most of the time of this film, Jordu is eloquently telling the story of how he attracted those great people, not the film itself. Even if it involves the conception of the film itself, most of them are sketches such as spaceships and costumes. As for the plot part, only from the information provided in this documentary, Jordo will "rape the bride" in the original novel (my original words). ), and the final revolutionary heroic ending of "one Paul falls, ten thousand Pauls stand up". (About the limitations of this ending, I will talk about it in detail in my own opinion later)
3. In order for the artist Dali to play the emperor, Jordu agreed to his proposal of "$100,000 per hour", the most expensive salary in history (it was even raised to $100,000 per minute), and also agreed to Dali's arrangement on the set Bizarre claims like "Burning Giraffe," and the film's budget, according to Jodor, was only $15 million.
4. In order to win Orson Welles to play the Duke of Harkonnen, Jordu proposed to "hire his favorite chef to the set when Wells himself made it clear that he had no interest in the original Dune novel and the film project. , let him eat his favorite dishes every day", which made Wells agree to play. However, although Wells has an important position in film history because of "Citizen Kane" and other films, he had already left Hollywood for many years in the 1970s, and his artistic creation has long since been inferior to before. It can be said that he is outdated. Celebrity. And the reason why he left Hollywood, in addition to the box office failure of many films in the later period, is also one of the important reasons for his irritability and difficult to get along with others.
5. In order to shoot the dunes in his mind, Jordu invited a large number of famous people such as Pink Floyd, O'Bannon, HR Giger, Mickey Jagger, Dali, Orson Welles and so on. character, and the protagonist of the film, Paul, plays the role of his own son. And his son's acting career was tied to his father, both before and after that.
6. Regarding the length of the film, Jordu expressed contempt for the one and a half hours proposed by the studio, saying that he wanted to make "12 or even 20 hours of film". However, Jordu did not offer even his own solution to the question of where such a long-running film should be shown.
7. (emphasis) The second half of this documentary has been talking about how Hollywood studios don't want to see Jordu himself, especially the fact that they don't want Jodore to guide him, and based on this, we come to the conclusion that "they are all big idiots, bastards" in conclusion. However, the film did not interview the Hollywood studio executives at the time to find out why they didn't want to see Jodor, other than those involved in the filming of Jodor and Dune. Even if there is a possibility that there are no interview channels or the parties are unwilling to be interviewed, the director of this documentary does not raise this issue with Jordu and others in the film. In other words, the point of view provided by this film is only one side of Jodor's words.
8. (emphasis) After telling about the miscarriage of Jordan's Dune project, this documentary immediately jumped to the release of David Lynch's version of Dune, giving the audience the impression that "Hollywood executives chose Lynch immediately after abandoning Jordan". . However, with a little understanding of the relevant behind-the-scenes history, you can easily find out that the original Hollywood choice was not David Lynch, but Ridley Scott, who decided to quit the Dune project because of the death of his brother. Before taking over Dune, Ridley Scott had just made "Alien"; after quitting, he made "Blade Runner", both of which are immortal masterpieces in the history of science fiction movies.
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