Honestly, I don't think so.
The legend of the people involved in the project of this film alone is enough for the founder Jodorowsky to be proud of his life. The important participants in the whole film are:
△Original work: Frank Herbert, author of the novel version of "Dune" (Dune)
△Director: Jodorowsky, cult filmmaker
▲Screenwriter: Dan O'Bannon , Screenwriter of "Alien"
△Soundtrack: Pink Floyd, British Rock Band (I'm not familiar with the music)
▲Character design, character art, first draft of the storyboard: Moebius, the god of comics in the French comic industry
▲Monster design, monster art: HR Giger, the alien appearance in "Alien" came out of his hands
▲Actor: Orson Welles, it should go without saying who it is
▲Actor: Salvador Dalí, yes the painter Dali
△Actor: Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones The members
(▲=I know who it is and it’s important to know, △=I don’t know very well)
is a single lineup. In our view in 2014, it can certainly be called a star team in the film industry.
The project was proposed in 1973, but the film project was abandoned in 1975 due to funding problems.
In 1975, George Lucas' Star Wars series came to an end, and the era of space opera and sci-fi movies came. At this time, the film company wanted to start "Dune" again, but did not want to use Yudulowski's money-burning version, and instead hired another director who was originally going to shoot Star Wars to take the adaptation rights and act in the mirror.
In 1979, the official version of "The Castle of the Dunes" was released. The cost of 40 million US dollars was only exchanged for more than 20 million US dollars. as David Woodland.
David's version of Dune, I haven't seen it. And Yuduloski said that when he saw his project in the theater being made into garbage by the director he loved, he was heartbroken.
Yudulowski tried very hard to emphasize the epoch-making of this film, in fact, there are too many unimaginable concepts of such modernity in it. For example, in the prologue of the movie he conceived, the effect he wanted was for the camera to gallop into the Dune Galaxy from one end of the universe, pass through the nebula and the wreckage of the battleship, cut into the stratosphere of the Dune star to look down on the full mirror, and then slowly pull in to the The figure of the protagonist riding a bicycle in the desert... Just listening to it, I know that this is the first scene that should be played in the computer CG era. In 1973, I couldn't make it, and the model couldn't do it. I can blame the boss. Do you want to give money after reading the plan?
Of course, it's easy to sing the praises of how incomparable the film's lineup is, but there are so many records in film history where a golden lineup ends up being a bad movie. Most of these geeks were young men back then, but today, they each made achievements in their own fields, but their respective strengths may not necessarily be the same, making the whole more outstanding. What's more, how did the young men who couldn't produce the report card in those days convince the boss and the audience that they had the potential to change the world?
Our opinion of this lineup, or perhaps Yuduloski's intentional misdirection, is that we tend to look at the situation in terms of what we have achieved now. In 2014, after watching the excellent Alien in 1979, we learned that the original case of the Alien was out of the Dune project, and the screenwriter Dan O'Bannon hooked up with the monster designer HR Giger to find Riley Scott. Therefore, it is natural to associate the brilliance of the original Dune with the achievements of "Alien" more or less. It's also too easy to use a rough addition to convert the brilliance of the original Dune to the sum of the past achievements of Yuduloski and Moebius and Pink Floyd and Orson Welles.
There are no ifs in the movie, and everything can’t be determined until the film is cut.
That's why when we watch Jodorowsky's Dune and feel shocked, what we're thinking about is a lament about the movie's unfinished business, or an anecdote that we want to see a good movie with a golden lineup. What about the smell?
Although this group did not make a movie, the intermittent creations after separation have become popular, and they have become movie classics, and Morbis has become a comic master. If they were still young and cheap, they made movies together, wouldn't the history of science fiction movies from Star Wars Alien to be rewritten? This is all a delusion of later achievement.
Anyway, the movie has not been filmed, let the fans take a look at the whole picture of the original plan, Nanke Yimeng, relying on imagination to overcome the addiction, it will not be very good. In other words, if you want the audience to use their imaginations to make up an unfinished film, and have the most beautiful pleasure of dreaming, it is the artistic effect that "Death of a Wonderful Movie" hopes.
The film was originally titled "Jodorowsky's Dune", and the title teased a territorial move to the 1979 version of the dunes. However, the Chinese title of the Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival, "Death of a Wonderful Film", may convey a better meaning. The real epic movies are not the sand dunes in David Woods, nor Yudulowski's; the most fascinating masterpieces are actually the dunes imagined by the audience.
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