This kind of beginning always seems to give people a bitter illusion. However, although the ending of "Dune" is a bit tragic, director Frank Pavic did not deliberately exaggerate the seemingly unconvincing grief, but skillfully unfolded Jodorowsky's memory map. The formation and creative process of the entire team of "Dune" have been carefully and humorously sorted out, such as how Zuo Shi and his producers cheated Salvador Dali, a Taurus man, with a super high salary of $100,000 per minute. Fang Xin (actually only gave Dali three or five minutes of the scene), and how to pretend to hire a chef from a top restaurant to make Orson Welles, a gluttonous Taurus man, willing to take the bait. Of course, in addition to the humor inherent in Jodorowsky's style, the documentary itself also fits in with it. Take the part of the crew convincing Orson Welles for example, after he just agreed to join the crew, a picture of a meaty Wells (he and the old Marlon Brando in his later years also called Hollywood II "The Mountain of People") ”) The photo of Zhile with a glass of wine appeared in front of his eyes, which made people laugh.
The ending of the story came cleanly and forcefully: Jodorowsky failed, unsurprisingly. In the face of Zoe's "Twenty or Thirty Hours" giant epic, it is impossible for the production company to pin its hopes on a nobody from Mexico. You know, six or seven years ago, the $10.5 million film "2001: A Space Odyssey", which was often less than three hours ago, had put producer MGM on the verge of collapse, and the asking price of "Dune" was $15 million. "This film wasn't made because people were afraid of it"; or, Hollywood simply couldn't afford to have such an apocalyptic work with such a avant-garde approach and such audacious imagination, so the dream eventually came to nothing and stayed on paper forever. On the surface, even the storyboard script lying quietly on the table almost captured the soul of several large studios. On the other hand, there are reasons to doubt Jodorowsky's abilities. But in fact, if you've seen Zoe's 1960s films "Fandor and Liz" (1967) and "The Mole" (1970) and "Holy Mountain" (1973) just before "Dune", this kind of Concerns will also be completely dispelled, because the absurd and bizarre storylines of Jodorowsky’s cult films, the unconventional sequence of shots, and the deep and hazy religious meaning in it, I am afraid that it is difficult to compare to this day. By. What Dune needs is a combination of all of these.
"The devil in our pockets, these incredible amounts of money! They are nothing! There is nothing in these scraps of paper! ... Why can't I do something meaningful!" 84-year-old Jodorowsky confronted The camera roars. The nobility, passion and helplessness of an artist seem to have crossed the gap of time at this moment, and re-attached to this body that seems to have never been alive again. Ironically, "Jodorowsky's Dunes" was shortlisted for the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary, but then fell out of the top five. Jodorowsky's double Hollywood-Oscar "failure" undoubtedly has some special meaning, which is reminiscent of a wonderful passage in Jodorowsky's 1973 world-shattering work "The Holy Mountain" Self-mockery: When a group of saints steer clear of a shabby-looking bar at the foot of the holy mountain, the owner scratches his head and yells, "I built the academy! You can win a trophy every year! Idiots, you don't know you've lost it. What! You could have made history, but now we will forget you!"
At the end of Jodorowsky's "Dune", Paul sacrificed himself for all mankind, but he did not actually die, because as the Messiah of all mankind, Paul has descended on everyone's head, everyone Began to shout "I am Paul", just like Jodorowsky dreamed of breaking "Dune", but "Dune" saved science fiction movies and became the "savior" of all soft science fiction movies. From "Star Wars", "Terminator" to "The Battle of Time and Space", "Macro Contact", and "Prometheus" in the new century, all of these inherit the mantle of Zoe's "Dune". "My whole life has been creating, and the results have been increasing. The human mind is like the universe, which is constantly expanding." Jodorowsky said this, his thoughts were still "redshifting". His new work "Poems of the Endless" is also slowly written in the endless "red shift".
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