Under the shell of science fiction, this story wraps the core of religion-yes, this connotation is old enough. But DAVID LYNCH (hereinafter referred to as DL) used an even more ancient technique to make it into a two-hour movie. ——It is hard for me to imagine that it was a work from the 1980s, a sci-fi work! !
The whole story is about how everyone fights for the spice—the spice is more important to them than gold to us—and a savior was born from it (the movie says clearly, messiah).
However, the boring and stupidity of film laying is completely dragging the times.
In addition to the narration (and the beginning which seems to mimic the narrative style of the photo shoot more than half a century ago), there are endless inner monologues interspersed throughout the movie! ——It’s so spectacular, this Nima rarely sees such a way of expression——"Just what is that?" Unexpectedly)! Oh yeah! !
What's more terrible is that the performance inside—I observed it carefully—retains many ancient theatrical performances. Do not believe? You can look at those details, especially in individual fighting scenes. The characters are not beaten, they are touched and then automatically fall over! There is also the battle scene of the sound weapon part, exaggerated, oh no, from today's eyes (even in the 80s), it should be said that it is funny! (Watching a group of people illogically standing on the backs of the big bugs and shouting strange noises, then oh yeah, I'm speechless)
There are still pictures that are holding back. This terrible movie was made in 1984-if he said it was in 1948, I would say it is a classic! But in 84...? Haven't you seen STAR WARS? Even if it is not compared with the level of SW, there are already too many good science fiction movies and magic movies in the 1980s... (in fact, this movie is not so sci-fi, at least, not so "hard"). On the screen, there seems to be nothing more than the already very common bluescreen and model technology at the time, and it is not refined at this point. At least, the keying technology level of bluescreen is comparable to that of dragonslayer. Even the childhood children's fantasy film Neverending Story is better than him! Not to mention Blade Runner. (Actually, I want to say that Ultraman in the 70s has done a good job in the screen!)
When it comes to special effects, you have to talk about its costume props and so on... It's
really Baroque... It's terrible, it's the future. Retro pandemic! I seem to see a group of guys driving a spaceship more than a hundred years ago... The whole process, the whole movie, I now want to wonder if I didn't nap (although, I still can't tell which century I am in)! !
In addition to performances, expressions, pictures, and the whole storytelling method. It upholds the virtue of being calm and procrastinating in all ancient movies. At that time, people’s life was not so fast. Maybe the audience had a bucket of popcorn and didn’t care how the cowboys on the screen rode slowly. Shake the horse! But in the 1980s, the audience probably stopped buying this account, let alone today?! (Otherwise, why did the ticket purchase fail?) And the whole movie is too lacking in suspense and foreshadowing. For example, before the male pig’s feet say that insects and spices are one, it is easy for the audience to produce results (because there was a hint before, There is too much time between the suggestion and the solution of the mystery), plus the performance is either exaggerated or not in place, there is nothing sensational...!
Finally, I want to talk about the plot.
Of course, the plot is based on the novel. Although as far as I know he has made a lot of ruthless changes to the novel—even though I don’t know if DL is a diehard fan or not, how else would he have the idea of making a full-length movie (Tucao: where he thought he was, no, it was Which era? Except for the terrible 3-hour movie called the birth of a country in the 1, 20s and so on, who would dare to do that? Of course, DL didn't do it completely)!
Although the novel gives a world structure, there is nothing novel. In fact, it is a re-enactment of a feudal world built in the distant future. In fact, I think Dune is a fantasy built on the shell of science fiction. It seems to be more mysterious than the STAR WARS OT trilogy, such as superpowers and prophecies. Wait (Of course, a lot of science fiction nowadays is actually like this, the science fiction part is just the background of the background). Of course, I am not good at evaluating novels. The author has been writing, and there have been changes in his thoughts, which will always be poured into the novel. But its core ideas have never been any predictions, forward-looking for the future, and imagined future technology (such as Asimov) or society (such as 1984, Brave New World).
But the film adaptation will be injected by the producer. The new connotation, which may not be the author originally. I don't know what DL thought at the time. Maybe, he wanted to do an experiment, but it turned out to be a freak (funds? Time?).
I saw a comment that it was DL who said that the film was not good because he did not have editing rights, which is really absurd. This movie has been released in several versions, and the theater version is just approved by the director. Besides... the problem with this movie is not the editing at all. As I said before, it has too many funny settings... It is precisely these funny parts that later people regard it as a cult movie!
However, it is a pity that most of the labels of cult movies are written by fans in wishful thinking. How many will be like TIM BURTON deliberately filming a spoof cult? Back then, ED WOOD, the king of bad movies, desperately collected money to experiment and shoot cult (oh, there was no concept of cult movie at that time)? It's because his film is so bad, so bad and funny (actually, I think it's better than many domestic TV movies), and he was rated as a cult god by posterity!
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