The director's movie has seen one "Holy Blood" so far, and out of love for "Holy Blood" and admiration for the director's talent, I participated in this movie viewing event. Although the theme is "Dune", after watching it, what attracted me more than "Dune" was the director's passion for filmmaking.
I noticed in the documentary (released in 2013) that the director mentioned the age as 84 years old. In the interviews, his eyes, facial expressions and some actions when talking about selflessness caught my eye very much. It’s hard to imagine being 84 years old. The old age can have such penetrating eyes, especially when it comes to the production of "Dune", the eyes are simply shining. One of the interviews that fascinated me is that the director said that his version changed the ending of the original version, and the ending made Dune a planet as full of life and hope as the earth. Although the animation demonstration spoils the ending of the protagonist, it expresses what I personally think the director's attitude towards the movie - making a dream, a movie is a dream, a movie showing a dream, and a movie perfecting the dream. When I watched "Holy Blood" at the time, I felt that the director was very good at expressing the perfection, fantasy, and purity in art films. Before, I had never seen a film that was very far from commercial films and very close to art films. The other is an interview about ambition. Most people must be ashamed to talk about their ambitions. "Dune" is nothing more than an ambition for the director. In the documentary, the director did not shy away from expressing his expectations for "Dune" boldly and directly, and even felt that the director was in between words. Creators are encouraged to have this trait. Decades later, the director of the documentary still seems to be in that mood. After watching the documentary, I have a lot of questions to think about. For artistic creation, what is the core we need. Is it passion? Is it ambition? Or both? Or is it some other trait? Why do we need it? What can it bring to artistic creation? What can you bring to art creators?
The director's "Dune" stopped for a number of reasons. Stopping is the result, and documentaries certainly don't exist for the result. It spared no effort to show the director's investment in "Dune". Although the director's film concept is that art precedes technology, in order to present "Dune" to the greatest extent, he also invited relevant professionals in film production, so that The second half of the documentary mentioned the influenced sci-fi works, and the back and forth switching of the work clips and the sub-shots in the collection all revealed pride. In multiple versions of "Dune", we are still amazed at the character setting and sub-shots of the pioneering "Dune" of the last century. Although the movie "Dune" did not appear, the production concept of the movie "Dune" is everywhere.
Yes, I learned from the documentary that the director's "Dune" did not really appear on the screen, but in the documentary "Jodorowsky's Dune", it was recreated and reborn. In just one and a half hours, it is very scary for the production team to bring out such a regrettable past, but about the enthusiasm and ambition to make "Dune", as well as the interview with the director, it is really worth recalling again and again.
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