I cried while watching Jodorowsky's Dune. It was indeed what Jodo said. This film, and even the afterimage I see now, is an opening of the mind. At the end of the film, he said, (This work) was ambitious, but not too. Was ambitious. "You can be ambitious, but not too much" - this must be a wrong translation, he is not such an incomplete person. I think he's trying to say that his vision is not as ambitious as the Hollywood studios think it is, everything is possible if you dare to open your mind with him. I know everyone watching this movie will Attracted by his abundant expressiveness, creativity, appeal, and action, he has such a charisma that he can make people believe and devote himself to such a cause that changes the imagination of the film industry and even all mankind.
He said he raped Frank Herbert and adapted it to this ending: When Paul was killed, his consciousness entered everyone, and when the whole humanity get enlightened, the planet Arrakis came to life, covers itself with vegetation. Forests, sea, green dune… Dune becomes a conscious planet, a planet of the same consciousness as Paul, thus becoming a Messiah of the planets, and finally it travels through the galaxy, bringing light to the other planets (both literally and figuratively), until finally leaving the galaxy.
Looking at their manuscripts with different styles, listening to them talk about how to create such artistic and spiritual creations, I began to share with them the possibility and the regret: This system make of us slaves, without dignity, without depth… Movies have heart (Jodo, who imitates his heartbeat with a low "Boom! Boom! Boom!" sound), have mind (his hands are ripping from his forehead to the sides as if his mind is expanding), have power, have ambition. His idea was decades ahead of its time, generations, and it was not accepted in the end, and of course disappointed, too disappointed to watch the version that David Lynch took over to complete at first, but Jodorowsky said he would say yes to everything, shoot Dune? Yes! Stop shooting? Yes! I had to admire him even more.
It didn't make it, but the imagination of him and the whole team has penetrated into the minds of other filmmakers through the scattered drawings. Such a beautiful and bold thing cannot be forgotten, so I have learned from many other films. I have seen most of the movies mentioned in the film, Star Wars (I didn't finish this one), Indiana Jones, Terminator, Alien, Blade Runner, The Matrix... Critics said, This is a movie that never got made, but it has its fingerprints in so many movies that came afterwards. He said Jodorowsky's Dune was like a planet, and near miss the earth, but managed to seed the earth with these amazing spores. I felt a wonderful sense of connection, my past, the shock and imagination I had watching these films, these shots, these visual effects, the karate that Jodorowsky's son learned to play Paul, and the final unfinished Dune. In response, everything is closely linked together, like the momentary touch of these two time-spaces extending on two parallel lines, I was touched at this moment indescribably.
Friends who have seen last year's Dune have visual characters, I strongly recommend that you go to see the Jodo version of the drawings.
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