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> I can't think of another director from the time that would have done justice to the novel Alejandro Jodorowsky?

weeksie 8y ago
Fair.
FullMetalBitch 8y ago
Jodoroski dune was crazy and not in the dune way, his ideas were interesting in an artsy way but it wasn't dune, I think he didn't even read the book
- duskwuff 8y ago
  It would not have been a faithful adaptation of Dune. It might not have even bore a passing resemblance to the novel! But it would have been one hell of a film.
aldoushuxley001 8y ago
I hope someone eventually reworks their massive storyboard into a Dune movie. They literally did all of the work already.
- egypturnash 8y ago
  Storyboards are just the beginning. There is a lot of work between even the most polished storyboards and the final product. Go find one of the Marvel films, skip to the credits, and watch them all the way through; pretty much everyone in that list would have been hired after the boards were done, and worked for a year or three. Don't fast-forward. Don't get up and pee. Don't get distracted by Deadpool popping up and making a fart joke. Just let the amount of work that goes into modern effects-heavy movies sink in.
- crooked-v 8y ago
  Didn't that storyboard work out to something like twenty hours of screen time?
yourapostasy 8y ago
I offer Tor's contrary opinion [1] about Jodorowsky's Dune adaptation. Another comment in this thread is correct: he was not even closely faithful to the original Herbert story. There are good reasons that no one wants to finance a project as big as Dune for someone as mainstream controversial/unstable as Jodorowsky. His nuttiness might play well to an art house crowd, but there is no way you would ever get your money back for a mainstream film done by him, and for the lavishness of his vision of Dune, the size of the bankroll requires a mainstream audience to pencil out the numbers. In my linked article, there was a great comment about him: the dude rolled a natural 20 on charisma. But he's off the charts weird would be the kindest characterization. There are far more malign and dark claims made about him that you can search up on him on the Net, but none substantiated enough to land him behind bars to date. Though that one screen-capped tweet in the comments alone makes him pretty odious to my sensibilities. The descriptions of him sounds like a sociopath to me personally, but I don't know the guy so I can't tell what is really going on. Other than I wouldn't bank a wooden nickel on him. [1] https://www.tor.com/2017/05/02/jodorowskys-dune-didnt-get-made-for-a-reason-and-we-should-all-be-grateful/ https://www.tor.com/2017/05/02/jodorowskys-dune-didnt-get-ma...
- stareatgoats 8y ago
  Jodorowsky comes across as a borderline pervert slash self-ordained slash self-perceived genius charismatic prophet in the current zeitgeist. It's hard for people to understand that in "hippie" circles ca 1970 this was much the norm, and that such "geniuses" were a dime a dozen, each with a some following. We are wiser now, but for sure: characters that are in vogue nowadays (uncertain which) will likely be abhorred at some point in the future too.
  - yourapostasy 8y ago
    > ...in "hippie" circles ca 1970 this was much the norm... I've read that justification for him and hearing that, I can't shake the sense that just makes him an art fossil that never paid attention to the evolving cultural norms around him. So he just plows ahead and makes art for a world that passed into history; that's uncharitable for someone who is hailed by art cognoscenti. I jokingly maintain he must possess an RDF that rivals or even outshines Jobs', he has access to awesome drugs, and has an unique ability to remember his trips in great detail.
DanCarvajal 8y ago
The guy who described his vision as "raping Dune"?

Fair.

Jodoroski dune was crazy and not in the dune way, his ideas were interesting in an artsy way but it wasn't dune, I think he didn't even read the book

duskwuff 8y ago
It would not have been a faithful adaptation of Dune. It might not have even bore a passing resemblance to the novel! But it would have been one hell of a film.

aldoushuxley001 8y ago

I hope someone eventually reworks their massive storyboard into a Dune movie. They literally did all of the work already.

egypturnash 8y ago
Storyboards are just the beginning. There is a lot of work between even the most polished storyboards and the final product. Go find one of the Marvel films, skip to the credits, and watch them all the way through; pretty much everyone in that list would have been hired after the boards were done, and worked for a year or three. Don't fast-forward. Don't get up and pee. Don't get distracted by Deadpool popping up and making a fart joke. Just let the amount of work that goes into modern effects-heavy movies sink in.
crooked-v 8y ago
Didn't that storyboard work out to something like twenty hours of screen time?

yourapostasy 8y ago

I offer Tor's contrary opinion [1] about Jodorowsky's Dune adaptation. Another comment in this thread is correct: he was not even closely faithful to the original Herbert story. There are good reasons that no one wants to finance a project as big as Dune for someone as mainstream controversial/unstable as Jodorowsky. His nuttiness might play well to an art house crowd, but there is no way you would ever get your money back for a mainstream film done by him, and for the lavishness of his vision of Dune, the size of the bankroll requires a mainstream audience to pencil out the numbers. In my linked article, there was a great comment about him: the dude rolled a natural 20 on charisma. But he's off the charts weird would be the kindest characterization. There are far more malign and dark claims made about him that you can search up on him on the Net, but none substantiated enough to land him behind bars to date. Though that one screen-capped tweet in the comments alone makes him pretty odious to my sensibilities. The descriptions of him sounds like a sociopath to me personally, but I don't know the guy so I can't tell what is really going on. Other than I wouldn't bank a wooden nickel on him. [1] https://www.tor.com/2017/05/02/jodorowskys-dune-didnt-get-made-for-a-reason-and-we-should-all-be-grateful/ https://www.tor.com/2017/05/02/jodorowskys-dune-didnt-get-ma...

stareatgoats 8y ago
Jodorowsky comes across as a borderline pervert slash self-ordained slash self-perceived genius charismatic prophet in the current zeitgeist. It's hard for people to understand that in "hippie" circles ca 1970 this was much the norm, and that such "geniuses" were a dime a dozen, each with a some following. We are wiser now, but for sure: characters that are in vogue nowadays (uncertain which) will likely be abhorred at some point in the future too.
- yourapostasy 8y ago
  > ...in "hippie" circles ca 1970 this was much the norm... I've read that justification for him and hearing that, I can't shake the sense that just makes him an art fossil that never paid attention to the evolving cultural norms around him. So he just plows ahead and makes art for a world that passed into history; that's uncharitable for someone who is hailed by art cognoscenti. I jokingly maintain he must possess an RDF that rivals or even outshines Jobs', he has access to awesome drugs, and has an unique ability to remember his trips in great detail.

DanCarvajal 8y ago

The guy who described his vision as "raping Dune"?