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Yeah, it is thanks to these two movies that modern scifi and its visual development side of things exists basically

Retric 4y ago
They popularized these styles but they existed in other mediums. What’s fascinating is looking at all the different styles Dune the dune book covers had over time to see how various mediums influenced things. https://www.biblio.com/dune-by-herbert-frank/work/3104 https://www.biblio.com/dune-by-herbert-frank/work/3104
- CyanBird 4y ago
  That's a good angle But that's the thing, jodos dune came as an aggregate of "non-movie" mediums, because jodorowsky was not a cinematographer by trade he was an avant garde theater person, giger, Dali, moebius, Foss, neither of them "were part" of the "movies" medium, they all and the rest of the crew were painters or writers or musicians, comic book artists, not cinematographers per se, in that sense what jodorowsky set to do was not even a movie as we might think of one today, but an agglomeration of different types and styles of art with all their own individual Influences mixed in I think today, it would be nearly impossible for "works" to exist and not have been inspired themselves in some degree by the downstream effects and inspiration that jodorowskys movie had, just think that starwars itself is inspired by it But anyhow, it is a quite interesting food for thought If anyone knows of some niche modern scifi books or works which might not be influenced by this failed dune movie let me know, I love this stuff
  - atwood22 4y ago
    Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake seems to derive very little from classic science fiction. Perhaps this is because she’s a woman, and thus less drawn to teenage male fantasies like those found in Dune.
  - Wildgoose 4y ago
    Star Wars. No, seriously. Jodorowksy's concept was widely circulated in Hollywood but nobody would take the risk. Enter George Lucas, just riffing on the original idea.
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They popularized these styles but they existed in other mediums. What’s fascinating is looking at all the different styles Dune the dune book covers had over time to see how various mediums influenced things. https://www.biblio.com/dune-by-herbert-frank/work/3104 https://www.biblio.com/dune-by-herbert-frank/work/3104

CyanBird 4y ago
That's a good angle But that's the thing, jodos dune came as an aggregate of "non-movie" mediums, because jodorowsky was not a cinematographer by trade he was an avant garde theater person, giger, Dali, moebius, Foss, neither of them "were part" of the "movies" medium, they all and the rest of the crew were painters or writers or musicians, comic book artists, not cinematographers per se, in that sense what jodorowsky set to do was not even a movie as we might think of one today, but an agglomeration of different types and styles of art with all their own individual Influences mixed in I think today, it would be nearly impossible for "works" to exist and not have been inspired themselves in some degree by the downstream effects and inspiration that jodorowskys movie had, just think that starwars itself is inspired by it But anyhow, it is a quite interesting food for thought If anyone knows of some niche modern scifi books or works which might not be influenced by this failed dune movie let me know, I love this stuff
- atwood22 4y ago
  Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake seems to derive very little from classic science fiction. Perhaps this is because she’s a woman, and thus less drawn to teenage male fantasies like those found in Dune.
- Wildgoose 4y ago
  Star Wars. No, seriously. Jodorowksy's concept was widely circulated in Hollywood but nobody would take the risk. Enter George Lucas, just riffing on the original idea.

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