It’s peppered with surreal touches and underscored by a sense of the uncanny. The movie firmly establishes its own world that doesn’t look or sound like anything that came before it. The exceptionally promising but still young filmmaker only had two feature films ( Eraseherhead and The Elephant Man) under his belt when he tackled Dune. Not to mention how best to balance the characters, perspectives, backstory, plot points, concepts, themes and personal touches that make the cut. The major stumbling block for everyone who has tried hasn’t been a matter of how to bring it to the screen, but how much of its almost 500 pages (not including the appendixes) they can and should include. Many of its most iconic scenes-Paul Atreides’ shield practice, his visions of a mysterious woman he feels he knows, the Reverend Mother’s test, Lady Jessica using the voice, the appearance of Baron Harkonnen-have successfully made the leap from the page multiple times now, with each variation offering its own effective mix of faithfulness to the text and artistic license.ĭune isn’t so much unfilmable as it is uncontainable.
Its landscapes, its technology, its people and its fantastical creatures, from the sandworms to the guild navigator, are all primed for visual realization. There’s a great deal about Dune that is inherently cinematic, though.
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