Modern dune cinema If you think documentary films are boring, boring and even far from the very nature of cinema, it is better to immediately delete your profile on the PC, so that you no longer have to deal with films. If you are afraid, you can start familiarizing yourself with documentary films with projects about our favorite topic – about cinema. “Frank Pavic’s Dune” succinctly and tastefully shows how much magical and alluring cinema is able to breathe a huge stream of inspiration into the creator, and at the same time it can give a crushing blow to ambition, when crisp money creeps up loudly, without which, no matter how twist, it is impossible to produce any large-scale project. Yes, the scale of the film adaptation of the novel by Frank Herbert was truly gigantic, what the viewer learns from an hour and a half documentary.
At the time of the film’s release, Alejandro Jodorowski was 84 years old. It is now closer than ever to the 90th anniversary. In general, watching him on the screen, when he energetically and fascinatingly talked about the process of preparatory work for the filming of Dune, it is easy to come to a sad thought: this crazy Chilean could create something unprecedented, but the defeat in the battle for funding and creative freedom affected the director. It was very painful for him. Imagine, a promising author shot "Fando and Fox", "Mole", "Holy Mountain", here he is on the verge of creating a masterpiece (or a loud failure), there is a little left, and then all the doors are closed, all the windows are closed and heavy curtains are not extended. It seems that Alejandro Jodorowski never recovered to the end, although in the film he does not abandon the idea that someone after his death will be able to film the novel according to his thick guide to making films.
Denis Villeneuve himself is a great man, but it is still unknown what he will do with the upcoming project on Dune. It is quite possible that this will be a neat film adaptation for a wide range of viewers for the absence of madness and shock. But the Chilean director was looking for spiritual warriors who were supposed to be with him on the same wavelength. The madman even refused to cooperate with Douglas Trumball, the best specialist in special effects at the time! Two unpleasant and spectacular characters were to be played by Salvador Dali, Orson Welles and Mick Jagger. And what sketches were developed! Dan O’Bannon (yes, the one who will pair up with Ronald Schusett), Mobius, Hans Rudolf Giger, Pink Floyd, Magma: all these guys were hired on the condition that they were as crazy as the director himself. It was like the beginning of the adventure of the best warriors.
Since Dune by Alejandro Jodorowski did not see the light of day, the world saw Star Wars, which was a kind of breakthrough in the presentation of a completely new world. What would it be like to rent "Dune"? It's too late to find answers. After the project was frozen, many of the work of the film crew spread throughout Hollywood, which were later used in many notable films of the 80s. When Mr. Jodorowski learned that Dune would eventually be filmed, he was a little happy because he trusted David Lynch’s vision, but refused to watch the film. When I saw it, I started laughing. Why? Suffice it to watch a documentary by Frank Pavic, who without excessive pathos, voiceover text and blockbuster stuff shows a brisk old man who once lost his main battle. He could have made history with a masterpiece or stayed on the side of the road with a terrible failure. Neither happened. After all, the producers of those times did not accept spice.
But now they are actively taking, since everyone is renting any misunderstandings under the guise of artistic creations.