I see the truth of it.
Could he be the one?
Maybe, but will he be ours to control?
There are some books that should never
be made into movies Moby Dick is one
of them. It's been made several times now, and
it's never made well, Moby Dick is one of
those things that is a book. Leave it as
a book, as we say in Yiddish Zol zein,
let be, don't mess with it,
there's some things you just don't screw with.
Well I always thought that about
Dune I thought Dune was one of those
books that read well, and in the theater
of your mind, your imagination could make
it far more opulent,
sexier, more adventurous more dark and
many-layered than you ever could in a
film.
I must not fear.  Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear... I will
permit it to pass over me and through me.
Maclachlan is not a great thespian,
is not Gielgud, he is not sir Ralph
Richardson, he's a perfectly competent
actor and in this case he was young and
I think a little frightened and did a
perfectly yeoman job, but Francesca Annis
and Max von Sydow and and everybody else
in the cast the characters are so
individual even Sting, Sting really
"I will kill you" all of them were just the
most wonderful kind of repertory company.
None of the critics for the exception of
David Ansen and myself of course I was
not a major critic but my stuff got
around, gave it a good review
it was almost universally panned.
I'll miss the sea
but a person needs new experiences
they jar something deep inside, allowing them to grow.
Most of what Universal did in my
view, in my view, is indefensible
they had no faith in the film they had
no hutzpah they had no balls
they had no no courage
This I think is one of the
linchpins of Dune's importance, that it
ever actually got made. It was a book
that shouldn't have been shot it was a
script that couldn't have been written
it was a directorial job that was beyond
anyone's doing, it was a production that
would beggar the imagination and
bankrupt three Studios, it was a
production that could not possibly be
marketed in any way that anyone could
understand or that they would go to it
didn't hit its audience, it looked like
it insulted its audience
it looked like it defamed its
originator and yet the film was made.
Long live Duke Leto!
and yet the film remains, after all these
you know we're talking decades here this
film still holds up and when you go back
and you look at it you are drawn into it
