Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!don From: don@allegra.UUCP (D. Mitchell) Newsgroups: net.movies,net.sf-lovers Subject: Dune should be 4 hours Message-ID: <2963@allegra.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 18:18:26 EST Article-I.D.: allegra.2963 Posted: Tue Dec 18 18:18:26 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Dec-84 03:00:12 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 23 Xref: watmath net.movies:5280 net.sf-lovers:5408 I would like to know if there is really a 4-hour version of Dune. Is that just a rumor? I have certainly seen stills that were not in the movie (e.g. Shadout Mapes confronting Jessica with a crysknife). My main objection to the movie was that it was edited down to incoherence. (Why show Kynes being cast out when you are never told he is the secret leader of the Fremen?) If there is a 4 hour version, it is certain to appear in Greenwich Village and a few other pockets of civilization. (OK, that should have gone to net.gloat. Sorry.) I guess a lot of people are objecting to Lynch's overall vision of Dune. I think that is just conservatism. Lynch has an amazing imagination. So don't miss this movie because someone tells you it is too weird or because someone thinks there should be comedy relief (what an appalling suggestion for Dune!). If you read the interviews with Lynch, you will see that he has a lot of respect for the story (maybe more than it deserves). He has thought about what things would look like after an anti-automation revolution. And how does the corrupt and Byzantine politics of the time effect the imagery. Should we be shocked if Dune looks more like Satyricon than Starwars?