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From: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: DUNE
Message-ID: <6244@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 20:47:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  3 20:47:50 1985
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Reply-To: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP (Peter Reiher)
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In article <344@cubsvax.UUCP> eli@cubsvax.UUCP (Eli Haddad) writes:
>Does anyone know that DUNE was a 4 hr long movie that was edited to
>around 2 hrs. If anyone was lucky to see the whole thing tell me
>how it was. 

As I understand it (based on interviews with David Lynch and a question and
answer session with Frank Herbert), this isn't quite correct.  Every scene
in the book was shot (plus, obviously, a few that were not), resulting in
much more than 4 hrs worth of footage (more like 6 hrs, I'd guess).  In an
attempt to make it more marketable, Lynch cut it down to about 2 1/2 hrs.,
losing far too much important stuff.  Herbert hopes that the complete footage
will be shown on television as a miniseries, much as the two Godfather movies
plus extra footage were shown.  He also hopes to get rid of the rain at the
end.

I have never heard of there being a 4 hr cut, though I have little doubt that,
at some point in the editing process, the incomplete film ran that long.  I
doubt if there was actually a showable 4 hr. print complete with corrected
color, fully mixed sound, etc.
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        			Peter Reiher
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