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Fun DUNE Storyboards!
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El Cosmico here, with some cool storyboards from the upcoming DUNE miniseries from the Sci-Fi Channel. FUN!
Oh, and a quick note to the um...delusional in the previous Survivor rumor talkback. Let's see. My favorite talkback quote said "AICN has been posting rumors as fact for a while now," Okay, did you read the title of the article? It's called "Yet Another Survivor RUMOR". The article also said "Maybe it's true, maybe it's not, only time will tell." Words are fun, huh? Like, when they have meaning? Ah, but the trick is, people must read and understand them. I think I'm going to recommend a whole bunch of you guys to the Reading Is Fun program. Send out some guys in white coats for you. Hee hee!
Okay, on to the storyboards, which detail the sequence in which Paul is being stalked by the "Hunter-Killer" device. There are five, rather large, here they are:
Good stuff. Of course, people who've seen the Lynch film will be familiar with this sequence, but this particular version looks quite intense. Can't wait to see this stuff. Of course, we'll all get a new sneak peek at this series during the upcoming (next week, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday) UK miniseries, ULTRAVIOLET, also on the Sci-Fi Channel. I'll be reviewing that series tomorrow.
-El Cosmico
mail me at: elcosmico@aintitcool.com
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Just as long as they don't have a voiceover with Paul's thoughts... ugh. David Lynch, what were you thinking?
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Am I the only one out here that thinks this Dune miniseries is a stupid idea? Why would the Sci-Fi channel (with it's notoriously cheesy production quality) even attempt such an epic story?
I can see it now, Paul is going to be riding gummy worms around. Oh brother. -
I mean, have you ever SEEN storyboards before? This is what they're SUPPOSED to look like. Jeez. How ignorant.
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Besides, to the dil that doesn't understand that THEY'RE JUST STORYBOARDS AND THEY LOOK LIKE STICK FIGURES, they're made to help the DIRECTOR'S VISION OF HOW HE INTERPRETS THE LAYOUT OF THE SCENES DURING FILMING! Storyboards don't have to be perfect, they are created by the artist to help the director. You want art? Go to a fucking museum! What film school did you go to?! Stevie Wonder's?! Damn! Go watch some cartoons and get the hell off this talkback! I, for one, am looking forward to this mini series as its six hours and faithful to the book. Its obvious, the director, his crew and the visual effects guys know what they're doing from the preview that I saw. If that trailer at the San Diego Comic Con was as good as the series is going to be, I'm there!
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The SCI-FI channel might be able to pull this off. Farscape isn't all that cheesy. I just hope they get it right story wise. When they made the movie they missed the entire point of the Fremen. The invention of the personal force shield made projectile and energy weapons obsolete. Hand to hand combat with edged weapons became a necessity. The only reason that the emperor remained in power was the fact his prison planet was such a harsh environment that those who survived were the toughest humans in the galaxy. Then he took the best of these and pitted them against each other and the survivors became his personal shock troops the Sardukar. One Sardukar was worth 20 ordinary soldiers in combat. Arrakis was an even more harsh environment so the Fremen were even tougher than the Sardukar. One Fremen was worth 20 Sardukar in combat. The movie tried to use gimics. Building some small device that was supposed to amplify the Bene Gessrit technique of the "Voice". It was lame and basically gutted the story. Hopefully they'll get it right this time because this is a great story
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It takes more to shock than pointing the camera at an unflushed toilet. That's not shocking, that's just gross. Dune seemed to be just one close up of a sweaty mouth after another. "Spiiiiiiiisssse!" Yuck. Wild at Heart was all about Nick Cage and Laura "Hotter 'n' Georgia asphalt" Dern. Blue Velvet was all about Dennis "Don't you fuckin' look at me" Hopper. (Mommmie! Mommmie)
Lynch's only truly good work was in Twin Peaks where, by virtue of having to work within TV's stricter content boundries, he was forced to come up with more intellectual ways to shock and suprize. Dune is hard to sit through. People tell me the long version is better. I can't imagine how having to sit through six hours of that dreck could make it any better. In all fairness, I have not seen Lost Highway.
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I wish they'd used more imagination on the design of the hunter-seeker; both this one and Lynch's look like flying hypodermic needles, it would be fun to have one made with nano-technology that looked like a small,thin, metallic wasp, held in the air by tiny gravitational suspensors on pivots.But all the wild design work seems to have gone into the headwear in this production!
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I gotta say, I thought Lynch did a pretty good job with Dune, and calling him a 'cinematic potty mouth' is ignoring everything he has done which is innovative and surprising. Lynch's future was odd and faintly revolting, as the future (8000 years time) is likely to be. What Lynch contributes to any project is something utterly wierd and intangible and in Dune he makes the future, for all its vulgarity, convincing. That said, Dune is not perfect, by any means, and what Lynch does is probably most appropriate to horror - Twin Peaks and Lost Highway - because he makes the inherent peculiarity of our lives visible. So Twin Peaks can be read as a basic ghost story, but Lynch never explains anything at all about what is going on and as a result it becomes infinitely more creepy, as well as intellectually challenging. Everyones lives seem normal but they mask glaring, unspoken insanities which derive from the strange, un-natural, media saturated lives we lead in the late C20th - also visible in Lost Highway. However, I think the TP deteriorated rapidly when Lynch fucked off to film Wild At Heart. Looking at the stills from this series, and these lame, rip off storyboards I don't think Lynch's flawed but dazzling film is facing any competition.
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"Innovation" is when you come up with a successful way of doing something in a way no one else has done before. Lynch did a lot of things in ways no one else did. There is a reason no one else did it that way. Because it is bad. Whatever artistic contributions he made in Dune were buried under thoughts of "That's way closer than I ever want to be to Dean Stockwell's, pockmarked, pasty, chapped lips!" Such visual shock tactics did not aid in the telling of the story nor in the development of the characters, nor in realizing the fantastic setting. They in fact, distracted from it. It was like trying to watch Star Wars while sitting next to someone who smelled bad. And admit that whispered voice overs to portray character's thoughts are one of the laziest tactics a film maker can use (Not to mention, annoying and distracting.) Spiiiiiiiisse! The tooooooooth! Shut uuuuuuuuupppppp! Dune just did not seem to be the correct showcase for what Lynch's style. Blue Velvet, as a story, was a much more appropriate project for Lynch to be Lynch. I saw it recently again and I think that is what David Lynch is all about. And it bored me to tears. Maybe it's dated. Maybe if the whole point of an artist is that he is innovative, in a number of years, he will seem dated. Tarrantino's films and all it's various knockoffs already feel like they're wearing thin. I'm curious to see if I'm going to love Se7en and FightClub in ten years as much as I do now. Dune bombed on release. And although there is a vocal cult following, there isn't quite the following that something like Blade Runner has to vindicate it as a good piece of work that people just didn't get ten or twenty years ago. It's one thing if people aren't ready for something yet. It's another if, after no matter how much time, people still don't get it. That means you failed and made a bad movie.
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It is widely known that in Dune the year is ten thousand something. But how many knew that the year started counting when the Guild got the monopoly for space travel? So, in light of that, no one really knows what year the events of the Dune books took place in our calendar. (You can find this information from the appendixes of the 3rd Dune book: The Prophet.) Just something trivial I wanted to share with you.
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Please don't tell me they made Paul Atreides into a blond! With so many fans already upset over the changes to story that Lynch made, you'd think Sci-Fi would be more careful about the appearance of metaphors in this new Dune series. Perhaps hair is not the most significant part of this series, but it sure played a big part in the book (at least for me)! Blondes belong to the Padashar Emperor and his family; as rulers, they represent the complacently empowered, smug in the knowledge that they have the physical power to crush any hint of resistance. Blonde=sun=center of the universe. Atreides had copper and red hair, still an aristocratic and specialized color, but slightly different: it's not as pure as gold, but it also means they're willing to get in the dirt and work for what they want just like the Fremen who happen to have the black hair of the dispossessed: slaves, Gypsies, minorities, etc. Also, I liked that Lynch made the Guild and Bene Gesserit baldies. No hair=hidden motives.
I'm not optimistic about this one, partly because of this hair thing and partly because they have the ugliest Duncan Idaho I have ever seen. Sci-Fi seem to have made an obvious effort to distance themselves from the Lynch version, yet they can't escape the iconoclastic designs that Herbert intended and Lynch presented. Don't forget that Herbert worked directly with Lynch and crew when they made the film. So, I'm guessing we'll be seeing "Dune, Take 2." -
As I recall Paul was the only one in the room when the Seeker appear from the bed.
He holds very still, the thing moves around a bit, and then the Shadout Mapes opens the door..
In the book there is no mention of a servant girl. It kinda happened like in Lynch's version.
Are they already dramatising even this bit?
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