Frank Herbert created a world in Dune, but he never said exactly what it was. And you have...
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Alejandro Jodorowsky:
Frank Herbert created a world in Dune, but he never said exactly what it was. And you have a hundred pages of literature where you go on to discover, with great difficulty what the book is about. It's very - It's like - I compare it to Proust in French literature. It's literary, it's great literature. The first one hundred pages, you understand almost nothing. It's insinuations. And then, to bring literature to image is completely difficult. You need to create another world, the optical world. It's not the literary, auditive world. All the time, even in the, in the, little details, I was trying to find the spiritual meaning of that picture
Frank Herbert created a world in Dune, but he never said exactly what it was. And you have a hundred pages of literature where you go on to discover, with great difficulty what the book is about. It's very - It's like - I compare it to Proust in French literature. It's literary, it's great literature. The first one hundred pages, you understand almost nothing. It's insinuations. And then, to bring literature to image is completely difficult. You need to create another world, the optical world. It's not the literary, auditive world. All the time, even in the, in the, little details, I was trying to find the spiritual meaning of that picture
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Frank Herbert created a world in Dune
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but he never said exactly what it was
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And you have a hundred pages of literature
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where you go on to discover with great difficulty
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what the book is about
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It's very It's like I compare it to Proust in French literature
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It's literary it's great literature
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The first 100 pages
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you understand almost nothing
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It's insinuations
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To bring literature to image is completely difficult
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You need to create another world the optical world
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It's not the literary auditive world
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All the time even in the in the little details
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I was trying to find the spiritual meaning of that picture
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Movie Summary
The story of cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky's ambitious but ultimately doomed film adaptation of the seminal science fiction novel.
