{"id":38266,"date":"2019-04-11T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38266"},"modified":"2019-03-11T08:33:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T12:33:12","slug":"qotd-how-to-improve-david-lynchs-dune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/04\/11\/qotd-how-to-improve-david-lynchs-dune\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: How to improve David Lynch&#8217;s <em>Dune<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Dune<\/em> (1982) is a <em>Lawrence of Arabia<\/em> pastiche with a mad bucket of half-baked science fiction tropes bolted onto it. It includes so much extraneous, confusing detail from the novel&#8217;s world, but when you think of all the things it omits you really get a good sense of why Lynch (or anyone?) could not form it in 2 or 3-hours.<\/p>\n<p>I think there are two things that could be done to fix it. Firstly, remove all the speaking and turn the whole thing into a hallucinatory Lynchean nightmare, perhaps to be accompanied by Brian Eno&#8217;s mythic 45-minute album of Dune music. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, use Lynch&#8217;s movie as the basis for a full-length animated TV miniseries by rotoscoping it and bringing back the original actors for several hours or so of newly-animated scenes.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Beschizza, <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2017\/04\/21\/sorry-david-lynchs-dune-suc.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Sorry, David Lynch&#8217;s Dune sucks (or does it?)&#8221;, <em>Boing Boing<\/em><\/a>, 2017-04-21.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dune (1982) is a Lawrence of Arabia pastiche with a mad bucket of half-baked science fiction tropes bolted onto it. It includes so much extraneous, confusing detail from the novel&#8217;s world, but when you think of all the things it omits you really get a good sense of why Lynch (or anyone?) could not form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,28,41],"tags":[86,122,85],"class_list":["post-38266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media","category-quotations","tag-criticism","tag-movies","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Xc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38267,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38266\/revisions\/38267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}