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Originally Posted by clovis-man  Which is why the David Lynch film was so bad. He didn't get it. |
Not so sure about that one. From what I understand, Lynch's original was a loooot longer, and much, much better -- at least, this was the reaction from those who saw the longer version in its first screening. But studio execs found it hard to follow, and far too long... so cut it down by more than 2/3. I can't think of very many films that can take that kind of editing and still maintain any sort of integrity; and if they can... then there was an awful lot of extraneous stuff to begin with.....
As for
Dune's relationship to the New Wave: I can see it to some degree. After all, it dealt with a lot of the concerns that New Wave sf (at least, the American branch) dealt with, including conservation issues, the rise of the "third world" cultures into dominance, the heavy use of drugs to aid in perception of varying layers of reality, the strong use of mysticism and religious themes in a (more or less) scientific fashion, etc. Stylistically, though, it was closer to the Campbellian sf than that of the '60s... though by no means all of the New Wave was so
extremely experimental in form...