| Title: | Arcana Caelestia |
| Notice: | Directory listings are in topic 2 |
| Moderator: | NETRIX::thomas |
| Created: | Thu Dec 08 1983 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1300 |
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In my experience, movies that have the breadth of a vignette but that
explore this limited subject matter in depth usually succeed, if well
done. Movies that try to present more subject matter than that usually
fail because they end up trivializing it. "Dune" is a case in point as
far as I'm concerned. While it was interesting to see certain chapters
or themes visualized on the screen (and I believe this was well done),
what was lacking was the long spun out narrative underneath to give
a foundation or setting to what was seen. I remember thinking as I
watched the movie "Thank God I read the book or I wouldn't have any
idea how this all fits toghether into any sort of coherent narrative".
Having asid that, I don't see how the Foundation trilogy can be effect-
ively done as a movie. I believe the only viable vehicle for works of
this scope is the mini-series where we get see and digest a chapter a
week. Unfortunately, trying to get the requisite depth & quality out
of the TV networks is probably more difficult that is the case for
Hollywood. The one exception to this which imediately comes to mind
is "Shogun" which I thought was excellent.7
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| 1077.1 | ..was added | OLDTMR::FOX | Fri Jul 03 1992 19:53 | 4 | |
"Dune" came to TV as a two part mini-series format with narrative and
background added to turn a 2.5 hr movie into a 4 hour hour series.
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| 1077.2 | DKAS::KOLKER | Conan the Librarian | Sat Jul 04 1992 19:12 | 6 | |
reply .0
As a movie "Dune" was soooo baddd that it should have been made to
viewed with Polaroid(tm) glasses.
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| 1077.3 | fairs fair | SNO78A::NANCARROW | Sun Jul 05 1992 08:44 | 12 | |
re .1
Is that true that there is a mini-series for DUNE ( or at least
a decent length movie for it !).
mike N.
p.s I don't think it was that bad it just required about 5 hours more
but try to sell a 7 1/2 hr movie to a movie house nowadays.
I have sympathy for the director and producer the reports I heard
said the majority of the movie was left out to cut the time
down for some of the low interest rate movie moguls(morons).
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| 1077.4 | OOPS... | FRUST::HAMILTON | Mon Jul 06 1992 04:12 | 14 | |
This note was originally meant to be a REPLY. I sort of goofed when I
entered it by typing "write" instead of "reply". What's worse, I can't
find the note I was replying to.
In any case the theme running through the original note concerned how
bad most Hollywood attempts at presenting good SF were. I really do
feel that the mini-series is one of the great inventions of our time.
Imagine the Foundation series in this form, running as long as, say
"Knot's Landing", with characters being written into and out of the
story as it progresses. This is the one scenario where television
in my opinion could equal or even surpass literature.
Scott
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| 1077.5 | MILKWY::ED_ECK | Rambo Among the Roses | Mon Jul 06 1992 09:42 | 6 | |
Herbert had a note in _Eye_ (collection of his short stories) that
Laurentis had filmed enough material to bring _Dune_ out as a
miniseries, and was thinking of doing so.
E.
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