At 7/2/06 04:16 PM, Evil_Gnome wrote:
is great.
Dune: The actors and actresses appeared embarrassed just standing there, and numerous elements of the film dripped with unintentional homoeroticism worthy of The Ambiguously Gay Duo.
Even Sting's opinion of the film slowly morphed over time as he came to realize Dune would be inextricably linked to his reputation and career:
September, 1983: "I met David and I loved him. He's a madman in sheep's clothing, and I just felt I had to do the movie because I know he's going to do something extraordinary."
July 1985: "I didn't even like the film, I don't have a clue what it was about, it was very confusing."
November 1987: "I refuse to take responsibility for any film I'm in. It's the directors movie."
May, 1998: "There's no actor who's been in nothing but great movies, nothing but successes. You can make a few lousy movies in relative obscurity."
April, 1998: "I was flicking through the channels in a hotel room in the Midwest. Suddenly there they were, the flying underpants. They were great but very tricky to get on under your flares. I still don't actually know what Dune was about and I don't know if anyone did."
"I started selling out on Dune," Lynch recalls. "Looking back, it's no one's fault but my own. I probably shouldn't have done that picture, but I saw tons and tons of possibilities for things I loved, and this was the structure to do them in. there was so much room to create a world. But I got strong indications from Dino De Laurentiis of what kind of film they expected, and I knew I didn't have final cut. And little by little - and this is the danger, because it doesn't happen in chunks, it happens in the tiniest little shavings, little sandings - little by little every decision was always made with them in mind and their sort of film. Things I felt I could get away with within their framework. So it was destined to be a failure, to me."
Abstract rumors regularly circulate in excitable chat rooms and sci-fi conventions: have you heard about the four hour version? The six hour version? What about the director's "choice cut" ten hour version?
"In retrospect," laments Lynch, "I can see that I started getting into trouble with Dune early on, and it wasn't just the final editing that did it, although I think the film could be way, way of better. I still worry that I don't know if it could ever be a great film, or even a real good film. I don't know. I forget so much about it."
The Elephant Man: Did he know nothing of the man? He probably just skimmed through his bio then directed this piece of shit.
Mullholland Drive: Movies have to make sense. Making a movie so people "don't understand it", is a failure of cinema.