Dune -Is it filmable?

[Phalynx]

You know in my dim distant memory I'm sure there is a three part version of Dune though it might have been the sci-fi channel version on VCR split onto three tapes..., I have it now on one DVD but its possible...

[HoH]

Cant find anything about Dune but there is hours of funny stuff on that site.. Great!

It's the one about Nesquick.

Edit: its on Harmful if Swallowed, called "Hopped up on the Q"

[rklenseth]

You know in my dim distant memory I'm sure there is a three part version of Dune though it might have been the sci-fi channel version on VCR split onto three tapes..., I have it now on one DVD but its possible...

Sci-fi did a three part version of Dune in 2000. Plus there are two different versions of the film Dune from the '80s. One was the original theatrical 2 and half hour version. The other is a four and half hour version for TV that actually just came out on DVD recently.

Sci-fi also aired a version of Children of Dune in 2002 which was also a three part mini series.

[Phalynx]

That make sense, it was big in the video shop long time ago..

I don't have the directors cut of Dune, is it significantly different. Children of Dune is my only region 1 DVD and it sent me to sleep!


Thanks HoH, got it, nice Pic!

[Floris]

I saw the Dune movie with Sting in the role of the young Harkonnen, I don't know about other actors in that movie.

In my opinion the book had so many different aspects, facets and details, that were difficult to bring over in the movie. Especially on the field of description, in the book Herbert can describe the psychic evolutions some characters go through, in the film it is almost impossible to do so(except letting the eyes change color ).

However there might be a way to do it, LOTR is in a way also a difficult story, but I think that the different main character evolutions(Frodo("there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire", Aragorn("put aside the ranger, become what you were born to be") were well portrayed by Jackson. Other minor evolutions(Faramir, Eowyn, the hobbits, Gimli/Legolas) were also well done. The extended edition ofcourse gave Jackson even more credit.

[Phalynx]

In LOTR its possible to argue that the characters in the film had more development than in the the book. Is that a good thing, some would argue that LOTR took things a step beyond Tolkien (and I don't just mean the spurious love interest)...

[Floris]

In LOTR its possible to argue that the characters in the film had more development than in the the book. Is that a good thing, some would argue that LOTR took things a step beyond Tolkien (and I don't just mean the spurious love interest)...

That's perhaps true, but Jackson did not invent new stuff. The actual Aragorn/Arwen 'love scenes' come from the Appendices, and they are indeed no part of the book, but they are part of the whole context of Tolkiens books.

And on that field, Tolkien was ofcourse very descriptive. He focused more on things happening and dialogues than on character development.