Author Name: BoingBoing
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Watch: A spicy side-by-side of Dune (1984) and Dune (2021)
Date: 1984-07-29 00:00:00

I was a teenager when Dune (1984) was released. It had enough pop culture tie-ins (i.e. Sting) and special effect eye-candy (e.g. blue on blue eyes) that some friends and I purchased tickets to see it having not yet read the book(s). After watching the film, the story was compelling (and confusing) enough that it warranted a read. Not sure if I would have read it as soon (or at all) had it not been made into a film. I was well versed in Tolkien and even Isaac Asimov, but Dune wasn’t yet on the radar.

If there was a major fault of Lynch’s Dune I think it was trying to cram the entire book into one film and still stay mostly true to the book. There is a lot of content with multiple storylines and that’s hard to portray in a limited amount of run time. That and it was clear that Lynch had a few scenes he really wanted to visualize (e.g. Guild Navigators) that were clearly shoehorned into the script.


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