The King of Hippie 100 Years Ahead

Jettie 2022-02-04 08:13:18

This unfinished film is more than 30 years ahead of its time. It is 100 years ahead of its time. Even today, it is at least 50 years ahead of its time.

"Create your own soul", "Let people who don't take LSD feel useful", "Open the minds of the younger generation" are the starting points of Jodorowsky. The firm belief that "this is the greatest movie of all time" took hold from the very beginning, and as the greatest talents of the time were gradually involved in this belief, ideal and reality strengthened each other step by step.
He led some of the greatest geniuses of the day into unpredictable territory. Listen to him tell about the creative process of Mobius, Chris Forth, Giger and others, and let people get excited along with them.

From this point, a religious fire is born.

The madness, or demagogic power, in Jodorowsky's Dune has the potential to change the world. That's where Winding Refn says "people in Hollywood are scared of this movie," I guess. Big studios are deeply terrified of films that go so far in the spiritual realm. What they can accept are films like Cameron that break new ground in the field of technology; the farthest place they can go is films that explore technology and reason like "2001 Space Odyssey"; Dune", their attitude is to stay away. In addition, Jodorowsky is not certified by a Hollywood studio like the other two directors, which may be one of the reasons.

Jodorowsky's Dune, as the characters say and present in the film, is the visual, inspirational source of many films. Just one piece of what Winding Refn calls "a billion black space debris" is enough for a later movie to enjoy.

Compared with common works that explore concepts such as consciousness and the universe (such as Arthur Clark's works and "Superbody", etc.), Jodorowsky's "Dune" is that it starts from consciousness, from each person's potential, from belief, Let consciousness extend from one person to more and more people until the consciousness of the entire planet is stimulated, and then it is brought to the whole universe. It is completely different from "science" in the traditional sense. This kind of values ​​inspired by the plane of consciousness, which is very different from the mainstream culture, is not the actual embodiment of the hippie movement that pursues true freedom without words?

Think about those hippie works that came out, Dune, which was not made into a movie, is the real king of hippies.

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Extended Reading
  • Elvie 2022-03-20 09:03:10

    2.5. As a documentary, it has completely replaced facts and logic with fanaticism. You must know that piling up elites in various fields is by no means a sufficient condition for the birth of a good work. Film is a collective art, especially for such a large-scale commercial giant, and it cannot be the dictatorship of the director. The producer needs to weigh the relationship between budget and creation (capital does not approve of your plan, it does not mean that capital will raped you). This film is more like an over-the-top myth of a film history anecdote, lavishing on the absurd talents of the artists. The early work on "Dune" may have nourished many Hollywood movies, but it would be a bit of an exaggeration to elevate this aborted work to the height of "Star Wars" - unfinished products are unfinished products after all. When I saw Jodu said that he was willing to cut off a hand for the sake of the movie, I suddenly remembered what Jia Zhangke said in "Thirteen Invitations": If there is a person who says that the movie is my life, then I basically don't associate with him.

  • Harmon 2022-03-15 09:01:11

    As the creators said at the end, although Sadolovsky's Dune was not made, every sci-fi movie in the future seems to be saying "I am Dune"

Jodorowsky's Dune quotes

  • Self - Actor - Dune: Can nobody understand Dali because myself, never understand my work. Never Dali understand one painting of Dali because Dali only create enigmas.

  • Alejandro Jodorowsky: I wanted Mick Jagger to play Feyd-Rautha, a character. How am I going to contact this person who is not going to be impressed that I have the great power to make a movie? He is in the peak of his fame, of his glory. How? And I was invited to an event in Paris. It was a big gathering of the Parisian bourgeoisie and at the other side of the room, a big room, I don't know, maybe 150 square meters, was Mick Jagger. I saw him from a distance and I think he saw me and I saw him walking, he started walking. He started walking between the people and I then realized that he was coming to me. He crossed the room and he stood in front of me. And I told him, "I want you for my movie." And he said only one word, "Yes."