"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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