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redrocket posted...

Heres everyones reminder that Jodorowsky almost got to make the first film adaptation for Dune.

Yep, with Orson Welles as Baron Harkonnen, Salvador Dali and Mick Jagger on the cast, H.R. Geiger designing the sets, and Pink Floyd making the music. Would've been a Hell of a project, I'd love to see the alternate universe where it got funded.

Seginustemple posted...

Jodorowsky surprisingly attempts a lot of this in the director's commentary, which is itself pretty funny. Portions of it sound almost like Wu-Tang lyrics, "third eye symbolizes the inner god that opens in circles, now we descend to the land of the dead, butterfly wings represent metamorphosis, back up through the snake - the kundalini"

My favorite bit of trivia from this is that George Harrison loved the concept and was almost set to play The Thief, but they came to an impasse over the scene where he has his butthole washed on camera. Harrison wouldn't film such a scene and Jodorowsky refused to cut it, insisting it was necessary to both the character and performer's ego death.

That sounds pretty hilarious, the guy definitely got a little high on Jungian symbolism. My other exposure to his work is The Incal which is pretty much complete rapid-fire quasi-spiritual nonsense only salvaged by Mbius' excellent artwork.