Imaginary Films....Movies that were almost made

Khephra

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Imaginary Films....Movies that were almost made

Edited on Sat Jun-12-04 06:31 PM by khephra

Each "movie" listed bellow was almost produced, but for one reason or another they never got off the ground. In some cases we can thank Deity or the lack of one for our luck, however, in some alternate universe these "imaginary" films are what people are watching.

Try to stick to facts and not rumors....there's no limit though. Actors in roles that they almost won is OK too. Use your imagination, but don't make up shit. Reality is often stranger than fiction as exemplified by my first example:

(NOTE: I FREAKING LLLLLOOOOVVVVVE Jodorowsky....just not this idea of his....although...I would still like to travel over to the universe next-door and check it out someday....)

JODOROWSKY'S DUNE

THE MOVIE YOU WILL NEVER SEE
by Alexandro Jodorowsky

"To show the process of illumination of a hero, then a people, then an entire planet (which in turn is the Messiah of the Universe since in abandoning its orbit, the holy planet leaves to spread its light through all the galaxies)...

I didn't want to respect the novel, I wanted to recreate it. For me, Dune didn't belong to Herbert just as Don Quixote didn't belong to Cervantes.

There is an artist, one alone among millions of others artists, who one time in his life, by a piece of divine grace, receives an immortal theme, a MYTH...I say "receive" and not "create" because works of art are received in a state of mediumness directly from the collective unconscious. The work overtakes the artist and in some way it kills him, because humanity, in receiving the impact of Myth, has a profound need to erase the individual who receives it and transmits it: his individual personality hampers, stains the purity of the message which, at the root, asks to be anonymous... We don't know who created the Notre-Dame cathedral, nor the Aztec solar calendar, nor the tarot of Marseille, nor the myth of Don Juan, etc.
One feels that Cervantes gave HIS version of Quixote--of course incomplete--and that we carry in our soul our total character... Christ didn't belong to Mark, Luke, Matthew or John... There are many more gospels called apocryphal and there are as much lives of Christ as there are believers. Everyone of us has their story of Dune, their Jessica, their Paul... I feel fervent admiration towards Herbert and at the same time conflict (I think the same thing happened to him)... He hampered me... I didn't want him as an adviser of technique... I did everything to keep him away from the project... I had received a version of Dune and I wanted to transit it: the myth had to abandon the literary form and become image...

In the film, Duke Leto (father of Paul) would be a man castrated in a ritual combat in the arenas during a bullfight. (The emblem of the Atreide house being a sacred bull...) Jessica--Bene Gesserit nun--, sent like a concubine to the duke to create a daughter who would be the mother of a Messiah, falls so much in love with Leto that she decides to blow a link in the chain and create a son, the Kwizatz Haderach, the Saviour. In using her powers of Bene Gesserit--as soon as the duke, madly in love with her, confides his sad secret--Jessica lets herself be inseminated by a drop of blood of this sterile man... The camera followed (in the script) the red drop through the ovaries of the woman and accompanied its meeting with the ovule where, by an miraculous explosion, it inseminates the egg. Paul was born of a virgin, and not by the sperm of his father but by his blood... In my version of Dune, the Emperor of the Galaxy is mad. He lives on an artificial planet of gold, in a palace of gold constructed according to the non-laws of anti-logic. He lives in symbiosis with a robot identical to him. The resemblance is so perfect that the citizens never know if they are facing the man or the machine... In my version, the spice is a blue drug of a spongy consistency filled with a vegetable-animal life endowed with consciousness, the highest level of consciousness. It doesn't stop taking all sorts of forms, shifting without cease. The spice continually reproduces the creation of innumerable universes.

Baron Harkonnen is an immense man of 300 kilograms. He is so fat and heavy that, in order to move, he needs to continually use anti gravitational bubbles attached to his extremities... His delusions of grandeur have no limit: he lives in a palace constructed as a portrait of himself... This immense sculpture stands on a sordid swampy planet...In order to enter the palace, one has to wait for the colossus to open its mouth and stick out a tongue of steel (landing strip...) At the end of the movie, the wife of Count Fenring bounds towards Paul, who has already become Fremen, and she slices his throat. Paul while dying says: "Too late, you can't kill me... because..." "Because, (continues Jessica with the voice of Paul) in order to kill the Kwizatz Haderach, you would have to kill me too..." And every Fremen, every Atreide talks now with the voice of Paul: "I am the man collective. He who shows the way."
Reality transforms rapidly. Three columns of light shoot out from the planet. They mix. Sink into the sand of the planet: "I am the Land that awaits the seed!" The spice dries up. The sun trembles. Drops of water form a pillar surrounded by fire.

Filaments of silver surge from the spice. Creating a rainbow. They merge into a cloud of water, producing a red "lava". Then vapor. Some clouds. Some rain. Some rivers. Some grass. Some forests. Dune becomes green. A blue ring now surrounds the planet. It separates. It produces more and more rings. Dune is at present an illuminated world which traverses the galaxy, that leaves it, that gives its light--which is consciousness--to all the universe. In order to conceive this final sequence of transmutation of matter, I had the chance to come in contact with some real alchemists... Some mysterious beings (one of them seemed to have more than a hundred years, an advanced age which yet permitted him to move about with the energy of a young adolescent) approached me because Dune could be a philosophical stone, the stone which changes all the other metals into gold... In this sequence, they described what really happens when they transform, in their alchemical ovens, matter... For the "guerrilla" war that Paul and the Fremen lead against the imperial army, I had the chance to contact a guerrilla expert in South America... He had fought in Bolivia, Chili, Peru and Central America... His precious information brought to the story a soldierly reality...

more................

http://www.hotweird.com/jodorowsky/dunestory.html

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