I watched the documentary about Jodorowsky’s Dune and it was jaw-dropping. I’ve never seen any of his movies, but I’ve heard about him as an occult figure. With the overwhelming fame of Dune, I heard about this documentary and watched it without any expectations. However, it completely changed my perception.
What a visionary creation! I’m stunned by the meticulous storyboard which had the camera moments of how he’s gonna show the story by the camera. This documentary featured some scenes from his movies like ‘El Topo’ and ‘The Holy Mountain,’ which inspired me to watch the movies.
What a crew he had: Jean Giraud, Giger, Chris Foss, and so many more. It showed how his team was used in Hollywood and how his creation made a huge impact on movies like Prometheus, Contact, and Alien.
He had a different ending from Herbert’s Dune, and it was good. The characters and the landscape were colourful and distinct in all ways like the texture, music and architecture. After it stalled for financial reasons, he made another creation as a comic inspired by what he created from Dune called “The Incal”, which Taika Waititi is going to adapt as a film. I hope it has the same artwork so we can see the vision from Jodorowsky’s Dune.
It’s always exciting to talk about something that doesn’t exist. I have watched everything from jodowrosky and there is a reason he is not mainstream. His films are pretty amateurish and snobbish. He is a self absorbed narcissist and everything is always about him. He has abused his own family and neglected his kids to make his films. And is constantly self fellating his own accomplishments, which are few, since none of his films have ever sold tickets. His early stuff is basically shock films and the most recent are morbid autobiographies. Sure, he puts unique frames together. But his films are boring and pretentious.
I agree, he made his son to train karate, jiu jitsu, acrobatics for daily 6hrs, all days in a week for 2 years to act in the role of Paul on Dune. He was only 13 at that time.
I still need to watch Holy Mountain some day, but I had to watch El Topo in a class long ago. It felt like years of my life.