{"id":158849,"date":"2021-09-08T05:46:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T10:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=158849"},"modified":"2021-09-08T06:05:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T11:05:52","slug":"5-reasons-why-david-lynchs-dune-kind-of-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/5-reasons-why-david-lynchs-dune-kind-of-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Reasons Why David Lynch\u2019s Dune Kind of Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As we get ready for Denis Villeneuve\u2019s next masterpiece, let\u2019s take a look at a film that was arguably treated unfairly upon release.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever watched a movie and thought—okay, what the #%@$ is going on here?<\/em>—but still enjoyed the experience? This is my relationship with David Lynch<\/a>‘s 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert<\/a>‘s Dune<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, before I start waxing poetic about why it’s one of those rainy day comfort movies, let me first state on the record that, objectively, Dune<\/em> is not a \u201cgreat\u201d film. It has many structural issues that can\u2019t even be individually singled out because (as a whole) it’s just messy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, while a lot of it—some of the effects, a few of the performances, the overall editing—hasn’t aged particularly well, there are still, from a filmmaking standpoint, plenty of things to love about Lynch’s Dune<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us now take a closer look at this iconic oh-so-80s sci-fi classic and perhaps finally get to the bottom of exactly what in the %@$ is going on here.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1. Practical Effects Gone Wild<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The Guild Navigator in <\/em>Dune. Image via Universal Pictures<\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After years of adaptation roadblocks, production on Dune finally got underway in 1983. Like a lot of genre films of the early and mid-eighties, it featured an ambitious mix of on-set practical effects and post-production VFX. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s the practical effects that still impress.\u00a0Case in point, as seen above—the guild navigators. Every time I look at one of these things, I have to ask, “Exactly how<\/em> did they construct that?” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I do not <\/em>have to ask in this specific instance is, “What in the %@$ is going on here?” Because I know what’s going on here: David Lynch with a hey-make-us-a-Star-Wars budget is what’s going on here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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