Alejandro Jodorowsky - Blog Posts

La Montaña Sagrada - The Holy Mountain

“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.”  ― Rumi

i cannot express the depths of my sorrow at the fact that this was never made

My guess would be the latter. Speaking as someone who has only seen the Villeneuve film, it feels like his version of the story preserves the basic beats and themes of the original novel, but pares down all the Herbertian weirdness that attracted Jodorowsky and Lynch to a bare vestigial minimum. FAUX EDIT: I just dug up an old article from last year discussing Jodo’s response to the first trailer from last September, and his reaction was about what you’d expect: technically very competent, but aesthetically very safe and predictable, the best you could hope for under the restrictions of industrial-corporate cinema.

I wonder how Jodorowsky feels right now. He said he’d been comforted by the previous Dune movie because if a director he admired as much as David Lynch failed, that meant it was okay that he had failed. Does he feel bad now, or like this version is different enough from his own that it’s not a comparison?