The Unseen Dune

[Cimmerian Nights]

When a few years later the film is made someone goes and snatches the work by Moebius, you can recognize it from the suits, some sets, even the visuals of some characters. Of course De Laurentis never payed or gave due credit to Moebius, but the film breads Moebius creativity from every pore.

Well, based on the pics in the link, I don't think that's evident. From Moebius or Geiger either.
I always thought the movie was Neo-Victorian Art Deco.

Not to say there's no copycats in H-wood.
But David Lynch isn't exactly some bland, corporate rip-off artist himself.
And for all it's faults, that movie had a kickass cast.


This is telling.

I did not want to respect the novel, I wanted to recreate it. For me Dune did not belong to Herbert as Don Quixote did not belong to Cervantes, nor Edipo with Esquilo.

Not that Dune didn't already have a lot of apocraphal/messianic biblical shades, but he goes all New Testament on Dune too!@

In film, the Duke Leto (father of Paul) would be a man castrated in a ritual combat in the arenas during a bullfight (emblem of the Atreides house being a crowned bull...) Jessica - nun of the Bene Gesserit -, sent as concubine at the Duke to create a girl which would be the mother of a Messiah, becomes so in love with Leto that she decides to jump a chain link and to create a son, Kwisatz Haderach, the saviour. By using her capacities of Bene Gesserit - once that the Duke, insanely in love with her, entrusts her with his sad secret - Jessica is inseminated by a drop of blood of this sterile man... The camera followed (in script) the red drop through the ovaries of the woman and sees its meeting with the ovule where, by a miraculous explosion, it fertilises it. Paul had been born from a virgin; and not of the sperm of his father but of his blood...

 

[UniversalWolf]

I'm no Dune expert, as I've only read (and enjoyed) the first book, but I agree with Cimmerian on this one. Too many questionable liberties (no pun intended) taken with the source material. These renderings are not anything like I envision from the book.