Jodorowsky's Dune
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What is the goal of the life?
It's to create yourself a soul.
For me, movies are an art...
more than an industry.
And it's the search of the human soul...
as painting, as literature, as poetry.
Movies are that for me.
I wanted to make a film...
that would give the people
who took LSD at that time...
the hallucinations that you get with
that drug, but without hallucinating.
I did not want LSD to be taken,
I wanted to fabricate the drug's effects.
This film was going to change
the public's perceptions.
My ambition with Dune was tremendous.
So, what I wanted
was to create a prophet.
I want to create a prophet...
of all the world.
For me, Dune will be
the coming of a god.
Artistical, cinematographical god.
For me, it was not to make a picture.
It was something deeper.
I wanted to make something sacred...
free, with new perspective.
Open the mind!
Because I feel, in that time,
myself, inside a prison.
My ego, my intellect,
I want to open!
And I start the fight to make Dune.
You needed a touch of madness to do it.
You can't have a masterpiece
without madness.
Pink Floyd? Dali...
Maybe Dune had too much madness?
But a movie that doesn't have
a bit of madness...
is not going to conquer the whole world.
I don't think that in the
history of cinema...
there was ever a film that was taken
that far, only to end up not being made.
since a film was made...
that had nothing to do with those
two and a half years of work.
In the beginning, I was making theater.
In Mexico, I make 100 theater plays.
In 10 years,
I make the avant garde theater.
Ionesco, Beckett, Strindberg.
Modern adaptations of Shakespeare,
I do.
One day I will make a picture.
When I came to pictures...
I came like a virgin.
Without to know technical movement.
I didn't know lens, the number.
I didn't know.
We shoot Fando Y Lis, hiding of unions.
In Mexico,
a young director cannot make picture...
without the permission
of the old director unions.
I say, "What I need to take
the permission to make art?"
Artists need to be free! I do my picture!
Then was a great scandal later, eh?
Because I broke all the unions, I did it!
I was opening the mind of the industry.
I was exposed to it
in the underground cinema in New York.
And after that, we had the courage
to attempt to distribute it in France...
and it was an incredible success for
this movie that was quite revolutionary...
and a natural friendship was born
between Alejandro and me.
Thanks to the success of El Topo...
I got one million dollars
to make The Holy Mountain.
I did whatever I wanted.
I didn't have a producer...
no critic, no one to mess with me.
I did what I wanted
and it was The How Mountain.
I gave the movie to Michel Seydoux
in France.
And, oh, surprise, in Europe it attracted
it was playing openly.
In Italy that year, it was the
number two movie behind James Bond.
The Holy Mountain was incredible.
So my ambition grew.
Michel Seydoux called me from Paris
and say to me:
"Holy Mountain is a success.
I want to make a new picture with you.
Do whatever you want!"
I have never made movies
or transactions...
unless there was something
more to them.
A relationship between human beings
is what makes the difference.
He said,
"I want to produce you anything.
What do you want to do?"
I say, "Dune!"
And he say, "Yes."
Why?
Because the book was the most beautiful
science-fiction book.
It was the bible of science fiction
for all the big devotees.
Because the book had been
a worldwide publishing success...
that you could find in every country.
I didn't read Dune. But I have
a friend who say me it was fantastic.
I don't know why I say Dune.
I can say Don Quixote...
or I can said Hamlet.
I don't know anything.
I say Dune.
Hollywood sold us the rights for nothing...
mockingly on the inside, I believe...
thinking that we would never
be able to carry out such a thing.
It was a great undertaking
to do the script.
Michel Seydoux brought me to France.
He rented a castle, a huge castle...
and I was in that castle
dedicated solely to Dune.
Frank Herbert created a world in Dune...
but he never said exactly what it was.
And you have a hundred pages
of literature...
where you go on to discover,
with great difficulty...
what the book is about.
It's very... It's like... I compare it
to Proust in French literature.
It's literary, it's great literature.
The first 100 pages...
you understand almost nothing.
It's insinuations.
To bring literature to image
is completely difficult.
You need to create another world,
the optical world.
It's not the literary, auditive world.
All the time, even in the...
In the little details...
I was trying to find
the spiritual meaning of that picture.
Now I have my script.
I need to find the warriors.
The warriors to do it.
Every person who will work in this picture
will be a spiritual warrior.
The best I will find.
He had the genius to make...
a storyboard with Moebius.
I find a comic book.
The comic book was...
Blueberry.
Cowboy book, drawing by Giraud.
I start to see, but that guy is my camera!
Who is this?
This is the person I need.
Where I will find this person? Where?
In that time was not Internet
to find any person.
I need to find this person.
I went to see my agent, publicity agent...
and there he was. By chance.
He was there.
He say, "I am Moebius."
"When I drawing science fiction,
I am not Giraud, I am Moebius."
And I say to him,
"You are the person! Come with me!"
Drawing by drawing, I shoot the picture.
I need 3000 drawings.
Point of view. Movement of the camera.
Dialogue.
The relation between the actors.
I use Moebius like a camera.
I take Moebius, I say,
"Now you advance." "Now you travel."
"Now you make a close-up."
I have Moebius, who was a genius.
Moebius was a genius.
Because he was not only an artist
with an incredible capacity...
but he was very quick.
Was superhuman. He was...
quickly, rapido, incredible.
And then I could shoot.
Every day, we start to shoot...
At 8:
00, we come, we prepare everything.I think at 9:
30 we start to shoot.I made the picture with drawings.
And then in the costume, I say to him...
I describe what I wanted.
He immediately:
Quick, more than a computer.
He was incredible.
Everything became magic
when we was doing this picture.
Everything, everything.
Dune, my Dune, start with a long shot.
I admire the long shot
of Orson Welles' Touch of Evil.
The camera go, go, go,
traverse the street, go.
It's a fantastic big, long shot.
And then I wanted to start Dune
with a long shot...
better than the long shot
of Orson Welles.
I wanted to go farthest.
And then all the shot
is traversing the whole universe.
You go there and you traverse
all the galaxy, all the galaxy...
and in traversal of the galaxy,
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