當初電影初剪 4 小時,大衛林區預計成片會落在 3 小時左右,結果被投資方與電影公司壓著剪到 2 小時。自此,大衛林區本人不承認沙丘魔堡是自己的作品。 “So that’s a lesson I knew even before, but now there’s no way. Why would anyone work for three years on something that wasn’t yours? Why? Why do that? Why? I died a death. And it was all my fault for not knowing to put that in the contract.”
要知道,丹尼維勒納夫的沙丘EP 1 & 2 分別是 155 + 165 分鐘,總長 5 小時 20 分鐘,範圍也是小說第一集。
你大概可以預測大衛林區版本的沙丘大概會是什麼樣子了。
所以我對整體劇情還滿熟悉的,看沙丘魔堡時不會到不知所以。
但如果第一次接觸沙丘是看沙丘魔堡,然後覺得沙丘是糞片的話,我會完全同意 (fair enough)
結果沙丘魔堡一路把第一集改編完,也就是沙丘 1 後半加上整部沙丘 2,縮在短短的 1 小時之內。我看著保羅與潔西嘉遇到弗瑞曼人,兩人被接納,保羅遇見荃妮,保羅自名摩阿迪巴,潔西嘉毫無遲疑地喝下生命之水,保羅熱戀荃妮(零鋪陳),弗瑞曼人突然就對保羅言聽計從,保羅喝下生命之水,保羅與弗瑞曼人擊敗薩督卡,保羅(近乎)秒殺菲德羅薩,保羅神力讓厄拉科斯下雨(?
“So that’s a lesson I knew even before, but now there’s no way. Why would anyone work for three years on something that wasn’t yours? Why? Why do that? Why? I died a death. And it was all my fault for not knowing to put that in the contract.”
回到沙丘魔堡,所以到底誰有勇氣把這麼複雜的設定與故事線在 2 小時半內講清楚啊