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In the eleventh millennium, humanity is widespread in the universe and stands on a feudal political system, in which power is shared by an empire and powerful families fighting each other. The known universe is governed by Emperor Padishah Shaddam IV and the desert planet is located in the center of this system Arrakis , also called Dune, the only place of origin of La Spezia, a substance that extends life, increases knowledge and allows the monstrous navigators of the space guild to pilot in a safe way enormous astronavians making it possible every move to the known universe. The space guild is the corporation that holds the monopoly of transport in the universe, however this gigantic power is counterbalanced by the supply of the spice on which the guild depends more than anything else. La Spezia is extracted on Arrakis, and the extraction activity is placed under the supervision and protection of a house designated by the emperor to whom it is allowed to settle on the desert planet and govern it. Fearing a conspiracy that could jeopardize the production of Spezia La Gilda sends an emissary to ask for an explanation of the emperor, who reveals his plans to destroy the Atreides house. The popularity of Duke Leto, lord of the house, has grown in the empire and is suspected that he is accumulating a secret army, which Emperor Shaddam sees as a potential threat to his domain. The plan is to entrust the ATREIDES House to control the Planet Arrakis and, once installed on Arrakis, he intends to make him tend to make a tugs from their sworn enemies, the Harkonnen house, lined up by the evil Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, with the assistance of the troops of elite of the emperor, the Sardeukar. The navigator of the guild then orders the emperor to kill the son of Duke Leto, Paul Atreides, a young man who has prophetic visions as he is linked to a centuries -old program carried out by the sisterhood, a confraternity of priests who believes in the coming of an elected . The Atreides are aware of the trap stretched by the enemies and the sovereign but count on their invention, the stranger module, a powerful weapon based on sound. Once on the planet Dune they discover that the natives of Arrakis are the Fremen, a mysterious people who have long prophesied the coming of a Messiah who will lead them to freedom. There is a large number that could prove powerful allies. Duke Leto begins to earn the trust of the Fremen, but before an alliance can be established, the Harkonnen launch their attack. The traitor of the Harkonnen inside the Atreides house, Dr. Wellington Yueh, Leto’s personal doctor, disable the critical shields and destroys sonic weapons, leaving the underfeited besieged. Duke Leto, his son Paul and the mother of the latter, died, Lady Jessica manage to escape, to join the nomadic people of the Fremen, able to survive the hostile climate of the planet and ride the gigantic worms of the sands. They have long waited for the coming of a messiah, the Mahdi , who guides them, after centuries of persecutions, in a bloody jihad to conquer the planet and the whole empire, given that as the emperor, the guild and the Harkonnen know well, “who controls La Spezia, check the universe “. Paul, aware of being the elected he waiting for, assumes the name Fremen Muad’dib and teaches the Fremen to build and use the estranged modules. In the following years, the Fremen, led by Muad’dib, spread throughout the desert planet, storing the Harkonnen soldiers in defense of the Choam’s extractive activities. In a very short time the violent and rapid offensive Fremen puts the Harkonnen troops on the knees that in vain try to protect the extraction drills and the transport of Spezia. Despite the highly high losses suffered, Baron Harkonnen’s grandson, Rabban, to whom the direct control of the planet and the production of La Spezia had been entrusted, continues with ferocity to face the Fremen in the desert in an attempt to protect what remains of the Choam and the Spezia, however leaving the baron, his uncle, fearing his anger, in the dark of each event. However, in the face of the deadly superiority of the Fremen, led by Muad’dib and armed with the stranger module, defeated after defeat, the Harkonnen are no longer able to guarantee the production of La Spezia and the Choam is forced to generally demobilization. The total defeat of the Harkonnen requires the direct intervention of the imperial army led by the same emperor who reaches Arrakis with the intention of restoring the order, defeating Muad’dib and above all restoring the production of Spezia. With the arrival of the emperor, the remaining Harkonnen forces pass under his direct control and Baron’s nephew was executed. In the final battle with the emperor Muad’dib and the Fremen launch an attack against the Imperial Harkonnen and Sardoukar. Riding the worms of the sand and brandishing their sound weapons, the Fremen warriors easily defeat the emperor. Once at Angheen Paul faces the defeated emperor and commits Feyd-Routha into a duel until his death. After killing Feyd Paul, he shows his new powers and fulfills the prophecy of the Fremen by causing the rain on Arrakis after millennia; His sister alia declares it to be the “Kwisatz Haderach”, or the expected messiah. The logo of the film In the twenty years since the release of the book there had already been various attempts to bring Dune on the big screen; All regularly failed projects, among which the most advanced one was supposed to Alejandro Jodorowsky, who in 1975 had involved various artists later famous, from Chris Foss to Moebius to HR Giger, even convincing Salvador Dal\u00ed to play the role of the emperor e Orson Welles that of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen [2] . After the enormous success of Star Wars (1977) and his followers, producer Dino De Laurentiis considered Herbert’s novel suitable for the creation of a science fiction saga that could compete with the Lucasian one; He then decided to entrust his direction to the young David Lynch, who also wanted to deal with the script by collaborating with Frank Herbert himself. Lynch, who had become famous a few years earlier with The Elephant Man , before then he had never shot a science fiction film [3] . Indeed, he had refused the direction of The return of the Jedi , third episode of the saga of Star Wars , believing that the work was already too defined by the producer George Lucas. [4] The young director therefore had never confronted a production with pharaonic dimensions such as the one for Dune : three years to study the look together with the scenographer Anthony Masters ( 2001: Odyssey in space ); a year of processing in studios of Mexico City with four different troupes in 75 sets with over six hundred people; Six months for filming with the actors and six months of post-production for special effects. The budget for the production of the film, of approximately $ 38 million, was churned through a figure variable between four and seven million, bringing the final cost from 40 to 45 million dollars depending on the estimates: [5] Dune It was thus considered one of the most spectacular and expensive science fiction productions in the history of cinema for many years. Scenographies and special effects [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ] Dune’s costumes and scenography were meticulously treated as Lynch conceived the scenes such as living paintings : Each planet and every house were carefully studied and rendered with different scenography, costumes, lights and photography, thanks also to the contribution of the director of photography twice Oscar Premium Freddie Francis. [6] As with the other science fiction films before the advent of digital, most of the sets, from the spaceships to the grandiose buildings, was constructed materially using reduced or real scale models and finally exploiting the assembly to conceal errors and imperfections. Lynch claimed the construction of enormous scenography, often on a natural scale (for this reason the experience of the modelist West was useful, [7] astronavi manufacturer in the films of Star Wars [8] ). To give life to the titanic worms of the sands and the disturbing navigators of the space guild was called Carlo Rambaldi, the highest expert in mechanical creatures and “father” of the Xenomorph of Alien and E.T. the extra-terrestrial. The scenography and customs are deliberately characterized by an nineteenth -century eclecticism, apparently in conflict with the late future location. As is known to his readers, in the universe of Dune , conservative and feudal, reigns an anti -scientific behavior from which it follows a deliberately backward technology. In apparent contrast to the fantastic filmography 1980s, with lights and pyrotechnic effects, memories of the setting of the stories of Jules Verne, of the mythological historical filmography of the sixties and science fiction of the 1950s recal. [6] The image of the Atreides house, lineage from ancient and honored military traditions [9] , with their planet of waters Caladan, is characterized by a singular post-Barocco style, between Ludwig of Bavaria and modernism. The world of Harkonnen, cruel and terrible, is characterized by the algid atmospheres and the gloomy scenography of their dark and polluted planet, Giedi Primo [6] . Cast [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ] The initial choice of the cast, on the prominent, was made by Dino De Laurentiis himself with his daughter Raffaella, producer of the film, [ten] and included Freddie Jones ( The Elephant Man ) Nella part of Mentat Thufir Hawat, Jos\u00e9 Ferrer ( Cirano di Bergerac ) as Emperor Padishah and Max von Sydow in the part of dr. Liet-Kynes, the imperial planetologist. Chani’s female role is played by Sean Young, already famous for Blade Runner . The other roles were covered with greater difficulties: Brad Dourif after some reluctance was convinced to interpret Piter de Vries, the evil Mentat; to the German J\u00fcrgen Procchnew – distinguished with the war U-Boot 96 – The part of the Duke Leto was assigned the right ; The complex part of Lady Jessica, after various second thoughts, went to Francesca Annis, former interpreter of Lady Macbeth in the transposition of Roman Pola\u0144ski. Feyd-Rautha, the ambiguous and ruthless pupil of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Kenneth McMillan) was played by the rock star Sting (at the time leader of the band The Police). Initially, Sting was one of the candidates for the main part, that of Paul Atreides\/Muad’dib. For the part of the protagonist, over one hundred ribbons of actors were viewed, known and not, before reaching the choice of Kyle Maclachlan. The then unknown Maclachlan, which later became a Lynch’s actor-fetish for his subsequent films, was an authentic enthusiast of Herbert’s book and proved suitable for the complex part of Paul, [ten] Young scion tormented by mystical dreams and visions, which matures and becomes the head and Messiah of the Fremen. Among the numerous other characters who have left in the story are to report Gurney Halleck, the master of the weapons of Paul, played by the Shakespearian actor Patrick Stewart (who was then famous for another science fiction role, that of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation ) and the Shadout Mapes (Linda Hunt). The Italian actress Silvana Mangano, wife of De Laurentiis, returned to the set after many years at the request of the daughter Raffaella, impersonating the reverend mother Ramallo delle Bene GeiSerit, in what was the penultimate role of his career. The American Paul Lawrence Smith, usually with a beard, here I am stressed to underline the detestable character of “Rabban the Beast”, was known to the Italian public for the similarity with Bud Spencer, playing films of the cycle of Simone and Matteo and the character of Bluto in the Popeye In Robert Altman. It should be emphasized that the close thoughts of the characters are rendered through an out of field voice, a much discussed choice, given that many “purists” between critics and filmmakers believe that this function should be performed by the dialogues. The soundtrack, in addition to the original pieces composed by the Rock Band of Toto and Brian Eno, also includes songs taken from Beethoven, Mahler, \u0160ostakovi\u010d and Cherubini, performed by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Symphonic music and rock, traditional instruments and synthesizers merge into a harmonious together with ancient and new. The album, recorded in December 1984, was reprinted in 1997 with the insertion of some unpublished songs.The Toto band is accompanied by the Wiener Symphoniker and the Viener Volksoper Choir, directed by Marty Paich, father of the keyboardist of the David Paich group. The film received the 1985 Oscar nomination for the “best sound”. The film, which had aroused a strong expectation for the popularity of Herbert’s books, at his release was the subject of heavy criticism and obtained a commercial success much lower than expectations. Despite this, [11] Over time it has become a cult of science fiction cinema [twelfth] And he recovered abundant gains in the home video market. Takings [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ] Cost about 40-45 [5] millions of dollars, the title will recover only 31 in the United States [13] And he managed to recover the cost of production thanks to the collections in the rest of the world. [5] In Europe, where the film enjoyed the most successful, remained for many weeks at the top of the box office charts. Criticism [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ] Janet Maslin scrisse sul New York Times that “many of the characters of Dune they are sensitive, which puts them in the unique position of being able to understand what happens in the film “and that” the plot of Dune It is dangerously overloaded, like practically everything that concerns him “. [11] Roger Ebert wrote that “it took us to Dune About nine minutes to fully strip myself of all expectations “and that” this film is a real casino, an incomprehensible, ugly, unstructured unnecessary excursion in the darkest realms of one of the most confused scripts of all time “. [twelfth] [14] Although the writer Frank Herbert, before his death in 1986, said he was fully satisfied with the representation made by Lynch of his universe, [twelfth] The plot of the film was actually complex and sometimes dark (especially for those who had not read the novel), and this despite the director’s efforts, who had written six different drafts before the definitive script. The difficult understanding derives in part from the complexity inherent in the original story, but also by the heavy cuts that were operated by the production on the final version of the film to contain their duration. Although most of the critics of the time had negatively judged the film, the writer and critic of science fiction Harlan Ellison was of different opinion. In his film criticism book Harlan Ellison’s Watching (1989) states that the production of 42 million dollars did not succeed because the projections were denied at the last minute after different reprogramming; This decision of Universal, according to Ellison, meant that the film community was nervous and hostile towards Dune even before its exit. [15] Ellison eventually was one of the few to positively review the film. Morandini He writes that “Lynch has made a fantastic film, cumbersome, unbalanced, here and there enigmatic in the development of the story, sometimes brilliant. Painting gallery of characters. Carlo Rambaldi’s Verons and Freddie Francis’ photography is memorable; And that the film was “torn by almost all English -speaking critics and many Europeans”. [16] Versions [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ] There are numerous different versions of the film; On the authentic length of the film and on its hypothetical “lost” versions, various rumors and legends have spread, including that of a mysterious “full version” of 5 or 6 hours that no one has ever seen. It is possible that this rumor was fueled by some statements by Herbert himself, who in the introduction of the book The road to Dunes , following the film, he wrote: \u00abI had the opportunity to influence some decisions regarding the film, even if I was not able to impose my idea on the ending or on the cuts for the version that would have been projected to the cinema. Of the five original hours of the film, only the two fifths emerged from the assembly room. What was cut? \u00bb. In reality it is quite normal that a film arrives at the time of assembly with several hours of shot, which is selected right at that phase. To contain the duration of the initial version of Lynch, about four hours, many scenes were actually cut and at least one minor character was entirely eliminated (the wife who Paul “inherits” by a Fremen killed in a duel). The rumor is in turn that the version of Dune distributed in cinemas would be derived from the “cannibalization” of two different films ( Dune and his sequel). In the United Kingdom to the release in theaters in 1984 the film was cut by 37 seconds to obtain a “PG” evaluation, eliminating some fraudulent scenes. These scenes were reinstated in the first edition for the home video and subsequent ones, which report an evaluation of “15”. Years later, reassembling some of the cut scenes, an extended version of the American television film was put together, the so -called “Alan Smithee version”, lasting 189 minutes, but far from excellent in the assembly, so much so that it is denied by director himself (whose name was precisely replaced with Alan Smithee, a pseudonym used by various directors). In this version various scenes were eliminated to add other unpublished ones. [17] These changes led to a 176 -minute “Extended Edition” significantly different from the original projected at the time in theaters and then distributed on DVD. [17] A third version, the “alternative version” of 183 minutes, in which the direction is re -credited to David Lynch, presents a similar prologue, although not entirely identical, to that of the “Extended Edition” and contains all the significant scenes that are missing in the Other versions. [17] Despite various speculations in the years concerning the possible existence of a director’s cut of about three hours, in April 2020 Lynch said he no longer wants to deal with his old film, thus damaging the rumors about the possible release of his version original. Italian edition [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ] The dubbing was curated by the Trenta group, with the direction of Renato Izzo on dialogues by Alberto Piferi and Elettra Caporello. Television miniseries [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ] Almost twenty years after the release of the film, in 2000, a television miniseries entitled by the title was taken from Herbert’s novel Dune the fate of the universe ( Frank Herbert’s Dune ) which aspired to a greater adherence to the original novel, thanks also to a total duration of 273 minutes. Although with a much smaller budget this miniseries appears at times a remake of Lynch’s film, for the similarity of numerous scenes and dialogues. This miniseries followed in 2003 with Dune’s children . Reboot [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ] The film, directed by Denis Villeneuve, is a new adaptation of the novel and is divided into two parts. The first part came out in the cinemas in September 2021. [18] The protagonists of the film are Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd and Zendaya. ^  Fabio Boccanera in the special edition  ^  https:\/\/www.mymovies.it\/film\/2013\/jodorowskydune\/  ^  https:\/\/www.comingsoon.it\/cinema\/news\/aspettando-dune-la-versione-di-david-lynch-e-de-de-de-laurentiis\/n127680\/  ^  Simone Rovellini, David Lynch talks about the refusal to direct the return of the Jedi . are badtaste.it , www.badtaste.it, January 5, 2010. URL consulted on 11 October 2021 .  ^  a b c  Richard Rayner, in the article The movie that cost the earth  Filed On November 21, 2010 on the Internet Archive. (Time Out, November 15-21 1984, No.743, p.15-19), writes that the original budget was 38 million and that it was clear of a figure ranging from 4 to 7 million; And that the cost would have been recovered considering the collections all over the world.  ^  a b c  Todd 2012 .  ^  Dune: Riding the Worm Image Gallery | Cagey Films  ^  Kit West interview | Star Wars | Raiders of the Lost Ark  ^  In the novels of Herbert’s son, there is talk of a descent with the Astreids of ancient Greece.  ^  a b  Raffaella De Laurentiis (manufacturer), Kyle Maclachlan (Paul Atreides) and Harlan Ellison (screenwriter) discuss the casting and dune’s acting . By the documentary Impressions of Dune in the DVD of Dune di Sanctuary Visual Entertainment.  ^  a b  Movie Review – Dune – SCREEN: SCIENCE-FICTION EPIC, ‘DUNE’ – NYTimes.com  ^  a b c  The Messy, Misunderstood Glory of David Lynch’s Dune – The Atlantic  ^  Dune (1984) – Box Office Mojo  ^  Dune Movie Review & Film Summary (1984) | Roger Ebert  ^  ” Dune : Its name is a Killing Word” ~ ErasingClouds.com Access 12 June 2010.  ^   Dune , in Mymovies.it , Mo-Net Srl. URL consulted on October 5, 2014 .  ^  a b c  Bruno Lattanzi and Fabio De Angelis (edited by), Dune , in Fanta . URL consulted on October 5, 2014 .  ^   Denis Villeneuve confirms that Dune will be divided into two parts . are Universalmovies . URL consulted on July 21, 2020 .  Claudio Lazzaro, The mysteries of the planet of Dunes ( JPG ), in Future , n. 16, Alberto Peruzzo Editore, February 1985, pp. 72-75, OCLC 955444636 . 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