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Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune would have tripped you out

Apparently, eccentric genius filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky at one point set out to make a version of Dune for the screen that would simulate the effects of LSD, as he notes in the promo for an upcoming documentary about the failed project:

"I wanted to do a movie 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."

A true missed opportunity. As Slashfilm notes, "So he wanted to make a movie that replicated the effect of drug use? A lot of people have said and/or tried that, but Jodorowsky is one of the very few who seems likely to make it work."

Posted By Scotto at 2011-05-14 09:41:03 permalink | comments
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Betterman. : 2011-05-15 20:41:37
ive watched dune on ketamine heaps of times, its mind blowing!
Crawford Tillinghast. : 2011-05-14 22:25:43
I saw some brief footage of old Jodorowsky talking about this on the box set (also containing El Topo, Holy Mountain, et al), and would dearly have loved to see the movie that was in his head.

Check this out for a more detailed description:

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dononamous. : 2011-05-14 11:40:08
I once watched the Dune directors cut, without knowledge of that being that, rather than the original, after taking half a gram of dxm, then smoking a hit or two of salvia leaf before it started...

I woke up to everyone unconscious from the DXM, and wowed at what I was watching with different scenes shot.
Mindblowing, like dust between the stars.

wystri. : 2011-05-14 11:26:48
that would be an AMAZING movie. dang, i wanna see it done now!
pitvok. : 2011-05-14 11:22:16
what a shame, would be great to compare to the opus of David Lynch

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