[net.sf-lovers] Two Dunes

chris@leadsv.UUCP (Christopher Salander) (01/29/85)

      For those of you who were appalled at the editing of
the film Dune, and the way some characters role's were butchered -
  THERE IS HOPE.   I have heard that there is a *European* version
of Dune.   Supposedly, Europeans are thought to be willing to
sit still longer than Americans, so they often get longer versions
of movies.  

   Various scenes have been restored or filled out, including:

 1) The banquet scene.
 2) Duncan Idaho's activities on Arrakis.
 3) More of Shadout Mape's activities.
 4) The complete ending, including the various agreements.

   Now, we must lobby the movie studio and the appropriate people
to make sure that the European version of the film is what gets
put onto Video Tape for sale, and/or what gets sold to Cable TV.

   Then we might have a decent movie to watch.  I have always thought
of Duncan Idaho as the hero of Dune (the book), so this could 
put the movie on the right track.