Lynch's 'Dune' worth revisiting
David Lynch’s “Dune” is a hot mess of exposition and questions. Lynch relies on voice overs and long-winded explanations as well as rhetorical questions to bring Frank Herbert’s sprawling epic to the screen. While the voice over choice makes some sense when used as an expression of telepathy, it is filmed in whispers. Of course, when people whisper during the film, it’s confusing.
The All-Star cast includes 3 actors that would later go on to be in Lynch’s Twin Peaks series – Kyle MacLachlan, Jack Nance and Everett McGill. Patrick Stewart, Virginia Madsen, Linda Hunt, Leonardo Cimino, Sting, Richard Jordan, Dean Stockwell, Sean Young, Max von Sidow and a really young Alicia Witt debuting as a scary child prodigy. For her small role, Witt brings a gravitas that shouldn’t be expected from a child actor.
Lynch’s “Dune” is worth revisiting or seeing for the first time. It is visually stunning, even with its 1984 effects, and for fans of Twin Peaks, there are images that seem to make it back into the series and the Return. Perhaps, “Dune’s” greatest contribution is to remind us that words and names have the power to destroy.
The All-Star cast includes 3 actors that would later go on to be in Lynch’s Twin Peaks series – Kyle MacLachlan, Jack Nance and Everett McGill. Patrick Stewart, Virginia Madsen, Linda Hunt, Leonardo Cimino, Sting, Richard Jordan, Dean Stockwell, Sean Young, Max von Sidow and a really young Alicia Witt debuting as a scary child prodigy. For her small role, Witt brings a gravitas that shouldn’t be expected from a child actor.
Lynch’s “Dune” is worth revisiting or seeing for the first time. It is visually stunning, even with its 1984 effects, and for fans of Twin Peaks, there are images that seem to make it back into the series and the Return. Perhaps, “Dune’s” greatest contribution is to remind us that words and names have the power to destroy.