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   From: Flasherly@live.com   
      
   On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 13:14:19 +1200, Your Name    
   wrote:   
      
   >Villeneuve isn't the problem ... Dune itself is the problem. It's *awful*!   
      
   Herbert has whole portions, long passages of dedicated characters and   
   circumstances, only not fixed within a greater portion of development   
   lent characters as a whole, spread across the Dune volumes, that is,   
   anymore than Nero in succeeding Tiberius or Commodius and Marcus   
   Aurelius can offer coherence in the same passage and timeframe.   
      
   Villeneuve is basically looking at an Evelyn Waugh conundrum, actually   
   acceptably accomplished in the 2008 film Brideshead Revisited, within   
   parameters to correspond with a ten-part, earlier BBC series,   
   featuring Jeremy Irons.   
      
   Except Villeneuve's problem is he has to scratchout beady David   
   Lynch's eyeballs, superceding him, along an awful Dennis Hooper,   
   nobody had even ever seen before, with a gasmask full of drugs in one   
   hand, stuck tight to his swelling red face, a loaded popgun in the   
   other, pointed at the creepy peeping tom hiding in the closet with a   
   tubeful of floating fat cats intravenously injected into his veins;-   
   Floating down, that cat walked right up and said to the awaiting jazz   
   musician wearing a black t-back, clear up the crack of his ass, both   
   beatifically smiling into one another's eyes, brother, at one before   
   his vision as he then proceeded to explain -- 'Dig man, when they're   
   about to puke-up all over on the floor next to the ear I cut off that   
   catatonic guy, they'll be ready for me to send in you to them,   
   dharling Fay.'   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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