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Subject: Re: Dune Movie Picture Book
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Date: Tue, 4-Sep-84 15:30:00 EDT
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   Date: Sat 25 Aug 84 14:55:38-PDT
   From: Steve Dennett <DENNETT@SRI-NIC.ARPA>
   Subject: Dune Movie Picture Book
  ...
   Having just finished reading "Dune", I glanced through the picture
   book to see how much the filmakers had warped the original story.
   (I'm assuming that the book and the movie's script match pretty
   closely.)  Wonderously enough, the only major digression I spotted
   was that the Paul brings the Fremen a device (developed by his
   father's staff) that transforms the Bene Gesserit "voice" into a
   weapon of destruction.  If you've seen the previews, it's shown in
   the scene where the voice-over says "where a word can kill..."
  ...
   -Cat Dennett

We're in trouble now, folks.  

I've had reservations about "Dune: The Movie" since it was announced
three million years ago.  But, now:  how can you fit in a device like
the one above into a perfectly good story ("Dune: The Book") without
screwing it up?  I mean, what are the Fremen going to do with the 
device?  Look at it, chuckle, and continue on like "Dune: The Book?"

What I don't believe is that somewhere, in the vast wasteland known
as Hollywood, there is a movie script writer with the nerve to think
that he can take an excellent book and improve it for the movies.
[No arguments that the movie script writer isn't in Hollywood; you 
know what I mean anyways...]  The best a script writer can do is
try to fit the book into the two hours allowed for a movie.  

And he (whoever he is) had the nerve to fit in a new device.  

*sigh*  And now I know why I got out of Filmmaking and into Computer
Science.  It was a wise choice on my part.

    From the failing fingers of
       - Bill Woody

P.S.  Oh, I still can't wait for the movie!  I just don't expect the
quality of the book, that's all.  [Come on, with a book THAT good,
do you 'spect a better movie???]