Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucdavis.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ucbvax!ucdavis!ccs020 From: ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu) Newsgroups: net.books,net.movies Subject: Re: Frank Herbert Message-ID: <97@ucdavis.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 11:41:55 EDT Article-I.D.: ucdavis.97 Posted: Thu Sep 26 11:41:55 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Oct-85 03:46:04 EDT References: <497@linus.UUCP> <1839@mnetor.UUCP> <527@linus.UUCP> <273@cisden.UUCP> <192@graffiti.UUCP> <1187@ihuxn.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 15 Xref: watmath net.books:2363 net.movies:7809 [...] > While we're on the subject, I lost all respect for Frank Herbert after he > told us that the movie they made of _Dune_ was faithful to the book. > The movie that was filmed WAS pretty close to the book. If you have seen the book _The Making of Dune_, you will see that they shot many of the missing scenes and shot some scenes correctly. Somewhere between the filming and the editing, the movie was ruined. Perhaps someone can collect all of the film clips and re-edit into a half way decent movie, or TV mini-series of something. --kevin chu ..ucbvax!ucdavis!vega!ccs020 /ex Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com