[Slevin11]

Have you actually watched Jodorowskys movies? Because if you go and watch one, you know that his Dune would be have been an absolutely incomprehensible nightmare. The costuming would have been really cool, but the story would have been totally changed to be incoherent, and it would have become an infamous scandal at changing a movie away from the book storyline.

I was so intrigued by this documentary, and how amazing it might be, until I went and actually watched ‘El Topo’. It was probably the worst movie I’ve ever watched… To this day everyone I asked to watch it with me will bring up how bad and weird,incoherent, and gross it was.

[ginko]

>Have you actually watched Jodorowskys movies? Because if you go and watch one, you know that his Dune would be have been an absolutely incomprehensible nightmare.

Yeah, it would've been great. El Topo is awesome. Holy Mountain is probably even better.

[echelon_musk]

A part of me did laugh out at the thought of you naively sitting down with a group of friends to watch a Jodorowsky movie. Having watched The Holy Mountain, El Topo and Santa Sangre I could only imagine how awkward this was.

Regarding the creative process of creating Dune, Jodorowsky has this to say in the documentary:

> "if you respect the woman, you will never have child. You need to open the costume and to... to rape the bride."

Which is a horrifying choice of words considering Jodorwsky "claimed in a 1970 interview to have raped his co-star Mara Lorenzio on camera" [0].

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/director-bragged-on-came...

[diggan]

> Which is a horrifying choice of words considering Jodorwsky "claimed in a 1970 interview to have raped his co-star Mara Lorenzio on camera" [0].

I can't read the article you linked as it seems limited to members, but it seems there is more to this story than that. More information about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky#Criticism...

[dakial1]

He said he wanted to shock people and that he didn’t really do that, but there are multiple ways to prove that, one of them was to bring people from the production or even Mara Lorenzio to speak. I tried to search for Mara Lorenzio on the net to see if there is anything on her and it is impossible to find. I’m not sure if her name was that….

[diggan]

On the other hand, how likely is it that someone could get raped on a set where there are at least 20 other people all standing around and staring into the scene? Would none of those people try to stop it if they saw it? Would they not share the story afterwards?

[bmitc]

> Have you actually watched Jodorowskys movies? Because if you go and watch one, you know that his Dune would be have been an absolutely incomprehensible nightmare.

I have seen one of his movies, and it's the only movie I've ever walked out of. Now, granted, it was a midnight showing where the theater would show older movies, but man alive was whatever movie it was an incomprehensible trainwreck.

[dsugarman]

Doesn't sound terribly different than how I perceived the actual movie. I often describe Dune as a 3 hour trailer. I didn't hate it due to the visuals and the immersive sound at the theater but I would have probably been pretty upset with my wasted time if I saw it at home.

[DontchaKnowit]

El Topo is my all time favorite movie. Different strokes for different folks.

Would have loved to have seen a Jodorowsky rendition of Dune.

[freejazz]

Jodorowsky is a fairly acclaimed film maker. Putting it the way you did is only telling on yourself.