04-20-2014, 05:18 PM
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This movie was never made.
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This is both fascinating and depressing. It is fascinating in the scope of Jodorowsky's mad genius, depressing in the knowledge that it never came to fruition. I'm a bit skeptical it would have been as great as some claim. But wow, at worst it would have been a spectacular experimental piece well worth the ticket. Various people are interviewed, including Giger, who has this bizarre tortured facial expression while forcing out each sentence. It fits his art perfectly. But the main person interviewed is Jodorowsky. He is by turns brilliant and crippled by eccentricity. One sees his svengalish talent for talking so many big names (Dali? Mick Jagger? Orson Welles?) into agreeing to do the film. But one also sees his one weakness. He totally despises money. One would think with his talent at swaying so many big names to be in the film that he could have applied that same talent to acquiring money. But his attitude was that money should not matter. The vision his film has to offer is priceless. Though one Hollywood studio after another is wowed by the scene-by-scene layout he has prepared, the money discussions turn them cold. A case in point. The studios want it to run an hour and a half. Jodorowsky tells them he won't know how long it is until he completes it.
How sad that this vision was never realized, but I can't completely blame the studios.
This movie was never made.
End Spoiler Alert
This is both fascinating and depressing. It is fascinating in the scope of Jodorowsky's mad genius, depressing in the knowledge that it never came to fruition. I'm a bit skeptical it would have been as great as some claim. But wow, at worst it would have been a spectacular experimental piece well worth the ticket. Various people are interviewed, including Giger, who has this bizarre tortured facial expression while forcing out each sentence. It fits his art perfectly. But the main person interviewed is Jodorowsky. He is by turns brilliant and crippled by eccentricity. One sees his svengalish talent for talking so many big names (Dali? Mick Jagger? Orson Welles?) into agreeing to do the film. But one also sees his one weakness. He totally despises money. One would think with his talent at swaying so many big names to be in the film that he could have applied that same talent to acquiring money. But his attitude was that money should not matter. The vision his film has to offer is priceless. Though one Hollywood studio after another is wowed by the scene-by-scene layout he has prepared, the money discussions turn them cold. A case in point. The studios want it to run an hour and a half. Jodorowsky tells them he won't know how long it is until he completes it.
How sad that this vision was never realized, but I can't completely blame the studios.