Re: Dune

I liked the miniseries better. The two odd things about the miniseries 
are as such.

First, the production style is that of a stage production being filmed. 
Special effects and battle scenes are placed between character and 
dialog scenes. There are a few fight scenes in the character segments, 
but mostly knife duels.

The other odd thing is that they tweaked some of the characters, notably

Princess Irulan , who gets more lines and plays a bigger part. She 
didn't have much of a role in the series, so they're increasing her 
invovlement.

Beyond those two things it's a splendid adaption of a difficult story. 
Definitely check it out.

They are also doing another miniseries to cover the second and third 
books (Messiah and Children) which is in preproduction now.

Tony Francis wrote:

>Oddly enough I preferred the film to the TV series - the former had
much better battle scenes (IMO, of course).
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>Which doesn't help Mr Zorg, since he's now had two conflicting opinions
(sorry !)
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Don M [mailto:dmaddox1@hot.rr.com]
>>Sent: 30 April 2002 16:22
>>To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>>Subject: Re: Dune 
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>>Zorg,
>>	 I own a copy (from the Sci-fi Channel)
>>it is by far allot closer to the books. I like it
>>more than the cinematic movie of a few
>>years back. I'd say go for it if it is the full
>>six hour mini series.
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>>Don
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Zorg Industies" <mr_zorg@lycos.co.uk>
>>To: "GZG List" <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
>>Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 11:01 AM
>>Subject: OT: Dune
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>>>Hi :)
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>>>I noticed that there were 3 videos fr Dune th TV series in 
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>>blockbuster,
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>>>would invite honest opinions before I shell out my hard 
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>>earned cash :)
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>>>Anyone seen them and care to comment
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>>>Ta in advance,
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>>>Zorg
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