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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04 Dec 2000:
>Overall, the miniseries did an unusually good job. They managed to
>compress a *lot* of book (basically Part I of III) into a single
>2-hour movie, and still keep the intent and basic plot.
Exactly how did Paul and Jessica find themselves in the desert
towards the end of Monday's episode? In the book there's a whole
sequence with them drugged on an ornithopter that they have to
commandeer. Of course some of the book has to get chopped to fit
into the mini-series, but come on. I'd have liked an extra 45
seconds to show them getting dumped. Something more than the Baron's
reference while the Baron was confronting the drugged Leto, when the
audience might miss the reference.
>Those aren't 'thopters! [...] The Atreides flying
>machines shown in the miniseries look like they use some form of
>turbofan mounted in stubby, movable wings, which they used for
>lift and thrust.
First of all, let me say that the level of special effects for a
cable-produced mini-series was very impressive. But I'll bet that
the cost of animating articulated flying machines was too much, just
to be faithful to the book. I don't think that the idea of flapping
flying machines was that essential to the story. Cool, but not
essential.
Jeff
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