Dune (1984)

Director:

David Lynch

Writers:

Frank Herbert (novel)
David Lynch (writer)(television versions)

Release Date:

14 diciembre 1984 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Fantasy

Frase comercial:

A spectacular journey through the wonders of space and the mysteries of time, from the boundaries of the incredible to the borders of the impossible.

Plot:

In the distant future, a man appears who may be the prophet that a long-suffering galaxy has been waiting for.

Plot Keywords:

Space Travel | Suicide Pill | Violence | Spice | Spit In The Face

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 4 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

I come to praise 'Dune', not to bury it...

Cast

Francesca Annis	...	Lady Jessica
Leonardo Cimino	...	The Baron's Doctor
Brad Dourif	...	Piter De Vries
José Ferrer	...	Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV
Linda Hunt	...	Shadout Mapes
Freddie Jones	...	Thufir Hawat
Richard Jordan	...	Duncan Idaho
Kyle MacLachlan	...	Paul Usul Muad'Dib Atreides
Virginia Madsen	...	Princess Irulan
Silvana Mangano	...	Rev. Mother Ramallo
Everett McGill	...	Stilgar
Kenneth McMillan	...	Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
Jack Nance	...	Capt. Iakin Nefud
Siân Phillips	...	Rev. Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
Jürgen Prochnow	...	Duke Leto Atreides
Paul L. Smith	...	The Beast Rabban (as Paul Smith)
Patrick Stewart	...	Gurney Halleck
Sting	...	Feyd-Rautha
Dean Stockwell	...	Dr. Wellington Yueh
Max von Sydow	...	Dr. Kynes
Alicia Witt	...	Alia (as Alicia Roanne Witt)
Sean Young	...	Chani
Danny Corkill
Honorato Magaloni	...	Otheym (as Honorato Magalone)
Judd Omen	...	Jamis
Molly Wryn	...	Harah
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Angélica Aragón	...	Bene Gesserit Sister (uncredited)
Miguel Cane	...	Little Fremen boy (uncredited)
Humberto Elizondo	...	Czigo (uncredited)
Ernesto Laguardia	...	Harkonnen's victim (uncredited)
David Lynch	...	Spice worker (uncredited)
Ramón Menéndez	...	Kinet (uncredited)
Ana Ofelia Murguía	...	Palace maid (uncredited)
Claudia Ramírez	...	Fremen girl (uncredited)
Julieta Rosen	...	Palace maid (uncredited)
Margarita Sanz	...	Lady Jessica's maid (uncredited)
Jacqueline Voltaire	...	Bit Part (uncredited)

Dirigida por
David Lynch

Créditos del guión
Frank Herbert		(novel)
David Lynch		(writer)(television versions) (as Judas Booth)

Producida por
Dino De Laurentiis	....	executive producer
Raffaella De Laurentiis	....	producer
José López Rodero	....	associate producer

Música original por
Steve Lukather		(as Toto)
David Paich		(as Toto)
Jeff Porcaro		(as Toto)
Mike Porcaro		(as Toto)
Steve Porcaro		(as Toto)

Fotografía por
Freddie Francis

Montaje por
Antony Gibbs

Casting
Jane Jenkins

Diseño de producción por
Anthony Masters

Dirección artística
Pier Luigi Basile		(supervising art director)
Benjamín Fernández		(as Benjamin Fernandez)

Decorados
Giorgio Desideri
Jorge Sainz

Diseño de vestuario por
Bob Ringwood

Departamento de maquillaje
Giannetto De Rossi	....	creative makeup
Mirella De Rossi	....	chief hair stylist
Luigi Rocchetti	....	makeup artist
Mara Rossi	....	wig maker
Mario Scutti	....	makeup artist
Mauro Tamagnini	....	hair stylist
Jean Ann Black	....	makeup artist (uncredited)
Christopher Tucker	....	special makeup effects artist (uncredited)

Dirección de producción
Anuar Badin	....	production supervisor
Vicente Escrivá hijo	....	production supervisor (as Vicente Escriva)
Anselmo Parrinello	....	production supervisor

Ayudante de dirección
José López Rodero	....	first assistant director
Ian Woolf	....	dga trainee
Víctor Albarrán	....	first assistant director: second unit (uncredited)
James Devis	....	assistant director (uncredited)
Ignazio Dolce	....	second unit director (uncredited)
Miguel Lima	....	second assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department
Rafael Ablanque	....	chief sculptor
José María Alarcón	....	assistant art director
Ángel Arriola	....	chief carpenter
Sante Barelli	....	chief painter
Malcolm Bensted	....	assistant props
Theresa Burkett	....	suit construction (as Teresa Burkett)
Alessandro Catarinelli	....	chief painter
Miguel Chang	....	set designer
Peter Childs	....	assistant art director
Vito Consoli	....	chief painter
Steve Cooper	....	set designer
Ezio D'Achille	....	chief painter
Antonio De Toro	....	chief painter
Ramón Díaz	....	chief carpenter (as Ramon Diaz)
Ron Downing	....	floor props
Linda Frobos	....	suit construction
Raul Paton Garcia	....	assistant art director
Ferdinando Giovannoni	....	set designer
Mentor Huebner	....	illustrator
George Jensen	....	illustrator
Maurice Larson	....	chief painter
Jim Leonard	....	suit chief sculptor
Giles Masters	....	set designer
Ron Miller	....	illustrator
Kevin Phipps	....	assistant art director
Aldo Puccini	....	construction manager
Luciano Romero	....	assistant props
Mark Siegel	....	suit head of construction
Graham Sumner	....	property master
Giulio Tamassy	....	chief sculptor
Jose Velazquez	....	chief carpenter
Jan Ferris	....	designer: jewelry and some props (uncredited)
Martin A. Kline	....	production illustrator (uncredited)
Moises Pineda	....	production buyer assistant (uncredited)
Mark Siegel	....	sculptor (uncredited)

Departamento de sonido
Derek Brechin	....	assistant sound editor
Teresa Eckton	....	sound editor
Donald Flick	....	foley editor
John Haptas	....	boom operator
Lee Haxall	....	assistant sound editor
Ann Kroeber	....	assistant sound editor
Patricia Lee	....	assistant sound editor
Edward Malone	....	assistant sound editor
Steve Maslow	....	sound re-recording mixer
Kevin O'Connell	....	sound re-recording mixer
Jerry Ross	....	foley editor
Leslie Shatz	....	sound editor
Alan Splet	....	sound designer
Nelson Stoll	....	sound mixer
Bill Varney	....	sound re-recording mixer
Les Wiggins	....	sound editor
Martin Maryska	....	assistant sound editor (uncredited)
Donald C. Rogers	....	technical director of sound (uncredited)

Efectos especiales
John Baker	....	special effects floor chief
Antonio Balandin	....	special effects assistant
Jeff Clifford	....	special effects floor chief
Terence J. Cox	....	special effects assistant (as Terry Cox)
Yves De Bono	....	special effects engineer
Lyle Eckmeier	....	special effects assistant
Charles L. Finance	....	special effects coordinator
Rodney Fuller	....	special effects floor chief
Dino Galiano	....	special effects floor chief
Jeremy Gibbs	....	special effects editor
Dirck Halstead	....	special photography
John Hatt	....	special effects electronic unit chief
Steve Humphrey	....	special effects assistant (as Stephen Humphrey)
Andrew Kelly	....	special effects assistant
Terry Knowles	....	special effects assistant
Barry Nolan	....	special photographic effects
Antonio Parra	....	special effects floor chief
Carlo Rambaldi	....	creature creator
Stanley W. Sayer	....	special photography consultant (as Stanley Sayer)
Ronnie Skinner	....	special effects rigger (as Ron Skinner)
John K. Stirber	....	special effects flying unit chief (as John Stirber)
Phil Stokes	....	special effects assistant (as Philip Stokes)
Bruno Van Zeebroeck	....	special effects assistant
Kit West	....	mechanical special effects
Trevor Wood	....	special effects assistant
Gary Zink	....	special effects assistant

Visual Effects
Tom Anderson	....	blue screen unit
Peter Bohanna	....	model shop supervisor
Mike Cobos	....	creature modelmaker
Ralph Cobos	....	creature modelmaker
Tom Connors	....	creative sculptor
Bryan Cooke	....	optical lineup
Syd Dutton	....	matte painter
Mark Freund	....	optical printer operator
Dennis Glouner	....	matte photography
Robert Habros	....	optical technician
Devorah Hardberger	....	optical coordinator
Patt Harrison	....	optical coordinator
Kevin Koneval	....	blue screen unit
John Kuhlman	....	optical lineup
Richard Malzahn	....	visual effects: graphics
Laurie Marems	....	creative sculptor
Ray Monahan	....	optical printer operator
Deborah J. O'Brien	....	optical printer operator
Bill O'Sullivan	....	optical lineup
Christine Overs	....	model maker
Mark Pokrzywnicki	....	optical technician
Dick Ramirez	....	optical printer operator
Gus Ramsden	....	model maker
Emilio Ruiz del Río	....	foreground miniatures (as Emilio Ruiz del Rio)
Frank Schepler	....	creature operator (as Frank W. Shepler)
Paolo Scipione	....	creature operator
Brian Smithies	....	model unit supervisor
Jacinto Soria	....	model maker
Charles Staffell	....	front projection consultant
Eric Swenson	....	motion control
Bill Taylor	....	matte photography
Steven Townsend	....	creature operator
Danielle Versè	....	model maker
Albert Whitlock	....	additional special visual effects (as Albert J. Whitlock)
Mark Whitlock	....	assistant matte painter
William Whitten	....	creative sculptor
David S. Williams Jr.	....	optical lineup
Steven Willis	....	creature operator (as Steve Willis)
Charles L. Finance	....	visual effects coordinator (uncredited)
Jammie Friday	....	rotoscope: Van der Veer Photo Effects (uncredited)
Michael Douglas Middleton	....	visual effects still photographer (uncredited)
Judith Miller	....	conceptual model builder (uncredited)
Christopher S. Ross	....	model maker (uncredited)

Especialistas
Dickey Beer	....	stunts (as Dickie Beer)
Tony Brubaker	....	stunts
Will Harper	....	stunts
Richard Humphreys	....	stunt coordinator
Henry Kingi	....	stunts (as Henri Kingi)
Wayne Michaels	....	stunts
Kiyoshi Yamasaki	....	fight coordinator (as Kiyoshi Yamazaki)
Vic Armstrong	....	stunts (uncredited)
Richard Humphreys	....	stunts (uncredited)
Wendy Leech	....	stunts (uncredited)
Scott Wilder	....	stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Alan Annand	....	focus puller
Chic Anstiss	....	camera operator (as Chick Anstiss)
James Devis	....	cinematographer: additional unit
Frederick Elmes	....	cinematographer: additional unit
Ed George	....	clapper loader
Gordon Hayman	....	camera operator
Gerhard Hentschel	....	camera maintenance
Roy Larner	....	supervising gaffer
Ignazio Maccarone	....	production electrician
John Matthews	....	best boy
Shane O'Neill	....	clapper loader
Tim Ross	....	focus puller
Maria Schiavone	....	gaffer
George Whitear	....	still photographer
Ken Worringham	....	camera operator
Douglas Evan Hersh	....	best boy electric (uncredited)
René Marquéz	....	electrician (uncredited)

Casting Department
Maggie Cartier	....	casting: UK

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Thomas Casterline	....	wardrobe supervisor
Barbara Higgins	....	wardrobe cutter
Ana Maria Infante	....	wardrobe mistress
Mary Etta Lang	....	wardrobe dyer
Edward Percival	....	wardrobe cutter
Cyril Streeter	....	wardrobe cutter
Nadia Vitali	....	wardrobe supervisor
Mary E. Vogt	....	wardrobe dresser (as Mary Vogt)

Editorial Department
Donah Bassett	....	negative cutter
Debbie Harkness	....	assistant cutter
Aubrey Head	....	negative timer
Adam Masters	....	apprentice film editor
Kate Orr	....	assistant cutter
Penelope Shaw	....	assistant editor
Rosemarie Urioste	....	apprentice film editor
Roz Ward	....	assistant cutter
Patricia Lee	....	assistant editor (uncredited)
Carlos Puente	....	assistant editor (uncredited)

Music Department
George Brand	....	music editor
Brian Eno	....	composer: prophecy theme
Roger Eno	....	composer: prophecy theme
Allyn Ferguson	....	additional orchestrator
Tom Knox	....	score mixer
Daniel Lanois	....	composer: prophecy theme
Shep Lonsdale	....	score mixer
Gilbert Marouani	....	music consultant
Marty Paich	....	composer: additional music
Marty Paich	....	conductor
Jeff Porcaro	....	musician: drums
Al Schmitt	....	music coordinator

Transportation Department
Arturo Curiel	....	driver
Alfonso Paredes	....	driver (uncredited)
Carlos Ponce de León	....	transportation captain (uncredited)

Otros miembros del equipo
Margaret Anderson	....	dialect coach
Ginette Angosse	....	production assistant
Yvonne Axeworthy	....	script supervisor
Len Barnard	....	production accountant
Jose Bolano	....	chief puppeteer (as José Bolaño)
Mary Breen-Farrelly	....	accountant
William Bryan	....	suit master foamsmith (as William C. Bryan)
Frances Bunch	....	graphics technician
Janis Bunch	....	graphics technician
Jeffrey A. Burks	....	graphics technician
Ann Busby	....	legal consultant
Rebecca Bush	....	graphics technician
Craig Campobasso	....	production office assistant
Jerry Cormier	....	administrative staff
Eduardo De La Grana	....	assistant accountant
Antonio del Amo	....	chief puppeteer
James Devis	....	supervisor: additional unit
Frederick Elmes	....	supervisor: additional unit
Damian Evans	....	administrative staff
Kevin Freemantle	....	assistant accountant
Gerald Green	....	technical advisor
Hester Hargett	....	production assistant
Michael Jones	....	milliner
Edward A. Kanto	....	medical consultant
Giuseppe La Rocca	....	chief puppeteer
Kuki López Rodero	....	assistant: Mr. Lynch (as Kuki Lopez Rodero)
Liz Lord	....	graphics technician
Angelo Marta	....	chief puppeteer
Antonio Marta	....	chief puppeteer
Michael Menzies	....	post-production accountant
Sherrye Mossuto	....	production assistant
January Nordman	....	graphics technician
Golda Offenheim	....	production coordinator
Don Post	....	suit development
Juan Clemente Prosper	....	location manager (as Juan Clemente)
Katie Rauch	....	graphics technician
Robert B. Schaefer	....	title lettering designer (as Robert Schaefer)
Tito Serini	....	chief puppeteer
Margy Stein	....	administrative staff
Anne Strick	....	project coordinator
Anne Strick	....	unit publicist
Val Van der Veer	....	administrative staff
Debbie Van Hoek	....	office coordination accountant
Umberto Ventura	....	chief puppeteer
Leslie Werner	....	production assistant
Megan Williams	....	graphics technician
Gerald Green	....	technical advisor (uncredited)
Harry Kopoian	....	airport liaison: Mexico (uncredited)
John Naulin	....	still suits fabrication supervisor (uncredited)
Mark Siegel	....	creature maker (uncredited)
Mark Siegel	....	puppeteer (uncredited)

Production Companies

• De Laurentiis

Distributors

• Universal Pictures (1984) (USA) (theatrical)
• Altomedia. Co. Ltd. (2003) (Korea) (DVD)
• Altomedia. Co. Ltd. (2003) (Korea) (VHS)
• Argentina Video Home (Argentina) (video)
• Artisan Entertainment (2002) (USA) (DVD)
• Flashstar Home Vídeo (Brazil) (DVD)
• LW Editora (Brazil) (DVD)
• MCA/Universal Home Video (1997) (UK) (VHS)
• MCA/Universal Home Video (1997) (UK) (laserdisc)
• MCA/Universal Home Video (1997) (USA) (VHS)
• MCA/Universal Home Video (1997) (USA) (laserdisc)
• RCV Home Entertainment (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Scanbox Entertainment (2006) (Finland) (DVD)
• Scanbox Sweden (1996) (Sweden) (VHS)
• Shocking Videos (????) (USA) (DVD) (extended version)
• Thorn EMI Video Australia
• United International Pictures (UIP) (1985) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• Universal Home Entertainment (1998) (USA) (DVD)
• World Movies (Brazil) (VHS)

Efectos especiales

• Universal City Studios (special visual effects)
• Van der Veer Photo Effects

Other Companies

• Costumi d'Arte  wardrobe rental
• Dolby Laboratories  sound post-production
• Energy Productions  cloud technology
• Joe Dunton & Company  camera equipment provided by
• Joe Dunton Cameras America  camera services
• Lee Lighting  grip and lighting equipment
• Sartoria Farani S.t.L.  wardrobe rental
• Sastrería Teatral Cornejo, Madrid  wardrobe rental
• Title House  titles
• Vienna Konzerthaus  music recorded at
• Wiener Symphoniker  music performed by (as Vienna Symphony Orchestra)

También conocida como:

Duna (Chile) [es]
Dune (Spain) [es]

Duración:

137 min | USA:190 min (special edition)

País:

USA

Idioma:

English | Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.20 : 1

Sonido:

70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby (35 mm prints)

Clasificación:

Italy:T | Iceland:L | Spain:13 | Argentina:Atp | Australia:M | Australia:PG (special edition) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Chile:TE | Finland:K-14 | France:U | Germany:16 (special edition) | Ireland:15 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Singapore:PG | Sweden:15 | UK:15 (video rating) (uncut) (1986) | UK:PG (original rating) (cut) | USA:PG-13 | West Germany:12 | Canada:A (Nova Scotia)

Filming Locations:

Churubusco Studios, Mexico City, México D.F., Mexico

Company:

De Laurentiis

Trivialidades:

Two hundred workers spent two months hand-clearing three square miles of Mexican desert for location shooting.

Goofs:

Miscellaneous: When the Guild navigator visits the Emperor in the beginning, as the black container enters through the two gold doors, an assistant to the navigator trips and falls on the left side of the container.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Princess Irulan: A beginning is a very delicate time. Know then, that is is the year 10191. The known universe is ruled by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam the Fourth, my father. In this time, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life...

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Madagascar (2005)

I come to praise 'Dune', not to bury it...

Yeah, DUNE sure is the runt of the Lynch litter but there are still aspects of it that I really love, even for all its cockeyed, club-footed awkwardness.

I didn't see this movie for approximately a decade because it had the reputation, still held in most quarters, of being one of the most infamous bombs of recent memory. However, despite my initial indifference I caught it - by complete accident - on free-to-air TV one night and was immediately hooked from the first sight of its memorable, unexpected future-baroque production design. From that point on, being led through the strange world of the Emperor and his entourage on Kaitain, the oddly-garbed Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, and the Guild Navigator emissaries in all their variously-staged mutated splendour, I was hopelessly infatuated with all things DUNE.

Now, I am fully aware that by most conventional definitions DUNE is not a good film. Actually, since having read all the books in the DUNE saga I am astonished to think that anybody thought that such a property could ever be a commercially viable option for mainstream cinema. It has concepts that tend to demand your full attention, which is mostly box office poison. However I loved the sheer scope of it, the fact that I was being bombarded with scores of unfamiliar terms and concepts which to me had always been the essence of pure science fiction. That it made for a choppy and often confusing cinematic experience mattered to me not at all. I was too much in love with the idea of it all and the weird, alien ambiance which only Lynch could have given the movie. Atreides, Harkonnens, Mentats, Fremen, Sandworms - I just wanted more, more, more. Superb cast, alluring music, stunning visuals - all contributing to an uncommonly arresting, unquestionably unique, cinematic experience.

For all its failures I can't even imagine what any contemporary of Lynch might have done with the material. My point is this: David Lynch's DUNE, warts and all, made me excited enough to want to read all the books in Herbert's sprawling saga. These volumes had been around for years. I'd seen them gathering dust in my local public library yet I felt no compulsion to read them. After seeing DUNE I couldn't wait to rush down and grab them off the shelves. That's why I'll always defend the film and why I refuse to write it off as the disastrous failure that so many regard it to be. In my mind DUNE is a success because it completely sold me on Frank Herbert's universe - a no more strangely beautiful, intellectually stimulating nor fascinating one had I ever seen on film - and compelled me to go ever further into it. I do accept most of the criticisms that the casual moviegoer has of the film but I simply can't hate it.

In short, if you are curious about the film and are familiar with all the bad and discouraging press it has received over the years, yet remain a fan of exceptional fantasy or science fiction, do not be discouraged. You may find that it has elements that may just move you, bewilder you, or tantalise your imagination. You may come to agree, like a growing number of us, that it really is not so deserving of the excoriation that it has suffered at the hands - or pens - of its harshest critics. If you go into it with a forgiving mindset then you may be well rewarded. And then - if you haven't already - read the saga itself. It is formidably great!