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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods I don't think that's an either/or question, as both cases can apply. (Though what he did to Dune does argue for the former case, I'd have thought.) What he did to Dune amounts to a complete rewrite of the damn book, IMO The nonsense about magic weirding rayguns towards the end? I'd say it's more a massive dumbing down of the book rather than a rewrite, myself. Jodorowsky's sadly unfilmed version would have involved a huge rewrite and expansion of the book if it had ever got made, whereas Lynch just chose to dump a load of stuff and play up some other bits. Sadly, he had most of the wrong bits in each list, so the film doesn't really work as a story very well. The best thing about it is some of the batshit design, and it's almost worth watching for some of that alone. Most of the actual changes that Lynch made are either cosmetic, or an attempt to avoid explaining why any of the social and political stuff in the story works the way it does.
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