It occurred to me that mainly Dune
is a story of a journey
The journey not only of
one single human being
the main character
Paul Atreides
But is the symbol of the journey of
everyone of us, its the entire humanity
it is partly a journey of someone
they are going across
step-by-step in
learning and in knowing
several stage of his own life
until reach maturity
until reaching balance, and become what everyone is expecting from him,
he becomes a leader
In order to visualize this journey
I thought that maybe
the theory the Greek philosopher a long time ago had
in thinking that the entire life
was essentially a combination
conflict or harmony between four different
parts of nature, four different elements
earth, water, fire and air
I thought that maybe if I can visualize through light and color
these four stages
I can have this main character understand
any single
phase, any single possibility that you or me has
until reach the balanced, until reach the maturity
between the combination of all of these four
So I tried to visualize
for a symbol his own family
with a symbol for Earth, with the color okra
which is a kind of light orange
which has this feeling of the warmth
of the family
and they represent his own father his own mother, his own land, everything
belong to
his childhood I say.
Knowing water, water is when he arrive to
Dune, he know the
population
called Fremen and
for them water is the main, main
element of life.
The planet is a desert
a desert is a totally unbalanced
element
so the lack of water
make water of the most essential one
So I visualised them with the color green
Fire is the third element, is the color of red that can be represented
and I give this color to the Harkonnen
the Baron Harkonnen is the
enemy family compared to his own family
is that opposite, everything is
unknown, everything is almost
the other side of ourself
step-by-step he grew up, even going through pain, even going through
pleasures, going
through knowledge of life
Until he meet these two women
One of the characters is connected with the Fremen
one is the characters is connected with Imperial Palace which is represented by
Air, the fourth element, connected with the color blue
And in my opinion, visualizing these four sections
All is life in the main
character of the entire story
he can only go through all of them, become really
a leader man, what they were expecting.
In fact only at the end
he unites all of these elements, all of these colors, all these sentiments
you can reach this moment to be become light himself
he becomes a spiritual leader.
Film is not a single expression
it is a common expression
between the writer, the director, producer, the actors, cinematographer,
production designer, costume designer, editor, musician
altogether
linked together by the director of course
we are giving each one of us some kind of
energy into
and the mixing... each movie is different because the chemistry
is different.
When I heard that William Hurt
was doing the film
I felt that
in the right communication with him. I didn't know that he was planning
or dreaming to do Dune
a long time ago him too.
Doing the sole character
that he is playing right now, Duke Leto
But i felt that this,
for what I saw on the screen for
in fact since we met, I felt
right away that we were
going in the same direction
When I heard through Will, or John too,
that maybe Giancarlo Giannini could be the Emperor
I knew Giancarlo because we met in "New York Story"
I call him right away, I say "Giancarlo would be wonder if we can do this
piece of journey together".
Mainly cinema without any doubt is the
modern expressive.
There was a moment in life when
there was a sculpture in the Greek time
a painting in the Renaissance,
music in the 17th century, literature in the 18th century
today our main expression
is cinema, is images
So most of the creative people are
coming, doesn't matter from United States, Russia, China,
Czech Republic, Italy - wherever
they going to get together on the screen
the screen can be
a film screen can be what's on a screen
I don't think this is very very important.
What is important is
those energy getting together creating something.
The four basic parts
that Paul is crossing
the four basic elements, the four basic colors getting together
creating the energy, which is always present.