Alejandro Jodorowsky

"Such a lively character" He is like a perfect composite of all the worst aspects of every pretentious bore you could meet in a lifetime and his movies are childish fucking idiotic garbage.

― xelab, Sunday, November 2, 2014 6:17 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's harsh. i have to admit he comes across as really charming in the documentary about his abortive attempt at "dune", but i still couldn't help thinking "if this movie ever got made, it would be terrible." i kind of like some of jodorowsky's films, but they're essentially kitsch.

he has really clean veneers these days

although interestingly i think the david lynch dune has the same essential problem as i imagine a jodorowsky dune would have. lynch doesn't seem very engaged in the complex story and it comes across as incoherent, so it's really just one stunning visual after another with not much to anchor them.

i still enjoy watching it, though, almost as an art installation rather than a narrative.

http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/39988623-d34d-43c7-b496-0b512bdc8d8d_zpsg1tvtadr.jpg

http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/0320Emperor_zpselrmvpjd.jpg

Like, I have no idea who drew these. They may actually be early sketches by someone connected to Jodorowsky himself. They don't have the finished look of the things I've seen in the movie.

The Jodorowsky's Dune documentary, that is. Also sorry I'm a shitty photographer.

http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/0420Baron20Harkonnen_zpsany9csfa.jpg

Wow v cool

hot

http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/1420Thufir20Hawatt_zpssnthzkb1.jpg

http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/1220Bene20Gesserit20Mother_zpsberqbw8b.jpg

http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/1820Sardaukar_zpsdmwc3wgi.jpg

I doubt this stuff is directly related to Jodo's DUNE. It doesn't look like his own drawings (as in "Fabulas Panicas") and dude had top tier illustrators/artists on his team. This looks more like Mingering Mike!

Oh wait! GOTT -these accompanied the actual film script?

Yeah it's bizarre. The script is titled DUNE by Alejandro Jodorowsky, and the customer who brought it in is a reliable guy and says he got it in the 70s... it's a mystery. But I love it.

The book is bound, btw, but the illustrations look like they were originally in a 3-hole binder and are on a different stock than the typed script.

Wow. Make a PDF of that script, please!!

That is pretty amazing! Wow!

That would be Dali as Emperor of the Galaxy.

put it on eBay for $2,000 and see what happens

I really don't know much about Jodorowsky's films or other writing but both The Incal and The Technopriests are fantastic comic novels.

Yeah, scan that thing at the highest rez you can, then list it on eBay for laughs

We're listing it for the guy who brought it in, so it'll be interesting to see how that goes. I'm going to at least try to photograph all of the plates, if I can I'll scan it. Don't want it to disappear into some dude's library forever...

So these dog aliens land on a planet and

http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/Dogmen/Jodo-033_zpstlbnz3ba.jpg
http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/Dogmen/Jodo-034_zpseqvgcmgm.jpg
http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/Dogmen/Jodo-035_zpswyaxqnn5.jpg
http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/Dogmen/Jodo-036_zpszbmjuloi.jpg
http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/Dogmen/Jodo-037_zpsfft6hja2.jpg
http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/Dogmen/Jodo-038_zpsc2osl6gf.jpg
http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/Dogmen/Jodo-039_zpst8dzqots.jpg
http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/Dogmen/Jodo-041_zpsouwvvfvm.jpg
http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/Dogmen/Jodo-040_zpsknrqmoko.jpg

Scanning this thing is a pain in the ass btw.

Wtf?! Crazy

When George Harrison learned this company, Apple, was going to produce my film The Holy Mountain on John Lennon’s recommendation, he asked to read the script. Then he expressed a desire to play the lead role, that of the thief. Dressed completely in white, he received me in his elegant suite at the Plaza Hotel in New York. He offered me some melon juice with cinnamon and congratulated me on the script. He said that he was prepared to play the role on condition that we cut one scene, which he read aloud: “At an octagonal sink, next to a veritable hippopotamus, the alchemist bathes the thief, turns him over on his back, his buttocks facing the camera, and rubs soap over his anus.”

With an amiable grin, he said, “It’s quite out of the question for me to expose my anus in public.”

Those script pages are even worse than the pix. Just started reading Dune; doubtimg there's anything so room-temperature-IQ middle school in this novel (hope not)

The dog pages are the ones I'm referring to.

haha, those pages are amazing. Don't think I've ever seen any of his script or if it is even out there at all for people to see. He truly did not care about or even know about the details of the Frank Herbert book. One of the biggest problems with the David Lynch version is how slavishly he tries to mimic the style of the novel with all of the unnecessary internal monologues. Jodorowsky, on the other hand, seems to have decided to just make up his own story from scratch.

GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, would you mind if I posted those pictures on my tumblr? I have a lot of both Dune and Jodorowsky stuff on there.

Sure, man. Cool Tumblr btw!

We're starting the auction next Tuesday. I'll post some more scans from it sometime soon, including the crazy "Oh, yes this is definitely Jodorowsky" section where Jessica gets pregnant with Paul.

Please don't post ALL of them, though, if you don't mind.

I've had Holy Mountain on my memory stick waiting to be watched for the last couple of months. not sure what prompted me to get a load of his stuff a few months ago. But just not been getting around to watching anything until today.
So I finally got to see that Holy Mountain today and it is weird isn't it? Not sure how self consciously.
You can see the influence of things like Un Chien Andalou and L'Age D'Or in it.

I do love those hats they have though I think I might go for a lower crown on them if I got one.

find his recent campaign to put his films up on vimeo for free endearingly insane (distributor for Dance of Reality is already blocking it, so now Jodo says he's putting up Santa Sangre next lol)

Dammit, I really want to see Dance Of Reality. Doubting a region 2 release.

Looks like its still up on vimeo

Cant find his Vimeo channel.

Noticed by Dangerous Minds.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/sketches_for_jodorowskys_dune_i

Cool! BTW my laptop died so unless and until I can figure out if the drive is readable that's probably the only stuff that'll be around. I'm extremely annoyed - spent days scanning that thing. But hopefully it can be salvaged.

Artificial Eye are finally doing a region 2 of Dance Of Reality

https://t.co/Pp5bb6dFQ5

Hell yes that's an amazing speech.

86 did he say? That man is alive!

doin somethin right

Just caught Dance Of Reality on its last day of cinema screening. Aside from rough cgi near the start, a little rough acting and a few things that didn't look quite right, I liked this a lot. I'll probably even buy the dvd in a couple of weeks.
I really didn't expect this to be about the father so much. Loved the singing mother, she's so beautiful.

Looks like Endless Poetry has been funded.

82 simple rules http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_key_to_immortal_consciousness_the_82_commandments_of_alejandro_jodorows

#82 sounds helpful, Herzog’s list of advice for filmmakers preferable though.

Cant remember thread or idiot poster that was claiming jodo is an atheist but:

JodoEnglish (@AlejodoEnglish) tweeted at 11:52 AM on Wed, Sep 16, 2015:
They are only wrong when they say "God does not exist". In everything else the atheists are right.

endless poetry is very personal and romantic (almost a manifesto), also funny (cake scene wth), and invigorating