Thursday, March 14, 2024

Nerd Cookies with a more-aggressive-than-usual take

Nerd Cookies with some big disagreements about how parts of "Dune, Part 2" got cut and will never be shown to the public.

Nerd Cookies takes the "death of the author" route (the author doesn't own or exclusively judge his creation once it goes public; his intention counts for nothing, and the public interprets the work as it will*) and flatly declares that "Dune, Part 2" does not belong exclusively to Denis Villeneuve, so she can't understand how Villeneuve justifies not making a director's cut of the film, or at least releasing extras to allow us to see the deleted scenes and imagine what could have been. She is fair enough to release Villeneuve's own statement on why he's doing this, and while I, too, would probably like to see the cut scenes, I didn't think Villeneuve's reasoning sounded insane. His reasoning is, however, predicated on the idea that the film is ultimately his, and I can see why Nerd Cookies might deny that. Your thoughts?

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*I've never liked this attitude. It's too cavalier to say the author has absolutely no say in what his work was intended to be, especially if the work was an act of communication meant to be understood and properly (according to the author/creator) interpreted. At the same time, the author's work will inevitably escape his/her control. Look at how we treat our nation's founding documents and the Bible. Would first-century Jews agree with "Jesus was a socialist!" or "Jesus was a capitalist!"? Would they know what that meant?



1 comment:

  1. I haven't watched the video, but my thought is that the creator controls the content and is thus free to decide what is and isn't seen.

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