CASE 2: Yutaka Izubuchi
PROFILE
. mechanical designer, character designer, animation director, etc. In addition to mechanical design for animated and live-action films such as "Mobile Suit Gundam: Char Assault on Char," "Mobile Police Patlabor," "Gasaraki," and "Super Electronic Bioman," he also worked on the styling of the bipedal robot HRP-2 by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and directed "Rahxephon" and "Space Battleship Yamato. . He also participated in "Shin Kamen Rider" scheduled to be released in 2023.
Drug metaphors, classical narrative science fiction, Nausicaan ecology ...
What did you think of the show?
I've always been a fan of the original, but I was very satisfied with the film. If you like the original work, you may be angry at the finished movie, but this movie is fine! (Angry), but this movie was fine. But this movie is fine. Fans of the original are the scariest, aren't they? (Laughs) Each of us has our own idea of "DUNE.
Mr. Izubuchi, when did you first encounter the original work?
The first time I picked up a copy was when I was in junior high or high school . At that time, the cover was a picture by Shotaro Ishinomori. In the novel, the components and terms of the work, such as melange, the spice (which appears in this play), are naturally discussed, and there is a glossary at the end of the book as a supplementary reading. It was cool at the time that they didn't bother to explain them within the story.
Regardless of whether it is a novel or not, if the expression is too descriptive, it will be bland, won't it?
As for the story, it's a classic Shakespearean tale of power struggle and revenge between the Atreides and Harkonnen families. But there are also elements of science fiction and the 70s...in other words, drug elements. For example, Melange is also depicted as a metaphor for drugs, isn't it?
Indeed!
The other interesting aspect of the film is its focus on ecological science fiction. In the description of the ecosystem of a sand planet called "DUNE," melange, which is born only on that planet, is the trigger of a struggle for supremacy, and sandworms living on the planet Arrakis are involved in the formation of melange and the desertification and greening of the planet. . The story is intricately intertwined. （There is also an ecosystem similar to that in (Hayao Miyazaki's) "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind".
It is said to have influenced Nausicaa as well.
. there are other gender elements as well. For example, the all-female cult (Bene Gesellit) is waiting for a female messiah through interbreeding, and Jessica, who gave birth to a boy, Paul, because of that interbreeding, is also portrayed as a mistress rather than a full wife, and so on, which is classic, but behind the scenes, as a power game player Women occupy an important position. . I felt that there were factors scattered throughout the play that are relevant to the present day.
