If you have never witnessed the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky before you would be well advised to rectify this shortcoming. Of particular importance are his acid western El Topo and his magnum opus, the enigmatic The Holy Mountain. As a leader of the 'Panic Movement', Jodorowsky's surrealist visions drip with sincere symbolism, absurd comedy, and deliver an electric shock to the bourgeois via his elevation of the profane. As the Alchemist says, "You are shit. You can change yourself into gold!"
That this man was stripped of the opportunity to make Dune (featuring Salvador Dali, the art of H R Giger, & the music of Pink Floyd, Magma, Henry Cow & Stockhausen) is, as they say, a crying shame.
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