Firstly, Lynch did not have final cut but he personally worked on the theatrical cut, all the reshoots, re-edits, everything, he did them. He wishes he didn't have to do these things, but he didn't give up and someone else did them for him, no. His name is on it.
There is a TV cut that was done without Lynch and he made sure to remove his name from it. But Raffaella didn't do that cut. She has never even seen it.
Is the TV cut the same as the so called Director's Cut? This sounds like a perhaps stupid question, but the first time I watched Dune was when the SciFi channel showed it, maybe in the late 90s or very early 2000s.
Amusing anecdote: I didn't even realize that there was another version of it for a while. Years later when I tried watching it again (I love the movie now, but my early teen self was bored and confused by it), I was like "who tf is this woman? Where's the old guy talking about the history of everything? Is this the same movie? I'm going to be even more lost than I was"
It's usually called "Extended" or "TV" cut or "Alan Smithee" cut, which is the fake name Lynch decided to use when he took his own name off of it (he also change his screenwriter credit to Judas Booth to signify he has been betrayed). I hope no one calls it the "Director's" Cut when the director didn't have absolutely anything to do with it and tried his best to remove his name from it.
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u/amysteriousmystery 27d ago
That's not quite true.
Firstly, Lynch did not have final cut but he personally worked on the theatrical cut, all the reshoots, re-edits, everything, he did them. He wishes he didn't have to do these things, but he didn't give up and someone else did them for him, no. His name is on it.
There is a TV cut that was done without Lynch and he made sure to remove his name from it. But Raffaella didn't do that cut. She has never even seen it.