Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Easter Eggs in RUSSIAN DOLL: "Dune"

The Netflix series RUSSIAN DOLL is noted for its literary and cultural "easter eggs" hidden in the script.

Using a magical realism style, Nadia (Natasha Lyonne) is a NYC hipster caught in a time loop, like in Groundhog Day.

In S1E2, she wonders if it was triggered by a "cocaine-laced joint, like in Israel" she was given at a party.  She seeks out the dealer, a Muslim friend who meets her in a hipster bar.  He says, This bar is so cool, it even has a back room with an obscure secret password.  He immediately tells her the password - Jodorowsky's Dune.   

She agrees - that's obscure.

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The backstory is - 

Jodorowsky was a Argentine film director who planned a film version of DUNE, with top talent, in the 1970s.  The project was abandoned.   There is a 2013 documentary about the abandoned project.  

Associated names had included Mick Jagger, designer HR Giger, David Carradine, Pink Floyd, and others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodorowsky%27s_Dune

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DUNE the book - 1965.  

 There was a 1984 David Lynch film version.  There is the current multi-part film version with Timothy Chalomet.