In short, Dune’s direction called for a combination technician and administrator, and Lynch, though as good a technician as anyone in film, 5 is more like the type of bright child you sometimes see who’s ingenious at structuring fantasies and gets totally immersed in them but will let other kids take part in them only if he retains complete imaginative control over the game and its rules and appurtenances—in short very definitely not an administrator.
