Dune (2020) by Dennis Villeneuve

[matticus]

What did you like about Sicario?

Real world CIA black ops. All the actors were on par, cinematography and a story that is gripping. Second one felt like the story wasn't quite as sharp nor gripping.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

What did you like about Sicario?

I liked Benicio and Brolin. The sequel should have been about them and their crew doing cool ****.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Completely illogical ending. Killed it for me.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Completely illogical ending. Killed it for me.

What was illogical about it?

 

[greygoose]

I hate deserts

 

[Wor-Gar]

What was illogical about it?

The whole assault plan with Brolin was unnecessary considering Benecio just hijacked a car elsewhere.

Also, the drug lord has dinner with his family expecting someone he doesn't trust and he only has like 6 guards.

Also, the whole "we need your signature" from newbie Emily Blunt.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

The whole assault plan with Brolin was unnecessary considering Benecio just hijacked a car elsewhere.

Also, the drug lord has dinner with his family expecting someone he doesn't trust and he only has like 6 guards.

Also, the whole "we need your signature" from newbie Emily Blunt.

Yeah, well. It's a movie.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Yeah, well. It's a movie.

Well, there is that.

 

[screamingmetal]

Started watching the Spice Driver edit of Dune on Youtube, couldn't recommend it more to fans of Lynch's Dune.
Looking forward to finishing it tonight!

 

[matticus]

The whole assault plan with Brolin was unnecessary considering Benecio just hijacked a car elsewhere.

Also, the drug lord has dinner with his family expecting someone he doesn't trust and he only has like 6 guards.

Villenavenue has some deep context movies. I'd have to watch it again, but I just thought Del Toro needed to extract some guy with info, they went to snuff out a drug distribution place as a cover to get Del Toro to the drug lord who might have thought he was untouchable.

Also, the whole "we need your signature" from newbie Emily Blunt.

Part of the government process. Paperwork amongst paperwork.

 

[Turtle882]

THIS THREAD EXISTS!!! I'm a big fan of the books. And David Lynch. And the SciFi series. I'm catching up on reading the thread.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Villenavenue has some deep context movies. I'd have to watch it again, but I just thought Del Toro needed to extract some guy with info, they went to snuff out a drug distribution place as a cover to get Del Toro to the drug lord who might have thought he was untouchable.

Part of the government process. Paperwork amongst paperwork.

Yeah, you should watch it again.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Is that sand coming out of his... ?

 

[punisher1974]

Is that sand coming out of his... ?

Maybe it's going in.

 

[haytil]

I’m sure the new Dune might be a mildly entertaining popcorn flick that might get a sequel. As a whole, unless a filmmaker is ready to reverse engineer the film from at least the fourth book to the first, then they will make a bunch of decisions in adapting the front end that will turn into very problematic story telling, world building, and philosophical messaging later on.

For example, if you only look at updating the first book, you could say that there are ‘problematic colonial themes of an outside white person needing to save an indigenous people.’ ... However, if you start blocking out the story from the point of view that Paul will end up as God Emperor multiple generations in the future, then the analysis changes. Dune’s themes aren’t a problematic feature of a book from 1965. It is the freaking point. You want to jump forward 3,500 years to a dystopian future where the savior is now the tyrant.

You don't need to adapt the fourth book to reach the anti-colonialist themes or subversion of the white savior trope. That's already present in the second half of the first book, as well as the second book.

Villeneuve has made it clear he already has his plan for adapting the second half of the book - and from the start, had a general idea of adapting the second book as well, forming a film trilogy. Given that, I'd be surprised if we don't see these themes in the next movie.

Which could be why Villeneuve is already on the PR path of advertising Chani as his part 2 heroine.

This has already been debunked as a translation error.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

It looks so good. It will bomb.

 

[Wor-Gar]

God, I hope its good. It looks great.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

The villains looks so good too. Baron looks scary and Batista is easily a better actor than The Rock. I think he will have a better career than Rock once the muscles are gone.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Who plays Feyd?

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Who plays Feyd?

He's not in the film.