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Dune (2020)
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Sterling
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I did have the starter thing with a deck of every faction and a bunch of random cards, but I didn't really have an exhaustive collection because I couldn't drum up enough local interest in playing. People probably upset after the Decipher Star Wars CCG and Middle Earth went tits up.
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Denis Villeneuve Gave ‘Dune’ Writer Mandatory Goal: Focus on the Women Characters
Villeneuve said it was of utmost importance to bring "more femininity" to Frank Herbert's story.
www.indiewire.com
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Caeden
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Haven’t read the article. Don’t plan on it frankly.Denis Villeneuve Gave ‘Dune’ Writer Mandatory Goal: Focus on the Women Characters
Villeneuve said it was of utmost importance to bring "more femininity" to Frank Herbert's story.
But the last paragraph of the actual damn book is all about the power of women and the keys they hold because they are the sex that gives birth. It’s literally about how women are built in cock blocks and QC for the species.
Women were pretty damn empowered in Dune other than the obvious women not in an open battlefield.
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That's actually specifically what the article is about, how empowered that women are in general in the novel, and specifically adding more screen time for Lady Jessica than was in the novel, due to her overall importance and competence, being all of Queen, bodyguard, mentor, teacher, fighter, etc.
So not really manufacturing anything new out of whole cloth, just emphasizing what was already there.
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I read the books over a decade ago so don't really remember them 100% but to my eyes all they did was perhaps add some lines for her and show her a little more in scenes she was supposed to be in anyways, just not as an active participant. Just one particular scene jumped as being weird.
During Pauls Gom Jabbar, the movie kept jumping to Jessica outside the room worrying about her son. Iirc it was Paul who recited the Litany during the test, in the movie it was Jessica.
Otherwise the scene was pretty damn great, the stink eye Paul gave the Reverend Mother afterwards was just perfect and promising things to come.
Otherwise the scene was pretty damn great, the stink eye Paul gave the Reverend Mother afterwards was just perfect and promising things to come.
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Plenty of movies do that. Battles for Helm's Deep and Pelennor Fields in LoTR are barely a handful of pages. Maybe 1-2% of the page count of their respective books at best.
In the movies, they take up huge chunks of the run-time, being elaborated out.
Plenty of movies do that. Battles for Helm's Deep and Pelennor Fields in LoTR are barely a handful of pages. Maybe 1-2% of the page count of their respective books at best.
In the movies, they take up huge chunks of the run-time, being elaborated out.
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The Gom Jabbar scene is one of the few I prefer in Lynch's version,
because the Reverend Mother talks during the scene and ultimately it feels like the box does nothing and that the pain only comes from her describing the pain. This theme of the power of words is more developed in the Lynch film notably with the addition of the weirdling modules.
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I don't agree. The weirdling modules were beyond stupid and the voice was handled very poorly in the lynch version. The exposition about it early in this movie sets it up well and I think it's handled much better generally. Specifically when the reverend mother uses the voice is imo a pretty good way to translate it to screen.
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‘Dune’ Review: Denis Villeneuve’s Epic Spice Opera Is a Massive Disappointment
Hype is the mind-killer.
Just going to leave this here
"Zendaya, who is planned to be the main character in Dune 2..."
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Definitely was a mixed bag at the time and as time went on. It has some good stuff going for it, but it's a hot mess in a lot of ways.
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