One thing I really like about the lore and this depiction of it is that it doesn't shy away from the difficulty and scale of interstellar travel. Often it can be painted as a kind of milk run in sci fi to be planet hopping but here It FEELS like a massive undertaking that is reserved for great wealth or great importance
In the book they go in to it a bit more. That the houses have to play nice to the guild or they could lose their travel rights. Duke Leto and Paul chat for a bit about it. I really do think this movie also captures that feeling when you see the jump ships of the guild.
Right . Like you just don’t go from one planet to another for a visit to your cousin or to buy some livestock. It’s a *big* deal and very dangerous unless your using the guild which i imagine is very expensive
spoke my thoughts aloud here. I watched this movie with a friend who wasn't familiar with the Dune story and he asked me after the movie ended "Why did it seem like they were stuck on Arrakis at the beginning?" I had to enlighten him of the political and physical elements which come with space travel during this time of the story.
To quote the first book… _”You have read that Muad'Dib had no playmates his own age on Caladan. The dangers were too great. But Muad'Dib did have wonderful companion-teachers. There was Gurney Halleck, the troubadour-warrior. You will sing some of Gurney's songs as you read along in this book. There was Thufir Hawat, the old Mentat Master of Assassins, who struck fear even into the heart of the Padishah Emperor. There was Duncan Idaho, the Swordmaster of Ginaz; Dr. Wellington Yueh, a name black in treachery but bright in knowledge; the Lady Jessica, who guided her son in the Bene Gesserit Way, and-of course-the Duke Leto, whose qualities as a father have long been overlooked.”_ *-from "A Child's History of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan*
Odd that it was overlooked since it was a plan by Rabban. The Baron didn’t want any assassination attempts since he wanted the Duke to grow comfortable.
@@gargoyles9999 probably a plan so stupid obvious that hawat didnt think of it. he was probably preparing for traps by the baron. stuff thats smart and stealthy but not super insanely smart and stealthy. and then rabban just pulls the political equivalent of running at paul with a baseball bat and trying to hit him over the head with it.
@@gargoyles9999 According to the book the plan was that of Pieter, and he did it that way because it had to look like a good solid attempt on Paul's life. If Pieter made it TOO easy then the Duke would smell a rat.
@@Ghosy01 Minor spoilers: I think he was supposed to be the Atreides soldier who shows up as a gladiator after the Harkonnen attack (not shown in the film yet).
I like how the movie used sound to convey scale. One bagpipe is jarring in the silence of the ship’s interior, but it’s suddenly multiplied by hundreds of others as they disembark. The dissonance makes it sound as if they are calling to each other.
Like Scotland the Brave when it's played for the Highland Games. One bagpipe already is decently loud, now imagine what 200 of them playing in perfect sync sounds like.
Love the reciprocated touch between Leto and Jessica. Just like he touches the back of her neck to calm her nerves during the move, she holds his hand to calm his nerves during the arrival. No words needed....
I don't know why, but I like that they aren't married. Most writers would never allow unmarried parents to remain together and in love. There's like an unspoken rule about it. Parents have to be either married or separated. I like that this story didn't care.
@@asherujudo7383 because she remains merely a tool, and object to him. She can bear his children but will never be part of the family. It’s about as sexist as you can get really
@@janusjones6519 Bear HIS children? Lol. Paul is her son too and her legacy was of the Bene Gesserit, which she passed on to Paul by making him the Kwisatz Haderach. His true inheritance was not House Atreides, which was all but destroyed by the Harkonens, but the power of the Bene Gesserit, which made him Lisan Al-Gaib.
@@asherujudo7383 exactly, her only worth is in giving birth to a god, who is the real hero. she's merely a tool, not even deserving of being incorporated into the same family as her son.
Oscar Isaac is a gemstone among actors. He portrays this very honorable and very serious ruler of a noble house so convincingly, I struggled to recognise him as the stuttering baffoon he plays in Moon Knight.
Actually he playes two very different characters in Moon Knight, Marc and Steven, and even a little bit of the third one (Jake). And all three of them are nothing like Leto Atreides. Oscar is a really versitile actor. Also I hope that wasn't an attempt at insulting Steven, cause he's precious and must be protected at all costs. He's such a sweetie.
Can't imagine what it must be like for their soldiers, standing in parade formation for however long they waited on the ships, in that heat and sun. It's an unpleasant experience for a few hours in 100 Fahrenheit, when it's still green all around you.
Don’t forget about the pre-formation formation and all the 50000 briefs that they get to say “don’t fuck up” and the future space powerpoint slide shows.
we used to do military/student cadet program parades in the middle of full 1 oclock sun on summer, after every session we were allowed thirty minutes to change from our soaking uniform and recoup with water. it was harder for me because i was flag bearer and the poles would always be in the field and farthest from shade. one of our rifle guard almost passed out
@@ChrisTLiuo lol I felt this in my bones, I've stood many formations lasting hours under the summer sun at Pendleton and even then I was thankful I was not doing it in 29 Palms, which is what it must've felt like to stand formation at Arrakis
This movie made me understand the feudal mentality. Imagine being just a standard foot soldier in this house. They are respected by the people, masters of their economy, competent, driven, with a secure bloodline. They've invested in your training, pay you well, and all that is required of you is that you fall in line and do what the boss says to the best of your ability. It would be like being legionare under ceaser
After the Black Death, skilled people were too rare and valuable to be treated as chattel, formed guilds to protect themselves from robber barons who would enslave them, and feudalism fell in about eighty years. That an arrow or primitive gun can penetrate any armour a man could buy or wear helped too.
Paul is even more prideful and "classicist" in the books, you get it from the get go, he's royalty and it's outraged by the way Gaius treats him and his mother, in a whole "do you know who i am?" style. I really liked your info btw.
I mean, a good amount of people are still very close to that. The idea that someone just knows what to do is extremely appealing. To be fair though, a liege lord also had a lot of duties. At least in Germanic Europe, every free man had to take up arms if a war was going on. A serf didn't have to. For many, especially if people were somewhat wealthy, it simply made sense to give up a few freedoms in return of getting out of military service. Letting a caste of trained warriors handle the fighting and dying was a good deal for many people. On the reverse, the idea of self-determination came with having to actually take up that responsibility again. The French overthrew their kings and then had to actually take up arms to defend their country again, essentially. It just so happened that firing a gun is a whole lot easier than learning how to swing a sword and kill someone in actual close combat, so it mostly worked out. It's a bit oversimplified of course, but the lower ranks of feudal systems weren't just submissive slaves. They had their reasons. And while I wouldn't want to live in that system, there were guard rails and balances there. And as you said, the "patriotism" someone might feel really wasn't any different from someone who feels patriotism for their country. Obviously people feel more patriotic for a just ruler or for a country that has a well working democratic government and hate it if it's run by the shitty son or the corrupt party. The problem with feudalism really isn't following the orders of one guy, if he's competent. It's that if your great-grandfather gave up certain rights to his great-grandfather a century ago, you're still bound to that decision. Even if you would be happy to fight for your freedom and your current lord is a fat bastard who didn't worked a day in his life.
Leto does what a good leader should do here- exhude perfect confidence in his arrival, despite Thufirs report that the city is still being taken under control. He smiles and nods, making it look like everything is perfecly under control- exactly what his soldiers need to see to reassure them
The need to have people to rely upon to run a real state, as opposed to a dictatorship like the Harkonnens, is indeed something the Atreides get right. Unfortunately Thufir Hawat, Master of Assassins is getting old and has already failed his Duke. His own principle of 'The first step in avoiding a trap is knowing of it's existence' is forgotten. The Atreides being sent to Arrakis is indeed a trap, intended to rid the Emperor of a popular man. Perhaps the second Dune film will address the whole other start of the books that wasn't in this one. Perhaps we'll also get to meet Count Fenring, the Emperor's favourite candidate for his throne.
@@stevetheduck1425 Don't the Atreides know it's a trap? I'm pretty sure they know that the emperor plans to have harkonnens attack, what they didn't know was how early it would be
@@officiallynrgxlr8tr yes, just like you say, he knew it was atrap, he expected to be able to rally the fremen to their side, but the attack came way to fast to earn the trust of the fremen
The harks (short for harkonnens) essentially ambushed atreides in their most vulnerable spot: *setting up shop* They've just arrived & were busy beginning to establish their influence, then all goes to shit when they least expect it
Duke Leto had planned everything out, he was just expecting the Harkonnen attack to happen after the first CHOAM audit and wanted to have five Fremen battalions ready before then. Thufir estimated that the Harkonnens would send 4-5 battalions due to troop transport costs. Even a full attack would have been about ten brigades. Instead the Harkonnens attacked within 3 weeks of Duke Leto's arrival and sent one hundred brigades. The rough cost of transporting all those troops was all of the Arrakis spice profits for fifty years and the Harkonnens had been there for eighty years. Thufir severely underestimated how much the Harkonnens hated the Atreides.
The imax cinema i watched part one in closed down with the closest one being about 1 hour 30 mins away and if god is my witness i am willing to make that journey for part 2
@@WhatIsThis-zq4hk Same WB would be missing a great opportunity not re-releasing Dune Pt. 1 in IMAX at least before Dune Pt. 2 releases (trailer just dropped it looks amazing btw). I think alot of people that want to watch now weren't able to or decided not to because of everything going on at the time. I didn't watch because it was during the pandemic and I got COVID and was recovering from it when it came and left theaters. I need to watch this in IMAX or in theaters
The door boom at 1:26 was so loud in theatre! , its quite incredible that the sound design is even better than the visuals who are also quite amazing Im just sad a few peoples I know decided to not go watch it when it was out, it wont be the same on TV
@@Peizxcv Screw them. We hardcore scifi buffs rarely get films of this type of quality. Like Blade Runner 2049, Treasure Planet, Close Encounters of the 5th kind, Arrival, and such. This was made for us, not for the mainstream. This is _our_ special gem to share with one another.
@@SS-yr3ij I thought the Fremen were only the ones living in desert and exist as a sub group of the larger native Arakis people. Why the Barron only thought there were 50,000 Fremen on the whole planet.
@@jaythekid4728 it's later on explained in the books that outsiders make a distinction but all of the people who live on Arakis are Fremen. This is because they were brought to Arakis as slaves and then freed themselves through a revolt. They then became the Free Men of Arakis. "Wisdom from the desert, polish from the cities" is a traditional phrase describing marriages between desert dwellers and City dwellers. You can think of it very similarly to how the Bedouin and other Islamic people look at each other. Which is no coincidence considering Arakis is basically a copy paste of the Middle East. The desert dwellers do have disdain for the soft city dwellers, but that's it as far as any friction between them.
“My lungs taste the air of Time, Blown past falling sands.” has to be one of my favorite if not my favorite line from the movie. Cannot wait until November.
The love between Leto and Jessica is the cause of everything that happens in the story. Not their fault; sadly there are people forever with a gnawing pain deep down in their shrivelled souls, that someone, somewhere, might be happy.
@@stevetheduck1425and leto becoming more popular in the political world, making others houses look up to him. Making the emperor jealous and following the high reverend mother orders.
As a Scotsman, nice to see the awesome Highland bagpipes still around in the whateverth century, albeit not hugely impressed with the music. Get a nice jig in there would be my advice. Empires rise and fall, but the bagpipes are eternal.
My recollection was that the Atreides were said to be descended from Ancient Greeks who used bagpipes. Theirs differed from the Scots, not sure which was depicted here. Ofc Scots' bagpipes conjure their own images and history.
Definitely check out Han Zimmer's breakdown of the music. He manipulated guitar chords to sound like bagpipes! Also used Middle Eastern bagpipes to complete the sound. Really fascinating!
This scene, proves to me that, in a fair fight, Atreides would absolutely wipe the floor with the Harkonnens. These men are driven by discipline fostered by love, respect and admiration not fear, fanaticism, or cruelty. These men would do anything for their master and his family. *ATREIDES*
Sadly the same isn’t true about the feared and menacing Sardaukar. They effortlessly dispatched those poor Atreides. No one goes up against the Sardaukar and lives. NO ONE.
I got introduced to Dune by this movie and before that I've only heard snippets how it's an interstellar story with houses and an emperor kind of imagining it all grimdark. But all the interactions between house Atreides is just warming my heart. It's a big house and full of customs but the duke's son runs to Thufir Hawat and Duncan Idaho[a different scene] and greets them like friends while they still bow to the head of the house. It's just well nice I think? That formality could be mixed with honest friendliness.
That's the whole point of Atreides. House Harkonnen is built on fear. House Atreides is built on love. Keep reading the books to see what happens next- I won't spoil it. But suffice to say that one of Herber's points of these books is that charismatic leaders should come with warning labels attached...
I loved Dune part 1 so much I saw it twice and bought the books. It’s taken me four months to get to near the end of book 1/6, but it’s one of my favourites now.
@@ohlordddddd1155 Yup. One moral of the story is that you should always be skeptical of authority, because no matter how noble or ignoble they seem, they all play the same deceptive political games.
I only just noticed that it was Gurney who steps out in front first. Only after he does not find anything out of the ordinary does the Duke and everyone else move.
Can't get enough of this scene - Villeneuve is an incredible visual stylist; scale, detail, volume, mass, colour, pace and an awesome sense of physical tangibility.
Something interesting to point out is that it seems that the spaceships have no windows, so the tripulation (excluding the ones responsible for flying the ship, they might have radars or similar) doesn't see anything until they land and the gates open. It makes the fact that they hold hands more meaningful, they don't know what awaits them on the other side
3:22 love that their pilots sound the horns of their transports. You can really sense the loyalty of these soldiers to their Duke, versus the fear from anyone under the Baron Harkonnen Why do these spaceships need horns?
Now... If there's something Denis Villeneuve did an excellent job with, it's definiteley the "epicness" of the film. It truly compares to the might of Lawrence of Arabia when it comes to these scenes. Both the Atreides' arrival on Arrakis and the "herold" scene show that Villeneuve can show us what "epic" truly means, without showing himself off too much.
I just read the 2nd Dune book, Messiah. And now this scene fills me with dread about what's to come. Them arriving on Arrakis is the first reaction in a chain that will span farther than anyone in this scene can know
God bless Hans Zimmer and his epic bagpipe chorus. What an awesome way to show House Atreides projecting royalty and might. This movie seems so perfectly arranged with awesome attention to detail in every scene. Can't wait for part 2.
This film will eventually find it's place among the other masterpieces ever to be filmed. It's full of soul and has a certain artistic vision, it's not just a bunch of beautiful scenes made for short term publicity.
Everyone's pointed out that the Guild heighliners look like sand worms, but I also realize now that the Atreides starships look like whales. Such a neat nod to their origins on the water world of Caladan.
I love Oscar Isaac's acting as gets off the ramp and strides unto Arrakis. Duke Leto looks like he's getting into a fighting ring minutes before a difficult match, a mix between aggression and bracing himself.
Dude lost his house at age 15 and said: "My son will abandon his human form and become a god-emperor sandworm hybrid. Also my daughter will be haunted by my sworned enemy, but I already knew that."
The big plot point that so many people Miss is that Paul ultimately fails. Up until he dies he is frantically trying to avoid the future you're talking about. Only to realize the other paths are worse. And even then if he had been willing to sacrifice his wife he could have taken the path of turning into the worm himself. Part of the reason he didn't was that he wasn't able to see far enough into the future to realize that people would one day look back and think him for what he had done. Only his son could see the ultimate end of that path.
@@RandomGuy0987 he sees all paths tangled into each other, he isn't trapped by a certain future but what he does see certain parts of the varies futures often, like the jihad, his son, his death fighting against Janis, channi, etc
I love how weird the spaceships look in this movie. They're almost organic, resembling the sandworms of Arrakis, maybe even unconsciously designed to look that way by ship designers who use spice.
I love how Paul forgets protocol and run to greet someone he conciderers a friend, I wish we could have seen a little more of his "childishness" before everything happens
And pay the horrible price for it. And chicken out of doing what REALLY needs to be done because the price is too high to stomach. Keep reading the books- Paul is not such a great leader as it looks at the first glance.
Is it me or everybody in the dune universe looks uterly miserably and unhappy,like they dont even want to be alive yet they only survive out of pure instinct
_Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind thou shalt not disfigure the soul and mostly thou shalt not furnish shades to spite the stars_
The ships and the ornithopters are mostly filmed with humans in the frame so we have a sense of scale. The shot with the spaceships casting a giant shadow on the crowd is particularly great. Unfortunately, many moves miss this important aspect. What's the point in having grandiose scale if you can't feel it?
the 2nd scene that sold me on the movie whole watching. so much world building with few words of even visuals. you sensed the history of the great house...and how little it mattered now...but why the emperor would fear them
• Don’t land your entire fleet . • don’t concentrate all your forces in one location. • the shield generator should be guarded by enough men and weapons to withstand 10 minutes of attack. • Air patrols should be constant. • QRF units should always be on stand by. • look outs should be positioned throughout your base with their hand on the alarm. • split your entire fighting force into 6-4 hour shifts and have them pull roaming guard duty throughout your base. You do all this and more when you’re expecting an attack.
To be fair they’d only been there like 4 days, and they didn’t think the attack would be so large scale or soon they figured the harkonnans would attack alone not with sardukar and that it would be in months
@@theAverageJoe25 yeah but think about it, if you just took control of a base In an unfamiliar territory the first thing you’d do is harden your defenses no? They didn’t do that and they paid the price.
Yea they were well prepared. Just not for the scale of the attack. Huge brief and bloody battles raged overnight. Paul and Jessica can hear Atreides comms when escaping, their military doing what they can but standing absolutely no chance against overwhelming force. They did put up a fight. Took down many Harkonnen and even some Sardaukar. One unit warms the rest there are Sardaukar in Atreides uniforms, meaning they got ambushed but survived and killed the Sardaukar.
Also Sardaukar were the 1st to rush the Atreides mansion, and there were dead in Harkonnen and Atreides uniforms lying around in the aftermath. So Letos guards get surprised in the night by the best warriors in the universe sneaking in undetected - and they still take some of them down.
Duncan literally explains it was a global attack across every settlement on arrakis, its why Baron Harkonnen complains about the cost of the force he had to bring, the atreides weren't all in one place, and their were patrols the Harkonnens had agents with a full description and layout of their security ( as the movie pretty much explains) the atreides were overwhelmed and destroyed, Sardaukar are built for sneak attacks and deception And the atreides forces held out for awhile many of them even fought sardaukar and won before being overwhelmed by sheer weight of number
What shocks me is that a move that is so grand in scale, and has all the set-pieces for Dune with someone directing it who obviously read the book, and who respects the book, who put in the effort to tell the story of the book, made an adaptation that felt incomplete at the same time. Not because this is only the first part of Dune, not because I am excited to see more, but that there was a huge amount missing from it that is needed to understand the work.
It would be an IMPOSSIBLE undertaking to adapt everything, every detail, to a film format. Even television might not be able to fully encompass all the details of Dune. Like, yes, it would be nice to get the info that the Harkonnens set themselves back 50 years of profits for that invasion, or that a tooth of Shai Hulud gets brittle and breaks if not warmed by body heat, or the fact that all of this takes place thousands of years after the A.I. Jihad-- but that stuff ultimately is minutia that a film doesn't need to get into. The story is there, the essence of Dune is there. It's a brilliant film.
@@Kaipyro67ALT It is not minutia, but important world building. Case in point, I had a young co-worker who saw the movie and was completely lost on what was going on. He never read the book, heard Dune was good, watched it, and couldn't understand anything. Then I let him see the extended 80s Lynch film and he loved it because it explained things and he could finally understand the story. So for all the things the 2021 may have, storytelling isn't part of it.
@@DemitriVladMaximov I disagree. Most gen-pop understood the movie just fine. Adding too much lore was what ruined every past adaptation. It's a two-hour movie. You can only cram in so much stuff and make it chewable.
@@blusafe1 about no one in the theater I went to understood it, and I did only because I read the book and watched the other film repeatedly. And it wasn't just the age, as older viewers couldn't make sense of it. Enjoy it if you like, but I am skipping part 2.
Yes. Cool visuals but there is very little explanations lol. So there is some kind of spice in the sand and giant worms that somehow function biologically on a desert planet. Kk
After Dune 2, seeing that the high ranking officer who ordered, “Shields.” Was one of the prisoners that Feyd Rautha fought in the gladiatorial fight and nearly beat him. Of course we knew he wasn’t going to win, but we know Atreides fighters are the finest in the imperium!
Without saying a word, they show so much. The sun hitting Paul's face first. Duke Leto looking back at his son and his son kind of reassures his own dad that it will be ok. Paul looks at home here like it was meant to be.
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One thing I really like about the lore and this depiction of it is that it doesn't shy away from the difficulty and scale of interstellar travel. Often it can be painted as a kind of milk run in sci fi to be planet hopping but here It FEELS like a massive undertaking that is reserved for great wealth or great importance
In the book they go in to it a bit more. That the houses have to play nice to the guild or they could lose their travel rights. Duke Leto and Paul chat for a bit about it. I really do think this movie also captures that feeling when you see the jump ships of the guild.
Right . Like you just don’t go from one planet to another for a visit to your cousin or to buy some livestock. It’s a *big* deal and very dangerous unless your using the guild which i imagine is very expensive
spoke my thoughts aloud here. I watched this movie with a friend who wasn't familiar with the Dune story and he asked me after the movie ended "Why did it seem like they were stuck on Arrakis at the beginning?" I had to enlighten him of the political and physical elements which come with space travel during this time of the story.
True. Many sci fi shows act like going way past light speed is no big deal. It's easy as hitting a button and anyone can do it.
The guild's monopoly ensures the prices are held very high so only the nobles can move and the poor are kept isolated and enslaved.
I like how everyone in the ruling office (Gurney, Thufir, Duncan) love Paul as their own child.
Well, he deserve and they are good teachers and menthors.
In a way, he is. They've all trained him in different areas since birth and have been at his side as he's been growing up.
To quote the first book…
_”You have read that Muad'Dib had no playmates his own age on Caladan. The dangers were too great. But Muad'Dib did have wonderful companion-teachers. There was Gurney Halleck, the troubadour-warrior. You will sing some of Gurney's songs as you read along in this book. There was Thufir Hawat, the old Mentat Master of Assassins, who struck fear even into the heart of the Padishah Emperor. There was Duncan Idaho, the Swordmaster of Ginaz; Dr. Wellington Yueh, a name black in treachery but bright in knowledge; the Lady Jessica, who guided her son in the Bene Gesserit Way, and-of course-the Duke Leto, whose qualities as a father have long been overlooked.”_ *-from "A Child's History of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan*
>>Gurney, Thufir, Duncan
And why he doesn't have friends his own age
"A few rough spots"
*misses a hunter-seeker in the walls*
Odd that it was overlooked since it was a plan by Rabban. The Baron didn’t want any assassination attempts since he wanted the Duke to grow comfortable.
@@gargoyles9999 probably a plan so stupid obvious that hawat didnt think of it. he was probably preparing for traps by the baron. stuff thats smart and stealthy but not super insanely smart and stealthy. and then rabban just pulls the political equivalent of running at paul with a baseball bat and trying to hit him over the head with it.
@@gargoyles9999 According to the book the plan was that of Pieter, and he did it that way because it had to look like a good solid attempt on Paul's life. If Pieter made it TOO easy then the Duke would smell a rat.
@@gargoyles9999 That's not true
I thought they wanted some sabotage to be found easily. To make Atreides feel uneasy. Playing with them.
0:35 Fun fact: The officer in the cap who gives the order for the shields is one of the fight choreographers for the film.
I really like that guy . Did he die during the Hakonen attack ? I hope he comes back in the next movie
Could swear there’s an Atreides that looks exactly like him in the stairs attack scene. He’s wearing a T-shirt. So he dead.
@@Ghosy01 Minor spoilers: I think he was supposed to be the Atreides soldier who shows up as a gladiator after the Harkonnen attack (not shown in the film yet).
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Also fun fact: The guy playing the bagpipes is Hans Zimmer, the composer for the music in the film.
I like how the movie used sound to convey scale. One bagpipe is jarring in the silence of the ship’s interior, but it’s suddenly multiplied by hundreds of others as they disembark. The dissonance makes it sound as if they are calling to each other.
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Wow. I didn`t think about it in this way. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
Like Scotland the Brave when it's played for the Highland Games. One bagpipe already is decently loud, now imagine what 200 of them playing in perfect sync sounds like.
Of all the things in the world the bagpipes are best left in the past
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Love the reciprocated touch between Leto and Jessica. Just like he touches the back of her neck to calm her nerves during the move, she holds his hand to calm his nerves during the arrival. No words needed....
I don't know why, but I like that they aren't married. Most writers would never allow unmarried parents to remain together and in love. There's like an unspoken rule about it. Parents have to be either married or separated. I like that this story didn't care.
@@asherujudo7383 because she remains merely a tool, and object to him. She can bear his children but will never be part of the family. It’s about as sexist as you can get really
@@janusjones6519 Bear HIS children? Lol. Paul is her son too and her legacy was of the Bene Gesserit, which she passed on to Paul by making him the Kwisatz Haderach. His true inheritance was not House Atreides, which was all but destroyed by the Harkonens, but the power of the Bene Gesserit, which made him Lisan Al-Gaib.
@@asherujudo7383 exactly, her only worth is in giving birth to a god, who is the real hero. she's merely a tool, not even deserving of being incorporated into the same family as her son.
That touch on the back of Jessicas neck tells me that the night before was when they conceived Alia
Oscar Isaac is a gemstone among actors. He portrays this very honorable and very serious ruler of a noble house so convincingly, I struggled to recognise him as the stuttering baffoon he plays in Moon Knight.
i struggle to recognize him as Nathan from deus ex machina. amazing actor !
I struggle to recognise him as En Sabah Nur. Everything the built will fall, and from the ashes of their world, we’ll build a better one.
Or the professional mercenary and the bloodthirsty killer he plays in Moon Knight. ;)
Actually he playes two very different characters in Moon Knight, Marc and Steven, and even a little bit of the third one (Jake). And all three of them are nothing like Leto Atreides. Oscar is a really versitile actor.
Also I hope that wasn't an attempt at insulting Steven, cause he's precious and must be protected at all costs. He's such a sweetie.
@@anastasiadrozdova1192 Fair point, I didn't take the 3 different persona into account.
Can't imagine what it must be like for their soldiers, standing in parade formation for however long they waited on the ships, in that heat and sun. It's an unpleasant experience for a few hours in 100 Fahrenheit, when it's still green all around you.
I'd hope they have some cooling tech inside their suits. Maybe something similar to what astronauts have.
Don’t forget about the pre-formation formation and all the 50000 briefs that they get to say “don’t fuck up” and the future space powerpoint slide shows.
we used to do military/student cadet program parades in the middle of full 1 oclock sun on summer, after every session we were allowed thirty minutes to change from our soaking uniform and recoup with water. it was harder for me because i was flag bearer and the poles would always be in the field and farthest from shade. one of our rifle guard almost passed out
@@ChrisTLiuo fellow military I see :)
@@ChrisTLiuo lol I felt this in my bones, I've stood many formations lasting hours under the summer sun at Pendleton and even then I was thankful I was not doing it in 29 Palms, which is what it must've felt like to stand formation at Arrakis
This movie made me understand the feudal mentality. Imagine being just a standard foot soldier in this house. They are respected by the people, masters of their economy, competent, driven, with a secure bloodline. They've invested in your training, pay you well, and all that is required of you is that you fall in line and do what the boss says to the best of your ability. It would be like being legionare under ceaser
After the Black Death, skilled people were too rare and valuable to be treated as chattel, formed guilds to protect themselves from robber barons who would enslave them, and feudalism fell in about eighty years.
That an arrow or primitive gun can penetrate any armour a man could buy or wear helped too.
Paul is even more prideful and "classicist" in the books, you get it from the get go, he's royalty and it's outraged by the way Gaius treats him and his mother, in a whole "do you know who i am?" style. I really liked your info btw.
I mean, a good amount of people are still very close to that. The idea that someone just knows what to do is extremely appealing.
To be fair though, a liege lord also had a lot of duties. At least in Germanic Europe, every free man had to take up arms if a war was going on. A serf didn't have to. For many, especially if people were somewhat wealthy, it simply made sense to give up a few freedoms in return of getting out of military service. Letting a caste of trained warriors handle the fighting and dying was a good deal for many people.
On the reverse, the idea of self-determination came with having to actually take up that responsibility again. The French overthrew their kings and then had to actually take up arms to defend their country again, essentially. It just so happened that firing a gun is a whole lot easier than learning how to swing a sword and kill someone in actual close combat, so it mostly worked out.
It's a bit oversimplified of course, but the lower ranks of feudal systems weren't just submissive slaves. They had their reasons. And while I wouldn't want to live in that system, there were guard rails and balances there. And as you said, the "patriotism" someone might feel really wasn't any different from someone who feels patriotism for their country. Obviously people feel more patriotic for a just ruler or for a country that has a well working democratic government and hate it if it's run by the shitty son or the corrupt party.
The problem with feudalism really isn't following the orders of one guy, if he's competent. It's that if your great-grandfather gave up certain rights to his great-grandfather a century ago, you're still bound to that decision. Even if you would be happy to fight for your freedom and your current lord is a fat bastard who didn't worked a day in his life.
Sometimes I read comments like this and every military dictatorship in the history of mankind makes a lot more sense to me.
This is why you should play as feudal empire in Stellaris.
Leto does what a good leader should do here- exhude perfect confidence in his arrival, despite Thufirs report that the city is still being taken under control. He smiles and nods, making it look like everything is perfecly under control- exactly what his soldiers need to see to reassure them
The need to have people to rely upon to run a real state, as opposed to a dictatorship like the Harkonnens, is indeed something the Atreides get right.
Unfortunately Thufir Hawat, Master of Assassins is getting old and has already failed his Duke.
His own principle of 'The first step in avoiding a trap is knowing of it's existence' is forgotten.
The Atreides being sent to Arrakis is indeed a trap, intended to rid the Emperor of a popular man.
Perhaps the second Dune film will address the whole other start of the books that wasn't in this one.
Perhaps we'll also get to meet Count Fenring, the Emperor's favourite candidate for his throne.
@@stevetheduck1425 Don't the Atreides know it's a trap? I'm pretty sure they know that the emperor plans to have harkonnens attack, what they didn't know was how early it would be
@@officiallynrgxlr8tr yes, just like you say, he knew it was atrap, he expected to be able to rally the fremen to their side, but the attack came way to fast to earn the trust of the fremen
The harks (short for harkonnens) essentially ambushed atreides in their most vulnerable spot: *setting up shop*
They've just arrived & were busy beginning to establish their influence, then all goes to shit when they least expect it
Duke Leto had planned everything out, he was just expecting the Harkonnen attack to happen after the first CHOAM audit and wanted to have five Fremen battalions ready before then. Thufir estimated that the Harkonnens would send 4-5 battalions due to troop transport costs. Even a full attack would have been about ten brigades.
Instead the Harkonnens attacked within 3 weeks of Duke Leto's arrival and sent one hundred brigades. The rough cost of transporting all those troops was all of the Arrakis spice profits for fifty years and the Harkonnens had been there for eighty years. Thufir severely underestimated how much the Harkonnens hated the Atreides.
0:34 Guy who says "shields" is the same guy from the Arena in Dune 2. Holy shit can't believe I just caught that
HOLY SHIT YOURE RIGHT
It's Lanville, the actor is actually the choreograper for the blade duels
damn i new his voice sounded familiar
It was sad that the atredes were wipe out
Thanks for your comment. didn't realize that myself. according to the comment above yours, the dude's also the fight coordinator for the movies.
These scenes were INSANE to watch in IMAX. Smaller screens don’t give justice to the sheer scale.
If you compare imax and the normal version it’s actually criminal how much is cut out of the frame in some shots
I didn't see this in theaters and I regret it immensely
The imax cinema i watched part one in closed down with the closest one being about 1 hour 30 mins away and if god is my witness i am willing to make that journey for part 2
@@WhatIsThis-zq4hk Same WB would be missing a great opportunity not re-releasing Dune Pt. 1 in IMAX at least before Dune Pt. 2 releases (trailer just dropped it looks amazing btw). I think alot of people that want to watch now weren't able to or decided not to because of everything going on at the time. I didn't watch because it was during the pandemic and I got COVID and was recovering from it when it came and left theaters. I need to watch this in IMAX or in theaters
Hope they re-release it before Part Two hits theaters
My lungs taste the air of time, blown past fallen sands.
From the Orange Catholic Bible apparently.
I love this whole scene. The actors, color grading, direction, sound and editing came together in a way I will NEVER forget.
yeah, for arrakis i think they use the "Mexico" filter... or preset.
When a set of bagpipes blow you know it’s going to get real.This movie blew my socks off visually best looking movie I seen in a long long while.
It sure is a lot better the acoustically best looking movie....
They should have played "Black Bear".
The audio was very powerful in IMAX.
The door boom at 1:26 was so loud in theatre! , its quite incredible that the sound design is even better than the visuals who are also quite amazing
Im just sad a few peoples I know decided to not go watch it when it was out, it wont be the same on TV
@@vacciniumaugustifolium1420 I know right. I cannot believe a few sci-fi friends decided to wait till it came out on streaming service
@@Peizxcv Screw them.
We hardcore scifi buffs rarely get films of this type of quality.
Like Blade Runner 2049, Treasure Planet, Close Encounters of the 5th kind, Arrival, and such.
This was made for us, not for the mainstream. This is _our_ special gem to share with one another.
I watched this on HBO so I missed the experience of IMAX I definitely won't miss the sequel
2:30 Imagine trekking across over half the planet on a pilgrimage by sandworm just for the chance to see your rumored Zensunni messiah.
They are Fremen who live in Arakeen city..not the wild Fremen from the climax of the movie from the deep desert sietch..they dont come to Arakeen city
@@SS-yr3ij I thought the Fremen were only the ones living in desert and exist as a sub group of the larger native Arakis people. Why the Barron only thought there were 50,000 Fremen on the whole planet.
@@jaythekid4728 it's later on explained in the books that outsiders make a distinction but all of the people who live on Arakis are Fremen. This is because they were brought to Arakis as slaves and then freed themselves through a revolt. They then became the Free Men of Arakis.
"Wisdom from the desert, polish from the cities" is a traditional phrase describing marriages between desert dwellers and City dwellers.
You can think of it very similarly to how the Bedouin and other Islamic people look at each other. Which is no coincidence considering Arakis is basically a copy paste of the Middle East.
The desert dwellers do have disdain for the soft city dwellers, but that's it as far as any friction between them.
"Dont be fooled by the welcome thats harkonnen law"
@@jaythekid4728 he meant the wild Fremen who continued in their traditional sietch ways and refuse to be subjugated and live in cities
Desert, bag-pipes and space ships is a VERY refreshing and pleasant sight to experience
I LOVE HOW THIS SCENE JUST FEELS LIKE SPACE ROYALTY
I love the whole sequence, but the scene when the gates are opening at 0:40... this is such an epic moment!
“My lungs taste the air of Time, Blown past falling sands.” has to be one of my favorite if not my favorite line from the movie. Cannot wait until November.
0:40 It’s such a tiny thing in a movie of this scale, but I love how tender these two are with each other.
I agree I love that too and the look he gives his son at 1:04 like "we are on another planet, how cool is this" in one look.
The love between Leto and Jessica is the cause of everything that happens in the story.
Not their fault; sadly there are people forever with a gnawing pain deep down in their shrivelled souls, that someone, somewhere, might be happy.
@@stevetheduck1425and leto becoming more popular in the political world, making others houses look up to him. Making the emperor jealous and following the high reverend mother orders.
1:20 love the dissonance of the bagpipe before the rest come in right after Gurney's line, what a perfect punctuation in the middle of the scene.
Watching this in the theater was so magical. Theaters were opening up again and this felt like a long awaited treat to us.
This movie is just perfect, music, visuals, vfx, characters and their interaction through all the movie.
As a Scotsman, nice to see the awesome Highland bagpipes still around in the whateverth century, albeit not hugely impressed with the music. Get a nice jig in there would be my advice. Empires rise and fall, but the bagpipes are eternal.
Bagpipes are forever. Even when I hear WW1/2 parade music with a bagpipe, it hits straight to the core.
My recollection was that the Atreides were said to be descended from Ancient Greeks who used bagpipes. Theirs differed from the Scots, not sure which was depicted here. Ofc Scots' bagpipes conjure their own images and history.
It takes place around 27000 AD.
@@cennon actually, by our calendar it would be year 24000
Definitely check out Han Zimmer's breakdown of the music. He manipulated guitar chords to sound like bagpipes! Also used Middle Eastern bagpipes to complete the sound. Really fascinating!
This scene, proves to me that, in a fair fight, Atreides would absolutely wipe the floor with the Harkonnens. These men are driven by discipline fostered by love, respect and admiration not fear, fanaticism, or cruelty. These men would do anything for their master and his family.
*ATREIDES*
The Harkonnens r pussy anyway, have to play dirty to “win”
ATREI-DEEZ NUTS!
Sadly the same isn’t true about the feared and menacing Sardaukar. They effortlessly dispatched those poor Atreides. No one goes up against the Sardaukar and lives. NO ONE.
The fremen: I’m about to end this man’s whole career.
@@costco_pizza wait for fedaykin to give them the taste of their own medicine
I got introduced to Dune by this movie and before that I've only heard snippets how it's an interstellar story with houses and an emperor kind of imagining it all grimdark. But all the interactions between house Atreides is just warming my heart. It's a big house and full of customs but the duke's son runs to Thufir Hawat and Duncan Idaho[a different scene] and greets them like friends while they still bow to the head of the house. It's just well nice I think? That formality could be mixed with honest friendliness.
That's the whole point of Atreides. House Harkonnen is built on fear. House Atreides is built on love. Keep reading the books to see what happens next- I won't spoil it. But suffice to say that one of Herber's points of these books is that charismatic leaders should come with warning labels attached...
@@TestTest12332 Would that also mean that even charismatic leaders who built themselves with fear should also come with warning labels attached?
I loved Dune part 1 so much I saw it twice and bought the books. It’s taken me four months to get to near the end of book 1/6, but it’s one of my favourites now.
@@ohlordddddd1155 Yup. One moral of the story is that you should always be skeptical of authority, because no matter how noble or ignoble they seem, they all play the same deceptive political games.
And yet some still say this film has no emotion in it......
First bagpipe coming in "Oh fuck no, bagpipes"
Second set blowing: " YES FUCKING B A G P I P E S"
SCOTLAND FOREVERRRRRR
@@the_best_username (puts on an Atreides tartan) FOR THE DUKE, YA RIGHT BASTARDS
I love it that the Atreides frigates have anchors at the fronts.
For what?
@@woodonfire7406 In the movie they're moored under water. :)
Where?
@@Z1pZ1p3r 28 secs in you can see what appears to be anchor housings.
@@gregs7562yeah i could see them retracting back into the ship
I only just noticed that it was Gurney who steps out in front first. Only after he does not find anything out of the ordinary does the Duke and everyone else move.
You're overthinking it lol
@@matthewdavidjarvis6039 Stfu bro you have 3 first names
The bagpiper went first. It's extremely clear. Also, there are many Atreides soldiers already on the landing field.
Is it me or are the Atreides ships shaped like chess pawns? How telling-
Or tombstones, as another commenter pointed out.
they are shaped like bulls (the granpa hobby)
- also they are shaped like commercial bulk carrier ships, which may explain the anchors and rising from the sea on Caladan.
Can't get enough of this scene - Villeneuve is an incredible visual stylist; scale, detail, volume, mass, colour, pace and an awesome sense of physical tangibility.
Both Atreides uniforms and armours are FANTASTIC
I wish people who filmed this movie had infinite resourses to film 2 movies each year. This lore, the universe is massive
The soundtrack is absolutely phenomenal!
Something interesting to point out is that it seems that the spaceships have no windows, so the tripulation (excluding the ones responsible for flying the ship, they might have radars or similar) doesn't see anything until they land and the gates open. It makes the fact that they hold hands more meaningful, they don't know what awaits them on the other side
I love that Oscar Isaacs was given a chance to play a role in a good movie for once.
3:22 love that their pilots sound the horns of their transports.
You can really sense the loyalty of these soldiers to their Duke, versus the fear from anyone under the Baron Harkonnen
Why do these spaceships need horns?
The Atreides chants get me every time
Now... If there's something Denis Villeneuve did an excellent job with, it's definiteley the "epicness" of the film. It truly compares to the might of Lawrence of Arabia when it comes to these scenes. Both the Atreides' arrival on Arrakis and the "herold" scene show that Villeneuve can show us what "epic" truly means, without showing himself off too much.
Dune part one: Paul ignores Lisan al Gaib.
Dune part two: Paul assumes Lisan al Gaib.
Poor kid were given an offer he cannot resist ....
I just read the 2nd Dune book, Messiah. And now this scene fills me with dread about what's to come. Them arriving on Arrakis is the first reaction in a chain that will span farther than anyone in this scene can know
I look forward to seeing what he does with that book considering how amazing this one is.
God bless Hans Zimmer and his epic bagpipe chorus. What an awesome way to show House Atreides projecting royalty and might. This movie seems so perfectly arranged with awesome attention to detail in every scene. Can't wait for part 2.
This film will eventually find it's place among the other masterpieces ever to be filmed.
It's full of soul and has a certain artistic vision, it's not just a bunch of beautiful scenes made for short term publicity.
I only recently noticed the dust cloud made by the horns when they blow at 3:27. One of those little details.
Everyone's pointed out that the Guild heighliners look like sand worms, but I also realize now that the Atreides starships look like whales. Such a neat nod to their origins on the water world of Caladan.
I love Oscar Isaac's acting as gets off the ramp and strides unto Arrakis. Duke Leto looks like he's getting into a fighting ring minutes before a difficult match, a mix between aggression and bracing himself.
Dude lost his house at age 15 and said: "My son will abandon his human form and become a god-emperor sandworm hybrid. Also my daughter will be haunted by my sworned enemy, but I already knew that."
To know the future absolutely is to be absolutely trapped by it.
The big plot point that so many people Miss is that Paul ultimately fails. Up until he dies he is frantically trying to avoid the future you're talking about. Only to realize the other paths are worse.
And even then if he had been willing to sacrifice his wife he could have taken the path of turning into the worm himself. Part of the reason he didn't was that he wasn't able to see far enough into the future to realize that people would one day look back and think him for what he had done.
Only his son could see the ultimate end of that path.
@@RandomGuy0987 he sees all paths tangled into each other, he isn't trapped by a certain future but what he does see certain parts of the varies futures often, like the jihad, his son, his death fighting against Janis, channi, etc
0:19 I love how they appear to be tombstones. good foreshadowing there.
I thought they were chess pieces
@@kaelkirkby9191
A chess pieces that the emperor send them to thier death.
Ehhhhhhh bit of a stretch I'd say, lol
yeah I don't think so
fun fact, the formation leto and his procession take walking out is normally used in funerals.
Ngl this movie despite having subtle fight scenes it was a wonderful tease on how big the dune world really is
i love this so much... the moment the bagpipes intensify... its SO GOOD! Dune 2 was also spectacular
Such a brilliant bloody film, i cannot wait for part 2.
I love how weird the spaceships look in this movie. They're almost organic, resembling the sandworms of Arrakis, maybe even unconsciously designed to look that way by ship designers who use spice.
I love the drop ships.
I fxcking love the marching and the chanting of Atreides!
I think the actor who says "shield" at 0:37 is the Atreides gladiator who is killed by Feyd Rautha
if i remember correctly, he is also Austin Butler(Feud’s actor)’s fight choreographer
Lieutenant Lanville. And you are both correct.
The cinematography was incredible in this movie.
4 minute's was enough to make me forget i was watching a youtube video. Now i just want to watch the whole film
I love how Paul forgets protocol and run to greet someone he conciderers a friend, I wish we could have seen a little more of his "childishness" before everything happens
Villeneuve always has good people working on the sounds.
The visuals are absolutely amazing in this movie.
This actually does get better after part 2
Jessica's outfit was sooo fabulous. It's like a wedding gown with ancient and modern touch. The way it's train was flowing!!!! 😍😍😍
Finally, been searching for the long version
Such an amazing film.
So stoked for Paul to realize his power and take revenge on the Harkonnens, in the next one.
And pay the horrible price for it. And chicken out of doing what REALLY needs to be done because the price is too high to stomach. Keep reading the books- Paul is not such a great leader as it looks at the first glance.
Desert power for Paul.
Dessert power for me.
“My lungs taste the air of Time, blown past falling sands…” - I'm glad they left this line in the movie!...
I hope they end with 'History will call us wives'. It's an excellent ending for the whole tale.
the greatest sci fi epic in history of cinema..everything about this movie is greatness
Is it me or everybody in the dune universe looks uterly miserably and unhappy,like they dont even want to be alive yet they only survive out of pure instinct
Chaulk that up to Frank Herbert's philosophy injected into his work.
One of my greatest Sins was missing this on the theather.
Crazy to think that this epic story has gone on for 15k yrs by the time it got to this point, and won't end for another 5k to 6k yrs. LOL
And yet one man will be there for all of it
@@chrisinnes2128 Momoa really lucked out by getting the Duncan Idaho role lmao. Talk about job security.
Arrakis air must feel like a parchment paper after leaving the air-conditioned halls of Caladan.
you'd think a lot of them would be wearing sunglasses lol
_Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind thou shalt not disfigure the soul and mostly thou shalt not furnish shades to spite the stars_
The outfits are pretty epic.
@1:10 what a beautiful cinematic shot
God i love those dragonfly helicopter. Should get an Oscar just for that scene.
People lining up at 0:22! Even though there's barely any barrier or fence, they somehow like up almost perfectly
Nice touch that sand/dust flies off the top section of the cruisers when they blow their horns in response to Gurney's call.
I’m right at the end of Dune book 1/6. One of my faves.
They better create more Dune movies, I feel like this one was so underrated but was a great movie.
Next one comes out next year then there adapting the second book after
There is a LOT more to this story. This film only covers the first third of the first novel.
The ships and the ornithopters are mostly filmed with humans in the frame so we have a sense of scale. The shot with the spaceships casting a giant shadow on the crowd is particularly great.
Unfortunately, many moves miss this important aspect. What's the point in having grandiose scale if you can't feel it?
the 2nd scene that sold me on the movie whole watching. so much world building with few words of even visuals. you sensed the history of the great house...and how little it mattered now...but why the emperor would fear them
• Don’t land your entire fleet .
• don’t concentrate all your forces in one location.
• the shield generator should be guarded by enough men and weapons to withstand 10 minutes of attack.
• Air patrols should be constant.
• QRF units should always be on stand by.
• look outs should be positioned throughout your base with their hand on the alarm.
• split your entire fighting force into 6-4 hour shifts and have them pull roaming guard duty throughout your base.
You do all this and more when you’re expecting an attack.
To be fair they’d only been there like 4 days, and they didn’t think the attack would be so large scale or soon they figured the harkonnans would attack alone not with sardukar and that it would be in months
@@theAverageJoe25 yeah but think about it, if you just took control of a base In an unfamiliar territory the first thing you’d do is harden your defenses no? They didn’t do that and they paid the price.
Yea they were well prepared. Just not for the scale of the attack. Huge brief and bloody battles raged overnight. Paul and Jessica can hear Atreides comms when escaping, their military doing what they can but standing absolutely no chance against overwhelming force. They did put up a fight. Took down many Harkonnen and even some Sardaukar. One unit warms the rest there are Sardaukar in Atreides uniforms, meaning they got ambushed but survived and killed the Sardaukar.
Also Sardaukar were the 1st to rush the Atreides mansion, and there were dead in Harkonnen and Atreides uniforms lying around in the aftermath. So Letos guards get surprised in the night by the best warriors in the universe sneaking in undetected - and they still take some of them down.
Duncan literally explains it was a global attack across every settlement on arrakis, its why Baron Harkonnen complains about the cost of the force he had to bring, the atreides weren't all in one place, and their were patrols the Harkonnens had agents with a full description and layout of their security ( as the movie pretty much explains) the atreides were overwhelmed and destroyed, Sardaukar are built for sneak attacks and deception
And the atreides forces held out for awhile many of them even fought sardaukar and won before being overwhelmed by sheer weight of number
the music is awesome!!! those strange notes (for a pipe) were fantastic!!!
*Can we just acknowledge how immaculate her hijab is...* The design is so amazing!
Its not hijab its Bene Gesserit stuff
Easily one of the coolest fuckin parts in the movie, chills man
noticed how Paul was the first to greet the adviser and became the real ruler of Arakis
Just noticed the Atriedes soldier who gives the order to activate shields is the same soldier Feyd kills in the arena
0:48
Is Gurney reading the Orange Catholic Bible?
If so, nice attention to detail Denis. 😘👌
At this point they already talk about Lisan al Gaib... great
Long live Duke Leto!!!
Just gorgeous epic filmmaking with an excellent score
Fun Fact.
Pipe guy is actually a pipe player from Turkey.
I found Leto to be a good man, great leader and father to Paul. It bothered me when the emperor called him weak.
What shocks me is that a move that is so grand in scale, and has all the set-pieces for Dune with someone directing it who obviously read the book, and who respects the book, who put in the effort to tell the story of the book, made an adaptation that felt incomplete at the same time. Not because this is only the first part of Dune, not because I am excited to see more, but that there was a huge amount missing from it that is needed to understand the work.
It would be an IMPOSSIBLE undertaking to adapt everything, every detail, to a film format. Even television might not be able to fully encompass all the details of Dune. Like, yes, it would be nice to get the info that the Harkonnens set themselves back 50 years of profits for that invasion, or that a tooth of Shai Hulud gets brittle and breaks if not warmed by body heat, or the fact that all of this takes place thousands of years after the A.I. Jihad-- but that stuff ultimately is minutia that a film doesn't need to get into. The story is there, the essence of Dune is there. It's a brilliant film.
@@Kaipyro67ALT It is not minutia, but important world building. Case in point, I had a young co-worker who saw the movie and was completely lost on what was going on. He never read the book, heard Dune was good, watched it, and couldn't understand anything. Then I let him see the extended 80s Lynch film and he loved it because it explained things and he could finally understand the story. So for all the things the 2021 may have, storytelling isn't part of it.
@@DemitriVladMaximov I disagree. Most gen-pop understood the movie just fine. Adding too much lore was what ruined every past adaptation. It's a two-hour movie. You can only cram in so much stuff and make it chewable.
@@blusafe1 about no one in the theater I went to understood it, and I did only because I read the book and watched the other film repeatedly. And it wasn't just the age, as older viewers couldn't make sense of it. Enjoy it if you like, but I am skipping part 2.
Yes. Cool visuals but there is very little explanations lol. So there is some kind of spice in the sand and giant worms that somehow function biologically on a desert planet. Kk
After Dune 2, seeing that the high ranking officer who ordered, “Shields.” Was one of the prisoners that Feyd Rautha fought in the gladiatorial fight and nearly beat him.
Of course we knew he wasn’t going to win, but we know Atreides fighters are the finest in the imperium!
Wonderful scene
So well paced and such gorgeousness. One must revel in each frame, like a meditation of textures.
Not understanding why the soldiers activated their shields but not Paul,Leto and Jessica.
They wanted to appear not as conquerors, but as benevolent dignitaries.
@@HiIThinkImReal thanks
I'd rather say.. as nobles, they have it on constantly?
@@HiIThinkImReal But the shields are invisible in this version?
@@HiIThinkImReal This.
Without saying a word, they show so much. The sun hitting Paul's face first. Duke Leto looking back at his son and his son kind of reassures his own dad that it will be ok. Paul looks at home here like it was meant to be.