I've been watching this old, low budget TV miniseries adaptation of Dune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueYYVRTWmjY …. It's rather mixed: fairly faithful to the books but a lot of mediocre acting. Costumes are fairly good. Hour in, first major deviation: Irulan shows up to the banquet w/ Sardaukar.
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Paul's character is very weirdly handled. He is both written and acted as a petulant teenager, with none of the insight and advanced training the book makes such a point of emphasizing.
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Also, a lot of really over-exaggerated fake Russian accents for no apparent reasons. Still, overall it's not a terrible adaptation. Just one with a strange mixture of boneheaded and solid aspects.
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Conversely, Princess Irulan is a /way/ better character just in the brief bit she's been in so far in this series than she was in the books. Although the quotes in the books were good, as an actual character she was rather ineffective and dull.
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Irulan absolutely lighting Paul up for being moody, etc. Which is fascinating, because it shows this is not merely bad acting or writing but a deliberate choice to interpret the character in this way, given it's actually been commented on prominently.
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I haven't seen it in years but my recollection is that they also did a Children of Dune miniseries and if you're not making a stand-alone Dune there's a lot of whiplash between Paul in the early book and the later books. Frank Herbert sets you up with Paul and shocks you 1/2
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Dune he's the hero but really he gives in to despair; later it shows that he saw the choice that his son had but didn't have it in him to be hated that way - he was strong and righteous but put off the big, horrifying choice. Maybe change to set that up better? 2/2
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