An observation on Dune, as I put my thoughts together for a review of the film: Over the whole course of the novel, Paul Atreides does not make a single choice. More precisely, at every turn, his choices are: follow the path laid out for you, or let the Harkonnens kill you.
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I feel like that comes across in the new movie as well
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It certainly comes closer than either of the previous adaptations.
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Right! Paul being so trapped by his destiny (his "terrible purpose") is such a fundamental part of Dune's critique of messianic/charismatic figures & the deconstruction of the literary trope, I hope folks unfamiliar w/the novel are open to seeing it's a feature, not a bug.
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I somewhat disagree, as Paul kept making the "safe" choices that would eventually lead to disaster. He didn't have the courage to make the "dangerous" choice that his son, Leto II, did. Leto's "Golden Path" was about making sure humanity would never be caught in that trap again.
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Yeah OP that's basically The Point
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And in the second novel -- one of the only good sequels, though inferior to the first, he thinks he can direct those forces, realizes he can't, and essentially makes his first true choice
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Paul is Moses. Same dynamic.
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