2. In my experience, Dune does in fact satisfy both those coming in fresh as well as hardcore fans. I saw it with my partner, who (unlike me) hasn't read the books or seen any of the earlier adaptions & she was impressed. It threads a very narrow needle.
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3. What the movie does that's smart is take the long bits of exposition (really info-dumps) in the novel & puts them as unexplained background, foregrounding actions of characters. Exposition is turned into visual narrative to an impressive degree.
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4. There are Dune Virgins & Dune Chads. To figure out why the movie worked so well, I sat down with the ultimate Dune Chad
@DavidKlion who illuminates how an immense backstory became a compelling 2 1/2 hours of film.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-the-dune-abides?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source= …Show this thread
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i think it is generally pleasing, but the first 30 minutes are completely opaque and the shifting back-and-forth between houses is really jarring for the uninitiated who are like wtf is going on and who are all these people.
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I thought everything made sense, enough to not feel lost anyway. I never read the books and I was worried about not being able to understand anything but they did the exposition super well imo
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I don't know if it does it intentionally, but the film draws a lot on what makes the early seasons of The Expanse so good. Instead of dumping a bunch of exposition, it just shows a huge world where each part seems to fit in naturally
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Nerds get to freak out about the appearance of every ritual and random object that appears in the book, and casual viewers are wowed by the depth of the universe
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I wish the film briefly mentioned that computer technology is banned in the Duneverse. That’s why spice is necessary. The Lynch film started to explain it in the first scene, but awkwardly interrupted itself.
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In the podcast, David says there’s no reason a character would need to explain it, but new viewers must wonder: why spice, why not computers? Lynch solved that by making spice part of a trippy “folding space” ritual.
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I have a theory that Game of Thrones made Villeneuve's approach more feasible.
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I say that in my review!
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