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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2021

    1. In his New Republic review of Dune, @DavidKlion noted film had difficult task of needing to please both "general audiences looking for an epic sci-fi blockbuster, and fans of the classic 1965 Frank Herbert novel"; achievement of movie is it does that.

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2021

        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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2021

        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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2021

        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= …

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      2. nick davis‏ @ntdPhD 28 Oct 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet @DavidKlion

        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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      3.  👉🏾 🦁 👈🏾‏ @MowIid 28 Oct 2021
        Replying to @ntdPhD @HeerJeet @DavidKlion

        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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      2. Count Pleasant  🧛‍♂️‏ @FelledMan 28 Oct 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet @DavidKlion

        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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      3. Count Pleasant  🧛‍♂️‏ @FelledMan 28 Oct 2021
        Replying to @FelledMan @HeerJeet @DavidKlion

        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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      2. Rich‏ @typesandpattern 28 Oct 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet @DavidKlion

        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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      3. Rich‏ @typesandpattern 28 Oct 2021
        Replying to @typesandpattern @HeerJeet @DavidKlion

        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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      2. Knepherbird‏ @Knepherbird 28 Oct 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet @DavidKlion

        I have a theory that Game of Thrones made Villeneuve's approach more feasible.

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      3. David Klion‏Verified account @DavidKlion 28 Oct 2021
        Replying to @Knepherbird @HeerJeet

        I say that in my review!

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