Dune - Denis Villeneuve — Page 7

Author: fmalover
Time: 30-Jun-2023 8:25 PM
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timdiggerm said:

fmalover said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YUzQa_1RCE

I’m sorry, but I just can’t get behind an elderly Christopher Walken as the Emperor.

Why not?

In the book the Emperor is described as looking no older than 35 despite being in his seventies. However all three adaptations have for some reason had the Emperor portrayed by much older actors, though in the 2000 miniseries’ defence they aged up the Emperor and said he was 200 years old. I want to see a Dune adaptation that is faithful to the book in that one particular aspect and finally casts an actor in his late thirties to early forties as the Emperor to convey the whole point of the rejuvenating effects of the Spice. Either one of Damien Lewis or Michael Fassbender would have been perfect in the role.

Don’t tell me it can’t be done! Cate Blanchett portrayed 3000-year-old Galadriel and we totally bought that she was that old.

Author: regularjoe
Time: 1-Jul-2023 6:39 PM
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I read an interview with Walken where he said he loves to dance and manages to work some improv dance moves into every role he takes, so does this mean we’re going to get a dancing Emperor?

Author: timdiggerm
Time: 5-Mar-2024 2:17 PM
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I saw Dune: Part Two on Saturday, in 70mm. It was visually beautiful, sonically consuming (in a good way), and pretty great the whole time. The middle part, around when they find the atomics, felt a little off. I wish they’d included the Thufir stuff, and Count Fenring as well, but ah well, you have to trust Villeneuve to know what he’s doing.

Very excited for the eventual conclusion of this trilogy.

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Author: NeverarGreat
Time: 5-Mar-2024 2:45 PM (Edited)
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An aspect of Dune: Part 2 that felt very lacking to me was Sietch Tabr. What was shown was nice, but it felt like we barely got to see how the Fremen lived within the Sietch.

That’s why I liked Part 1 more, if just slightly: that’s where much of the worldbuilding happens.

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Author: Superweapon VII
Time: 5-Mar-2024 5:03 PM (Edited)
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timdiggerm said:

you have to trust Villeneuve to know what he’s doing.

Or do I?

*dramatic sound effect*

“The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order and in the assertion that, without Authority there could not be worse violence than that of Authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that anarchy can be instituted by a violent revolution… There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.”

― Leo Tolstoy

Author: fmalover
Time: 5-Mar-2024 7:15 PM
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All I know is that I want a Dune adaptation that finally delivers a book-accurate Emperor Shaddam IV.