They could be Maker hooks…
“Witness me, Shai-hulud and chrome!”
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“Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!”
—Immortan Joe, noted Fremen leader and conservationist
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My first inkling of how *bad Lynch’s Dune was came as we were anxiously waiting in the queue outside the theater… and watching how some in the exiting audience were giving us the thumbs-down.
*at least for diehard Dune fans, such as I.
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Harrison Ford had an excellent notion for dealing with the end of the film Witness. The script required dialogue between he and his love interest (they parting ways). Ford’s on-set suggestion was that they ditch the words and do it all with the eyes and body language… and it worked beautifully, saying more than words could.
In other words, I hope that Denis Villeneuve and the writers judiciously stayed away from mimicking Herbert’s and Lynch’s decision to reveal the characters’ thoughts (which works for books… but not nearly as well for films). I don’t need to hear Duke Leto think, “They have tried to take the life of my son!” over and over again; a clear exposition of well-acted rage could handle that.
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I’ve never read the books; so I was able to just revel in the scale of the Lynch movie, and appreciate that Warhammer 40k wouldn’t be the same without that film.
If I understand Bay’s visual language; that’s not gratuitous, that’s punctuation!
This sounds like a role for Brian Blessed!!!
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Oh it’s a bad movie as well. But it’s a hell of a bad movie.
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I’m loving Stephen McKinley Henderson in Devs. I’m excited to see him as Thufir Hawat. Looks like we have yet to see any Harkonens, or how they’ll portray the body shields.
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I am a bit annoyed at how earth-like the exterior shots look. These are alien planets yet the shots are just at normal locations.
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Any planet that is Earth-like enough for humans and other Terrestrial life forms to survive there is likely to share a lot of visual similarities with Earth. Even the surface of Mars looks an awful lot like some of our deserts.
ETA: @hecep beat me to it.
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Nice comparo!
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I think you misspelled BRIAN BLESSED!!!
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That is the correct spelling, thank you!
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GORDON’S ALIVE?!
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Aren’t those Mars shots corrected for color though? As I recall the raw pictures look a lot bluer than that, including the pictures intended to appear “as you would see it on Mars”.
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