Dune (film)
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#Dune (film) movie
Dune: Oh, there is Javier Bardem in it too!Īlso read: Blade Runner 2049 movie review: Like The Dark Knight, one of the greatest sequels ever made. There is something not right about feeling more emotions and adrenaline rushing through your veins at the flapping of a helicopter’s wings rather than watching a hero sacrifice himself for a friend. However, the relationships between any of the characters never get enough attention to register a difference when men and women fall in battle. Denis also takes his sweet time to build his world, with ambient royal ceremonies by the lake, lingering scenes of deadly futuristic mosquitoes’ attack and glam shots of choppers, excavators and hot air balloons. In a world so densely packed with new ideas, language, mythology of its own, and a fully functioning social structure, expositions can’t be avoided. So I shall reserve that disappointment for a later time.Īnyway, apologies for the last three paras of exposition dump but if you plan to watch Dune this weekend, consider this a soft precursor to the same. But judging by what we have seen so far, it wouldn’t be fair to assume whether Denis really imagines his white hero to save the natives.
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Women in hijab, the arid scenery, the dearth of water and the obsession with fuel are all familiar to us and more so to the people that this century has wronged. The parallels to our 21st-century world are bright as day for anyone to realise. Able to control minds with his voice, just like his Bene Gesserit mother, he might also be the one that delivers Arrakis’ blue-eyed natives, the Fremen, from centuries of subjugation and exploitation at the hands of dukes, barons and emperors, all for their land and their spice. There are prophecies looming in the spicy air too. It’s the most valuable resource in this universe, one that makes interstellar travel and mind control possible. Regardless, under the suspicious orders of a ‘jealous’ emperor, the duke, his concubine, Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), their son and their entire clan must leave for Arrakis at once and harvest from its sand a rare element, called ‘the Spice’. With its sand that ‘gets everywhere’, menacing sandworms that can dwarf even a blue whale, scorching sun that can cook you alive, it’s not really going to be a vacation for the family.Īlso read: Arrival review: A modern masterpiece. In a world still obsessed with imperialism and fiefdoms, his father, Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac) has been given charge of an unruly planet, called Arrakis.
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Set in the year 10191, the film presents itself as the coming-of-age story of one Paul Atreides, played by Timothee Chalamet with his usual curls and arresting eyes. Unless I really want to get into the aerodynamics of the aforementioned dragonfly chopper.ĭune opens with a very optimistic (and reasonable) title card that lets you know that this will only be ‘part one’ of the saga. Dune, however, has not been able to inspire any questions in me. But aside from the lessons in linguistics and a call to embrace the neon aesthetic, these films also asked questions about the cost of a moment of happiness and the flimsy definition we give to being human. With his last two sci-fi films, Arrival and Blade Runner 2049, he had successfully proven that he can bring big ideas to a glorious, gorgeous life, even ones embedded deep into the pop culture psyche by Ridley Scott himself. With Dune, Denis Villeneuve took on the behemoth task (also often deemed impossible) of bringing Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi epic to the big screen. Sandy worms and dragonfly choppers can only do so much when there isn’t a big, beating heart in a film to tether yourself. However, despite all this help, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune still evaporates from the mind as little as two hours later. Hans Zimmer’s gargantuan music could make you believe you are watching a once-in-a-lifetime event unfold in front of your eyes. It’s almost blinding, the effect that Greig Fraser’s sprawling visuals in Dune have on you.