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Small correction: The big bald man is Baron Harkonnen, not the Emperor. The Emperor has only been mentioned, he was not shown. He will make his appearance in the second movie.
The thing that gets me is that when Paul is out of the thopter during the sand worm attack on the mining vehicle, he says, “I recognize your footsteps, old man.” We’re supposed to think he’s talking to Gurney, but Shai-Hulud, the Fremen word for the sand worm, means ‘Old man of the desert.’ Paul wasn’t talking to Gurney. He was talking to the sand worm. Denis Villeneuve gets it.
I loved how layered the meanings were, in that scene and in many others. If this film doesn't become syllabus material at film schools, I'll be very surprised. A master class on so many levels.
Denis being a huge dune nerd and ALSO being one of the best modern directors was the golden path for this movie. Couldnt have gotten a better guy to do it.
The lore of this whole universe is sooooo deep and complicated. Many people thought it was impossible to make a good understandable film out of it... but it seems Villeneuve has done exactly that. Really looking forward to part 2!
Btw Paul his visions are just as confusing for him as they are for us, because it doesnt always show what WILL happen but also what CAN happen... makes it more real I think, suppose you know the future... then you can also change it... but not always or everything ;)
You have to love the books in order to do it justice. And it sounds that, unlike David Lynch who changed the very essence of the story in his film, Villeneuve actually wanted to stick with the spirit of the story. Lynch wanted to make an heroic story about a white savior, whereas it looks to me that Villeneuve knows better than to do that. I get that people will change things to fit their vision. But Villeneuve actually was faithful to the very spirit of the book, as opposed to Lynch who I felt had no respect for the source material.
@@Haldurson Lynch did not change the essence of the story, that's hyperbolic nonsense. Nor did he have some crude colonizer agenda. If Paul Atreides is a white savior, it's because Frank Herbert wrote him that way on purpose. Timothée Chalamet is still a white European-American male. This critique is facile but superficial and myopic, and suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of Herbert's intention to deconstruct the heroic myth.
From my understanding when I read the book years ago, the suits filter the recycled water, so they're not exactly drinking sweat. Any moisture captured by the suit goes through a filtration system.
Yes, Liet Keynes actually remarks this in the movie when she talks to the Duke and Paul when she is meeting them for the trip to the Spice mining operation.
Not only sweat. It captures and recycles almost all moisture - sweat and water vapor from breath yes, but also the less savory excretions urine and feces. It does filter it though. I don't really want to think about having to poop while wearing that suit though...
Especially since the year is merely the time since the Spacing Guild was established. Dune 10,191 is not ~8100 years from now, it is farther into the future.
@@voxorox If the implication is that humans will somehow acquire the technological capability to have a bigger impact on the universe than a metaphorical grain of sand in a desert, then that's pretty conceited. We are beyond tiny. Also, "human-infested" is a pretty cringe choice of words there, pal.
The Fremen have a rule, if you kill someone in a duel you have to take their place. You are now responsible for their spouse and children and any obligations they had. By killing that guy Paul went from being an outsider to being a Fremen warrior with a wife and 2 kids.
@@Lucas-jq2yy Doesn't seem to be how Villeneuve works but I am interested to see if he will indeed fold under the modern times and "wokeism" or if he will remain true to the story as is. He usually is one for Art not necessairly for being politically correct. Not that he specifically tries to not be either, its just not something I see him being concerned with. The Art is what it is and it is to tell a story not push an agenda, that's more Disney/Marvel Mainstream stuff. Villeneuve is too Arthouse to fall into mainstream category. His most recent titles are mainstream in the sense that they are well established names, but to be very honest Bladerunner and Dune were always more of a niche appreciation. Neither will be as popular as Star Wars or Alien or Predator franchises but that is also not what or how those stories are written. Dune and Bladerunner are classics yes but classics for those who prefer a bit more substance to their entertainment and THAT has never been mainstream... But I am legitimitely curious to see how he will do it in the continuation as it is an important part of why he had visions of him as well as what he told him in said visions... To forgoe something that is as traditional as the spitting welcome would be quite dishonest, to be polite.
@@Lucas-jq2yy or there’s the obvious fact that it would be too much to squeeze into an already long movie, there wouldn’t be enough time to develop those characters along with everyone else
Gurney Halleck (Josh Brolin) grew up fighting for survival in the Harkonnen slave pits. He knows the depths of Harkonnen brutality better than anyone. He was saved from the slave pits by Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac), personally.
The frustrating part was they didn’t know if they would get to make part 2, so they left it where they did just hoping the movie would do well enough to get the next movie made - it was a huge risk, thankfully part 2 got the green light a few days after release
@@44r0n-9 There was also no way a game show host that ran a not well hidden real estate/bankruptcy/tax manipulation racket was going to be elected President. Oh wait.
@@44r0n-9 Seemingly obvious decisions or courses of action are not taken for depressing reasons often. If some higher up somehow contrived a reason to not green-light Dune 2, it would have been a shocking, unsettling development. Not unlike how shocking and unsettling it was when the host of the Apprentice who posed as a team estate mogul (who was actually just a fraudulent shmuck that would get bailed out by his inherited powerful connections) was elected President.
SO, the Baron Harkonnen is not the Emperor - he's just the head of a Great House that was feuding with House Atreides for generations. The Emperor hasn't actually been seen in this part, he's moving behind the scenes to play the Houses against each other. The Emperor sees the Atreides (Duke Leto in particular) as too charismatic and capable of becoming a threat to his power. So he set Arrakis as a trap for them, and colluded with the Harkonnens to wipe them out. In part 2, we'll see how the Emperor has to deal with the consequences of his actions as Paul seeks revenge.
The Emperor is also afraid of the wealth he inadvertently allowed the Harkonnens to amass on Arrakis, which is superior to his own. Interrupting the Harkonnen operations and forcing them to attack the Atreides also weakened them significantly. It's all very Magna Carta-esque medieval, combined with a European colonialist mindset and some "white saviour" nonsense that's kinda a relic of the era in which the work was written.. That doesn't mean it isn't enjoyable, but it's something to keep in mind, in the same way that you can enjoy Lawrence of Arabia while remembering that Arabs aren't savages and that the Europeans completely screwed them over, as usual.
Stellan Skarsgard played Dr. Erik Selvig, the associate of Natalie Portman's character Dr. Jane Foster in Thor and several other MCU movies. He was also Bootstrap Bill in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
Should have been nonimated. That said, at some point he MUST receive a life time achievment award, if nothing else. He is a magnificent director. Have seen Blade Runn 2049, so I know it is deserved.
George Lucas took so much from Dune for Star Wars -- Arrakis desert world = Tatooine desert world Ben Gesserit = Jedi order The Voice = Jedi mind trick Baron Harkonnen big fat villain = Jabba the Hutt big fat villain Fighting with swords = fighting with light sabers etc etc etc
Something none of the films fully explain is that Jessica is the Duke's concubine, in that he didn't marry her because he was holding out for a politically expedient marriage to possibly form a powerful alliance in the future. There's talk that he's popular, so much so that it's possible he could marry the emperor's daughter and become the next emperor. Meanwhile the bene geserit wanted Jessica's possible daughter to be wed to a harkonen male, healing the royal feud and possibly making a stronger bloodline for the kwizatz Hadarak. But he took Jessica for love, and she gave him Paul, for love. And the Duke regretted not marrying her instead of keeping his options open politically.
I figured this, but would’ve been cool to see in the movie, even if not essential. When stories are this good, there’s no such thing as too much movie for me 😅
2:03 "I didn't think the universe would last 5 digits" Actually, the universe has already lasted for 11 digits (about 13.7 billion years) so a jump of 8000 years from our current time hardly even registers on a universal scale.
@@Yggdrasil42 yes 10,191 AG is the time it takes place in, to put that into perspective 11,200 years BG is known in our time as the year 1960 AD( or more commonly known as CE now) so its around 21,391 years in the future
@@Yggdrasil42 To be fair, I'm fairly certain that that specific timeline exists because of the Brian Herbert glorified fanfictions. I can't remember the original books ever mentioning how far exactly into the future Dune takes place.
This, Interstellar and Avatar are the 3 most impressive movies I have ever seen in IMAX (visuals), while this is true, only Dune and Interstellar are part of my 4K collection and I watch em regularly. Sooo well done.
Dune was pretty intense at IMAX. Almost overwhelming. I do enjoy the 4K blu ray at home as well since I can have the sound set a little more to my liking.
I watched Avatar in 3D (my first) and it was an amazing addition. I decided to try IMAX for the first time for Dune (and in 3D) thinking if a movie deserved it, it would be it. Well it was too overwhelming for me, too loud, i was vibrating the whole time and it was too much for me. I left (with a headache) feeling lukewarm about the movie as a whole and even the soundtrack didn't wow me, and I'm convinced IMAX is the culprit. I since reflected on the movie and rewatched it, and liked it much much more. Interstellar does deserve 4K and I've watched it more than 5 times already I'd say.
When you are Hans Zimmer, you get to have your score played in the forefront. He does such a masterful job at creating the mood and tension in the film.
I enjoyed watching it. The book is a good 400 pages & a lot to undertake for a movie. The book series is good from Frank Herbert. Also the 1984 version was good for what it was. The set designs they did then were pretty elaborate.
Someone has finally done Justice to this masterpiece of a story Villeneuve is also going to do rendezvous with Rama which is another amazing story you might want to look into.
I dunno about "masterpiece". It's an okay story, but it's pretty much just redressed white-supremacist colonialism with the usual "white saviour" twist. It's a very well-told tale, but the bones aren't anything particularly noteworthy, as the rapid decline in quality of the sequels attests.
It's good on you that you noticed the sound design so much. This was really designed for the theater and I remember that whenever anyone used The Voice it literally shook the building! Such a good way to show the power of it.
Someone may have already mentioned it, but the reason Duke Leto didn’t marry Jessica is because she’s not nobility (as far as he knows). As the head of a noble house, he has to keep the possibility of a marriage alliance open, even if he never intends to go through with it. She’s his bound concubine, assigned to him by the Sisterhood. Jessica was supposed to bear a daughter that would then marry the Baron’s other nephew (not the brute), which would not only give them the person they needed but also end the ancient feud between the two houses. The Bene Gesserit can control their bodies, so deciding the sex of the fetus is trivial to them
There is so much going on in “Dune” that makes for wonderful discussions Politically, spiritually and psychologically Like how spice is an important resource that keeps the universe economy going. Like how oil is found in the desert to keep our world to function And this book was written over 50 years ago There a college courses dedicated to learning about “Dune” and I would love to learn about it sometime
35:56 I really liked how Paul was a sig ificantly better fighter, it makes sense considering this story is basically a medieval fantasy set in the future. They live in a feudalistic society and he's the son of a baron, so he's part of the warrior class. So he's been training for a long time by the most capable people available.
Hey now, as an American, I have a very deep and nuanced understanding of Australia! They guys all ride around in their crazy, post-apocalypse muscle cars, playing didgeridoos, while fighting giant spiders and kangaroos. Nailed it.
Came into this knowing next to nothing, never saw the 80s one - I cannot wait for Part 2!! I loved the world-building and lore established here, really should try the book(s)..audiobook prob as don't have patience or time to read that much.
I have read the series at least once a year for the last 30 years. If you do try and tackle more than the first book, I should warn that books 2 and 3 are slower. They are still good, but not as good as the first. Book 4 though is amazing. Maybe better than book 1... I am still up in the air on that.
You really should. I have read a huge amount in half a century. Some books are great, some, not so much. This one, and most of the Dune series (Frank Herbert, not his son) is one of the best I have ever read. Sweeping. Better even, I think, than Asimov.
You should definitely give it a go. I won't lie, i found that it drags a bit, and i had to take breaks, but it is SO worth it. (ps, don't buy a book with small pages, if you buy, that is)
The 1980's movie is worth a watch too after the novel, if for not other reason than how bizarre a film it is. Patrick Stewart plays Gurney, Sting is one of the Harkonnens, and the whole movie is directed by David Lynch, who was very much *not* having any fun making it. The result is an absolute fever dream of a film.
12:29 For the Fremen, water is precious and spit has water in it as part of the body. So allowing some water to leave the body is a very high honor and a show of respect.
"I didnt think the Universe would live up to 5 digits" hmmmm The universe is around 13.7 BILLION years old, while Earth itself is around 4 billion years old. Human beings on the other hand, and civilization are only around a couple thousand years old. The Earth was here before us and it will be well after we're gone.
Well, the Stone Age lasted 3.4 million years (up to 6,000 years ago), homo sapiens is roughly 200 thousand years old. And the Earth might not be here after "us" if our descendants for example make themselves into supersmart cyborgs that turn the whole planet into a fleet of giant spaceships and go Star Treking. Just sayin'.
Seeing this on the big screen in 3D is absolutly stunning, it is really overwhelming, when the second part comes out and the two back to back, I strongly recomment watching it in cinema. It is stunning, gives the word epic a new meaning.
having almost walked out of the David Lynch version on first release I can say that this is a vastly superior version and much truer and more respectful of the source material.
In all fairness he had to do the entire book in one movie which is pretty much impossible. It's just too complex. He's still one of my favorite directors.
Dune is, in my opinion, the single volume greatest science fiction novel of all time. The book is well worth reading, and it will certainly flesh out your understanding of the film(s).
15:30 "I recognize your footsteps old man" right before Gurney grabs him - Paul isn't talking about Gurney during his hallucinations. "Old man" is another name for worms because of how ancient each of them is. It's a very subtle and smart writing here.
You didn't show them arrive on Arrakis! And the Baron and the emperor are separate people. Re-watch the first scene with the Baron. Seeing this in IMAX was one of the great visual-sensory-emotional experiences I've have ever had with movies.
If you don't want to wait 2 years to see how it ends, there is always Dune '84, or the more book accurate Frank Herbert's Dune, a mini-series from Syfy (the CGI is terrible, but the story is good). There is also a sequel series, Children of Dune, with James McAvoy.
Every one is sayi g the baron isn't the emperor but no one is saying Duke Leto wasn't stabbed with the Gom Jabbar, it was a different paralytic poison dart lol
Here’s an interesting tidbit: In each adaptation of Dune, a different person recognizes spitting as a gesture of respect. In the 1984 movie, it’s the Duke himself. In the miniseries, it’s Paul. Here, it’s Duncan
I dunno if it's interesting but when Paul and Gurney train at the beginning it's just a slowed down version of a Kali (Filipino Martial Art) drill called sinawali. Anyway...
This is now Dennis Vilneuve's baby...With this talent combined with this kind of source material I am confident he is going to make one of the best franchises of all time...
8:45 That's actually not true. Many studies have shown men have both higher pain tolerances and pain threshold. A nicer way to put it is that women are more sensitive to pain.
Kwistatz haderach means "the shortening of the way" its based on real hebrew term used in rhe Kabbalah in k-fitzah ha derek, the Leap of the way. Its a belief that a Tzadik, a Jewish sage could travel instantaneously appearing to be in two places at once.
Maybe check out "The King" where Timothée Chalamet takes the main role, and it's also a movie that may give you a bit context on how Dune pt.2 may be headed. For Rebecca Ferguson aka "Lady Jessica" maybe a tv series: The White Queen. And for Stellan Skarsgard aka "Baron Vladimir Harkonnen" maybe watch the movie: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Btw the Emperor is not the Baron Harkonnen. The Emperor has not appeared yet.
I saw this in theaters and started reading the book the moment I got home. I am now halfway through the second one, Dune Messiah. Can't wait for Part Two.
Leto (Paul's father) didn't marry Jessica because she isn't nobility. As the Head of a great house, he needs to keep his options for marriage open. In the movie this is revealed as a plot twist, but in the books it's established very early on that she is his "concubine"
Mary!!!! You finally have done this amazing film! I clicked this so fast, it's amazing! I am a longtime 'Dune' fanatic, since 1984 before the first film directed by David Lynch released when I was 12 years old. There is a 'Dune 2' coming as it was greenlit shortly after the film released and the film was a hit. Besides the fact that this only adapted basically the first half of the first novel. Frank Herbert wrote 6 'Dune' novels and Denis Villeneuve wanted to do a trilogy (which in film versions means both halves of 'Dune' and the second book 'Dune Messiah') This cast was impecable, the script brilliant, the visuals and direction astounding...and I want 'Dune - Part 2' NOW!!!! As I said, they greenlit the second part...and they are casting a few characters that weren't in this part but are in the book. Three characters in particular...The Emperor Shaddam IV, his daughter Princess Irulan, and the Baron Harkonnen's other nephew and Rabban's younger brother Feyd-Rautha. I don't know who will play the Emperor (I personally would love it to be Charles Dance aka Tywin Lannister), but they are saying Florence Pugh might be Irulan, and Austin Butler (who is going to be Elvis Presley in the Baz Luhrmann film) as Feyd. These are rumors only...interesting one definitely. But rumors only.
@@zvimur I don't really see Stewart as Shaddam. Partially because he was so good as Gurney in the Lynch version. Great actor. I just don't see him as The Emperor...oddly...another who might do well as the Emperor, because he's of an age to play it...Kyle MacLachlan aka Paul from the Lynch version! He could do it! Nice symmetry as well...a former Paul facing off against the newest Paul.
Not sure if it was mentioned in the comments (well I saw that someone mentioned the second part was green lit already). Post production is already underway since January and shooting is scheduled to begin this summer for release on October 20th, 2023. There is already talk for a third movie covering the second Dune book called Dune Messiah that would basically complete Paul's story.
Frank Herbert borrows a lot of Arabic terms for the Fremen language in his novel: when the Fremen refer to Paul as the Mahdi, that is essentially the Islamic term for messiah, not in the literal sense of "anointed one," but in the connotative sense of promised savior. Stellan Skarsgard also appears in the 2nd and 3rd Pirates of the Caribbean movies, as Bootstrap Bill Turner.
They do that sound grading so you need to hsve the volume louder to hear them speak then when the music hits its a shock, its just a trick they do to make the movie feel epic.
Dune is a complex story about a civilization that has an Imperial cultural structure. Dune II won't be out until next year... preproduction is just starting. Understanding the story is really helped if you've read Frank Hebert's book.
Its interesting watching someone wbose never seen the film or TV series or read any of the books try to figure out whats going on in Dune. You did good kid.
It's such a mind blowing movie. I seen the original when I was little but remembered nothing. Only thing I knew about Dune was the blue eyes and the sandworm from pop culture and I think some screenshots of an old Dune game.
There’s more to comparing Arrakis and spice to Middle East and oil. Paul’s story was inspired by Lawrence of Arabia: the son of a nobleman goes to a desert with a valuable resource and becomes the leader of a tribe of hardy and religious desert people and fights an empire
Dune 2 is scheduled to release in October of 2023. People had always said that this story was impossible to put to film, and the 1984 movie appeared to prove that point. This new adaptation seems to be giving hope that it is now possible.
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If you liked Stellan skarsgard in this you should see King Arthur .
Starwars copied dune
@@toyota420xp So did Game of Thrones.
@@zarquondam but starwars mentioned spice had a giant worm on a desert planet had an emperor had the force the voice.
Small correction: The big bald man is Baron Harkonnen, not the Emperor. The Emperor has only been mentioned, he was not shown. He will make his appearance in the second movie.
*Emperor ;)
I’m hoping they cast sting as the emperor
@@tideside849 Fixed it.
@@jpchan23 Ha!
Pretty big correction ...
The thing that gets me is that when Paul is out of the thopter during the sand worm attack on the mining vehicle, he says, “I recognize your footsteps, old man.” We’re supposed to think he’s talking to Gurney, but Shai-Hulud, the Fremen word for the sand worm, means ‘Old man of the desert.’
Paul wasn’t talking to Gurney. He was talking to the sand worm.
Denis Villeneuve gets it.
Though it's also a callback to what Paul had said at the beginning of the movie.
Denis Villeneuve is a true Dune fan, and thus the best man to make these movies.
I loved how layered the meanings were, in that scene and in many others. If this film doesn't become syllabus material at film schools, I'll be very surprised. A master class on so many levels.
Denis being a huge dune nerd and ALSO being one of the best modern directors was the golden path for this movie. Couldnt have gotten a better guy to do it.
@@dustyblanco1546 “the golden path” well done, sir! If you know, you know.
The lore of this whole universe is sooooo deep and complicated. Many people thought it was impossible to make a good understandable film out of it... but it seems Villeneuve has done exactly that. Really looking forward to part 2!
Btw Paul his visions are just as confusing for him as they are for us, because it doesnt always show what WILL happen but also what CAN happen... makes it more real I think, suppose you know the future... then you can also change it... but not always or everything ;)
You have to love the books in order to do it justice. And it sounds that, unlike David Lynch who changed the very essence of the story in his film, Villeneuve actually wanted to stick with the spirit of the story. Lynch wanted to make an heroic story about a white savior, whereas it looks to me that Villeneuve knows better than to do that. I get that people will change things to fit their vision. But Villeneuve actually was faithful to the very spirit of the book, as opposed to Lynch who I felt had no respect for the source material.
I mean to be fair, he had to make two movies out of the first book.
Here's hoping for an extended cut with some of those scenes that we have heard so much about that were cut for the theatrical edit.
@@Haldurson Lynch did not change the essence of the story, that's hyperbolic nonsense. Nor did he have some crude colonizer agenda. If Paul Atreides is a white savior, it's because Frank Herbert wrote him that way on purpose. Timothée Chalamet is still a white European-American male. This critique is facile but superficial and myopic, and suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of Herbert's intention to deconstruct the heroic myth.
The importance of "the scarred one is deaf" is that he couldn't be affected by the voice. So he had to be taken out first.
From my understanding when I read the book years ago, the suits filter the recycled water, so they're not exactly drinking sweat. Any moisture captured by the suit goes through a filtration system.
Yes, Liet Keynes actually remarks this in the movie when she talks to the Duke and Paul when she is meeting them for the trip to the Spice mining operation.
Not only sweat. It captures and recycles almost all moisture - sweat and water vapor from breath yes, but also the less savory excretions urine and feces. It does filter it though.
I don't really want to think about having to poop while wearing that suit though...
@@7Rendar it filters the water from that too and also period blood! there’s catch pockets that have to be cleaned out though…
(as a novel reader and lover, I know that's not technically true but that's the general gist of it)
@@7Rendar make sure your butt catheter has a good seal on it, otherwise your poo inside your thigh pads.
No one likes poopie thigh pads.
"I didn't think the universe would last five digits"
Girl the universe has existed for billions of years lol
she probably meant the human-infested version of it
@@voxorox humans have already been around for 6 digits :D
Especially since the year is merely the time since the Spacing Guild was established. Dune 10,191 is not ~8100 years from now, it is farther into the future.
@@voxorox If the implication is that humans will somehow acquire the technological capability to have a bigger impact on the universe than a metaphorical grain of sand in a desert, then that's pretty conceited. We are beyond tiny. Also, "human-infested" is a pretty cringe choice of words there, pal.
@@nathancollins1715 Anthropocentric, eh ? His words are pretty much on point.
The Fremen have a rule, if you kill someone in a duel you have to take their place. You are now responsible for their spouse and children and any obligations they had. By killing that guy Paul went from being an outsider to being a Fremen warrior with a wife and 2 kids.
I HIGHLY doubt they'll show that in part 2. It's too "Patriarchal" for modern times I guess.
@@Lucas-jq2yy Doesn't seem to be how Villeneuve works but I am interested to see if he will indeed fold under the modern times and "wokeism" or if he will remain true to the story as is. He usually is one for Art not necessairly for being politically correct. Not that he specifically tries to not be either, its just not something I see him being concerned with. The Art is what it is and it is to tell a story not push an agenda, that's more Disney/Marvel Mainstream stuff. Villeneuve is too Arthouse to fall into mainstream category. His most recent titles are mainstream in the sense that they are well established names, but to be very honest Bladerunner and Dune were always more of a niche appreciation. Neither will be as popular as Star Wars or Alien or Predator franchises but that is also not what or how those stories are written. Dune and Bladerunner are classics yes but classics for those who prefer a bit more substance to their entertainment and THAT has never been mainstream...
But I am legitimitely curious to see how he will do it in the continuation as it is an important part of why he had visions of him as well as what he told him in said visions... To forgoe something that is as traditional as the spitting welcome would be quite dishonest, to be polite.
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@@Lucas-jq2yy or there’s the obvious fact that it would be too much to squeeze into an already long movie, there wouldn’t be enough time to develop those characters along with everyone else
Gurney Halleck (Josh Brolin) grew up fighting for survival in the Harkonnen slave pits. He knows the depths of Harkonnen brutality better than anyone. He was saved from the slave pits by Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac), personally.
Wow, I hope we explore the character in Pt 2
@@brianm3160 Gurney does play a very decent part in guerrilla warfare in part 2, assuming it will be shown in the movie.
The frustrating part was they didn’t know if they would get to make part 2, so they left it where they did just hoping the movie would do well enough to get the next movie made - it was a huge risk, thankfully part 2 got the green light a few days after release
Filming Starts on July! Bless the filmmaker and his adaptions!
I had no doubt whatsoever that this would get a part two. There was simply no way it didn't.
@@44r0n-9 There was also no way a game show host that ran a not well hidden real estate/bankruptcy/tax manipulation racket was going to be elected President. Oh wait.
@@mss11235 What kind of comparison is that? lmao
@@44r0n-9 Seemingly obvious decisions or courses of action are not taken for depressing reasons often. If some higher up somehow contrived a reason to not green-light Dune 2, it would have been a shocking, unsettling development. Not unlike how shocking and unsettling it was when the host of the Apprentice who posed as a team estate mogul (who was actually just a fraudulent shmuck that would get bailed out by his inherited powerful connections) was elected President.
SO, the Baron Harkonnen is not the Emperor - he's just the head of a Great House that was feuding with House Atreides for generations. The Emperor hasn't actually been seen in this part, he's moving behind the scenes to play the Houses against each other. The Emperor sees the Atreides (Duke Leto in particular) as too charismatic and capable of becoming a threat to his power. So he set Arrakis as a trap for them, and colluded with the Harkonnens to wipe them out. In part 2, we'll see how the Emperor has to deal with the consequences of his actions as Paul seeks revenge.
The Emperor is also afraid of the wealth he inadvertently allowed the Harkonnens to amass on Arrakis, which is superior to his own. Interrupting the Harkonnen operations and forcing them to attack the Atreides also weakened them significantly.
It's all very Magna Carta-esque medieval, combined with a European colonialist mindset and some "white saviour" nonsense that's kinda a relic of the era in which the work was written.. That doesn't mean it isn't enjoyable, but it's something to keep in mind, in the same way that you can enjoy Lawrence of Arabia while remembering that Arabs aren't savages and that the Europeans completely screwed them over, as usual.
Just for your understanding....the big bald guy is the Baron Harkonnen...not.the emperor. We have not seen him yet.
The OG quote from the book is "Mood? Mood is a thing for cattle and love play. You fight when the necessity arises."
Stellan Skarsgard played Dr. Erik Selvig, the associate of Natalie Portman's character Dr. Jane Foster in Thor and several other MCU movies. He was also Bootstrap Bill in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
He has done far better roles than those ones, those are just blockbuster movies.
@@hoya1178 Undoubtedly, but I went for movies that Mary has most likely seen.
And his son Bill plays Pennywise in IT. His other son Alexander played Tarzan. And his third son Gustav plays Floki in Vikings.
He was in Good Will Hunting, Hunt For the Red October too and more recently as Boris in Chernobyl.
He was also Boris in Chernobyl
A near masterpiece movie for me. My favorite of 2021 by far. Bummed that Denis didn’t get at least a Best Director Oscar nomination
It was in my Top 5 of 2021 for sure.
The Academy doesn't usually give awards to the first part of a multi-movie story. I'm surprised they got what they got!
Should have been nonimated. That said, at some point he MUST receive a life time achievment award, if nothing else. He is a magnificent director. Have seen Blade Runn 2049, so I know it is deserved.
George Lucas took so much from Dune for Star Wars --
Arrakis desert world = Tatooine desert world
Ben Gesserit = Jedi order
The Voice = Jedi mind trick
Baron Harkonnen big fat villain = Jabba the Hutt big fat villain
Fighting with swords = fighting with light sabers
etc etc etc
Everybody took from Dune...
I think Lucas wanted to make his own Dune movie but never got the rights so made his own thing but we can see where he got his inspiration
The worm = Sarlacc pit
@@akeel_1701 no it was flash Gordon he wanted to make but couldn't get the rights to.
He was definitely inspired by dune though
Citation needed plz.
In regards to the years. They base their calendar off of when the Spacing Guild was founded and in our calendar it would be 23,352.
"What do you say to the girl you've been dreaming about? It's a hard one."
I guess you could say that. It would at least probably be the truth.
Something none of the films fully explain is that Jessica is the Duke's concubine, in that he didn't marry her because he was holding out for a politically expedient marriage to possibly form a powerful alliance in the future. There's talk that he's popular, so much so that it's possible he could marry the emperor's daughter and become the next emperor.
Meanwhile the bene geserit wanted Jessica's possible daughter to be wed to a harkonen male, healing the royal feud and possibly making a stronger bloodline for the kwizatz Hadarak.
But he took Jessica for love, and she gave him Paul, for love. And the Duke regretted not marrying her instead of keeping his options open politically.
I figured this, but would’ve been cool to see in the movie, even if not essential. When stories are this good, there’s no such thing as too much movie for me 😅
2:03 "I didn't think the universe would last 5 digits" Actually, the universe has already lasted for 11 digits (about 13.7 billion years) so a jump of 8000 years from our current time hardly even registers on a universal scale.
Yep, the Dune movie plays closer to 20,000 CE. The 10,000 AG designation means After Guild, the founding of the Spacing Guild.
@@Yggdrasil42 yes 10,191 AG is the time it takes place in, to put that into perspective 11,200 years BG is known in our time as the year 1960 AD( or more commonly known as CE now) so its around 21,391 years in the future
@@Yggdrasil42 To be fair, I'm fairly certain that that specific timeline exists because of the Brian Herbert glorified fanfictions. I can't remember the original books ever mentioning how far exactly into the future Dune takes place.
This, Interstellar and Avatar are the 3 most impressive movies I have ever seen in IMAX (visuals), while this is true, only Dune and Interstellar are part of my 4K collection and I watch em regularly. Sooo well done.
Dune was pretty intense at IMAX. Almost overwhelming. I do enjoy the 4K blu ray at home as well since I can have the sound set a little more to my liking.
I watched Avatar in 3D (my first) and it was an amazing addition.
I decided to try IMAX for the first time for Dune (and in 3D) thinking if a movie deserved it, it would be it.
Well it was too overwhelming for me, too loud, i was vibrating the whole time and it was too much for me. I left (with a headache) feeling lukewarm about the movie as a whole and even the soundtrack didn't wow me, and I'm convinced IMAX is the culprit.
I since reflected on the movie and rewatched it, and liked it much much more.
Interstellar does deserve 4K and I've watched it more than 5 times already I'd say.
When you are Hans Zimmer, you get to have your score played in the forefront. He does such a masterful job at creating the mood and tension in the film.
Although Oscar Isaac had a very limited screen time, but he did a fantastic job.
"He's a snake-man" No, that's a few books into the series ;)
I enjoyed watching it. The book is a good 400 pages & a lot to undertake for a movie. The book series is good from Frank Herbert. Also the 1984 version was good for what it was. The set designs they did then were pretty elaborate.
A good 630 pages you mean lol
@@TheMinarus must be one of the other books that long.
@@TheMinarus Depends on the edition:)
the miniseries "Frank Herbert's Dune" (2000) and "Frank Herbert's Children of Dune" (2003) are a very good adaptation
And the cast for the original movie was pretty good, with Kyle McLachlan, Sean Young, Sting, Patrick Stewart, and Virginia Madsen.
"Rest in Peace Duncan!" That's so cute. Bwahahahaha!
"HERE I AM AND HERE I REMAIN...damn what a line to go out with.
Someone has finally done Justice to this masterpiece of a story Villeneuve is also going to do rendezvous with Rama which is another amazing story you might want to look into.
I'm hoping Rama gets the Arrival feel.
I dunno about "masterpiece". It's an okay story, but it's pretty much just redressed white-supremacist colonialism with the usual "white saviour" twist.
It's a very well-told tale, but the bones aren't anything particularly noteworthy, as the rapid decline in quality of the sequels attests.
It's good on you that you noticed the sound design so much. This was really designed for the theater and I remember that whenever anyone used The Voice it literally shook the building! Such a good way to show the power of it.
Someone may have already mentioned it, but the reason Duke Leto didn’t marry Jessica is because she’s not nobility (as far as he knows). As the head of a noble house, he has to keep the possibility of a marriage alliance open, even if he never intends to go through with it. She’s his bound concubine, assigned to him by the Sisterhood.
Jessica was supposed to bear a daughter that would then marry the Baron’s other nephew (not the brute), which would not only give them the person they needed but also end the ancient feud between the two houses. The Bene Gesserit can control their bodies, so deciding the sex of the fetus is trivial to them
Notice the lack of super advanced tech such as computers? There's a reason for that.
AI must not replace living people
"Thou shall not make a machine in the image of a man's mind" - O. C. Bible
Hence, Mentats.
There is so much going on in “Dune” that makes for wonderful discussions
Politically, spiritually and psychologically
Like how spice is an important resource that keeps the universe economy going.
Like how oil is found in the desert to keep our world to function
And this book was written over 50 years ago
There a college courses dedicated to learning about “Dune” and I would love to learn about it sometime
35:56 I really liked how Paul was a sig ificantly better fighter, it makes sense considering this story is basically a medieval fantasy set in the future.
They live in a feudalistic society and he's the son of a baron, so he's part of the warrior class. So he's been training for a long time by the most capable people available.
Mary, you don’t need to explain what a didgeridoo is. That’s one of the few stereotypes about Australia most people know about.
I knew about the instrument, but not that it is specifically used by aboriginal men, so I'm glad to have learned something.
Hey now, as an American, I have a very deep and nuanced understanding of Australia! They guys all ride around in their crazy, post-apocalypse muscle cars, playing didgeridoos, while fighting giant spiders and kangaroos.
Nailed it.
😂😂 yup
Came into this knowing next to nothing, never saw the 80s one - I cannot wait for Part 2!!
I loved the world-building and lore established here, really should try the book(s)..audiobook prob as don't have patience or time to read that much.
I have read the series at least once a year for the last 30 years. If you do try and tackle more than the first book, I should warn that books 2 and 3 are slower. They are still good, but not as good as the first. Book 4 though is amazing. Maybe better than book 1... I am still up in the air on that.
You really should. I have read a huge amount in half a century. Some books are great, some, not so much. This one, and most of the Dune series (Frank Herbert, not his son) is one of the best I have ever read. Sweeping. Better even, I think, than Asimov.
You should definitely give it a go. I won't lie, i found that it drags a bit, and i had to take breaks, but it is SO worth it. (ps, don't buy a book with small pages, if you buy, that is)
The 1980's movie is worth a watch too after the novel, if for not other reason than how bizarre a film it is. Patrick Stewart plays Gurney, Sting is one of the Harkonnens, and the whole movie is directed by David Lynch, who was very much *not* having any fun making it.
The result is an absolute fever dream of a film.
This cast is so stacked you'd think it was an Avenger's film.
Well, it does have Drax, Dr. Erik Selvig, Moon Knight, MJ, and Thanos.
" ‘Yueh! Yueh! Yueh!’ goes the refrain. 'A million deaths were not enough for Yueh!’
Dune, in the book "A Child’s History of Muad'Dib".
When the Sardukar are mediating before their invasion, that's actually Mongolian throat singing. Interesting thing to look into
Haven't watched this movie yet, but Dennis Villeneuve + Hans Zimmer +Greg Fraiser + This cast...
Hope you liked it. Its fantastic.
jessica was just the duke's concubine - he was holding off in order to marry one of the emperor's daughters, a strategic move rather than romantic.
12:29 For the Fremen, water is precious and spit has water in it as part of the body. So allowing some water to leave the body is a very high honor and a show of respect.
"Don't let anything happen to Duncan."
*Those of us who have read all the books*
About that... it's complicated!
I think the word "complicated" is still putting it too lightly 😂
I just took a peek in book 4 and saw his name and was incredibly confused until I read up to it 😆
:D
Very complicated
"I didnt think the Universe would live up to 5 digits" hmmmm
The universe is around 13.7 BILLION years old, while Earth itself is around 4 billion years old. Human beings on the other hand, and civilization are only around a couple thousand years old. The Earth was here before us and it will be well after we're gone.
Well, the Stone Age lasted 3.4 million years (up to 6,000 years ago), homo sapiens is roughly 200 thousand years old.
And the Earth might not be here after "us" if our descendants for example make themselves into supersmart cyborgs that turn the whole planet into a fleet of giant spaceships and go Star Treking. Just sayin'.
I loved 36:47 so much. It's amazing to see someone get so involved in a movie that they dodge the blows that happen on screen.
This movie really felt like an Ancient Greek Epic (like the Iliad) to me.
Oscar Issac's beard gets absolutely top marks.
It’s funny some people think the Baron is the Emperor early on … the movie very plainly uses “Baron” and “Emperor” for different people.
This movie covers the first half of the original book. Dune Part Two will be releasing next fall and covers the rest of the first book
Seeing this on the big screen in 3D is absolutly stunning, it is really overwhelming, when the second part comes out and the two back to back, I strongly recomment watching it in cinema. It is stunning, gives the word epic a new meaning.
having almost walked out of the David Lynch version on first release I can say that this is a vastly superior version and much truer and more respectful of the source material.
You know, in hindsight? The David Lynch one is worth watching simply for how utterly bizarre it was.
In all fairness he had to do the entire book in one movie which is pretty much impossible. It's just too complex. He's still one of my favorite directors.
Dune is, in my opinion, the single volume greatest science fiction novel of all time. The book is well worth reading, and it will certainly flesh out your understanding of the film(s).
15:30 "I recognize your footsteps old man" right before Gurney grabs him - Paul isn't talking about Gurney during his hallucinations. "Old man" is another name for worms because of how ancient each of them is. It's a very subtle and smart writing here.
You didn't show them arrive on Arrakis! And the Baron and the emperor are separate people. Re-watch the first scene with the Baron.
Seeing this in IMAX was one of the great visual-sensory-emotional experiences I've have ever had with movies.
Yes, the Emperor is not shown on screen at all in Dune, Part 1. He will be in Part 2.
32:32
"That's not HOW the Voice WORKS!"
-A Bene Besserit Quote, Borrowed and Tweaked from Han Solo
Spit is water. In the desert, every drop of moisture is precious. It is indeed a great act of honor.
If you don't want to wait 2 years to see how it ends, there is always Dune '84, or the more book accurate Frank Herbert's Dune, a mini-series from Syfy (the CGI is terrible, but the story is good). There is also a sequel series, Children of Dune, with James McAvoy.
The 2000s set of two miniseries was very close to the books, indeed. I thoroughly enjoyed it back in the day.
Based on part one alone, the 84 Lynch version ending will just be kinda confusing, as Lynch played the chosen one trope perfectly straight.
@@inarar5334 proving Lynch completely missed the point of the book 😂
@@johnsmith9205 Indeed. This is, by far, the most book-accurate adaptation to date.
not just visual but the sound too is a masterpiece
Every one is sayi g the baron isn't the emperor but no one is saying Duke Leto wasn't stabbed with the Gom Jabbar, it was a different paralytic poison dart lol
Here’s an interesting tidbit: In each adaptation of Dune, a different person recognizes spitting as a gesture of respect. In the 1984 movie, it’s the Duke himself. In the miniseries, it’s Paul. Here, it’s Duncan
17:37 It is Tuvan Throat singing in the Sardaukar Language (called Tamashek in the books)
I dunno if it's interesting but when Paul and Gurney train at the beginning it's just a slowed down version of a Kali (Filipino Martial Art) drill called sinawali. Anyway...
38:12 Mary: "What is that?"
Paul: "Desert power"
😎
Good one Mary. Looking forward to part 2 but I am not convinced they can wrap it up even then. We might be looking at a part 4 or 5 eventually.
Loved the SciFi channel mini series. Love this movie! Can’t wait for the sequel
Just to clarify for you -- Vladimir is NOT the Emperor. He is Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. We have not yet met the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV.
This is now Dennis Vilneuve's baby...With this talent combined with this kind of source material I am confident he is going to make one of the best franchises of all time...
Mary your excitement as the mother changed her voice and commenced to slitting throats ! Lol
The baby has blue eyes because she was exposed to intense spice concentrations before birth when Jessica drank the water of life.
8:45 That's actually not true. Many studies have shown men have both higher pain tolerances and pain threshold. A nicer way to put it is that women are more sensitive to pain.
Kwistatz haderach means "the shortening of the way" its based on real hebrew term used in rhe Kabbalah in k-fitzah ha derek, the Leap of the way. Its a belief that a Tzadik, a Jewish sage could travel instantaneously appearing to be in two places at once.
Wow, great explanation!
I am a Huge fan of the books. This is the best adaption. I want the rest NOW
Oh boy would love to see her face when she finds out how many books there actually are. This was maybe a third of the first book.
Maybe check out "The King" where Timothée Chalamet takes the main role, and it's also a movie that may give you a bit context on how Dune pt.2 may be headed.
For Rebecca Ferguson aka "Lady Jessica" maybe a tv series: The White Queen.
And for Stellan Skarsgard aka "Baron Vladimir Harkonnen" maybe watch the movie: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Btw the Emperor is not the Baron Harkonnen. The Emperor has not appeared yet.
Now you can do a reaction video to Dune Part Two. It's out on streaming now.
Amazing scale and visuals. Music. Great adaptation
15:24 That wasn't the Emperor, that was the Baron of the Harkonnen.
Denis Villeneuve's movies are just plain gorgeous
I saw this in theaters and started reading the book the moment I got home. I am now halfway through the second one, Dune Messiah. Can't wait for Part Two.
Leto (Paul's father) didn't marry Jessica because she isn't nobility. As the Head of a great house, he needs to keep his options for marriage open.
In the movie this is revealed as a plot twist, but in the books it's established very early on that she is his "concubine"
Mary!!!! You finally have done this amazing film! I clicked this so fast, it's amazing!
I am a longtime 'Dune' fanatic, since 1984 before the first film directed by David Lynch released when I was 12 years old. There is a 'Dune 2' coming as it was greenlit shortly after the film released and the film was a hit. Besides the fact that this only adapted basically the first half of the first novel. Frank Herbert wrote 6 'Dune' novels and Denis Villeneuve wanted to do a trilogy (which in film versions means both halves of 'Dune' and the second book 'Dune Messiah')
This cast was impecable, the script brilliant, the visuals and direction astounding...and I want 'Dune - Part 2' NOW!!!!
As I said, they greenlit the second part...and they are casting a few characters that weren't in this part but are in the book. Three characters in particular...The Emperor Shaddam IV, his daughter Princess Irulan, and the Baron Harkonnen's other nephew and Rabban's younger brother Feyd-Rautha.
I don't know who will play the Emperor (I personally would love it to be Charles Dance aka Tywin Lannister), but they are saying Florence Pugh might be Irulan, and Austin Butler (who is going to be Elvis Presley in the Baz Luhrmann film) as Feyd. These are rumors only...interesting one definitely. But rumors only.
Hmm, Patrick Stewart as Shaddam?
@@zvimur, as he played Gurney Halleck in Lynch's Dune, that is an interesting choice.
@@zvimur I don't really see Stewart as Shaddam. Partially because he was so good as Gurney in the Lynch version. Great actor. I just don't see him as The Emperor...oddly...another who might do well as the Emperor, because he's of an age to play it...Kyle MacLachlan aka Paul from the Lynch version! He could do it! Nice symmetry as well...a former Paul facing off against the newest Paul.
Honestly watching this movie in the cinema was something that i will never ever experiance again absolutly insane
Not sure if it was mentioned in the comments (well I saw that someone mentioned the second part was green lit already). Post production is already underway since January and shooting is scheduled to begin this summer for release on October 20th, 2023. There is already talk for a third movie covering the second Dune book called Dune Messiah that would basically complete Paul's story.
Frank Herbert borrows a lot of Arabic terms for the Fremen language in his novel: when the Fremen refer to Paul as the Mahdi, that is essentially the Islamic term for messiah, not in the literal sense of "anointed one," but in the connotative sense of promised savior. Stellan Skarsgard also appears in the 2nd and 3rd Pirates of the Caribbean movies, as Bootstrap Bill Turner.
They do that sound grading so you need to hsve the volume louder to hear them speak then when the music hits its a shock, its just a trick they do to make the movie feel epic.
Dune is a complex story about a civilization that has an Imperial cultural structure. Dune II won't be out until next year... preproduction is just starting. Understanding the story is really helped if you've read Frank Hebert's book.
30:55 thats not the emperor. thats only Baron Harkonnen. We didnt see the emperor yet in this movie.
Its interesting watching someone wbose never seen the film or TV series or read any of the books try to figure out whats going on in Dune.
You did good kid.
It's such a mind blowing movie. I seen the original when I was little but remembered nothing. Only thing I knew about Dune was the blue eyes and the sandworm from pop culture and I think some screenshots of an old Dune game.
While i love this movie, the most surprising thing is that it made me also love the David Lynch one *even more*.
Mary, Timothy also has played in interstellar - son of Cooper and he played King Richard in 2019s The King. Highly recommend it
There’s more to comparing Arrakis and spice to Middle East and oil. Paul’s story was inspired by Lawrence of Arabia: the son of a nobleman goes to a desert with a valuable resource and becomes the leader of a tribe of hardy and religious desert people and fights an empire
Dune is Criminally underrated! This movie is a gem. Can’t wait to see part 2!
Underrated? It received plenty of critical acclaim.
@@Yggdrasil42 it will always deserve more in my heart.
Whats wild is how short the books are yet they have so much detail its nuts. I read the whole original series in the summer of '07.
Just to be clear the Harkonnans are another house, they aren't the Emperor. The head of the Harkonnans is a Baron.
2:00 She figured out this movie in 2 minutes flat, kudos to you Mary!
Dune 2 is scheduled to release in October of 2023. People had always said that this story was impossible to put to film, and the 1984 movie appeared to prove that point. This new adaptation seems to be giving hope that it is now possible.
The Harkonnens undressed the Duke in an attempt to prevent him from doing what he did
6:56 “How many languages does everybody know?”
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The atreides of the dune saga are the last descendants of agamemnon.
I didn't go through all your comments - but the Baron was in the Thor movies - he worked with Jane and was subverted by Loki in The Avengers...