• eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      The original movie was good for the art direction and fantastic acting by supporting characters.

      That’s kinda where it ends though, comparing the two of them, the new Dune features human emotion which is pretty cool; all the main characters were kind of animatronic feeling in the old one imo.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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        The source material has limitations. It is difficult to make characters have depth when in the novel they have none. If you sit down and try to describe the characters of Dune you can really only do it by their job or what they did in the novel. You can’t describe their personalities. Compare this to Star Wars.

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        But, the book characters were intentionally written to be pretty emotionally flat? The Gom Jabbar scene… Jessica showing emotion doesn’t make it a bad scene, but it kind of undercuts how the Bene Gesserit work. Their whole thing is conquering their emotions and being composed and in control all the time. Jessica’s turmoil is internal while her face is stoic. That’s her whole character at that point in the book. she’s not a very good Bene Gesserit, but she’s faked it real well.

        Except Duncan and Gurney. They should have had personality. That’s Their purpose in the books. To be the ones who show Paul what being a real human is like beyond the Duke (laden with responsibility and the knowledge that his entire house and the thousands of people that rely on it are teetering on a knife’s edge) and Jessica (basically a magic robot concubine who was raised from birth with the sole purpose of furthering a generations long genetic project her captors teachers were working toward). They’re meant to be a breath of fresh air that give Paul the foundation to be a real boy.

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      Ok, either the internet can’t identify a great joke or… no, I guess the only reasonable explanation is that your comment whooshed over people’s heads.

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        It’s all good, I mean I read both of the books like ages ago and those were the only things that bubbled up out of the scary dark corners of my memory when the opportunity presented itself.

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      1 year ago

      You don´t mean that abomination made by Lynch that shits all over the book do you?!?

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        I mean one of the single best sci-fi movies of all time made by Lynch that takes out all the religious garbage and keeps the worms.