Dune: Part Two 2024

Dune:-Part-Two-2024
Dune: Part Two 2024

I felt drained after completing Dune as I was pacing myself throughout the book and also the movie. I understand however that many people were really looking forward to the movie ever since the book got popular. So keeping that in mind, it was a decent movie even if it didn’t meet my expectations. 

This subject matter is quite extensive and requires a thorough explanation, but for the sake of this review, I will limit to making a few points. 

What i did enjoy:

This is one of those movies I recommend to my friends that they watch on the biggest screen possible and with the best sound, which makes the experience worthwhile. The first couple of times, I believe I could feel the vibrations in the chairs. It’s always great to have so much happening, although at times it can be a little too much. But it all looks so great. We’re still confused about the absence of perspiration on a hot planet, however, we do see much more of it this time.

With respect to the location where House Harkonnen is situated, the Giedi Prime shots, which are on the darker side, form some of the best places in the entire movie. The audience in the arena, which included Feyd-Rautha(Austin Butler imitating Baron Harkonnen’s Albino version embodied by Stellan Skarsgard), appeared to be cartoonish and out of place considering the scene was rather greyish. There was definitely an intention, filming that way no doubt has some sort of visual merit to it. In this movie, Greig Fraser has done some incredible pieces. Therefore, it is not surprising that is is indeed rather entertaining to watch.

To relate it back to this, these visuals are sharp, but slightly different and more sophisticated than the first owing to the fact that the “Nun” from the Bene Gesserit donned their veils and the guards in the arena of Feyd Rautha were masked. On this occasion, this is no longer the case – instead, the costume and set designs have been adapted to look like the desert planet Arrakis or the gorgeous garden in which the padishah emperor is rather more appropriate than the art style’s typical traits.

Some of the fight scenes have also not been executed well. The Fremen’s capture of the Harkonnen spice ships was quite entertaining. Paul (Timothée Chalamet) Also, his rather swift and brutal combat with Feyd-Rautha was tolerable.

Despite accepting and enjoying a dark Faustian bargain, that’s putting one’s other child (Chani) at risk all in the quest to achieve more complex character contours, it’s at least fun watching the fully transformed Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) into the more multifaceted member of the Bene Gesserit or better yet the Atreides. 

Stilgar Javier rudely laughs during the comedic downtime. He was asserted to be ‘the one’ by Pol, and many others, including the farem sects which emerged as an avid audience. The hard-line Fremen are sure that he is their Mahdi, but among the more moderate or less radical Fremen, there are many who do not share such sentiments.

There Paul says I am not the Mahdi, however, this confusion is further clarified by Stilgar who turns to his comrades and declares emphatically, “He’s too modest to call himself the Mahdi; proof he’s the Mahdi !” Sometimes the story is told as if it is a deep and profound tale and in such cases, it is quite funny to see how the writers manage to add a funny element into the narrative.

More often than not, the incidents from the book were described in great detail with only some departures that could be said to be quite expectable or not that significant at least once again we have part 3 Dune Messiah. Even not attempting to regard its own sense of humor, which regards the film itself, it is quite good basically. We have envisioned a view that such best exists in terms of rising elements if we may call on some adjustments that were made more wisely. So, let us continue and sort this out: To move on to the key aspects of it this is beginning to seem like the best merge possible of several streams. 

The Mixed

Chani receives letters and her character does develop but, hired also to paper Paul is only about finding the Fremen and transforming into Muad’dib in all his splendor while taking the part of the Lisan al Gaib/Mahdi or Kwisatz Haderach as the Bene Gesserits put it. For several centuries, many generations of this bitch tribe have been scattering this prophecy and rather labored in the making of the Kwisatz Haderach which was in the end made sure of course by Paul after Jessica defied the order to give birth to a son.

Certain characters, such as the poisonous, multi-faceted Count Fenring, are absent; his wife Margot (Léa Seydoux) manages to compromise Feyd-Rautha and puts him to sleep to advance her goals. (The more I ponder about the Bene Gesserit the more it comes to my attention how much they influenced here the Jedi in Star Wars, the Aes Sedai in the Wheel of Time, or even the witches from the Witcher books, although Herbert’s sisterhood is the most dreadful and sinister of them all).

To me, the timeline is also a bit maddening. Unless Paul spent only a tiny period with the Fremen tribe before usurping them, this does not appear to be too feasible (certainly less than nine, given Alia’s Kubrickian fetal condition). In that regard, I apologize for being slightly blasphemous, however, if we were to just go in and usurp the planet for spice correct why not do that along with converting their planet into a paradise and then barricading its structures and going on a ‘jihad’, my bad, a ‘holy war’ against the Great Houses? There is no young Leto II captured by Imperial Sardaukar simply because Paul and Chani do not have any child. He recovers from the Water of Life in any case two – due to He. My overall impression is that this technique does not pose any particular interest to me. Paul should have had to wait for a Fremen costume about when the Fremen began: “weirding ways” soldiers. The period is completely inappropriate for a movie of such proportions. Ever since I do not know what they are trying to address in this case, probably they are not worth worrying. The effect is quite interesting or rather neat, depending on how you look at it.

I find it infuriating that Alia had to stay in Jessica’s womb for the majority of the film. Still, it has its benefits as this avoids the expenses of hiring a kid who could have been better suited for other forms of acting. Despite that, hearing the line “You die like an animal,” uttered by the Paul character to Alia was something I liked hearing Paul say it when he returns to Baron Harkonnen. 

I’d like to comment on Paul since I’m positive that a number of the readers share my sentiment. His character mostly avoids offering us a glimpse into his Mentat training, and even that happens only when Tanya’s character is not abusing their hawat who always stands around in the shadows. With Tanya, on the other hand, we are more than often shown a single vision that bears repeating but not with the same satisfying result each time. That distinct quality was the spice, that he had, and I believe they cut it out of the series for some strange reason. It’s Only when the end approaches do I begin to see his range of abilities: Tanya calls upon an old lady who is a Reverend Mother to raise one of his arms.

This makes me wonder about the score by Hans Zimmer, while it surely deserves praise all on its own, my only complaint is that as a part of the film, those sound effects paired with the music fall flat. In 20 years nobody is going to be humming the theme of Dune and I don’t see this being a problem, I have never been emotionally moved by this music because that blame falls squarely on the screenplay, which in my opinion is. With a cast like that, you would expect a brilliant performance, but there was no emotion to be seen. I cannot see why there was so much hype for it, sure some of it was entertaining, which sort of is revenge in my books. Furthermore, I have made it abundantly clear how boring the whole film was for me, so the only thing that stuck with me after leaving the cinema was a headache.

It’s slightly unfortunate that this movie was also rather heartless and a bit lifeless in its essence. 

However, it isn’t entirely appropriate to characterize the book also as such for it does cover a lot of grounds however it is more character-centric as opposed to being plot-centric. That then leads us on to . . .

The Negative Aspect

In what I assumed would be the concluding my favorite part of Herbert’s book series, I was left rather disappointed with the ending as it felt rushed. My own understanding of the climax or the conclusion was different than that of the writers as it seems to be from the dislike of every other piece included in the work. However, all of the climactic integral points that feature majorly did contain a large number of actions and the primary plot of this is the war that involves the Fremen, Harkonnen and the Imperial forces, sometimes remained hidden in the back. All the battles were more or less resolving and winning at the end with the heroes winning and the villains being beaten but that far deeper in essence but instead it felt as if Duke Leto being outplayed was more or less revenge. I don’t want to say it this way but I do believe it was poorly done and that there was a specific time and place to make a theatre adaptation to trick people into making them think otherwise.

This is the segment where the author’s unwavering motto: do not tell, Show, comes alive but the end fight of the movie is undoubtedly the biggest letdown. It’s quite comical that the heroes of the story are able to overcome an elite force of Sardaukar and Harkonnen within a couple of minutes. A great anti-climax it is and perhaps that is the purpose of this particular book. Perhaps there should have been proper editing and a bit of finesse and beauty in this part of the story in the book!

Young and untrained in soldiers’ strategies, the boy leads the adult soldiers into a fray with a primal urge but against advanced technology. Completely out of touch with war, Harkonnen forces along with the emperor’s guard swoop down in spaceships to crush the free men; now that is a real war order!

Paul’s last match while fighting Feyd-Rautha was good but I believe that it was bad to make Feyd-Rautha an honorable guy in that contest. These are tension-building processes that were definitely poorly defined during the building up of that character for the movie. He gaves this impression that he is . . . not very. in this case.

He is, however, also a true believer, with little to no respect for the concept of remorse.

In the book, he attempts to assassinate Paul with poison, and of course, he has some Hamlet tendencies but he struggles to do so in the end.

In this instance, he says to the Atreides fighter’s leader, ‘Good fight, Atreides,’ this is something he recounted telling to one of the people he slaughtered in the arena. It can’t be seen as indefensible to argue that Falk Rautha, the säkkijärvi cannibal who hunts covering sex trade whores, is also a man of some dignity? He very well might be. Who knows? The fact that they grant him so much texture is laughable when the Harkonnens are depicted in every other way as the most ostentatious and evil villainous mustachioed characters ever. 

The photoshops depict gory, graphic destruction done to generals of the Harkonnen family, whereas a secret stream of tension emanates from the Harkonnen people. The rate at which some faceless subordinate gets their throat cut or their head smashed in for, in the bigger picture of things, insults (or in fact, no insult whatsoever) begins to transform them into comic villains prone to gratuitous violence instead of the dignified and powerful old House picture. A modern Thrones story in which all the villains throughout the entire plot are Ramsay Snow and there are loads of other Ramsay Snows.

It’s also why the lack of any build-up between Fidr Rautha and Paul for their last battle feels very underwhelming. Just like most of the other parts of the ending. After all it feels fairly pointless, flat and hollow from an emotional standpoint.

Let’s save what I wanted to say about the casting for another post altogether, the casting decision is something that I believe is among the 5 things that I did not appreciate about both movies. I think there were too many familiar stars and it would have been better if unfamiliar ones were cast in more key roles. Or better yet, Paul seeing Alia as older and Anya Taylor–Joy as the younger Alia whom, to my hypocrisy, was supposed to be by then put in a trailer of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Or Butler in The Bikeriders promo, such as the one who is featured in a promising series about a biker gang aiming to become the main character. Thus, if you have so many important personalities for the film, one can expect that at least two of them will be present in the trailers.

What I want to address next is the casting of Christopher Walken as Shaddam IV. Walken has starred in quite a lot of movies, and my thoughts go to Severance as the most recent one. He is going to be terrific in so many things. He has one shortcoming – forgets all lines in a scripted dialogue but that is very suited for this kind of profession – Wrong, wrong wrong. There are no small roles in Walken’s theatrics, all his performances are splendid including minor roles in Annie Hall, Pulp Fiction, True Romance and many others, he is indeed a national asset. Inist is fine yes but for Dune he was in my opinion miscast. It would seem that the last time I was very annoyed with the choice of SNAFU for this movie was when Nicole Kidman was chosen to play the Northman, It is actually an Anya Taylor-Joy film with a Skarsgard combined about Hamlet’s films.

The geographical exclusive of spice melange and the presence of the Navigators and the Spacing Guild can be likened to the additional material that will be deployed in the third film(which seems almost certain now), however, this has been a rather pulling one to me as that is in a way which I regard as one of the most essential elements of the entire novels as to why Arrakis and more importantly, its capital is why it is so significant to the power triangle of Empire, Great Houses of Landsraad and Spacing Guild. Fairly strange. Appropriate reason to be chagrined – The Navigators’ role in the film was expected to be shown at the end of it. The vision of a Fremen rushing to the ships yelling for war was what I would describe as breathtaking.

Alas, 2 hours and 46 minutes takes the cake for too much time for what is the second act of the third in the three films that I understand it is a trilogy. Sorry Folks. I guarantee We’ll We’ll be doing this in a hurry because I don’t remember how many times I’ve said this but very few movies make a case for that kind of running time.

Comprehensively, there were many segments that could have been left out such as a lot of elements that ‘Came from the Dunes Part 2’ had to offer.

Considering the narrative is not overly complicated and there are already two movies on the table, we are quite limited with time. There is always the issue of never having enough time to finish this war.

To cut a long story short, regardless of most cases, this is how Dune was meant to be adapted. There are, however, some who subjugated just a little more than just one Dune. His Space opera remains interesting as a cinematic space opera. Alternatively, regions Spice can be accurately named “Space” as it is often referred to as by many. 

But then the unpleasant feelings resurfaced, that it did not provide me with closure, and the world logic that was waiting for the resolutions ended up falling apart since it simply was too fast, so then once again I do advise you to still watch it in theaters. This movie has been in production for a long time. And that this along with the first movie has only just been able to scratch the surface of the vast potential this story holds. It is beautiful, to say the least. The reason for that is not because of the plot, but just the sheer beauty the movie has. I remember never speaking throughout the film as I was so distracted by its beauty.

In my view, this part is way more fascinating than part 1, it is significantly superior in regard to the cast and setting. The flaws I have do not strike me as paramount so the plot certainly could use work. One aspect that I would really like to add would be:

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