Insignificant actors and actresses, scenes and dialogues copied from David Lynch’s masterpiece, but above all that child actor, plasmon category, does not convince us at all.
Authored by Frank Herbert Via Dune Book Series
Even Before The Trailer Came Out, We Knew The Dune Remake Would Be A Debacle. Now We Have Confirmation.
The Rulebook Rewrite Has Several Questions And Feedback Requests, Indicating Issues With The Adaptation. Comments On The Youtube Video Also Suggest Disappointment And Concerns About The Remake.
Furthermore, The Previous Film Adaptations Of Dune Have Struggled To Capture The Full Complexity Of The Source Material. The 1984 David Lynch Version Was Too Short And Overwhelming For Audiences Who Hadn’t Read The Book.
Even The More Recent Tv Miniseries Versions Faced Criticism For Being Hard To Follow For General Audiences.
It Seems Clear That Translating The Rich, Intricate World Of Dune To The Screen Is An Immense Challenge. Unfortunately, The Early Signs Point To The Latest Remake Also Failing To Live Up To Fans’ Expectations.
Insuperable Kyle MacLachlan in Dune , 1983
Here’s the first official trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune. Decent trailer, it seems made for a blockbuster.
I’m a bit superstitious after criticizing Blade Runner 2049 but not for the same reasons why I’m summarily criticizing this other Villeneuve film, in that case things like: roles cut off, main actor good for psychiatric drama films , stupid ending. But Dune is different, here that guy touched our affections and family. Dune for us is a divine saga from which we inspire much of our religion.
Dune is something sacred, it is not just a science fiction adventure story.
But let’s get to the characters chosen to interpret this Chorus and Koran of the universe. Zendaya isn’t all that sexy. She looks like she took a frying pan to the face.
She is Paul Atreides’ Fremen concubine, Chani, a Fremen, but Fremen are supposed to be whiter since they live in caves and their secrets.
Stilgar, the leader of the Fremen tribe that Paul stays with after getting lost in the desert, is played by Javier Bardem.
It’s Spanish, but rather Arabic in demeanor, it’s like a coffee bean.
Josh Brolin is Gurney Halleck.
Hmn..you could have chosen better, for example a Japanese one, a Takeshi Kovacs from Altered Carbon would have been ideal.
And I wouldn’t have chosen Jason Momoa for Duncan Idaho
simply because it is well known in the environment that Momoa has pedophile tendencies. Horrible choice then.
The choice of Oscar Isaac to play Duke Leto Atreides is terrible and mediocre. Poor.
But we come to Paul, the Kwisatz Haderach, played by a stupid and childish nerd, Timothee Chalamet. Colorless, tasteless, unsuitable, inconsistent.
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen played by the sublime Kenneth McMillan will hardly be surpassed by the ultra worn blockbuster actor Stellan Skarsgård.
While we still don’t know who Feyd-Rautha is but he wouldn’t change this ruin by now.
Now the average user will not wonder why the director has a slutty mother, the average user is satisfied only by the special effects, not by the introspective, not by the interpretation, not by the faces of the protagonists who they should embody the belief in a film, especially this one.
Stupid, hypocritical, ignoramuses bastards. Would you have had Mike Tyson play The Passion of the Christ?
The depth of the book is not addressed, perhaps due to the director’s fear of losing the clash with David Lynch’s previous masterpiece, sothe fool tried to draw a draw counting on the fact that special effects and computer editing would play to his advantage favor in the titanic undertaking.
A good director would at least decide to release a trailer designed to mislead the public with distortedly edited scenes, just to gain ground in the frantic wait of the fans. Even Hans Zimmer’s arrangement of “Eclipse” by Pink Floyd is totally nothing, irrelevant for the release of a work that should have marked the cinema of this genre in this century.
Seeing the trailer is more or less understanding that Villeneuve went chasing Lynch, a chase with forty years of difference resolved in an attempt to avoid a sensational and disastrous flop.
The shitty communists won’t be interested in the film, and furthermore the release in theaters is scheduled for December, when we will still find it hard to get out of the essential pandemic rules, ergo presumably the film will have to be released on some streaming service, I hope that Netflix sewer, but I have my doubts given that the film is distributed by Warner Brothers, owner of HBO, which is poorly linked to the purchases of those four-cent undertakers, and certainly I will not pay a cent wherever I am into this world in December 2020 to see this announced disappointment.
Crusade??!?!? And not Jihad , the Holy War ? Why ?
