Dune seems to have defeated most directors who dared try turning the epic novel into good cinema. How does Denis Villeneuve fare in the second half of his two-part take on Frank Herbert's book?
Cast into the wilderness of arid planet Arrakis by the invading force of House Harkonnen, young Paul Atreides learns the ways of the desert, embraces his genetic and political destiny, and becomes, in one swoop, a focus for fanaticism and , to David Lynch’s 4-hour-plus farrago, savagely edited prior to its 1984 release into something closer to 2 hours that approached coherence, the industry assumption has been thatis an epic too vast to be easily filmed.
That this is precisely the wrong lesson to draw was perfectly demonstrated by John Harrison’s 2000 mini-series version for the Sci Fi Channel and its sequel,Denis Villeneuve's big-budget remake boasts a stellar cast and spectacular effects, yet the big scenes fail to deliver on the deeper ecological and anti-colonial message of the novel, it uses visual stimulation to hide the gaping holes in its plot.
Leave any one of these elements undeveloped and you’re left with an awful lot of desert to fill with battles, sword play, explosions, crowd scenes and giant sandworms – and here an as-yet-unwritten rule of special effects cinematography comes into play, because I swear that the more those wrigglers cost, the sillier they get. Your ears will ring, your heart will thunder, and by morning the entire experience will have evaporated, like a long fever dream.
As Beast Rabban, Dave Bautista outperforms the rest of the cast to a degree that is embarrassing. The Beast is a Harkonnen, an alpha predator in this grim universe, and yet Bautista is the only actor here capable of portraying fear. Javier Bardem’s desert leader Stilgar is played for laughs .
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