But the movie’s spectacular scale combined with Herbert’s complex mythmaking also creates a not entirely productive tension between stasis and movement. That impulse to linger is understandable given the monumentality of Villeneuve’s world building (and its price tag). The Duke, on orders from the Emperor, is to take charge of the planet, which is home to monstrous sandworms, enigmatic Bedouin-like inhabitants and an addictive, highly valuable resource called spice. With his father, Duke Leto (Oscar Isaac), and his mother, Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), Paul is about to depart for his new home on a desert planet called Arrakis, a.k.a.
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Villeneuve likes to work on a large scale, but has a miniaturist’s attention to fine-grained detail, which fits for a story as equally sweeping and intricate as “ Dune.” Like the novel, the movie is set thousands of years in the future and centers on Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), the scion of a noble family. The result is a future-shock epic that reads like a cautionary tale for our environmentally ravaged world. Inspired by government efforts to keep sand dunes at bay, he dreamed up a desert planet where water was the new petroleum. Herbert had a lot to say - about religion, ecology, the fate of humanity - and drew from an astonishment of sources, from Greek mythology to Indigenous cultures. Published in 1965, Herbert’s book is a beautiful behemoth (my copy runs almost 900 pages) crowded with rulers and rebels, witches and warriors.
The movie is a herculean endeavor from the director Denis Villeneuve (“Arrival”), a starry, sumptuous take on the novel’s first half. But this is “ Dune,” baby, Frank Herbert’s science-fiction opus, which is making another run at global box-office domination even as it heads toward controversy about what it and its messianic protagonist signify. At the brink of a crisis, he navigates a feudalistic world with an evil emperor, noble houses and subjugated peoples, a tale right out of mythology and right at home in George Lucas’s brainpan. In a galaxy far, far away, a young man in a sea of sand faces a foreboding destiny. “Can you imagine the wealth? In your eyes- I need to see it in your eyes. “You don’t really understand the grave nature of what’s happening to us.” But more importantly, I wanted to feel that Josh Brolin’s character was caring about Paul like if he was his own son. We tried to make sure that the audience will understand the nature of this new way of fighting. The goal was to embrace the complexity of the movements with objective camera angles. I see you found the mood.” Cinematographer Greig Fraser and I shot the fight like we will shoot a dance performance.
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It’s a style that involves blocking the opponent’s attack with both a weapon and the free hand. This technique was called balintawak eskrima. He developed the Atreides fighting style borrowing from a martial art technique developed in the ‘50s. Now fight!” That choreography was designed by Roger Yuan. “Guess I’m not in the mood today.” “Mood?” “Mm.” “What’s mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises, no matter the mood. The choreography between Timothée Chalamet, who plays Paul, and Josh Brolin, who plays Gurney Halleck, illustrate that each opponent is trying to distract his adversary by doing very fast moves in order to create an opportunity to insert slowly a blade inside the opponent’s shield. So it means that man to man combat came back to sword fighting. Therefore, bullets or rockets are obsolete. An Holtzman Shield is a technology that protects individuals or vehicles from any fast objects. And four, to introduce the concept of the Holtzman Shields, and how they change the essence of combat.
Three, to induce the idea that Paul Atreides has been training for combat, but has never really experienced real violence. Two, to give more insight about the context in which the Atreides will move to a new planet named Arrakis. First, to establish the nature of the relationship between Paul Atreides and Gurney Halleck.
“Don’t stand with your back to the door!” This scene needed to serve four purposes. My name is Denis Villeneuve and I’m the director of Dune. Transcript ‘Dune’ | Anatomy of a Scene The director Denis Villeneuve narrates a combat training sequence from his film, featuring Timothée Chalamet and Josh Brolin.
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