Mr. Tea
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Dune
Clinamenic
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Smooth.
Mr. Tea
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Have to say I think I prefer Francesca Annis in the Lynch version.
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Yes, she's the best. But she wasn't the only reason I liked Dune so much. The spaceships! The carpeted ramp! The worm teeth! And the bagpipes were a masterstroke, proper Anglo-futurist pageantry.
Anyone seen the latest Bond? It's dull in large parts, but not the parts Ana de Armas as Paloma is in. For the dads.
Mr. Tea
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Ewww. Not in the book, as I recall, or the older film.
Clinamenic
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Maybe Villeneuve has solved the problem of space-time.
IdleRich
IdleRich
I don't completely agree but there are some things that people (including me no doubt) have complained about in the film but which are in the book and are integral to it - if you don't like them it's not that he's adapted them badly, the problem is that you don't like Dune - or that aspect of it at least.
Don't ask me for any examples of this though please.
Mr. Tea
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Is it possible these bits have just not happened yet, since it's only the first film of two? For example, apparently in Part 1 there's only one Harkonnen nephew, and it's unclear whether Villeneuve has axed one of them (or sort of combined them into one character), or whether the second one will be introduced in Part 2.
(That said, it would be fairly unusual not to introduce an important character in the first part, I suppose...)
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Mr. Tea
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Oh right, I getcha.
Only things I can think of are some bad expository dialogue, like the Baron Harkonnen introducing himself by his full name to his own nephew in the first scene he appears in, just so we know who he is, although a scriptwriter doesn't have to stick to that, of course.
Mr. Tea
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@WashYourHands is about to declare galactic jihad on his sassenach ass for using 'anglo' in the same sentence as 'bagpipes'.
You telling me Scotland isn't in the Anglosphere?
Mr. Tea
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You're just making it worse for yourself. He's probably woading up as we speak.
Mr. Tea
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Actually, speaking of bagpipes, I had a cool experience a few years ago when I was in Amman in December for a mate's wedding. We were mooching around the city and we walked past the Greek Catholic cathedral, and in the grounds there were some young, fashionably dressed Jordanians - playing bagpipes! Apparently it's a big part of the Christmas celebrations that the Christian community there holds in the cathedral. I think the bagpipes became a feature of the Christian culture there because there were Scottish regiments stationed there during the British protectorate, but the irony is that bagpipes come from that part of the world in the first place. The Assyrians pioneered them as a war instrument, I believe.