‘Dune: Part Two’ Is a Religious Experience

The brand new film Dune: Part Two, directed by Denis Villeneuve, adapts the second half of Frank Herbert’s traditional novel Dune. Science fiction creator Matthew Kressel was blown away by the movie’s breathtaking visuals.

“I used to be on the sting of my seat for the entire film,” Kressel says in Episode 563 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. “It’s probably the greatest movies I’ve ever seen.”

TV author Andrea Kail, a lifelong Dune fan, calls Dune: Half Two an ideal film. “It was like a spiritual expertise,” she says. “Genuinely. It was awe-inspiring, the way in which you’re feeling in church should you’re very non secular.”

Geek’s Information to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley beloved Dune: Half Two, however warns that Dune purists would possibly want to regulate their expectations. “This film looks like mainly a rewrite of the e-book,” he says. “So most of the scenes I don’t suppose are within the e-book—I don’t bear in mind them. So many issues are modified fairly dramatically. They’re mainly 99-100% good modifications in my view, nevertheless it looks like they made fairly dramatic modifications to the fabric in comparison with the primary film.”

Science fiction creator Rajan Khanna had blended emotions about Dune: Half Two, however is glad that it’s serving to to create extra Dune followers. “It’s thrilling to have sure issues enter the fashionable vernacular that I’ve had in my head for a very long time, stuff about spice and sandworms and issues,” he says. “I’m glad to see stuff like this succeed. Stuff that we love lastly discovering an viewers and being performed effectively is all the time nice.”

Hearken to the whole interview with Matthew Kressel, Andrea Kail, and Rajan Khanna in Episode 563 of Geek’s Information to the Galaxy (above). And take a look at some highlights from the dialogue beneath.

Rajan Khanna on Dune vs. Dune: Half Two:

The primary movie needed to arrange plenty of the language, particularly should you’re not used to Dune, how the world works, how the expertise works, the shields and all that. They have been very cautious within the first movie to point out how the shields labored and the pink meant that one thing was penetrating. So I feel on this movie they received to be like, “You noticed the primary movie, you understand how it really works, now we are able to simply unload it on you,” and I feel that labored to its profit for certain.

Andrea Kail on Paul Atreides and Chani:

Within the e-book it’s extra like, “Oh, he desires about her and it’s future,” however we don’t see them really falling in love. I don’t really feel it. On this we see the love story, we see why they fall in love, and it’s candy and it’s quiet and it’s actual. I perceive why they love one another. That’s one of many components the place I used to be crying, that dune scene the place he’s telling her in regards to the seas on Caladan, the way you swim within the water, and the scene the place she teaches him learn how to sandwalk. It was like watching two youngsters dancing. It was so stunning. I used to be simply tearing up.

Matthew Kressel on sandworms:

The sooner variations, the Lynch version and the Syfy version, after they experience the worms I’m like, “OK, that appears troublesome. It’s like a rock wall in a fitness center. It seems actually laborious however I might in all probability do it.” On this film, I’m like, “No method.” Simply the pace of it and the enormity of it. How do they even see the place they’re going? There’s a lot sand blowing round. I simply thought that was so cool, and the ultimate battle scene the place they’re using the worms into battle they usually’re flying the Atreides banner, and also you’re like, “Holy cow.” I received chills from that.

David Barr Kirtley on movie audiences:

The truth that this appears to have been embraced so fervently by a mass viewers simply to me is such an encouraging signal you can make a giant finances, critical science fiction film, and never should dumb it down, and never should make it a “crowd pleaser.” So I feel folks have perhaps not been giving audiences sufficient credit score, that individuals will go to see this kind of film, even when it’s three hours lengthy and has a downer ending and the whole lot, if it’s good. In order that’s simply another excuse I really like this film and the phenomenon of this film.

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