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The girls, Hayley and Stella, are reacting to Dune: is this a Sci-fi Masterpiece?? This incredible film, based of the book by Frank Herbert, and starring Timothée Chalamet (Paul Atreides), Zendaya (Chani), Rebecca Ferguson (Lady Jessica), Oscar Isaac (Duke Leto Atreides),
Jason Momoa (Duncan Idaho), Javier Bardem (Stilgar), Josh Brolin (Gurney Halleck) and so many more! Enjoy this first time watching Dune part 1 reaction to sci-fi movies!
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What other books do you think should be adapted to the screen??
So many to choose but while not Science Fiction I would love to see an adaptation of _The Girl who Drank the Moon_ (animated or live-action), _The Thief Lord_ (although we did had a film based on it 15-16 years ago), _Cam Jansen_ along with _The Twits_ by Roald Dahl
My greatest wish is that Denis Villenueve, preferably, would do a remake/new film version of Kurt Vonnegut's book, "Slaughterhouse-Five", an amazing WWII/time-travel sci-fi/historic masterpiece, and the film from the '70's didn't fully do it justice. In addition to the sci-fi elements that could be vastly improved upon, the ability to realistically recreate the U.S. firebombing and destruction of the German city of Dresden, which was almost akin to dropping the atomic bombs, could end up being a scene that would be talked about for years (especially given that a lot of people don't really even know about it). There are certainly a few other directors I think could pull it off, but my top choice would be Denis, for sure.
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Did the girls have the same response to the ending of Across The Universe?
Star Wars was inspired by Dune. The book is an absolute masterpiece. This movie does it justice.
Dune was the inspiration of so many works! Star Wars is a “Western-style” rip-off of Dune, acknowledged by George Lucas.
@@MrSinnerBOFH Star Wars was heavily influenced by not just Dune but also Arthurian Mythology, Philosophy, World History and especially George Lucas’ love of _Buck Rogers, Valerian, John Carter, Westerns_ and the film’s by Akira Kurosawa that helped us get Star Wars.
I also think that _John Carter_ was another influential Science Fiction book that was an inspiration for most Science Fiction work (e.g. Star Wars, AVATAR) work not just _Dune._
i was so surprized with how good his sons books were at continuing the mythos as well.
When I heard Denis V was directing Dune, I believed it was in good hands!
@wackyvorlon i have to second you, this movie does it justice. ;)
"Feels like Star Wars meets Game of Thrones" ...both of which were heavily influenced by Dune, as was Avatar.
Basically without Dune we wouldn’t be getting _Star Wars_ and _Game of Thrones_ although with Star Wars it was heavily influenced by not just Dune but also George Lucas’ love of _Buck Rogers, Valerian, John Carter, Westerns_ and the film’s by Akira Kurosawa that helped us get Star Wars.
Avatar wasn’t mostly inspired by Dune but does have elements of John Carter and John Carter was also another influential Science Fiction that got us the Science Fiction works we got, not just Dune.
Yeah and while there's a lot of similarity to Game Of Thrones on the surface (stubborn good house vs villainous house vs royal house), the reactors touched on even more in that they're both like a history, in both cases like a history that's trying to give you the "real story" behind something that's passed into legend. Sometimes I wish in both cases someone would come out with the legend version of both (with evil imp Tyrion or wise prophet Paul).
@@EChaconyou're absolutely right
lol. Except it doesn't have a very bad and disappointing ending...
@@mss11235 What's wrong with it? As movies nowadays animated movies wash them out of the water...
I know this is a relatively dense movie but I think it answers most of your questions. It can be hard to react to though because you guys missed a few things while discussing a previous scene or a hypothetical, there isn't a moment of wasted dialogue
Stella talks way too much, and although astute at times, many of her words are variations on "I don't know what's going on" WHILE things ARE going on.
Yeah, they annoyed the hell outta me in this reaction.
They spend so much time _reacting_ to the movie that they never actually get to _watch_ the movie.
@@fredkrissman6527 It's got to be such a tough balance doing a reaction to such a densely packed movie, there are no spaces to speak, but if not , you'd have the reactors silently staring at the camera for 2 hours, so I can't criticize.
@@jrobertlysaght In the "Far Future" they develop a device called....... The Pause Button....... Would be helpful in this situation........
Duncan found them so easily in the desert because Dr. Yue stashed a tracker in the pack he prepared. Duncan just followed the tracker.
That "what are the odds?" moment was very annoying.
lmao, they even left in the second where Paul reads out the note from Dr Yuei, saying that they'd be found. These guys xD
Same with them questioning Paul's visions and wondering why they didn't come true when they even leave in the part where he tells the bene geserit leader they don't always come true.
They seemed more interested in filling out their "Spot-the-Actor Bingo Card" than actually watching the movie.
Yeah, honestly these girls really don’t have a whole lot of substance to them. There are much better female reactors out there.
The Baron survived the poison because he was wearing a shield. The shield allows air through but at a slow rate and the Baron was able to back away before a lethal amount of the gas was able to pass through.
Jessica was the Duke's concubine because marriage is reserved for political purposes.
Some do marry for love, but he wanted to keep the option open.
As well as the shield, he had his "floaty" suspensor suit so he escaped up to the ceiling (where I guess there was some fresh air) hence the girls confusion about what / who that was as it cuts away so quickly from the Baron.
@@WithTwoFlakesThese two are often confused by the simplest details.
You can also adjust the shield so that nothing gets in but you would suffocate.
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When my cousin gave me the book Dune to read in 1970, he said the following SPOILERS to put into context or perspective: the Imperial Sardaukar troops were the most feared soldiers in the empire. They have never lost a battle or even lost a man… until they met the Fremen. This was ‘earth-shattering’ to their psyche. Duncan Idaho (Jason Momoa) lived with the Fremen and killed dozens of Sardaukar before he was killed.
The same with the Fremen. They were THE best fighters, even better than the Sardaukar. Jamis was one their best warriors. It came as a severe shock to the Fremen to see him bested several times by the boy Paul!
To take a life, to kill, a part of you dies. That was Paul’s vision. He tried coming up with different scenarios and was killed by Jamis each time. There was no other choice. He did not want to, but he had to kill Jamis. In a way, Paul’s ‘innocence’ died when he killed Jamis.
Duncan Idaho was a Ginaz swordmaster so he outclassed any Sadukar soldier 1v1. But the Sadukar soldiers are equivalent to mid to higher scaled swordsman so compared to the vast majority of troops they are among the highest.
Where did you read that they've never lost a man prior to meeting the Fremen? It is not true. Never seen that and it doesn't make sense in the universe. These people aren't that unrealistic.
Jamis was skilled, but I remember no mention of him being among the best. The best become leaders, like Stilgar. He's not meant to be an example of the best these people have to offer, I think he's the opposite. He's about average for a solid Fremen, showing that while Paul is capable of taking care of him, even an average Fremen is still a challenge.
@@pseudonymousbeing987 In the books he was described as a skilled warrior and a good dad but too hot headed to be a good leader.
The last vision was metaphorical. Paul, who was innocent and had never taken another person's life, had to "Die", to leave the old life behind and embrace the new. By forcing Paul to kill, Jamis "killed" Paul's innocence and who he was and paved the way for who Paul is to become. The Dune series is heavy with politics, religion, and the like. It's a dense series with many factions.
Nope. He doesn’t get metaphorical visions. He sees many possibilities of how the future could go.
These people complain that the movie isn't like every other blockbuster so that's the problem with our society they just want the same stuff. They should stop talking all through the dialogue
@@travisgray8376 complain? From what I could tell the girls really liked it. It was just fairly confusing. It is a very hard movie to understand if you haven’t read the book.
@@travisgray8376Stories which stick too tightly to well-worn tropes are predictable and boring and tired, although they can also be cheap entertainment and fun.
But stories that move too far away from the storytelling language that people are familiar with are stories that require a lot of work to follow and understand, possibly too much work. Put in the work, and you maybe get a big payoff, but if you are looking for lighter entertainment, the high-work stories are too much work for you, at that time. Or if you just aren't used to being challenged with storytelling that doesn't follow the very predictable paths.
This movie, on its own and forced to be standalone without previous versions of the movie, or the book, fails to explain so much that it is incomprehensible. For example, we who have read the books, know what the Bene Gesserit believe is coming and what they are trying to achieve. But this movie actually explains less than 1% of that, so what is the audience to make of the Bene Gesserit? Or the Mentats? Or even something as astonishingly simple as why the Duke did not marry Lady Jessica?
I've read the books. I think this is an amazing adaptation of the book. But as a standalone movie, I really don't think I would recommend it to anyone.
@Jabberwocky415 I get your point but not in this case. The way these scenes are shot, almost all of Paul's visions are metaphorical. We can even go down the list of the major ones. Jamis did help Paul learn the ways of the desert. The amtal is his test, pass and join the Fremen, or fail and they drink your water, so to speak. Paul's multiple vision deaths is his transformation from an innocent into a man/on the path to becoming the One. By luring Paul in his visions Chani is the gateway by which he dies to become reborn into his new self. And the voice saying when he takes a life he kills his innocence. This is all very well worn territory of "the hero's journey" in mythology, Denis alludes to this as the framework used to tell this story. It's also one of the reasons why this version of Dune is so spot on, showing vs. only telling (like so many other movies do, ahem 1984) provides such a richer experience with which to convey the contexts and details of a story.
One thing that's important to note about Dune is that it's all about human evolution. All the characters; all the different factions - they're all human. There are no aliens in the story. Even the Guild Navigators are humans that have taken spice for a long enough time that they've evolved into unrecognisable forms.
There's also no robots or AI of any kind, since they were outlawed thousands of years before
@@weldonwin The Ixians might disagree..
@@Terandula The Ixians kind of ride the line there, which is what makes people more than a little twitchy about them
Paul's visions allow him to see more than one possible future and he can navigate them by the choices he makes, bringing about the outcome he desires. This is why he sees futures wherein he and Jamis are friends and others where they are enemies. The future isn't written in stone.
One of the best films to experience in IMAX. Sucks that Dune: Part Two got delayed to next year, but considering the strikes, I guess it wasn’t too surprising. Hopefully the wait will be worth it.
The strikes didn’t really effect the release at all. If they were already planning to release this year, the writing has been long done since like 2021 probably. Just a stunt from the production execs to stall paychecks to writers and such to force negotiations.
The movie was already completed before the strike took place. It was originally supposed to release in November but the release date was affected by other films that were affected by the strike.
Fun in the Dune universe typically involves assassination attempts, fights to the death, holy wars and worm riding!
And orgies!
They talked during the whole time when things are told what they are, and when something happens they say what is what. When i watched this film i did not know anything about DUNE but i understood everything because i think they did a really good job of explaining everything. You will not understand if you don't pay attention.
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the curse of having to create content, they gotta talk
I laughed out loud at so many parts of this. There was one bit where they didn't know the action was taking place on Caladan, when there was literally a title-card telling the audience that the action was on Caladan. That, and the movie hadn't even played for 10 minutes and they were already asking for backstory...which was during the backstory part of the movie.
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What I like about the Dune universe is that it is not technological sci-fi but more about human abilities.
Yes, exactly!!! That’s why I love it too! The abilities possessed by the Bene Gesserit, the Mentats, the Fremen etc are all in the realm of possibility. Right now there are humans who can calculate massively complex numbers in their brain like a Mentat. There are people so gifted at reading humans they can do amazing things using the power of suggestion like when the Bene Genesrit use The Voice and there are tribes of people who have evolved to not just survive but thrive in the harshest conditions on the planet like the Fremen. Who’s to say in a thousand plus years, humans won’t have evolved to nurture these talents to the nth degree?
Too right. Even the cockpit controls of the ornithopters are so 'primitive' a Vietnam-era Huey looks like a technological marvel. The religious ban on high technology creates a far more interesting focus on human capacities to work 'magic'.
I believe this is set closer to 30,000 years in Earth's future. They have banned computers because of the war fought against AI machines.
"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind".. from the Butlerian Jihad. It's been a while since I read the books but there's cultures which do meddle with advanced biotechnology, the Tleilaxu and the ixians and they're both treated as problematic. I hope the movies make it that far into the story, (spoiler alert) we know Duncan is coming back, right? Like Stella said, he's the MVP..
@@wanderinstar8838 Not in Part 2 for next year. I hope Villeneuve has backing to make Dune Messiah where the ghola of Duncan Idaho makes as come back. Then, Children of Dune is a MUST HAPPEN.
Every single question this girls ask during the video, are literally answer by the movie one minute before they ask. 😂
A lot of the questions you asked during the reaction are answered in the movie, either shortly before or after you asked them. I know it's a lot to take in and things get missed, but upon rewatching I think you will hear the answers. A well written movie explains things to the audience clearly but usually only once so you have to be listening and this is very well written.
Well, they were jkoking about Paul, hurhur his name is Paul, and talking over every cool scene or dialogue. I didn't count the time Stella said: im not following, should I understand this? I don't know, you can watch the movie and understand it, is not that hard at the end. At one point they didn't even know Arrakis was a different planet and they were in their origin planet. That's not the movie, that's lack of attention. I usually love their reactions but in this one, I was a bit pissed off by their attitude. Since the start it seems they didn't want to understand the movie. Just look at Stella, with her arm in one side of the head, like she is bored.
@@bikko3089 So true! I went into this movie absolutely clueless just as a Villeneuve fan but once the movie started I paid attention to what was happening on screening and it wasn't too hard to follow. Came out of the movie interested enough in the world that II am now on book two.
These two were uncharacteristically lost. Some of their confusion would have been resolved had they actually listened to the characters. The text in the movie literally says the Sardaukar are the imperial army and they still had no idea. A shame.
@@bikko3089literally says they're on caladan on screen too lmao. And the whole thing about the visions not coming true when Paul straight up says they don't always come true. His vision about Duncan comes true but others dont just like he said but they're too busy joking around and not paying attention.
The book is a masterpiece. This movie is a masterpiece. The soundtrack is a masterpiece.
I heard Paul's visions described as kind of like swimming through the waves on the ocean. As you come up to the top of a wave, you can see ahead, and depending on what you see impacts what direction to try to swim.
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Or, you know, like being in a desert surrounded by giant sand dunes...
Went to see this in Imax with friends who had read the books. Went in blind with no idea about the Dune Universe.
When the "Dreams are Messages from The Deep" and whenever The Voice was used it shook the whole cinema and frightened the hell out of everyone.
It was awe-inspiring.
Yeah, I had tried to read the book as a teenager and just couldn't lock into it. And I only saw chunks of the David Lynch version of the film (although I think he's pretty much disowned it at this point anyway), so I didn't know and/or remember much going in and I was just blown away by every second of it. Denis has described Part 1 as being the appetizer to Part 2's main course, and with the new additions to the cast and all the upcoming battles, I can't freakin' wait.
I presume they came out far more satisfied than you then!?
@@heyheyjk-la Parts of the Lynch "Dune" are very good. Unfortunately it doesn't flow very well and it was edited down so hard you had to have read the books to follow the plot. The "new content" section, the psychically activated weapons, was co-written by Frank Herbert specifically for the movie - one of my favourite parts.
You could feel The Voice in your bones. It was... something else.
One of the best films to experience in IMAX, up there with Interstellar, Blade Runner 2049, Mad Max: Fury Road, etc. I'm sad the second part got delayed; it was one of my most anticipated movies of the year, but judging by the trailers, it looks even better, so I hope it's worth the wait. This is a great movie with great acting scenes, amazing cinematography, a great score, great storytelling, great writing, etc.
Edit: And I am sorry; I don't want to be rude, but yall talked so much in this reaction in so many important dialogues, and I don't know why the storytelling went over y'all's heads, and that's why you guys were lost. If you don't pay attention to this movie, you won't understand what is happening because everything that needs to be explained is explained perfectly. I never read the books, I didn't watch the first movies, and I understood this film perfectly. Everything y'all asked "What planet is this? "They haven't shown spice, right?", "How did he live?" “What are the odds?” etc., was shown or explained, and y'all didn't understand anything. 1. After the title screen, they showed you that Caladan is the planet of House Atreidis. 2. They literally show spice in the beginning with Zendaya's speech, "You can see spice in the air," and they show it later too. 3. How did the baron live? They literally show you that he activated his shield, and he has his antigravity device, which he used to escape the air. 4. "What are the odds? Jesus…Duncan found them so easily in the desert because Dr. Yue stashed a tracker in the pack he prepared for Paul. Duncan just followed the tracker. Rewatch the movie and pay attention, because you all missed so much.
And I disagree completely that nothing happened in this movie. Like I said, y'all missed so much.
I thought the ending was perfect. Even though it's just half the story, I think Denis and the writing team still did a very good job at making the movie feel whole. You can even break down the film to see that it still follows a general 3-part narrative structure:
Setup: The Baron Harkonnen and the Emperor (off-screen) conspire to destroy the Atreides. The Atreides arrive on Arrakis and take control. Suspecting a trap, Duke Leto proposes an alliance with the Fremen. Paul learns about surviving in Arrakis (both the political environment and the physical environment) and is established as the potential Kwisatz Haderach or Lisan Al Gaib and future leader of his House.
Conflict: the Atreides are ambushed by the combined forces of the Harkonnens and the Emperor's Imperial army. Paul and Jessica flee into the desert, where their survival skills are now put to the test. Along the way, Paul struggles with himself when he learns a massive thing about himself: his role in the oncoming jihad he foresaw during the vision in the tent, giving a completely new facet to that Kwisatz Haderach possibility.
Resolution (not to the whole story but to what was set up in the beginning of the film at least): Paul and Jessica find the Fremen. Paul succeeds in proving his worth to them as a fighter, leader, survivor/Lisan Al Gaib, and by joining them, he fulfills his late father's vision of making this alliance with the Fremen. Paul even said this out loud to them. Even his last line in the movie, literally "desert power," was a direct callback to what his father told him earlier.
So not only did the movie end with the perfect setup for Paul's revenge in Part 2, with the shot of the worm rider and Paul and his new allies walking forward into the horizon, but it also brought back a lot of things that were laid out at the beginning of the film. It's a great movie (8.5/10), and a lot happened in the film.
Couldn't agree more.
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Sometimes it’s really hard for me to watch reactions to movies and shows I like for this exact reason lol I couldn’t finish this one in one sitting because I was also getting frustrated. Like some reactors feel like they have to react to every single thing on the screen like “oh look at that I don’t get it” instead of just watching and finding out. It’s like watching a movie with my mom 🙃
@@sarahkrig6375 I feel you; I hate it too. I had to stop watching it multiple times because it was very frustrating. I hate when reactors see a good actor and start talking about him or say, "I know him; where do I know him? And starts thinking about where they know him, missing the dialogue, or talking about unrelated stuff that has nothing to do with what they are watching. It's very frustrating. That's why I don't follow many reacting channels because there are so many that either the reactors are too dumb and everything in the storytelling goes over their heads, or they talk over every dialogue, or they talk looking at the camera and missing what they are watching or eating, or watch a lot of mediocre content, etc. I am very picky with reacting channels.
They'd be pretty boring reactors if they didn't chat about stuff, and since they don't already know the movie, they don't know when it's okay to talk, and when they're going to be missing stuff. And a movie like Dune, which is very dense with information, is bound to be particularly challenging in this regard. Reacting to a movie necessarily makes it a more casual watch, which makes it a lot more likely things are going to be missed. And even with a more focused viewing, if you went into this blind and still followed all the nuances and names, you're probably doing significantly better than I would in your shoes (of course, I'm admittedly pretty awful with names). I'm not saying that I'd be lost, but I expect I'd be going by the gist of things in a number of areas.
Stella has actually hit on Herbert's intent in that she sees Paul as being a messianic figure.
Book number two is literally - Dune Messiah
yes but at the same time herbert wanted to say people shouldn't trust messiahs
@@cranberrybe, very much so. This story is also a deconstruction of the "great White Savior" trope and how that has been (over)used in fiction.
While at the same time having an anti-messianic message. It becomes more clear in the third book, how tragic a figure Paul is.
It's a subversion of the messiah trope.
The story is pretty dense, very centered around themes of authority, fanaticism, belief, and the actions of "great persons" and "great powers" and their consequences on a galactic scale. You're right on the money with the points about Paul feeling like a religious figure, and the story feeling like some fever dream, or a historical retelling of a legend or revolutionary war. One of the words commonly used to describe the book is that it feels "psychodelic" at parts.
Just keep in mind that this is only half of the first book :P The payoff is more in Part 2 (and beyond) when those come out.
The second book is called Dune Messiah, which reinforces the religious theme. Villeneuve plans to make it into a movie as well, creating a trilogy. I’m incredibly excited for this.
A masterpiece of a movie that doesn't hold your hand all the way through it like most modern movies do
Yep, which is why the moviegoer who is content with a steady diet of crappy modern movies is totally lost, as seen here.
"This is the opposite of every other narrative." You're SO right! Usually the protagonist is an orphan with no support system and is unknowingly "the chosen one". Paul has a wise and loving father, a strong and protective mother, a caring older brother figure, and a tough but involved teacher. He is totally set up for success... then loses almost all of them in a single night. Paul has to take what he's been given and make his own decisions.
I would say, in my opinion, Dune is to Sci-Fi what Tolkein's Middle Earth is to Fantasy. It makes me so happy Dune is finally getting the attention it deserves.
People with any genre literacy at all have always given Dune plenty of attention. Because, yeah, it's foundational. References to Dune have shown up everywhere, across all of human culture, ever since. Those who know, know.
tolkien copies his books from lovecraft
@@lufasumafalu5069 No, norse mythology.
“I recognize your footsteps, old man.” is one of my favourite lines from this movie.
I love the parallel between whether he’s talking about Gurney or the ancient giant of a sandworm, as if he knows his destiny already. And, well… judging from his ability to see multiple futures…
To clarify on your comment, the sandworm is known to the Fremen as "the old man in the desert". They see the worms as the physical embodiment of their deity, and they have several names for that deity, some in the form of "old man" or "old grandfather". So Paul's prescience is seeing ahead to a time when he too will know the sandworm as Shai-Hulud. And it's even possible he's encountered that very same sandworm in the future, maybe many times, in many places. So he's recognizing a future memory of that old man.
@@fakecubed oh damn, that’s actually really cool that the Fremen call them/him that. I need to read the books lol
@@fakecubed also a really good subtle bit of foreshadowing, fkn love Denis and his team
@@TransitOfMarsOfficial Oh! I thought you had and was alluding to the full double meaning of that line. Yeah, you should definitely read the books. This was a great adaptation of the first half of the first one, but films will never be able to do these stories justice. There’s so much world building, so much internal monologuing, and so many scenes and characters that will inevitably get cut or get less screen time than they deserve. A high budget TV show like Game of Thrones would do better. But the books will always have more depth.
as far as I know, with the Dune series, Frank Herbert wrote a series of stories that took place much further in the future than anyone else. the story starts in the year 10,191, but that's not A.D., it's A.G. (After Guild). after the formation of the Spacing Guild, which was formed in 10,000 A.D.. so the year is actually 20,191 A.D. by our calendar!
The exact meaning of A.G. and how that translates to our calendar was not something Frank Herbert came up with. That came from later works from his son. But yeah, it does take place in the very distant future.
The task you gave yourself was to put out entertaining reaction videos. At some level, that's always on your mind. Long silences can feel like you aren't "working" for the audience. As a result, you're watching movies at a surface level. There's NOTHING wrong with that. In fact I encourage that with most summer blockbusters so you don't just get annoyed at stupid they are. MOST modern movies cater to that, they ask nothing of the viewer beyond "pay the ticket and sit still while we spoon feed you the story." Villineuve doesn't dumb down his art for a TikTok audience (not that you necessarily are that), he doesn't pound information into your head while screaming THIS WILL BE IMPORTANT. You have to actively watch his films. MOST of the questions you had during watching this are answered in the film.
Visions of the future are simply glimpses of possibilities. They are not set in stone. Every decision made changes the future. In this portion of the story, Paul can sense when parts of his visions are certain, and when they are more fluid. The movie plays visions, and memories of previously had visions, with a more saturated color palette than "real life." Otherwise, Villineuve doesn't say "This is a vision" or "This is real." I hope you do re-watch it. This film is so rewarding upon re-watch. I've read the book probably 20 times and it's the same way. Good luck with your channel!
Yeah, tbh I was a bit let down by their reaction. I get that this can be a difficult film for people who aren't used to complex plots and worlds but damn, they didn't get anything apart from that the thumper was to attract a worm.
I think you really nailed it with this comment while being respectful to both of the girls.
Dune is dense and it’s not a movie ideal for producing a reaction video because you really need to pay attention to the details.
I do think they both were very accurate with a lot of their analysis though, stylistically, scale, etc. they both recognized and understand why people like and appreciate this film. It’s just maybe not their cup of tea, which is understandable because many people do not care for movies with this much exposition and world building!
Some plot lines of this movie:
Universe: many feudal houses
Emperor: simply one of them because sardaukars are so OP
Duke Atreides: has support of many other feudal houses because he is such a good guy
Emperor: is worried about Leto Atreides and wants to remove him; but he cannot do this openly because other houses will rebel against him. So he lures House Atreides to the Dune.
Duke Atreides: knowingly steps into a trap because the Fremen are secretly also OP
Baron Harkonnen: has vendetta against Atreides and ready to do the dirty work for the Emperor. Also has plans to overthrow the Emperor... if the opportunity will arise.
Emperor: sends sardaukars undercover to help Harkonnens to eliminate Atreides
Paul Atreides: survives the slaughter, finds refuge among the Fremen and, obviously, starts a partisan war
Meanwhile...
Bene Gesserit: being doing some shady genetic program for centuries by being top-tier geishas
Jessica: was supposed to seduce Duke and give birth to a daughter, but has fallen in love with him and gave him a successor
Paul: variable, unexpected by Bene Gesserit; might be the One who they were trying to breed
Fremen: have their own religion coming from Islam and heavily influenced by Bene Gesserit. But maybe their beliefs are not just fairy tales...
A good summary, but a slight modification: the Bene Gesserit breeding program went back 10,000 years.
its stated the sardaukars are not that good technically meaning they are not good swordsmen in general they are just brutal and have a dangerious life style which makes them tough and as such deadly. same with the fremen, who are not good but deadly
There's also the whole long-style plan to 'green' Arrakis back to the way it was before the worms were introduced to create the spice and put the whole universe under Navigator control.
Kynes was instructed by an earlier Emperor (believed murdered by his son with chaumurky given to him by Count Fenring), his son Kynes (daughter in this version) continued the work, and now she's dead (due to Paul delaying and wasting the time Duncan bought for him to escape), and her daughter Chani has inexplicably not killed Paul for that, the future of Arrakis has fallen into the hands of a HERO, which the Kynes family dreaded.
Dune is fascinating in that it takes place in the far future but has the feeling of ancient history. I reccomend reading the book!
Talking about the books and the lore. I love the fact that Frank Herbert actually has a reason that in the unimaginably distant future, humans have reverted to a Feudalist society that has no computers. Just from a world building perspective, it's brilliant.
As I recall the story takes place about 20,000 years in the future. The year 10,191 given in the movie is the date based on the formation of the spacing guild.
Yeah, this is supposed to be the future of our human race on this planet instead of a purely fantastical group of humans. That’s why some names sound more familiar. House Atreides supposedly can trace their lineage back to the Roman Empire.
Sci-fi is a reflection of ourselves, and the what-ifs. Just like long ago in a galaxy far away (whatever) "is fascinating in that it takes place in the far past but has the feeling of ancient history"... It's just an excuse to explore and bring to life interesting ideas, in art form; it's never a thesis of what we will become, or what was.
We can be served that discrepancy between projected times and our actual past all_the_time! All I'm leaving you with is that there is so much more meat to discover, and feast upon tastier flesh, that this single example "Dune Pt.1" will seem just a noteworthy addition to the vastness that is the cinematographic world.
Be curious, explore, ..., enjoy.
Stella: "I don't trust magic, I trust in people
ALSO STELLA: WHY DO WE TRUST STRANGE PEOPLE
I hope Villeneuve gets to direct RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA
Because there's no one better than him for the job
#DenisVilleneuve4RendezvousWithRama
Eh, I hope he'd rather do almost anything else by Clarke.
True, but... it wouldn't be a commercial success, though. Too few action-scenes. It's a pity to say, but seen the fact there are already now some people claiming Dune was "boring", Rendezvous with Rama would get that a tenfold. Would be cool if it was done, though, even as an artistic movie by Villeneuve.
@@AniMageNeBy:
Villeneuve wouldn't find it hard to put in as many "action" scenes as in Arrival; action doesn't have to mean people shooting at each other.
@@hoon_sol Well, you know how it goes with the current crop of young movie-watchers. If there isn't an explosion every 5 minutes Michael Bay style, they think it's boring.
@@AniMageNeBy:
I literally just proved that idiotic nonsense wrong. Arrival was a massive success, and didn't rely on anything like that. Also, there are tons of other successful films that don't rely on anything like that either. Sounds like you're talking out of your ass.
Isn’t this video a reupload? Because I remember it was supposed to be uploaded back in July according to Patreon before Stella and Hailey reacted to Terminator but I had a hunch it was taken down due to copyright so this is a reupload but edited to make sure it doesn’t get taken down again.
No. It had gotten delayed, but was never removed from UA-cam. It has never been posted here at all
@@whitenoisereacts Thanks for the clarification, it’s just like I said the Girls reaction to _Dune_ was on Patreon back in July and usually next week’s reaction tend to be uploaded a week before arriving on UA-cam. So it feels unusual that this reaction was delayed for two months.
Also I noticed you uploaded Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters on Patreon but hasn’t been uploaded to UA-cam.
Ok
A dozen scenes establish the harkonnen/emperor alliance to attack the atreides. "Whose ships are these?!" The diamond symbol is from Dr Yueh, showing where he helped them. Including placing a beacon in their supplies so Duncan could find them, so the odds of that were 100%. It's ok not to like this or for it to not have lived up to the hype you experienced before watching. The book is exactly the same way. This story doesn't hold your hand the way most fiction does, it throws out names and terminology and references and does not explain them. You have to figure them out over time based on context clues and other scenes.
Frank Herbert's writing style is deffinatly an aquired taste but man his universe is far out and deep
A masterclass in filmmaking on every level. All rumors lead to the fact that part 2 might blow part 1 out of the water. It actually makes me sad that you had to experience this film for the first time on, I'm guessing, a computer (I mean, I feel that way about a lot of films reacters watch). This is one of those films that was made for, and deserves to be seen on, the biggest screen possible and reactions be damned. Hoping they rerelease part 1 in IMAX (I hear that's the plan, especially with the release being pushed) so I can see both films on that giant screen and with Hans Zimmer's score blasting out of a killer sound system. It's pretty close to a religious experience, for real.
Villeneuve is incredibly overrated.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017Yeah we clearly don't share that opinion. Bye.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 i gotta agree. dont like any of his movies.
I have hated some of his movies and loved others. Personally the books are so close to my heart that I would see this in IMAX again without question just because I love the story. I am hoping that when 2 comes out I can watch this again and then go straight into a showing of the second.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 - Um, sure. You go right ahead and believe that. His almost perfect filmography says otherwise.
Someone told me to expect this to be like a full length prequel instead of a typical movie. Helped set my expectations to enjoy the world building and not lots of plot progression
Yes it did feel like world building, and with the knowledge of the huge library of books by Herbert and his son's work, I know that another movie is in the works
Its definitely a movie worth a second undistracted watch. The books are amazing
50:04 Funny story: pretty much every chapter of Dune the book actually starts with an epigraph taken from Princess Irulan's history of Paul, which she writes in the years following the events of the book. You'll meet her in Dune: Part 2. So yes, the feeling you're describing is intentional.
Duncan is a Swordmaster, kinda a Knight . The swordmaster school was formed in the war against the machines. They were trained to fight hand to hand against the Ai's combat drones. To have one in the service of your house is a honor and Duncan is the best Swordsmaster of his time.
This sounds absolutely awful and it probably comes from a Brian Herbert's book.
@@PasserMontanus So why do you think most of the schools and groups where formed????? The navigator guild was created just to mutate humans???? The Mentats just because computers are not cool enough?? Almost everything about the cultures and factions of Dune is about anti AI or andvanced computer tech. If you were caught with a current Iphone in that universe it is a death sentence.
First, visions are not concrete. They can change depending on outside influence. It’s just one version of what might be.
Second, this is why the novel has been broken into two parts. The first movie in the 80s tried to cram the entire novel into one movie. And as you guys found out, this is a very complex story. Trying to condense this book into one movie, in two or three hours, is impossible. You can’t do it justice. This is why they split the movie into two parts. 1/2 of the book in the last half of the book .
A lot of this part was a lot of character building. This is why it seemed a tiny bit slow in regards to lots of action and events.
The next film is going to be a lot more intense.
In the book, Paul sees a terrain of possible futures. It also means that this terrain has hills and valleys, so some future events can be seen from far off, others are hidden in valleys and he doesn’t know what will happen. The time he kills Jamis is in one of these valleys.
Paul is literally asked explicitly if his visions come true "exactly" as he sees them, and he replies "not exactly"; I don't get why it's so hard for people to listen to the actual dialogue.
@@hoon_sol True enough, Stella kept saying I don't understand and I'm like it's because you're not actually watching or listening. I love these two, along with James and Nobu, but Dune isn't a film you should talk over a lot.
"Everybody has a really cool name, and he's just Paul 😂!"
Everybody named Paul: ...
Well if you are the kind of people that think that most of Adam Sandler movies are master pieces or if your favorite movies are all stereotypical romantic comedies then this movie is not for you. This movie is awesome and the novel is based on is even more awesome.
In fact the novel is more dense and rich in its construction so it is almost impossible to make a good adaptation but somehow they did it here. The movie construct a really wonderful universe and they do it in a way that is really easy for the audience to follow up. So if you feel lost or if you feel that you are not getting what is happening I don’t know what to tell you.
Stick with you awkward comedies and harmless dramas.😀
The Dune series of book are my favorite of all time. With that said, yeah it's a lot to take in. It's been considered "unfilmable" until now simply because of the deep, rich and intense world building and lore involved. I would normally try to explain and update the things that you may have missed, not understood or even things they couldn't cover. I can't even try to do that here. There are elements of the backstory that need so much setup you could, and people have, written entire series of books about them. I feel like this is ALMOST too much if you haven't read and really taken in, at least, the original series.
And no, even the books aren't "fun". This story, regardless of the medium, requires effort on the part of the audience. I won't call that good or bad just that it's a very specific thing. I personally have loved this story for most of my life and it's helped shaped me as a person. But, if you go into this blind, I can see why people would be confused and maybe a little put off.
I tend to agree. I’ve never read the books, but have read fantasy & sci-fi since I was around 10 years old & I think that experience helped me to understand the film.
I agree, I still haven't read the book, but decided to watch it anyway and it was almost too much in the first part of the movie, so I just watched and let it unfold and I understood it pretty well at the end. I really liked it and after rewatching it in a few reactions, I loved it. Can't wait for the part 2 and the book(s) even more!
first they see the big bad boss man float, and a few sec later, they cant figure out who it is FLOATING in the air?? cmon...
Wait you mean the tall guy /s
@@TopGunZero nope, he just have tech, so he can float...
@@spyro257 ...
@@TopGunZero ye, i know... the ultimate lazy person, or just a fat guy, that cant walk for long, or cant walk on his own, at all...
@@TopGunZero wait a sec..... my brain didnt register the /s... dammit... 🤣🤣🤣
3 words. "Read the book"
The old one had a quick introduction to the main actors and their houses/planets, and their motivations. Helps to orient yourself. I hope you will check it out eventually :)
And around 2000 there was a DUNE and Children of DUNE miniseries. It's also worth a look. ^^
Dune is easily my favorite sci-fi story of all time, its an incredibly dense story that I think they nailed with the visuals. I never thought there could a proper telling of the story in movie form but this was the movie of my dreams and Im glad to have been able to see it.
Its close but the books relay so much more and as vast and nuanced as Dune is, the books are really the best and only way to ever truly catch FH's vision and message. This is why Dune has nutoriously been considered un-screenable, and career suicide for any director to even attempt it. Denis V. has balls and is a beast for doing so, and doing so as well as he did. This is only the first half of thr first book... there is 6 books.
Being a french canadian from the province of Quebec, the director Denis Villeneuve is a great pride for a lot of us!! One of the best!! ❤
Alors, peux-tu au moins écrire "Québec"? Yeah, with the oh-so-difficult accent on the "e". You talk about pride, yet you don't respect the very basics. Shame.
@@sophiamarchildon3998 😂😂😂
@@sophiamarchildon3998 lol
Nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Picture, but won for Best Visual Effects, Best Sound, (Editing, Mixing), Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, and Best Costume Design.
The best visual effects award was utterly undeserved. The 3d models are basic and the sand effects are basic fluid sims or for the landscape shots simply plains with a sand texture and deformation modifier applied to them
@@IXSICNESSI completely disagree, everything looked amazing and no other movie that year came close
@@riftplut0474 you disagree with what? The fact that the sand effects were basic fluid simulations and that the landscape shots were planes with a sand texture a displacement modifier?
Any beginner 3d artist could have created equally Impressive sand effects after following a few tutorials on UA-cam.
The 3d models were completely basic.
There are projects on UA-cam created by a single person that are more visually Impressive than anything in dune.
@@IXSICNESSagreed, I've got my problems with this incomplete cliff notes version of Dune, and there are so many shots that look like sepia on greyed out sepia. Sounds like you know about 3dvfx. Look at the ornithipter wings, mounted above each other they would just clap into each other. Oscars, pff.
@@Derpng the backgrounds and miniatures are mediocre at best. The composition is meh. The practical effects are sub par.
The only visual effects that could be argued to be oscar worthy is the cgi but even that is beginner grade.
It seems like you have a weird emotional investment in this film kid. Maybe try maturing emotionally before partaking on online discussions?
_Dune_ is a very dense, intellectually-engaging book with an incredible amount of world-building, and trying to translate it into movies can't be easy. I think that you absolutely could not do the book any sort of justice in a single movie, so I'm glad they at least got two, but I still wish for a trilogy. _Dune_ itself is divided into three sections (called "books"), and it seems like those would've made for ideal movie splits, and given them more time to develop things, because there's a fair amount that was left out or rushed. I think this movie does an admirable job overall, but I'm not without my criticisms. Yueh, for instance, was underdeveloped as a character, so his betrayal didn't really mean much: "Oh... it's that random guy." And I really miss the banquet and the plot to paint Jessica as a spy. I don't think _Dune_ is big on emotionally-relatable characters anyway, but I still feel like if we had had more time, the characters could've been a bit more developed and meant a bit more. But maybe it would just never really be your thing. I find history interesting, and listen to history lectures and so forth, so maybe I just fit the target demographic more than you do. Still, I think it's a pretty daunting movie, with how much information it introduces, and somebody without any familiarity with the book, the previous movie, or the miniseries probably has to be okay just going with the flow and getting the gist of things more than following every detail. I do think you'd find the movie a lot easier to understand on a rewatch though. How much that would translate to enjoyment, I can't say. I do think it tries harder to be a work of art than it tries to be fun, and much of the enjoyment derived from it is intellectual, if that makes sense.
It needs to be a high budget television series like Game of Thrones or House of the Dragon. Do a book a season. Films will never do these books justice.
49:35 - Stella - "I'm definitely not the target audience... ...I'm a sucker for emotion, I'm a sucker for characters." WTF?
She's right. This is not a very emotional story and the characterization isn't very strong either.
In the Dune universe, the events of this film actually *are* told in legends for hundreds of years after. The book series actually spans thousands of years, and Paul Atreides and Lady Jessica are certainly remembered. And yeah, this is just the set-up, really. This is the first half of the first book. It seems like an abrupt place to end the movie, but this is logically the best place to divide the story. This is where Paul Atreides essentially dies. He leaves everything behind from his old life except his mother and his ducal ring, and goes into the desert with the Fremen to become one of them. This decision to do that is the first real decision he makes with his visions. He sees many possible futures, and his actions govern which ones come true and which ones don't. He's been mostly passive about receiving these visions, but here he makes a choice to either die, or go down the path that leads to the holy war in his father's name that he foresaw in the tent. He chooses survival, but he still wants to avert that nightmare of a war that consumes the whole Imperium. Will he be able to find another way to avoid that future? That's the big question going into the next part of this story.
Actually, each chapter of the book starts with an excerpt from various history books written in-universe about these events, so you're even more correct that this story feels like a story about historical events. These quotes are related in some way to the narrative that happens in the chapter that follows, giving the perspective of how people in the future think of these events, how various things have been exaggerated, mythologized, or propagandized, while the main prose of the work is the "real" story of what actually happened with Paul and Jessica, and how it came to be that they are remembered how they're remembered. Dune was written by Frank Herbert really as a study in the messiah myth as a concept, deconstructing it, and showing what it's like to actually be The One.
This really is a film where you benefit so much by reading the book. The film does a great job, but its hard to pack so much of the book into a film.The point of paul is that he is NOT the one, he is not what the bene gesserit has been seeking, he is a generation too early, he is something else, something they cant control, but also something he cant control either, he sees the possible futures, but is also trapped by them.what I really like about this movie, is that it does the same as the books, it throws the viewer/reader in and expects you to keep up. It does not treat you like an idiot as a lot of modern films do, it expects more from its audience and so you get more out of it.
But really, read the first book at least. (oh, and its proper sci fi, not all your questions are supposed to be answered, its provoking questions and thought, thats the point).
I am sorry to sound negative, but you CANNOT talk over the dialogue that explains what's going on, and then say you don't understand what's going on.
I LOVE THIS MOVIE. Perfect show don't tell film about the meaning of power and it is scary
"It's like Star Wars meets Game of Thrones."
Star Wars was inspired by Dune, and the Dune Saga is what GRRM wishes A Song of Ice and Fire could be.
Paul's visions show him possible futures. There is not a unique timeline but many possible futures.
Ok i love the pt. 1 2
"Where do they get off naming people Paul and Jessica! Where do these names come from?!"
Biblical, they're biblical names. They're thousands of years old.
That was a weird coment from them. Like Duncan is such a stylish name?
@@russellward4624exactly, "Paul and Jessica are weird names!"
Duncan Idaho....🦗🦗🦗
Mentats are also a school that was formed in the war against the machine. Basically they are human computers, they can do the computations normal humans cannot. Paul was trained as both a Mentat and in the Bene Gessirt traditions.
In Paul's vision, Jamis tells Paul he will teach him the ways of the Fremen, and he does so through his actions. He told the Reverend Mother his visions weren't exact.
"This was a big movie..." One thing to know is that the movie when shot was close to four hours long. Even after cutting 1h30m they still kept the major points and made an excellent film. Hopefully Villeneuve can be convinced into bring out an extended cut.
Honestly, there's so much missing, I hope the second part goes back to the beginning and shows all the rest: Count Fenring and his wife Margot on Arrakis and later Geidi Prime, and reporting to the Emperor, why he and Margot have no children yet (hint: they are the back-up couple), the smugglers, companies and city Fremen on Arrakis, and so very much else.
The sequence with Shadout Mapes is meant to illustrate both how bad Arrakis is and how much control the Bene Gesserit is exerting. The myths of the Fremen were actually introduced by the Bene Gesserit thousands of years ago, specifically so that the Fremen would be compelled to protect any Sister who was on the planet, as well as the possible Kwisatz Haderach. The customs are a sign to Jessica that Arrakis is an apocalyptically bad place.
The Missionaria Protectiva.
Paul's dreams do have meanings, just not in the literal sense you would expect. With the Jamis flashbacks for example, he does teach him the ways of the desert but not through advice, more like teaching him what he has to do to survive.
did this get taken down?
No. It was never put up
@@whitenoisereactsAlso don’t forget to “❤" my comments.
huh, i could swear it was. im having some weird dejavu right now xD
@@parvonik1359 Ditto because I remember it was on their Patreon back in July but was never uploaded making me wonder if it was taken down or delayed.
You're gonna get a million comments like this, but Dune predates Star Wars by about 10 years, and George Lucas was HEAVILY inspired by many of the elements established in Dune (desert planet, spice, The Voice, Bene Gesserit / Jedi similarity and much more). Your assessment of "Game of Thrones in space" is spot on too.
The dumbing down of movies in recent decades (superhero movies especially) has ruined many great minds. These ladies are the results of those decades. Movies today have to explain to the lowest denominator.
Personally, I actively avoid films that DON'T offer me the opportunity for "homework."
In Paul's vision, Jamis said, "I will teach you the ways of the desert." And he did.
Just so that you know, Dune influenced everything that you might compare it to, be it Star Wars, Game of Thrones, etc. Dune was the template from which they all were copied.
The earlier John Carter of Mars has a similar story, and that was originally a Western.
In a world of Greedo and Darth Vadar, the protagonist was named Luke. It's not that weird.
A whole generation of writers were inspired by Dune, which is why so many moments reminded you of other sci-fi/fantasy works. Dune was the inspiration for so many of the epic works that followed it.
Even if this movie wasn't your cup of tea, I still appreciate the fact you gave it a watch, with no distractions, and could appreciate stuff about it. Thanks for being honest about your initial impressions instead of being "Oh I didn't like it because I didn't understand".
I'm so excited for Part II, and even though it's been delayed to March, it will still be worth it! This has been a very accurate adaptation of Frank Herbert's book so far.
No distractions?
they talked all over important scenes & dialogue, not paying attention, complaining they dont understand something or in their own words "everything" while it was just said/shown in the previous or the next scene...
What about "Terminator: Dark Fate"?
#SecondChance4TimMiller
No god, no god please no
@@YogDodoth ahahahahah office meme
The funniest part about your final statement is that they weren't green lit for a sequel when they made this. The director believed in his version of it that much.
I watched this with my fiancee, who hadn't read Dune and had only absorbed bits of the lore and tropes from me and the cultural zeitgeist. We basically paused every fifteen minutes so I could give a digest of what the hell had just happened. Not that I mind: if there's one thing basically every Dune fan loves, it's talking about Dune.
As densely packed as this movie is, there's reams of content that this movie leaps over. As a single example: the swirling paranoia of Jessica in the Atreides household because she's a Bene Gesserit is a huge element leading up to the Harkonnen attack, and in this movie it's almost boiled down to a single conversation between Leto and Jessica. In the book there's clashes and shadowboxing between Jessica and Leto, Jessica and Gurney, Jessica and Thufir... it's a lot.
One thing that I didn't fully like in this was Josh Brolin's Gurney. In the book, Gurney is a warrior troubadour, kinda like Beast in the X-Men. He's a capable fighter but he's got a quote (or a song) for every occasion. But Brolin totally captures Gurney's massive Dad Energy with Paul, which is important.
I absolutely love the Dune series, but, admittedly when i first started reading the books. I was like WTF!? am i dumb? There was just sooo much "stuff" I could not get thru book 1.
Untill someone told me to read the glossary of said book first. This was like a Rosetta Stone for me entering the Dune world... a bit like homework? Yes, but it was well worth it ✌️
Dune universe is set in the future that originated from a world similar to ours, so it makes sense that the name Paul, Jessica, Duncan is still commonly use in some cultures. And those are ancient names, not just some common Western names 😂 They can be traced back to Biblical era. It fits well with the story.
Sandworms are attracted by any regular rhythm impacting the sand, which includes any mechanical operation on the sand as well.
Some explanation in case u guys are still reading:
- When asked by the Benet Gesseret if he dreams with things that happens exacly like he dreamed, Paul answers 'not exacly'. The truth is all of his visions was fulfiled, just not exacly in the way he dreamed (but also yes).
-> Paul died in the fight, because 'when you kill some one you also died'. He also died to let the Lisan al Gaib to rise in his place.
-> Jamis did taught the ways of the desert to him by teaching about the honor, the fight, the die for your word, the the stronger is the one who leads, whats a kris knife and all those things.
-> Duncan did died fighting many anemies alone.
- The movie plays really well with the concept of the Chosen One. Insted of relying on it too much, what would subtract all the tention, since the chosen one would inevitable be successful in his journey, the movie questions (and makes you question) what is to be the Chosen One, if there is such a thing. Paul is the product of desteny, or a product of intention? The Bennet Gesseret spent hundres of years designedly inserting superstitions on Arakis, while manipulating politics, creating mariages, mixing bloodlines to create a powerful being. But is that just human intent or is that the way destinies makes it happens? Does the fact that Jessica had a son with Leto knowing that this could create the Quizarts Hadarak means that it was only a logical thing to do? Or did Jessica loved Leto from the beging? Does it makes their relationship more or less legit?
- Also, Quizarts hadarak and Lisan al Gaib are kind of the same thing (not really, but you could consider both as being The Chosen One).
- The names for the Atraides sounds normal to you because they are humans indeed. As American, the author used English as the normal language to the humans (each isn't that far from truth) and portraited the other species with different cultures and languages, most proeminantly Arabic in Arakis.
- Funfact: That singing that Stella said sounds like having a icch on her throat is called Throat Singing and it's a very traditional technic on Mongolia. It requires for the singer to use the two sets of vocal chords at the same time and with some experience the singer can even sing in two different notes with each set. Besides sounds pretty ominous, that works well since the Sardukar was inspired over the biggest ordes on human history, the mongolians under the command of Gengis Khan.
- Duncan didn't just found Jessica and Paul by chance after the attack. Yue left them a beam signer along with desert suits and equipment. He told that in a note for Paul and also told the Duke he was going to try his best for the sake of Paul. (but yes the movie is REEEEALLY hard to keep on track, so totally understandible. XD)
And thats it! Thanks for the content, aways like to watch your reactions crue! I hope one day we can make a colab. XD
Also, sorry about my English... necer actually studied the language. XD
yall aint ready for part 2
The Dune universe is set over 20,000 years in the future. The ancient ancestors of these people were Earthlings. Earth itself has pretty much passed into mythology by their time. Instead of being commonplace, very old names like Paul and Jessica could be rare and exotic to the inhabitants of the Imperium. You are applying your modern sensibilities to an alien culture so far removed from our own.
Many visual media have tried to depict the flyer "ornithopters." This is the only one that got it right.
25:03 in the first book, Paul Atreides is fifteen years of age, which sort of follows the medieval/feudal history of having teenage heirs lead charges into battle, and handle affairs that their father (the duke/king) is growing too old or too sick to do.
Part 2 is going to be fun. This one is the build up to all out war and craziness.
I just have to say that you both are fitting in so nicely on the White Noise Reacts channel! Honest, clear commentary and discussion. (Plus, you also use James' usual intros and outros to reactions, and say it so smoothly like you've always been here, so it works perfectly with what he and Nobu are doing.) ❤❤
"I want to know so much about so much..." Well, you could read the book, which is one of the greatest sci-fi novels ever written... It's not a particularly difficult read, either.
Pauls visions actually all came true. Paul dreamed about Jamis: "He will teach me." and he tought him that mercy has no place in the desert. Also: The weak, spoiled Paul Atreides had to die in order for him to survive.
One thing most people are missing is the Harkonnens use of energy weapons in situation where shields were present. According to the lore hitting a Holtzman shield with an anergy weapon results in a huge detonation (think H-Bomb).
Yes. At target and 'shooter' alike.
Hey guys great reaction as always, I find your comments at the end really on point, as I understand it the author wanted one of the main messages to be a warning agaisnt messiahs and religious heros. If i'm not mistaken he said that messiahs should come with a warning: might be dangerous to your health.
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The "odds of that" were that an Atreides ornithopter would be equipped to pick up the Atreides beacon that Dr. Yueh had included in the package with the still-tent.
He saw the trees burning before they burn, he saw Duncan dead before he died he saw his hand hold sand way before he does near the end. Some things have happened just gotta look for it
Films / movies need to be experienced on their own terms. We need to suspend disbelief and concentrate - otherwise...
I think your expectations of this movie didn't prepare you at all for what were you about to witness LOL. This is absolutely not a movie to sit down, have fun and relax, it's an experience. You were too focused on being confused you missed half the answers for your questions. But I get it, you weren't prepared and it was a lot. Also the movie itself is NOT holding your hand and guiding you easily, it gives you just the amount of information you need at the moment but very briefly so it's easy to miss. I definitely think on second watch you will understand a lot more. Maybe it will grow on you too. But if not I also understand, everyone has their tastes😊 I myself didn't read the books nor watched the previous movies but I know people who read the books and they told me that the story was very epic and phylosophical so I guess I prepared myself mentally for what's to come. And oh boy, what an experience it was in the cinema! The sounds were extraordinary, the backpipes blasted my eardrums for sure and the throatspeech I felt in my gut.
Anyway, thanks for the video and can't wait for more reactions in the future!
I am really loving your reaction. I know the story really well but I love watching a genuine reaction. Great job!
Dune's story takes place in the future so "paul"is actually an ancient name for that time
Wow, you impressed me! You had such a long speech when reviewing the movie to say absolutely nothing! That's a skill I need for work!
bruh lol
Btw, Star Wars is a simplified knock off of Dune that developed into its own thing.
"my first thought is to evade!" -Stella
And that is why you, and I, stand a reasonable chance of living through the Zombie Apocalypse
Just want to add an interpretation for the end. Paul's vision is of Jamis showing him "the way of the desert" ... and also another vision where Paul dies. At one point the narration suggests to take a life is to take your own.
It seems like Paul's visions were wrong, but the interpretations of them were wrong. Jamis did absolutely show Paul the way of the desert, by quickly demonstrating the rules and ethos under which they live, and to show Paul that he must be prepared to take life to survive. Paul dying in the vision could be interpreted in line with the narrator, as Paul takes Jamis' life he ceases to be Paul any longer.
As a side note, I worked on this film and slowly go through the reaction videos - I really enjoyed this one.