The brand new film Dune: Half Two, directed by Denis Villeneuve, adapts the second half of Frank Herbert’s basic 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 Information to the Galaxy podcast. “It’s among the best movies I’ve ever seen.”
TV author Andrea Kail, a lifelong Dune fan, calls Dune: Half Two an ideal film. “It was like a non secular expertise,” she says. “Genuinely. It was awe-inspiring, the best way you are feeling in church in the event you’re very spiritual.”
Geek’s Information to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley liked Dune: Half Two, however warns that Dune purists may want to regulate their expectations. “This film looks as if principally a rewrite of the e-book,” he says. “So most of the scenes I don’t assume are within the e-book—I don’t keep in mind them. So many issues are modified fairly dramatically. They’re principally 99-100% good modifications for my part, but it surely looks as if they made fairly dramatic modifications to the fabric in comparison with the primary film.”
Science fiction creator Rajan Khanna had combined 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 joyful to see stuff like this succeed. Stuff that we love lastly discovering an viewers and being achieved nicely 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 loads of the language, particularly in the event you’re not used to Dune, how the world works, how the expertise works, the shields and all that. They had been very cautious within the first movie to point out how the shields labored and the purple meant that one thing was penetrating. So I believe on this movie they obtained to be like, “You noticed the primary movie, you know the way it really works, now we will simply unload it on you,” and I believe 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 truly 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 the best way 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 model and the Syfy model, after they experience the worms I’m like, “OK, that appears troublesome. It’s like a rock wall in a health club. It appears to be like actually onerous however I might most likely do it.” On this film, I’m like, “No approach.” Simply the velocity 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 obtained 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 which you can make an enormous price range, critical science fiction film, and never need to dumb it down, and never need to make it a “crowd pleaser.” So I believe individuals have possibly not been giving audiences sufficient credit score, that folks will go to see this form of film, even when it’s three hours lengthy and has a downer ending and every thing, 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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