Timothee Chalamet as Paul Atreides
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune has rightly earned its title as one of the best sci-fi movies of the last decade, but that doesn’t mean that it’s a flawless adaptation of Frank Herbert’s original novel. Despite all the acclaim and awards, there are certain aspects of both films that don’t hold up perfectly under inspection.
Dune introduces the world of Herbert’s novel excellently, but the messy pacing prevents it from ever taking on a clear identity in the same way that Part 2 does. The second film also has pacing issues, with Paul’s time among the Fremen often feeling rushed and underdeveloped, but at least it has a core message and ideology that’s missing from the first part.
4 Dune 2 Doesn’t Give Much Context To The Great Houses Besides Atreides And Harkonnen, The Houses Are Forgotten Avoiding some backstory of the Great Houses in Dune was understandable, because there’s so much more important action happening, but the ins and outs of this political system are so important in the second half of the book that it doesn’t make sense for Villeneuve’s movies to ignore it completely.
Changing aspects of the story isn’t intrinsically a bad thing - books aren’t films and some of the details that Herbert wrote in his novel simply wouldn’t have worked in the movie. This quickly became obvious with David Lynch’s Dune, which took a much more book-accurate approach to storytelling and was ultimately condemned for being too ambitious and exaggerated.
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