richardmurray

Dune part 2 like the first dune film from villaneuve is visually stunning, an excellent use of special effects. as for the story... well,, I am not the biggest fan of the story, I read the book. .. my biggest issue is the emperor, I don't like his character design. .. anyway, the key here is the producers of hollywood have a financial model that suits them. Publicly traded firms are on the constant demand to earn more and more profits. the problem is, no art genre can always produce an increase in profits. so the producers have to lower their overall yearly spending + make financially cheaper films. The modern financial environment makes the approach of a year of highest budget films a wise financial decision but the producers+ accountants of hollywood don't know any other way to make the increased revenue demanded by stock markets. 
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your point is huge and video reporter missed that point, name me a director who will pass up a big budget, but do you as a director love the content? villaneuve loves dune, he admitted he liked the 80s dune, he admitted he though the jodorowsky 70s concepts are cool. sO villaneuve is ahuge dune fan and that love is what is exhibited, which reacts very well to dune fans. and can pick up others.
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that scene in the first movie when he cries out, somebody help me, his father is the one that was needed.  His mother , himself, his sister aren't victims , the fremen aren't victims, the heroes journey is about the hero, the key to dune is this is the people's journey. At the beginning  of a people anywhere at anytime  plans/schemers/organizations exist that begin the people's story. And the mechanics and powers of the infancy of a people, create inevitables that can't be undone. The easiest example for me is the USA. the usa started as colonies of the british empire, born out of genocide, mixed with a multiracial set of whites unlike anywhere else, financed by an enslavement of a specific people...this has led to inevitables. The love hate relationship blacks have to the usa, the sense of destined entitlement by whites, the cycle of immigrants groups forcing change, these elements are inevitable. the fanatacism to the declaration of independence by those who want to justify the usa and block it from negative criticism, the zeal to the constitution by those who want to keep human actions in the usa bound to a legal code. The people in dune were started by the bene gessirt/the guild/the emperor and the chaom, a senate, of planets, all these things lead to inevitables.the hyper manipulation of the bene gesserit got beyond the bene's control and wrapped every on predicted collisions, the bureacracy of choam and its battleground nature led to constancy of blood feuding betwen the harkonnen side atreides which led to both sides fighting each other even when they are blood bound to each other through personal unions paul is a harkonen + an atreides , the addicted guild led to the wild expansion of the community absent change in organization which led to the mass wars, the emperial family as the centerpiece of responsibility allowing the bene gesserit to manipulate from shadows and never take most of the blame for their actions allowing the guild to expand and be unconcerned while never considering the danger in their ambitions, allowing the houses in the choam, from atreides to harokonnen to fight each other but never assume responsibility ... good point on the doctor.  ... your reading voice:) so sentimental:) .. leto wasn't making himself a monster, he was filling a role that was inevitable, he kept the responsibility that his father tired of and turned his back on. .. good point on story, paul and leto have become legends as gods/human/greats which all have an inhumanity in how they are described by other humans. 

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I think one angle few talk about is the fact that the last atreides is duke leto and the last harkonnen is paul's mother. Paul, his sister, aul's children are all half breeds. It is liek when the york + lancaster became the tudors. I argue, paul isn't an atreides nor is his sister. The way the atreides or harkonnens speak about each other , i argue neither would accept someone with the blood of either in their community. I know this goes away from the discussion of paul atriedes labeling or quality as a criminal but I think part of the problem is duke leto + lady jessica aren't viewed for what they represent... the end of the atreides/harkonnen feud and the beginning of the new bloodline built between them in paul/his sister/ paul's children with chani. Yes, the baron/ the beast/feyd are alive but the reality is, the feud is over. with paul and his sister, the two bloodlines are fused so if the harkonnens had won, then the mixed bloodline of paul + his sister holding both atreides/harokonne is dead and the atriedes line goes completely extinct. so the question isn't the future of the atreides but what will the atreides/harokonnen combined bloodline be like, the combined bloodline that has controlled arrakis for a long time, no matter who were the shepards. and with all the manipulators or schemers about they aided in turning the path of the combined bloodline into a series of three regals: paul/his sister/his son who each are consumed by the negativity/dysfunction around them

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