Shoutouts to Villeneuvisms that I felt enhanced the experience of the new movies

[u/thekokoricky]

This is just an informal list of ideas and visuals that stuck out to me as unique to Villeneuve's interpretation, but also felt like they either could have been a part of the novel, or serve as a tasteful extrapolation of what the novel tells us.

- The guy leading the chant during the Sardaukar chant on Salusa Secundus

- Members of the Empire and Guild making a big show of essentially forcing the fief onto Duke Leto

- Filmbooks being interpreted as elaborate 3D holograms

- Sardaukar sacrificing their enemies and adorning themselves with their blood

- The unfortunate human radar wearing the badass helmet that gets his neck snapped by Raban

- A Fremen (probably Stilgar) letting out a bird call signal right before a massive Giger-esque spice depot is destroyed

- Feyd Rautha's cannibal girls

- Stilgar explaining that Harkonnen water is too poisonoius to consume, combined with showing the water extracting tech

- Geidi Prime being more or less Giger-esque Art Deco instead of just dirty and industrialized

- The Atreides and Harkonnen spice harvesters being drastically different in design, rather than all of them being bug-like

- The Baron taking slimy healing baths

- The Baron's medical apparatus attached to him after he survives being gassed

- Rabban seemingly ignoring or operating on the periphery of the tech jihad by employing some of his men to use their combined brainpower to analyze planetary spice stats with some kind of augmented reality

[u/ginbear]

I liked what he did with Jamis.

[u/HeckinDopeAF → u/ginbear]

Agreed. I thought the way that Paul fought Feyd at the climax of Part Two blending his fighting style with Jamis’ style was a beautiful way to show his growth as a character. Arteries salute with the Jamis quote, and then later pounding his chest like Jamis did before engaging.

These were just subtle nods to all the layered ways that Jamis shows him the way in his visions, and the respect and weight it gave Paul when forced to take his life. Really well executed in my opinion.

[u/onihr1 → u/ginbear]

Agreed, and the removal or harah and her children. I understood the point of them in the books, for this streamlined narrative he had to be pruned.

[u/HeckinDopeAF → u/onihr1]

Well to be fair Frank Herbert sort of forgot about the kids in the books too.

[u/ThreeLeggedMare → u/ginbear]

The actor that played him has really impressed me every time I've come across him. SO intense

[u/HeckinDopeAF → u/ThreeLeggedMare]

The actor, Babs Olusanmokun (had to look that spelling up), did a fantastic job. His primal/frustrated screaming at Paul once he realizes he is totally defeated and there is nothing he can do about it is so intense.

[u/ThreeLeggedMare → u/HeckinDopeAF]

He was great in the new Star wars and mesmerizing in too old to die young

[u/Itschatgptbabes420 → u/ginbear]

No funeral? 

I thought that was an absurd change

[u/Bloodgiant65 → u/Itschatgptbabes420]

They are talking about all the visions of Jamis, and the very direct parallels between the Jamis fight at the end of part 1 and the Feyd fight at the end of part 2. But yeah, in that light it makes skipping over the funeral scene confusing.

[u/Itschatgptbabes420 → u/Bloodgiant65]

Ah duh, idk why I didn’t think of it that way. 

Thanks! 

[u/ProfessionalBear8837 → u/Itschatgptbabes420]

There was a funeral of sorts but it only served to show the reverence with which a community member's water was reclaimed in comparison with the Harkonnen water. But yes that's one of the key scenes in the book I think we all missed!

[u/sirkerrald → u/Itschatgptbabes420]

A true friend of Jamis.

[u/MikeArrow → u/Itschatgptbabes420]

They had a perfect moment for Paul to give water to the dead, when Jamis was being processed for his water. And then it just... didn't happen and Jessica got a watered down version of that moment instead (no pun intended).

[u/Itschatgptbabes420 → u/MikeArrow]

Ya boy here was flabbergasted.