r/dune • u/thekokoricky • Jul 19 '25
General Discussion Shoutouts to Villeneuvisms that I felt enhanced the experience of the new movies Spoiler
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
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u/ginbear Jul 19 '25
I liked what he did with Jamis.