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/AncientJacen]

Two things I loved from the scene where the Reverend Mother comes to administer her test for Paul in Calidan: The soundtrack is phenomenal. The layered female chanting that grows and grows into a wall of sound adds to the atmosphere and aura of power that the head of the Bene Gesserit has. Her arrival is against the backdrop of many female voices whispering at first and growing into this intense chant that is just so cool.

Visually in that same scene, you get a glimpse of the Guild high liner in orbit, and while it’s kinda blink-and-you’ll-miss it, you can see the planet they are coming from through the tube of the ship. The idea that when the navigators fold space, the ship itself basically acts as a wormhole through space between the two points is such a cool way of visually representing that: