Dune: The Battle for Arrakis – Extended Reference (2003)

Re:Dune: The Battle for Arrakis – Extended Reference (2003) by Andrew_nenakhov on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @04:17PM (#23763515)

Of course not. That would have been horrible. Lynch's version is great: it has superb sets and production design, actors, music. One thing it lacks is screentime: first half of the book takes 80% time, while the second half is rushed in the remaining 20%. If we could have 2 (3) part movies in 1980s, it could have been extremely great.

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Re:Dune: The Battle for Arrakis – Extended Reference (2003) by toast0 on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:40PM (#23764999)

> first half of the book takes 80% time, while the second half is rushed in the remaining 20%

Yeah, once you get to the end of the first half, it's like oh crap, we're out of time, montage montage, end battle, fight with Sting, plot plot plot, end credits. The film that's supposed to be released this year is reportedly only the first half of the book; I guess we'll see how that goes.

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Re:Dune: The Battle for Arrakis – Extended Reference (2003) by tunap on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @04:15PM (#23763484)

Villeneuve's, hopefully...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(2020_film)

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Re:Dune: The Battle for Arrakis – Extended Reference (2003) by Andrew_nenakhov on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @04:21PM (#23763564)

I have high hopes for Villeneuve, but Lynch's dune is still one of my favourite sci-fi movies from 1980s.

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Re:Dune: The Battle for Arrakis – Extended Reference (2003) by milesward on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @05:25PM (#23764280)

[insert instant best friends meme here]

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Re:Dune: The Battle for Arrakis – Extended Reference (2003) by tildedave on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @05:25PM (#23764276)

I'm really excited for the movie and the casting looks incredible so far. I wonder how the 2 movie split is going to work narratively. The book itself has kind of a perfect 3 act setup but I'm not sure breaking the story at the end of the book's part 1 (or halfway through part 2) is going to feel very satisfying.

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Re:Dune: The Battle for Arrakis – Extended Reference (2003) by dragonwriter on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @09:38PM (#23766122)

> The book itself has kind of a perfect 3 act setup

Standard 3-act structure has a natural breakpoint at the midpoint twist of Act 2, not that my recollection of Dune is detailed enough to confirm that it maps naturally to 3-act structure in detail.

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Re:Dune: The Battle for Arrakis – Extended Reference (2003) by toast0 on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:44PM (#23765045)

I think you could stop as a cliffhanger when Paul and Jessica escape from the worm, and are confronted by Stilgar. Then you start with a knife battle for the second movie, and who doesn't like a knife battle?

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Re:Dune: The Battle for Arrakis – Extended Reference (2003) by Andrew_nenakhov on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @07:07PM (#23765250)

No, that would be like moving Luke vs Darth Vader fight to the beginning of episode VI.

This actually reminded me of a colossal mistake made by Hobbit pt.2 movie, when they ended the part with a dragon flying away to burn the city after the cringiest of chase scenes.

They could have easily end the part with slaying a dragon, and then show it again in part 3. All they needed was to find a different POV character!! One dragon kill, shown twice.

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