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O.C. Bible-Duniverse
I picked the book Dune after being intrigued about all the discourse online about how so many things were changed for the movies (Tale as old as time lol book vs movies seems to reek of enemies to lovers).
Anyhoo I kept coming across this ancient religious text being referred multiple times and I thought O.C. must be short for something really philosophical but it turns out O.C. Bible is short "Orange Catholic Bible" T_T. The betrayal I felt in that instant lol. I know it is symbolic but it is still really funny.
Rebecca Ferguson’s acting chops playing Lady Jessica
Okay so I just finished reading the entire first Dune novel today (I was exposed to the movies first) and I just feel like people are not appreciative enough of Rebecca’s portrayal of Lady Jessica. When you read the novel you come across what each of the characters are thinking and thereby read Lady Jessica’s POV, and I think Rebecca has perfectly captured her essence. The way she has captured the pain and the inner conflict is amazing and reading the books just made me look at her acting chops with so more respect.
Somethings I would have loved to see in the latest adaptation of the Dune movies from the book :(Spoilers from the book)
Chani and Jessica’s bonding (they get really close along the end of the Dune novel)
The whole ruse of branding Jessica as the traitor
Gurney meeting Jessica for the first time in the Sietch and that whole scene(honestly it’s one of my favourite scenes in the whole book)
More of Paul’s psychotic nature shown much more explicitly
Alia mocking all the elders and powerful people like the emperor
Thufir Hawat’s arc from the book
Other than that I’m pretty impressed by how Denis has captured the essence of the novel so well. It’s not easy to adapt such intricately written stories but he did it quite well. So imma just wait patiently for Dune messiah now heheh.
To people who are complaining about the recent movie adaptation of Dune I would like to point out a few things and share some opinions:
Any novel no matter how descriptively it is written cannot be hundred percent adapted exactly as is because when you read a book every single person has a unique understanding and imagination and interpretation. So it’s impossible for any filmmaker to capture everything on the page to the screen as is and satisfy everyone.
The things that were changed make so much sense and yes as fans of the books we might have wanted to see some of our favourite scenes or arcs but the movie has stayed so truthful to the soul of source and the amount of detail and hardwork that has gone into the making justified all of those changes.
If you think that the actors did a bad job you might as well start calling the 80s adaptation as the best film adaptation ever made. You don’t have to like their performance entirely but to totally disregard it is just ignorance.
Think about how much believable the movies looked like, I’m talking specifically about the setting, the world where it’s all taking place. For comparison take any other contemporary scifi movie made and think how much you feel is believable (I don’t want to slander Star Wars here because I love them too but then Dune has completely changed my view on how a sci-fi film should be made). Like yes a desert planet where people recycle their own bodily fluids seems like something actually a human would do for survival
If you didn’t like the changes made to Chani’s character you are a straight up misogynist. I won’t explain this point because this whole post is targeted at the books fans and if you have read the book you should understand why I said it.
Denis’s dedication to this movie is literally oozing out of the screen, each frame, the dialogues. The whole cast and crew has given their all and you can obviously tell. If you can’t well you didn’t pay attention.
The biggest reason I keep talking about the dedication that went into making the film is because it is a big budget movie with larger than life characters and settings and this easily could have gone wrong in every way possible but the massive scale was used as a tool like a cog in a machine that it just made sure that it was just enough to keep the machine working smoothly and not overwhelming anyone. Like for example the exotic locations and CGI were just enough to make the audience understand the setting of the story rather than show off how advanced the technology used was.
So these are just a few thoughts I have wanted to share for sometime especially after reading the book and getting a more deeper understanding of the story. Feel free to add more. Whenever I come across a blatantly biased criticism of the movie vs book thing I get irritated especially with a movie made with such heart and soul. And I absolutely admire the effort that went into this particular adaptation. I highly recommend watching the interviews of Rebecca, Timothee and Denis because the way they are passionate about the project is unlike anything I have seen from movie stars in the last few years.