Why do people say this is "unfilmable"?

18 yo here, haven't read a book since I was 13. Is Dune a good way to get back into reading again?

The only brilliant bit of Dune that actually stays quality is the world building, which is what the first half of the book is pretty much dedicated to.
A film will not be able bring the world building to the screen without a huge amount of exposition, which you can see in Lynch's version.
That leaves the filmmaker without the best part of the novel. That means they'll end up having to focus more on the actual story and characters, which are actually not that good. Some themes could be explored but there are so many in the book that plenty will have to be dropped, and the limited run-time means it'll probably have to be heavy-handed with the themes - which will just make the movie seem pretentious.

Makes me wonder how the hell they will portray the sandworms. Call me a soi faggot if you'd like, but that first Godzilla KotM trailers had all the kaiju partially obscured by weather and shit and portrayed them as both terrifying and beautiful. I think that might be a good choice for the worms. Take the encounter Paul and Jessica have with the worm in the desert. It can start out as terrifying and tense when it pursues them. Then they hide in the gap in the rock and the worm's mouth begins snaking up and down and investigating. Then the sequence can shift into one where we're meant to feel awed by and admiring of the worm and how god-like and beautiful it feels to Paul and Jessica.

I guess the obvious answer would be to partially obstruct it with dust clouds.

And have the occasional burst of lighting they generate revealing them partially, or have the thing that stands out the most whenever they approach or whatever being the bright, shiny teeth. The first sandworm riding sequence really needs to be a standout moment. It felt fucking flat in the Lynch version.

The big sandworm that swallows the Spice Harvester is large enough to eat Legendary Godzilla in a single bite. The one Pal and Jessice encounter in the desert is a bit smaller, but still 80 yards in diameter if I remember correctly. I hope they do them justice.

The one Paul rides was also noted to be an especially massive one, so I wouldn't mind one of their deviations being that this is will be a taxing challenge and Paul has to struggle to tame the thing, so it feels actually earned when he finally does it.

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As a kid in the theater when the first Dune movie came out I thought the worms were terrifying

They should keep the appearance of the worms mostly hidden until the very end when the fremens ride them into Arrakeen to dab on Shaddam

I think that too. Maybe when Paul tames the sandworm, it's amid a sand cloud caused by it surfacing and there's no clear wideshots? Any ideas about how the music should be? The old prophecy theme from 1984 is something I wouldn't mind the new one being inspired by.

He could've done it

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He would have raped the source material.

But with love

He said something to the effect of 'I am raping the book, but with love'. He saw it as a vehicle to do wacky shit; that's it. Denis at least has an autistic loveboner for the books and views the project as a dream come to. Lynch loved the book too, but he hasn't being stewing on it for years like Denis and I don't think he was ever the right man for the job.

Valerian and the city of a thousand planets.

Villeneuve read it like when 13 or 16 and has been obsessing over the imagery and an adaption for close to 4 decades, so definitely seems to have a trump card in that respect. Probably made his very clear vision apparent when negotiating to direct the project.

>from out of the sand storm, a dozen makers blasts through the shield wall at Arrakeen
>each carrying a legion of muad'dib's fedaykin
>it ain't me starts playing

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the sandworm thing would be great

lightning bursts are must have yeah

I wonder how Dennis is going to tackle the internal monologue because theres so much exposition that comes from that.

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I had to, I'm sorry

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>kek

good one brah

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Read the book, you retard. Then come back and give an opinion.

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*WHIRRRR*

I hope they put a Navigator in one of the films. Fuck relying on Messiah being adapted to see one.

lel

Soi is the testosterone killer.

>Novels should just be screenplays.
Oh dear.

Kenneth McMillan did a damn good Baron.

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Perhaps the most cartoonishly evil villain I've ever seen. He definitely was not like the book Baron but was a blast to watch. The scene with with screaming and laughing manically, then shouting at Rabban to SQUEEZE, SQUEEZE, SQUEEZE! before Rabban shouts back "YES BARON! AHAHAHAAHAHAH!", lumbers away, pushes over a dwarf, and Sting emerged from steam in a thong with the Baron lusting after him was comedy kino.

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denis villeneuve should adapt the metabarons instead of this

the public salivates for new material not remakes.
its denis specializing in doing remakes of flops ?

It's not a remake, idiot. The Lynch film and the eventual Denis films will be two separate attempts at adapting the same book. Plus Denis has a loveboner for Dune, not this metabarons as far as we know. It's a passion project for him.

Why is Piter so smol

Because the Baron is a big guy

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>t. brainlet that has literally never read a book in his life besides maybe for school

Yes child. Start reading now while you’re young lest you end up like the cuck wars/capeshit/bbc loving redditors that have flooded this board

The Virgin Leto vs. The Chad Baron Vladimir Harkonnen

based OP is so funny

Lynch would’ve done a much better job had he had authority over the cut and generally had more authority period. Original cut was 8 hours and probably would’ve made a masterful miniseries

Dune is entirely filmable, you just have to get somone who's read the book. Now THIS. This is unfilmable.

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You projecting soifaggots want to ruin everything because you feel so bad about your porn addiction and shit taste in media

I just thought it would be funny you fucking autist

Yes, it is. Hardly anyone reads anymore and only gets their information from social media, and it's showing. Don't be a normalfag.

>loveboner
He's a dirty French faggot screwing the original material for Jews. Jews are murderers, as are the French, as one for that fucking whore.

That's what jews do.

This is heartening to hear.

You're pic related if genuine, or a baiter. I hope it's the latter.

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>'I am raping the book, but with love'
Herbert green lighted it.

Was the Baron still a sodomite in the Lynch movie? Can't recall; it's been too long since I've watched it.

I might've heard about this book, is it about an expedition to Mars that keeps fucking up?

Biggest concern for me is all the internal dialogue of the characters, which was one of my favorite aspects of the books.

>just remove shit and synthetize goddamnit, bookfags don't realize 90% of the stuff they read is just bullshit to fulfill paper because morons feel scammed when they buy a book with less than 100 pages
tell us more about your "enlightened" opinions on how the world works based on your experience as an 18-year-old.

Well aside from lusting at Feyd in that one scene, he also killed a beta bitch while fondling him.
youtube.com/watch?v=seRyZeLamAE
Its practically at the end of this.

They didn't say it explicitly. But he had a lot of lusty looks at Feyd while saying "lovely Feyd." Plus, there was a lot of creepy off-screen grunting with the young kid with the flowers.

(me)
Whoa...hivemind

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>synthetize
>fulfill paper
t. illiterate

I'm neither, Jews are murderers.

> Faisal
> King of Syria and Iraq
> Syria invaded by French
> Betrayal of Lawrence
> Faisal I of Iraq
> Iraq = Arakkis
> Faisal Assassinated in Switzerland

> Lawrence Anti-Zionist
> Assassinated

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I've been rereading it from the start and I don't get why the Landsraad just don't move to gut the fuck out of the Harkonnen and/or the Emperor.
I get the Emperor is afraid of Leto's popularity, but how do they both get away with straight up erasing the Atreides house ?

What's this Metabarons ya'll speak of?

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Hollyjew better not take this important aspect of his character out!

Imagine allowing a royal family killing bunch of French and Jew murderers tease out the inner workings of royalty.

> pic related = Prince of Greece and Denmark AKA the marriage of two houses

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I would describe it more as being about the people who colonized Mars. I say it's unfilmable because a large percentage of the book is portrayed entirely through the internal thoughts of the story's characters. If you've ever seen House of Cards, I have a conspiracy theory that Frank Underwood is based off of Frank Chalmers in Red Mars. House of Cards got around the internal monologue problem by simply having him break the 4th wall every time he wants to externalise his thoughts. Unfortunately, House of Cards has done that already, and now any other movie to use the same method would probably just be considered plagiarising. It's a shame, too, because we could've had some great Kevin Spacey as Frank Chalmers external internal monologue. Imagine this, said by Kevin Spacey, in same sort of character as Frank Underwood, "It’s a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matches your political purpose; and it never does", damn I'm upset that'll never happen. Oh well, the book is still superb.

lovecraft can't be filmed, his #1 gimmick is AW SHIT CAN'T FATHOM THE MADNESS, WHAT HAVE THE GODS WROUGHT? IT WAS UNKNOWN, NAY, UNKNOWABLE, AND NIGGERS WERE EVERYWHERE so you can't really translate that to film, in the sense that his writing is spooky observations. all of the best stuff is in the exposition, the action (the thing you would show in a movie) is pointless without it which is why DUDE TENTACLES shit in most attempts is awful. ironically the only time visual media came close to doing lovecraft right was some nip video game pastiche

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No clue. I'm only responding to some idiot saying Denis should adapt whatever that is instead of Dune. Keep posting the kino artwork.

>Dutch angle
Cringe and garbage

Leave Dunekino to me.

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The Landsraad doesn't need to move on anyone, they profit from whoever has power. The Emperor's move to gut Atreides/Harkonnen is good for them (sans Kwisatz Haderach).

the spice must flow, the landsraad is lazy and as long as the spice was exported from arrakis they were ok with turning a blind eye. also no one wanted to fight the sardaukar. the harkonnen and corrino at the time also had the clandenstine support of the bene gesserit and spacing guild.

Is this how you cope with knowing you'll never be a fraction as talented of an artist? Fucking faggot.

What are these books even about

First one is something of a hero's journey in a intergalactic empire that is ran like a feudal system that depends on a drug found only on the planet of which the novel is named after (Dune is the nickname; real name Arrakis). Except, in the end, it is actually a big subversion of the hero's journey/messiah myth.

the human condition

Middle eastern tensions, the Other, politics, the trappings of civilization, fate, destiny, love, sex, dreams, how one's environment shapes a man, and lots of descriptions of sunsets.

wow sounds fucking gay

I think House feuds are perfectly legal (Herbert calls is kanly I think). What the Harkonnens did was legal; the Emperor helping was not, hence the pains they took to hide the Sardaukur presence.

THE ABSOLUTE STATE

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Nah it sounds good I'll probably check it out, I have a copy I bought a decade ago lying around somewhere

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What's this spice diver edit i hear about, what are the differences from the lynch version and the extended version

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the resurrected was pretty good

>Getting THIS mad over a joke

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>90% of the stuff they read is just bullshit to fulfill paper
LMAO

>I was just joking
LOL NOPE

Because the book is 70% description and philosophy, and such things always sells poor at the box office

Everytime I see that cover image in the catalog, this is what comes to mind.

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The 80s was the perfect timeline to film this story, it was doable there were pretty competent people, but they put a faggot on charge and the movie was awful.

Now imagine , with all the retards as writers and directors we have now.

>the movie was awful.
Wrong