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Flawed Masterpiece
By Kirk'sRippedShirt

Sooner or later, this one will be on my shelf. There's something entracing about failed masterpieces like David Lynches Dune. Wonderfull music, visuals and a kind of 'feel' that has the darkness of a Barroque painting. In many ways, it befit the novel well, if only in that melancholly feel.

The characters were poorly cast, however (notably Paul and Duke Leto, and the classless screaming idiot-Baron, who was imposing, subtle and clever in the novel), and the plot corrupted with that 'sound as a weapon' nonsese as opposed to the more mystical Wierding Way and Voice of the novel. The religious aspects seems simplified, and my worst gripe has to be that the Fremen are all bearded American lumberjacks in stillsuits. In they're clearly meant to be reminiscent of Arabs in the novel, and they're supposed to wear cloaks over their stillsuits. In the film, they look like a bunch of guys with bulgy leotards in the desert.

Still, it's nice to watch Dune and imagine what it could be, with a few adjustments- some minor, some a little more major.

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