Dune: part two, 2024
☆ 10/10
Favorite character: Lady Jessica
Dune: part two is a 2024 movie based on Frank Herbert’s book “Dune” and the second part of the acclaimed 2022 movie “Dune” directed by Denis Villeneuve.
First I want to talk of how emotional and important it was for me to see this second movie. Dune from Frank Herbert is my favorite book and I always thought that it was a unadapted novel. The first movie do a very good job and is almost for me a great explanation to the second movie. I was brush with tears in the end thinking about how Frank Herbert work was in good hands. In this one I was in tears the second the film started.
Although some book fans didn’t like it, and thought the movie as a totally different story and a bad adaptation I disagree. I think it’s the best movie that the fans will ever receive. The grandiosity of the book and the complexity of the characters are all in there. If somethings were taken away was not because Villeneuve did not want to give time for that instead he thought it was a better chance for the non fans have a bigger chance of understanding the story.
In this second movie we are take back to Arrakis following Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and his mother Jessica(Rebecca Ferguson)now united with the fremen, the people of the desert.
Some fremen like Stilgar (Javier Bardem) belives that Paul is the Lisan al gaib, their messiah. Others like Chani (Zendaya) doesn’t believe in the prophecy, thinking that is a way of control them. While they all are fighting the Harkonnens house that wants to control Arrakis and Kill all the Atreides.
The characters as well the world they live in are all so well developed that the immersive in the story is breathtaking. The 2 hours 40 minutes that passes as a quick as it possible and the only thought you have in the end of the movie is “please don’t end.”
All the actors give amazing performances but Chalamet and Ferguson are perfect. They stole the movie every time they appeared in scene especially Ferguson that make you don’t blink wanting to hear and see everything she does. Denis gives an outstanding direction that needs to be study for his colleges of profession. And the filmography of the movie among with the effects just makes it the best movie to watch in the big screen ever.
Austin Butler gives a villain that is going to the books as one of the best in Si-fi and Chalamet’s Paul is one of the most deepest characters ever and one of the best ever made. You keep seeing all of his mistakes, his fears and in the end you just don’t know anymore who you should trust because there isn’t all good or all bad in Dune. Like the book the movies show that this are only people that are taken by paths they wanting or not. “The world makes choices for us” as the brilliant Zendaya’s Chani, that is much better in here than in the book, says. The problem is what they do with the choices they see ahead.
You will laugh, cry, be happy, be sad, be angry all of that in a movie that is an experience and an example of a one generation kind. The book as the movie now enter in a deeper part of the history with Dune being one of and in my personal opinion THE best adaptation movie ever.