Dune
Some Friday Night B2B Dune Thoughts:
-I am really impressed with this as an adaptation information wise. I have very few quibbles with the cut plot lines and altered scenes
-Elliot says “Everyone is distressed in this movie but Lady Jessica seems like she’s fighting a different level of psychological battles”
-there’s discourse online right now about whether the Fremen should have been cast as more SWANA actors. I have been turning this over in my mind. There are curiously few (if any?) SWANA Fremen. Is this on purpose? I wonder if they were worried that this would play too much into Islamophobia in audience perception? And this combined with the debate about whether the connection between SWANA people and the Fremen is cultural appropriation. It’s so Dune By Frank Herbert for us to be having this conversations lol.
-I am so so so excited to see how Messiah comes out and how the foreshadowing in this movie might connect.