These toothy behemoths produce a much-prized substance called “spice,” a cinnamon-scented mélange that expands minds, fuels bodies and spacecraft, and sparks battles to seize control between feuding colonial houses Atreides and Harkonnen and Indigenous dune-dwellers known as Fremen. Villeneuve (“Arrival,” “Blade Runner 2049”) and cinematographer Greig Fraser (“Rogue One,” “Zero Dark Thirty”) unfold astonishing images, set to Hans Zimmer’s thundering score.įirst and foremost are the fearsome giant sandworms of Arrakis, which appear from beneath the planet’s broiling dirt like blind demons from hell. The mechanical meshes with the organic the most common conveyance is a helicopter that resembles a dragonfly.
“Dune” isn’t about rocket ships or space travel per se, despite being set on the distant and water-deprived desert planet Arrakis thousands of years in the future.
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“Dune” covers just the first half of Herbert’s original novel its full title is “Dune: Part One.” Newcomers may want a second look, but they should consider it a pleasure rather than a necessity.ĭialogue and plot are lesser concerns in a scene-setting drama that introduces characters in much the way “The Fellowship of the Ring” began “The Lord of the Rings” film trilogy and “A New Hope” launched the original “Star Wars” odyssey. This commanding and transfixing film, rich in subtext and ripe for modern engagement via the biggest screen possible, is geared to viewers who are already “Dune” fans.
Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” adapts Frank Herbert’s classic 1965 sci-fi novel of interstellar colonization and environmental exploitation into a blockbuster for the eye, the mind and the now.
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