These premonitions also suggest that Paul might be a kind of space messiah much to the concern of Lady Jessica's clan, the Bene Gesserit, a shadowy, distaff order of psychic witches who've been trying to summon forth a chosen one – via an Atreides daughter – to bridge space and time, past and future. The appointment isn't going down well with the Atreides's bitter rivals House Harkonnen, a planet of sinister creeps who bathe in black slime, keep giant spiders as pets, and whose leader, Baron Vladimir (Stellan Skarsgård), seems modelled after Marlon Brando's performance in Apocalypse Now (1979).Įxploited for its natural resource, Arrakis – also known as Dune – is inhabited by the indigenous Fremen, a band of blue-eyed nomads who include Zendaya's Chani, the desert warrior who's been turning up in Paul's dreams. “It’s about human personality and human emotion … That informed every decision that I made,” Australian cinematographer Greig Fraser told The Screen Show. It's the very distant future – never mind the swords, faux-medieval trimmings and bagpipes – and the galactic Emperor has dispatched House Atreides to take custody of Arrakis, the desert planet rich in the spice that is essential to space travel. “The camera is just above his shoulder and we’re trying to understand the reality all around him.” ( Supplied: Warner Bros./Chiabella James)īoosted by Hans Zimmer's speaker-rumbling score – with its metronomic thump and guttural alien chants – the film is burnished and commanding, full of immense wide shots that dwarf the screen, jagged spacecraft that seem to emerge from misty oil paintings, and an admirable commitment to big, earnest movie myth-making.īut Dune's prettiest effect might be its cast, especially its young leads, baby-faced androgyne Timothée Chalamet and galaxy-eyed princess Zendaya – two kids who're enough to suggest a brighter, or at least hotter, cosmic future.Ĭhalamet is Paul, teenage heir to the noble House Atreides, a mall-goth glowerpuss who divides his time between learning mind tricks from his witchy mother, Lady Jessica (a soulful Rebecca Ferguson), and putting off the politics of the family business with dad, house boss and resident dreamboat, Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac). Villeneuve told director Guillermo del Toro in Interview Magazine that he wanted to make Dune feel “immersive”.
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