Yeah, they had to be out to lunch when they thought up the stillsuits for the movie. Who really thought it was a good idea to have actors wearing black rubber outfits in the desert?
Dune 2018 (19,20,21...)
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Damn, the cast for this just keeps getting better and better.
This is quickly becoming one of my most anticipated movies. We have a great director, who, after Arrival and Blade Runner 2049, is one of the few people I'd trust to be able to pull this off, and now a spectacular cast is coming together.
Someone who didn't think they would be in the desert.
Who reads it?
The Audible version has a full cast but Simon Vance is the main reader.
Nice. Might have to look in to that.
Might be worth signing up for a free trial just so you can listen to it. Audible is an Amazon company so it should have a presence in the US and other countries.
I don't like this choice for Stilgar. Javier is a fine actor but I really wish they'd gone with middle eastern/north african/pakistanian/Indian western unknowns for the Fremen. Make him Thufir or something.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/dunes-cast-just-keeps-getting-better-looks-to-add-javi-1832272265/amp
https://io9.gizmodo.com/dunes-cast-just-keeps-getting-better-looks-to-add-javi-1832272265/amp
The full cast for some reason isn't always there. Some chapters won't have the actress for Jessica, or what have you, but it's still an incredible production. They also sometimes layer in some atmospheric music to build the scene. I can't say enough good things about the audiobook. I feel pretty ambivalent about the movie because I feel the audiobook already nailed it.
I don't remember much about the character (I know, I know, I really need to reread the book already) but I love Javier Bardem, so I'm thrilled he's involved with the film in any capacity.
They'll have trouble de-arabican the zenSUNNI warriors if that's what they are doing. I'm surprised I didn't see any (fully justified) white washing reactions yet, beyond my own comment. Maybe because a white guy played him the last two times.
Edit: a white guy played him the last 3 times.
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They're really going to have a hard time scrubbing everything with Middle Eastern overtones. After all, a rough generalization of the plot is that it takes place in a desert region the rest of the universe relies on to get the fuel for their spaceships. There are some pretty obvious parallels which are going to be unavoidable.
Even though they are the good guys, I could see where some of the higher ups might be nervous about casting middle eastern actors as the Fremen. It seems to me like this is another one of damned if you do, damned if you don't situations. Cast all white actors as the Fremen and it's white washing, but cast them with Middle Eastern actors and you'
re accused of feeding into the stereotype of all Middle Eastern people being terrorists.
re accused of feeding into the stereotype of all Middle Eastern people being terrorists.
I think you missed the part where it's explicitly established as a myth that was implanted by foreigners and the main characters are consciously and quite cynically using natives' belief in it to their own advantage.
If you're reading it as "white man saves the day" you're *really* missing the point.
No, I get the book. It's a pretty easy book to get. But Paul is still white messiah to a group of desert warriors who fight a jihad, and I'm not sure the whole 'cynically using natives' belief to their own advantage' is any less tricky in this day and age, especially since it casts the idea of a prophet to such people in a very cynical light.
I really don't see what's so tricky about some powerful outsiders coming in and exploiting the superstitions of the locals for their own ends being depicted as some powerful outsiders coming in and exploiting the superstitions of the locals for their own ends.
It's categorically *not* a white messiah story, it's a deliberate deconstruction of one.
